A photographer will receive a $437,500 payout from the city of Denver, Colorado after police officers shot him in the face with pepper-ball spray during a George Floyd protest in 2020.
An outrageous request from a bride asking if a wedding photographer would be willing to defraud her employer to lower the overall cost of his invoice has been shared on Reddit.
A New York videographer was robbed of $5,700 worth of camera equipment at knifepoint after being lured to film a fake music video at that location.
A professional gymnast plunged to her death while taking a selfie near the castle that inspired Disney's Sleeping Beauty.
The Minnesota Twins have shared one of the best sports photos of the year showing dramatic skies above Target Field in Minneapolis.
Adobe, OpenAI, and Microsoft have backed a bill in California that requires tech companies to clearly label AI-generated content.
Actress Jenna Ortega has revealed she quit Twitter after being sent explicit AI-generated images of herself.
People pay big money for wedding photographers and videographers, and with good reason. There's no substitute for a talented, experienced team on a couple's big day. However, strapping a GoPro to a dog can be a fun addition to the imaging team, as a talented pooch in the United Kingdom demonstrated this month.
EE, one of the United Kingdom's largest mobile network providers, issued new guidelines that advise against giving children under the age of 11 access to smartphones, instead suggesting that they only be given phones that can make calls and send texts.
Crowdfunding platform Indiegogo wants to ensure backers get what they pay for thanks to a new Shipping Guarantee Program.
This is the sequel to my article covering the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee last month. It has been 20 years and thousands of frames and I figure at this time in our political history, it’s probably a good time to close the chapter on this work and seek out a publisher.
Last May, the large-format F-Zero Camera hit Kickstarter, promising to "bend the laws of physics" and enable photographers to shoot at effective apertures of f/0.3-0.6. The campaign proved successful, and its creator, Nick Salazar, says all backers have received their cameras. As a result, the F-Zero is now available to the general public.
Last month, award-winning Tasmanian filmmaker and inventor Pawel Achtel, ACS, captured extremely high-resolution underwater footage of whales using a custom 18.7K, 9x7 cinema camera that he says is a "remarkable milestone in wildlife cinematography."
RR Auction held an Apple-themed auction last week focused on the legendary late Steve Jobs and Apple's role in the computer revolution. The auction achieved a total of $983,096 in sales.
Apple will host an event on September 9 which will likely see the announcement of its next round of mobile solutions including what will likely be the iPhone 16, 16 Plus, 16 Pro, and 16 Pro Max smartphones.
Seeed Studio is putting the finishing touches on what it calls the world's "most advanced AI camera." A modular, customizable device, the reCamera can run computer vision and artificial intelligence tasks on-device.
People are turning to ChatGPT to rate their Instagram profiles but asking the AI chatbot to be as mean as possible.
For the upcoming PBS series Big Cats 24/7, a crack team of cinematographers spent six months in Botswana's Okavango Delta surrounded by lions, leopards, and cheetahs.
A timelapse video shows a family's stubborn refusal to sell their home even as a suburb appears all around their property.
A gyro camera attached to the Formula 1 car of British driver Lando Norris has caught the attention of racing fans at this weekend's Dutch Grand Prix.
A reason to be, a strengthening force, a ‘guiding light’ -- purpose gives us joy, motivation, and the ability to persevere. As photographers, it may then be beneficial to connect our art form with purpose. In doing so, we may find a more holistic approach to creating -- helping us to sustain inspiration, providing us with variation and challenge, and, most importantly, giving us a sense of fulfillment.
When Canon released its latest flagship camera, the EOS R1, it was fair to say that it was overshadowed by the humble R5 Mark II. Like a thief in the night, the mantle for the most exciting Canon camera of 2024 was stolen by the R5 Mark II, and for very good reason. I got my hands on a full-production model and decided that a road trip was in order.
German painter Melvin Werner has achieved significant popularity thanks to his incredible paintings that look like photographic negatives.
Following the release last month of Video AI Pro, Topaz Labs has created a "Pro" version of its image upscaling platform, Gigapixel Pro.
It appears that Meta is no longer developing its rumored Apple Vision Pro competitor, a premium VR/AR headset codenamed "La Jolla."
Dupli, Europe's distributor for Kodak-branded photo chemicals, announced the availability of Kodak Color Negative C-41 Film Processing Kit which it says is designed to "revolutionize" the film processing experience for photographers.
