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China Is the World’s Largest Photography Market So Far in 2025

CIPA recently published its year-to-date photography industry statistics for January through June, showing not only that for the first half of the year, camera and lens shipments are up compared to 2023 and 2024, but also that the Chinese market is playing an increasingly important role in the camera industry.

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Yashica’s Compact 50MP $420 City 300 Camera Aims to Fix Some Flaws

At the beginning of this year, Yashica announced the City 100 and City 200 compact cameras. The company has quickly followed up these two cameras with the City 300, which promises better imaging performance than its predecessors while maintaining a more compact, travel-friendly form factor.

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DJI’s Surprising Robot Vacuum Is Built on Drone Technology

DJI has entered yet another new product category by launching Romo, a robot vacuum cleaner. And like DJI's other recent new products, including its first 360° camera, the Osmo 360 action camera, its advanced Power-series battery system, and even its e-bikes, everything always comes back to DJI's most famous product segment: drones.

Your First Exciting Steps Into Understanding Metering and Exposure

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Photography requires greater technical understanding than any other art form. I’ve been teaching people at all levels of photography for well over a decade. At the start of each workshop, I always begin by explaining metering and basic exposure settings. A major foundation of good photography, these settings are often the least understood, but they are among the easiest things to get right.