Apple has announced the M5, the next-generation Apple Silicon chip. The M5, featured in a new MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and upgraded Vision Pro headset, promises improved performance across the board thanks to third-generation 3-nanometer technology.
Nikon has unveiled the winners of its 51st annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. The top 20 winning images showcase the best microscopy and extreme macro photographs of the year.
VSCO, the Visual Supply Company, has announced AI Lab. It is a suite of new AI-powered editing tools to help photographers achieve professional-level results inside VSCO.
In February, the legendary photo company Zeiss unveiled a pair of new Otus ML prime lenses for full-frame mirrorless cameras. The Zeiss Otus ML 50mm f/1.4 arrived shortly after launch. Now the new Otus 85mm f/1.4 has arrived.
All About Photo Magazine unveiled the winners of its latest competition: Colors. The 25 prize-winning photographers demonstrate how powerful color can be in images, whether it's vibrant, subtle, or minimal.
Just this week, three different photography-focused kits for smartphones made the news. Vivo, Oppo, and Nubia all have specialized kits designed for enthusiast mobile photographers, and each promises to improve smartphone camera capabilities above and beyond what phones can do out of the box.
Microsoft AI has unveiled its first text-to-image generator developed entirely in-house, MAI-Image-1. Microsoft AI touts its new model's performance, especially concerning generating photorealistic images.
French photography publication Phototrend interviewed a senior product manager from Sony France, discussing a wide range of topics, including APS-C, full-frame, and hybrid cameras. The official even discussed the widely expected future Sony a7V camera.
Late last month, DJI lost its lawsuit against the Pentagon, meaning that the Chinese technology company would remain designated a "Chinese Military Company" in the United States. DJI has officially appealed the decision.
While each of Apple's latest iPhone models has a different rear camera system, they all feature the same brand-new Center Stage front-facing, or "selfie," camera. The base iPhone 17, ultra-thin iPhone Air, and flagship iPhone 17 Pro all have the same Center Stage camera, complete with its groundbreaking square image sensor and sophisticated new features. We sat down with key minds at Apple to learn more about the new camera and how it empowers mobile photography.
Laowa has announced its highly anticipated 200mm f/2 AF FF C-Dreamer fast telephoto prime lens for full-frame mirrorless cameras. The affordable new lens makes the highly coveted 200mm f/2 combination accessible to a wide range of photographers.
Fujifilm has unveiled the new Instax mini LiPlay+, a hybrid instant camera that introduces many new features, including dual cameras, enhanced sound capabilities, and a refined design.
Vivo has unveiled its new flagship smartphone, the X300 Pro. The Vivo X300 Pro, which will arrive first in China, promises significant upgrades to its Zeiss-engineered triple rear camera system.
In March 2017, Apple unveiled Clips, an app that aimed to make it easier for people to create fun and expressive videos on iPhone and iPad. The app has run its course and has been pulled from the App Store.
The highly anticipated Ricoh GR IV premium compact camera finally arrived on store shelves in Japan last month and it made what Japanese retailer Map Camera calls a "spectacular debut," landing squarely in first place on the retailer's September sales charts.
The seventh Wetzlar Camera Auctions (WCA) saw over 250 total lots of historic cameras and accessories, primarily Leica cameras, sold to enthusiastic and well-heeled collectors this past weekend. Numerous Leica cameras sold for huge sums, but the star of the show, at least from a historic perspective, was a Voigtländer metal Daguerreotype camera from 1840. It sold for €500,000, or nearly $580,000, after a heated bidding war.
The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) is celebrating its 80th Anniversary in style by offering eight weeks of celebrations and events across the United States, along with a never-before-seen look into the rich and historic ASMP Archives.
Two years ago, Elgato released a new all-in-one, plug-and-play teleprompter and monitor designed for content creators and streamers. Now the company has returned with the Prompter XL, which features a much larger 15.6-inch Full HD display and improved design.
Photo editing is complex, and dialing in the perfect workflow requires time and experience. Sometimes, photographers do not have the time to give. That's where DxO's new 24/7/365 Premium Support comes in. The French photo editing software company says its new support provides expert help to pro photographers who need it at any time.
There is a real lack of native tilt-shift lenses across all mirrorless camera systems. TTArtisan's newest lens aims to fill the void. The TTArtisan Tilt-Shift 17mm f/4 ASPH. is coming first to Sony E and Fujifilm GFX formats, but will also arrive on Canon RF, L-Mount, and Nikon Z. Best yet, it won't break the bank.
Some popular DJI cameras, including the extremely popular Osmo Pocket 3, are being sold in the United States at a pre-tariff price by a relatively unknown startup, and it's bizarre.
Filmmaker and cinematographer Tom Kucy, who runs the YouTube channel Manual Not Found, took apart a classic 1950s era Sankyo 8-R film camera and gave it a new, surreal digital life.
The winners of the 45th edition of the prestigious Leica Oskar Barnack Award are photographers Alejandro Cegarra and Serghei Duve. The two photographers prevailed over more than 300 others nominated by around 120 experts in nearly 50 countries.
The Nikon ZR looks poised to be quite the hit with customers. Scheduled to begin shipping in the next couple of weeks, Nikon Japan has already warned customers that it has received so many orders that it may be unable to fulfill them all at launch.
Light Lens Lab's old-school, Oskar Barnack-inspired rangefinder film project is back in the limelight after appearing on numerous photography websites in the past week. The project looks incredible, but although it has popped up again, it is not a current focus for Light Lens Lab, the company confirmed to PetaPixel.