Apple's professional users lamented the company's relatively scarce Final Cut Pro updates for years. However, in recent years, Apple has made significant, sweeping improvements to its video editing software. The company is even promoting the newest versions of Final Cut Pro on YouTube, which is unprecedented.
Midjourney has opened up its AI image generator onto a standalone website after years of only being available via a Discord server.
These macabre set of photographs taken by the New York City Police Department in the 1910s were used to solve grisly murders and were never meant for public consumption.
A North Carolina woman is suing members of the North Carolina State Board of Elections concerning the state's laws banning photos of official ballots, including "ballot selfies."
A photographer has received a $100,000 payout from the city of Des Moines, Iowa after a police officer tacked and arrested him during a George Floyd protest in the summer of 2020.
A photographer discovered a Canon R5 completely ruined in mud flats next to a beauty spot and is now hoping to track down the owner.
Since digital image editing tools like Adobe Photoshop hit the scene in the late 1980s, there have been heightened concerns about whether photos can be trusted. This long-time worry has become an increasingly common refrain among artificial intelligence's most ardent defenders, but it doesn't serve as a sound defense against criticisms of AI.
The digital camera industry has endured a lot of changes over the years and is currently at the tail of a huge collapse that is tied directly to the proliferation of smartphones. A new chart that uses data from camera shipments shows just how stark the difference has been between the highs and lows over the last 70 years.
Although Adobe routinely releases new artificial intelligence features in its software, the company's research division is always working hard on technological breakthroughs, long before related features make it into consumer-facing software. Adobe Research's latest creation is Magic Fixup, which automates complex image editing tasks.
Last week's "Team Pixel" situation highlighted a widespread issue in the technology space that negatively impacts many reviewers and the people who watch their content.
There is a widely held belief that AI images pose a danger to society. The technology is able to create fake images that can pass as genuine creating opportunities for bad actors to spread misinformation.
Benro's new SupaDupa 72 Carbon Fiber Monopod is tall, rugged, and built for demanding photographers with heavy camera equipment.
A photographer assigned to take the official panoramic photograph for the 2024 Democratic National Committee (DNC) used a 100-year-old camera that requires the delegates to sit still for 22 seconds.
Blackmagic announced the final release of DaVinci Resolve 19, the latest version of the popular video editing platform.
A photographer has captured a remarkable image showing a giant red sprite that appeared on the night of the Perseid meteor shower which he also caught on camera.
Samyang has announced the world's first optical exchange autofocus lens. The innovative lens allows photographers to replace the internal optical system, enabling photographers to quickly swap between various prime focal lengths without having multiple lenses.
Sirui's new $499 One-Step Height Adjustment Twin-Leg tripod kit is designed to meet the needs of high-end, professional videographers and photographers.
Chinese lens maker 7Artisans has announced an entirely redesigned 35mm f/1.4 Mark III lens for full-frame mirrorless cameras.
Pencilera is a new free, open-source iPad app that turns an Apple Pencil into a camera remote.
Pretty much as expected, Google leaned hard on the AI capabilities of the Pixel 9 series as selling points over major hardware improvements (a nice new design notwithstanding), but its implementation of these -- especially the generative AI additions -- lacks anything close to the proper levels of disclosure they needs.
Photographer Aaron Watson, who goes by Skies Alive Photography, has seen many incredible things in the night sky. His latest sighting is a rare double "moonbow," a rainbow created by bright moonlight in precise conditions.
Vienna, Austria-based Swiss Rig announced the sr RAW Cinema Camera app, which it claims is the first to bring RAW cinema recording to the iPhone.
The Flip Video cameras took the world by storm in 2006. And like most storms, damage was left in Flip's wake to the tune of a $300 million loss. YouTube creator Krazy Ken of Computer Clan takes a deep dive into the wild story of Flip's dizzying heights and shocking lows in his newest video.
As I write this, there is a Pixel 9 Pro XL in my hand with a beautiful, newly designed camera bump -- but what's inside is largely the same as what we've seen before. Sure, Google says they're more durable, have a longer battery life, and feature a redesigned imaging pipeline from the sensor to the photo, but what is the real improvement from last year's model? Well, some would say that the improvement isn't real at all, because the Pixel 9 is all about the powerful new generative AI tools …
