Jeremy Gray

News Editor

Jeremy Gray is an award-winning landscape and nature photographer. Over the last decade, he has written extensively for many of the leading online publications in the photography industry. He has a passion for writing in-depth camera and lens reviews, educational content, and discussing the latest news from the photography world.

Articles by Jeremy Gray

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A black Nikon Df DSLR camera with a lens is centered against a textured gold background.

The Retro-Styled Nikon Df DSLR Was Both Behind and Ahead of the Times

While Nikon's vintage-inspired Zf and Zfc mirrorless cameras have proven exceptionally popular with photographers, they are not Nikon's first foray into a retro-styled digital camera. No, that was 2013's Nikon Df, arguably the most bizarre DSLR Nikon ever released. 12 years later, people are returning to the Df and appreciating all its novel charms.

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A black digital camera with a textured grip is centered over a background of ocean waves with white foam.

Fujifilm Navigates the Changing Photo Industry Better Than Anyone

While the digital camera market is doing relatively well this year, thanks in large part to surging camera demand in China, the digital camera market during the smartphone era has been in near-constant decline. This has put significant stress on all camera manufacturers, although some have navigated the challenges better than others. Fujifilm is a particularly strong example of a company that has managed not only to survive in the ever-changing market but also to thrive.

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A person wearing a gray hat and jacket takes a photo with a camera on a tripod beside a calm lake, with trees and mountains in the background.

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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A black Yashica City300 digital camera with a large lens, textured grip, and labeled buttons, shown facing forward against a plain white background.

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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Two white robotic vacuum cleaners are shown side by side; one has its top open to reveal internal components and storage, while the other is closed, both set against a plain light background.

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.

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A large, glowing Apple logo is displayed inside a glass cube at the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in New York City, with tall skyscrapers and cloudy skies reflected in the glass.

Apple to Invest Another $100 Billion In the US to Sidestep Massive Tariffs

During its last quarter financial briefing, Apple admitted it had already paid about $800 million to handle ever-changing tariffs and estimated it would pay another $1.1 billion in the current quarter. Apple is poised to spend $100 billion to invest in U.S. manufacturing, which would help the company avoid tariffs and appease the Trump, who has put Apple's global manufacturing practices squarely in his crosshairs.

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A sleek, modern camera or observation device floats above Earth in space, with the planet’s curved horizon, clouds, and deep blue atmosphere visible below against the darkness of space.

Insta360 Sent Its New Satin White X5 360° Camera to the Edge of Space

Insta360 announced the X5 Satin White Limited Edition 360-degree camera, a sleek new design for its flagship camera. To mark the occasion and test new accompanying neutral density (ND) filters, Insta360 promptly launched its white X5 camera into the upper stratosphere, nearly 25 miles above Earth's surface.

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A deep space image showing countless distant galaxies of various sizes and colors scattered across a black background, with some bright, colorful stars featuring visible diffraction spikes.

Webb Captures Historic New Version of Hubble’s Legendary Deep Field Image

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is one of the most iconic space photos of all time, showing nearly 10,000 galaxies of diverse ages, sizes, shapes, and colors in a single frame. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) revisited the same region of the sky, capturing its longest exposure of an extragalactic field with a single filter yet and revealing one of the deepest views ever of the ancient Universe.

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Two women in neon swimsuits and futuristic glasses pose on a beach at sunset. Beside them, a woman with glowing red eyes and metallic arms stands topless, with a black bar covering her chest, against a dark, glowing background.

xAI’s Grok AI Lets Users Create ‘Spicy’ NSFW Images and Videos

Long before Elon Musk bought Twitter and rebranded it to X, the platform was known for allowing users to post a wide range of explicit content. Under Musk's anti-censorship stewardship, the social media platform has only become more of a Wild West. xAI's new Grok Imagine AI image and video generator is poised to take that reputation even further, and the alarm bells are already sounding.