The Pure Street Photography Awards 2025 winners have been revealed, showcasing some of the world's best street photography.
For most iPhone owners, the smartphone's cameras are a massive draw. However, as a recent post on Reddit shows, for those who work in sensitive industries, their iPhone may not even have a camera at all. There's an entire specialized industry focused on stripping the camera systems from Apple's handhelds.
At first glance, the 101-megapixel medium-format image sensor in Fujifilm's brand-new GFX Eterna 55 cinema camera looks very much like the sensor featured in the GFX100 II and GFX100S II. However, as Fujifilm details in its latest "GFX Eterna 55 Development Story," the truth is much more complicated than that.
Scientists Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine this week. Associated Press photographer Lindsey Wasson was the one who delivered the incredible news to Brunkow at her Seattle-area home in the very early hours on Monday morning.
Last week, reports surfaced that the original Nikon Nikkor Z 24-70mm f/2.8 S, which has just been succeeded by the excellent new Nikkor Z 24-70mm f/2.8 S II, had been discontinued. Nikon says this is not true.
Photography software developer Cyme has announced Peakto 2.5, the latest version of its AI-powered media management app for macOS. Peakto 2.5 turns the user's Mac into a secure server, enabling photographers to share their content for collaboration online via an encrypted network connection.
Camera Intelligence has announced Caira, an "AI-native" Micro Four Thirds mirrorless camera that attaches directly to iPhone via MagSafe. Caira is the first interchangeable lens mirrorless camera to feature Google's next-gen generative AI model, "Nano Banana," enabling photographers to perform real-time advanced generative image editing.
PolarPro has unveiled a new creative effects filter: the Center Split Filter. This bold, creative tool enables photographers and filmmakers to capture images with a surreal split-field effect.
Lens maker Meike is selling many of its lenses at discounted prices to celebrate Amazon Prime Day, offering photographers the chance to save up to 20% on lenses for a wide range of camera systems.
Metal musician, camera enthusiast, and YouTuber Sam James made waves on Reddit's r/Cameras subreddit this week after James bought a like-new used Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 DG DN Art II lens for just $99.99.
Tamron is bringing its improved 70-180mm f/2.8 Di III VC VXD G2 lens to the Nikon Z mount, completing the company's f/2.8 "G2 Trinity" for Nikon Z photographers.
The Remembering Wildlife photography book series has released its 10th book, 10 Years of Remembering Wildlife. The series has raised nearly $1.6 million for wildlife conservation to date and features incredible wildlife photos from some of the world's most talented and renowned photographers. This milestone book focuses on pangolins, one of Earth's most threatened species.
CIPA released updated camera shipment data, adding camera and lens shipment data through August. Although camera shipments were relatively high for much of the year, there was a significant dip from July to August, which was larger than the typical "summer slump" dip observed annually.
Last year, Sony promised a wide range of software improvements and feature updates for its Cinema Line cameras, including Blackmagic RAW (BRAW). These promises are being fulfilled a few cameras at a time, and BRAW is arriving very soon on Sony FX-series models.
The Sirkhane Darkroom a mobile photography darkroom, brings education, passion, and most importantly, hope, to overlooked communities in Turkey where children face limited access to education and safety, especially in the aftermath of devastating earthquakes that regularly rock the region.
To celebrate the arrival of autumn, SmallRig is offering up to 30% off over 400 products on Amazon from October 7 to 8.
1839 Awards announced the winners of its International Photographer of the Year Contest. The winning photographers in the Professional and Non-Professional categories demonstrate excellent artistic and technical achievement in photography, as do the additional winning photographers across many diverse categories.
Astronomers have captured the clearest image ever of the vast, powerful jet of matter erupting from the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87).
"Expired film is always unpredictable," says photographer and YouTuber Mathieu Stern, known for his "weird lens" videos. "But what happens when the film expired almost a century ago? Can you still get an image?" To find out, Stern shot with the oldest rolls of film he could get his hands on, including one from as far back as 1946.
Alongside the Rewilding Europe Award winners unveiled yesterday, the German Society for Nature Photography (GDT) recently announced the winner of its annual Fritz Pölking Prize, named for the late award-winning German nature photographer and writer, who passed away in 2007 at 71 years old.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is seemingly everywhere these days, and photography is no exception. There are numerous AI-powered image editing features available, as well as AI-driven autofocus in many cameras. Developer Polychrome's new LR Preset Generator instead puts AI to work as a text-to-Lightroom preset web tool. If, for some reason, photographers aren't keen to utilize their own creativity when editing their images, ChatGPT can do the heavy artistic lifting.
The Cooke Panchro 65/i Series lenses announced late last year have now launched, bringing the classic "Cooke Look" to modern large-format cinema cameras.
Yodobashi Camera, a Japanese photography retailer, has published a list of the 10 best-selling compact cameras for the first half of September, and the list is a fascinating mix of old and new.
It's been a great week for analog photographers. A day after Kodak officially unveiled Kodacolor 100 and 200 color negative film, Lomography has gotten in on the action with the new LomoChrome Classicolor ISO 200 color negative film. It promises true-to-life colors and embodies the "timeless charm" of analog photography.
As part of the ongoing centenary celebration for the Leica I, the first commercially available 35mm camera, Leitz Photographic Auction is putting a collection of dynamic photographs up for sale in a special auction called "Motion."