Photographer and artist Red transformed the 15-year-old Canon PowerShot A490 compact camera into an impressively capable camera. The camera, which launched in 2010 for just over $100, delivers surprisingly good image quality, at least after a bit of hacking.
In May, vintage-inspired analog camera company Reto announced the Reto Pano, a reusable point-and-shoot camera with both an ultra-wide lens and the promise of being able to switch freely between standard 35mm film aspect ratio and panoramic mid-roll. It got my attention.
Lensrentals is celebrating its 19th anniversary this month, and to mark the incredible accomplishment, the company has posted a couple of fascinating blog posts that look at the most popular rentals of the past nearly two decades and a closer look at some landmark products released during its tenure.
Waves are a new brand of "all-day" camera glasses designed for content creators and are meant to be an invisible way to capture the world directly in front of the wearer. They're not smart glasses, but instead are just a face-mounted camera because "smart glasses are cringe."
Elon Musk says that he plans to bring back Vine, the short-form video-based social media platform that was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and then shut down by its parent company in 2017.
For just one more day, KEH has nearly 3,000 pieces of overstock photography gear on sale, including cameras, lenses, tripods, and more. Here are some of the best deals for frugal photographers.
An amateur astrophotographer captured a remarkable shot showing the International Space Station (ISS) and Saturn in the same frame.
Canon has re-released firmware for the EOS R1 and R5 Mark II after having to pull both updates last week due to an error that caused video to not be recorded properly when using a memory card larger than 2 TB.
Leica announced four new Leica SL3-S kits, including one that is essentially a professional photographer's kit in a box.
A film lab owner has developed a screen cover for the Leica M10 and Leica M11 to give photographers a more "filmic way of shooting."
A federal court has approved a $225,000 settlement in a case involving a Christian photographer from New York who challenged state laws she said forced her to express messages inconsistent with her religious beliefs.
Shares in GoPro have been surging this week thanks to what Wall Street traders call a "meme stock."
Scientists at MIT have developed a new AI system that can teach itself how to control different types of robots using just one camera.
Saskatchewan-based Film Rescue International (FRI) develops and digitizes old film, whether it's rolls of precious family memories or vital historical archives in museum collections. To deliver the best possible results in an increasingly challenging, stagnant film scanning industry, FRI built a cutting-edge multispectral film scanner.
Instead of using a passive lock mechanism found on most mount adapters, Thypoch has announced a new positive-lock system that promises better lens connection, stability, and reliability.
The highly anticipated Meike 35mm f/1.8 Pro Full Frame Auto Focus STM Lens has officially been released, marking an exciting addition to the lens lineup for photographers and content creators. Known for its versatility, the Meike 35mm f/1.8 Pro is designed to offer fast autofocus, excellent clarity, and a premium optical experience at an attractive price point.
During decades of seismic change in media, mid-career visual journalists supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation returned to college to learn new skills, earn master’s degrees, and share knowledge with younger students.
Marit van Ekelenburg turns “fear into fascination” by revealing the beauty, diversity, and ecological importance of insects and other invertebrates through macro photography.
Physicist and self-described creator Sebastian Staacks is back with another wild photo booth creation. Rather than a DSLR-powered "bullet time" photo booth, Staacks built a Game Boy Camera photo booth.
Canon released the EOS R50 V earlier this year, introducing an affordable interchangeable lens camera for hybrid creators. The fine folks over at Kolari Vision, experts in the field of camera conversion, tore an EOS R50V apart as part of an infrared conversion to see what makes Canon's new "creator" camera tick.
Fake, AI-generated photos can range from mostly harmless to disruptive to outright dangerous. It is not an overreaction to say that fake photos have real-world consequences that can even be deadly. Digital forensics expert Professor Hany Farid recently explains how to spot fake AI photos in what he describes as the fight for truth.
Google has announced the ability to "bring your photos to life" with the introduction of a couple of new creative tools that give Photos users the ability to "remix" their memories.
Meta is adding safety features and protections to Instagram accounts that primarily share photos and videos of children.
A popular film photography store in New York that sometimes has huge lines snaking outside of it has moved to a far more visible location.
A random man was wrongfully arrested after AI facial recognition technology accused him of a serious crime that he never committed.
After a trip to Petersburg, Alaska, photographer Matthew Trabold crossed paths with his first brown bears, but left frustrated having never gotten close enough to capture a compelling shot.
Lomography has announced a revitalized lineup of its classic Petzval lens line with the new Joseph Petzval Focus-coupled Bokeh Control Art Lens Series. The new lens series adds refined manual controls and improved focus-coupled bokeh control.
The United States has reached a trade agreement with Japan that exchanges Japanese foreign investment in the U.S. for a lower tariff rate.
A photographer has revealed how he checked his old contact sheets and uncovered a never-before-seen photo that show Jeffrey Epstein attending Donald Trump's 1993 wedding.
The Juno probe has been capturing spectacular images of Jupiter since 2016. However, it recently encountered problems that required NASA to perform a camera repair on JunoCam from 370 million miles away.
