PopPhoto is Dead, Again
After shuttering in 2017 and reviving in 2021 as an online-only magazine, Popular Photography -- colloquially known as PopPhoto -- has let go its last staff members and is effectively dead once again.
After shuttering in 2017 and reviving in 2021 as an online-only magazine, Popular Photography -- colloquially known as PopPhoto -- has let go its last staff members and is effectively dead once again.
After closing all of its physical Photo Centers last year, Costco has announced that it is fully exiting the business and shutting down its online Photo Center service as well, pointing customers to Shutterfly instead.
Adobe has announced that it will be pulling the plug on Photoshop Mix and Photoshop Fix, two stripped-down photo-editing apps for mobile devices that Adobe offered until "full" Photoshop was released for the iPad.
Costco has announced that it will be closing the Photo Centers in all its locations by February 14, 2021. The announcement was made known to Costco Photo Center patrons via email early this morning.
If you love the Canon 5D Mark IV DSLR and have been waiting for its successor to be announced, brace yourself for a big disappointment: Canon has reportedly decided to discontinue its popular and pioneering 5D line of cameras.
One of the oldest camera stores in the United States is permanently closing up shop after being devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Olympus has announced that it is exiting the camera business in South Korea due to plummeting sales.
Kodak is discontinuing Kodakit, the on-demand photography service launched back in 2017 that aimed to be a sort of "Uber of photography," connecting photographers around the world with businesses that need photos.
While users were distracted by the new Pixel 4 and other gadgets debuted at this week's Google event, the company quietly discontinued the Google Clips AI-powered lifelogging camera. After poor reviews and even worse adoption, it seems Google is giving up on the camera altogether.
Costco's wholesale warehouse stores used to be an ultra-affordable place to get film developed, as it charged less than $2 a roll while competitors often charged several times as much. But film processing started disappearing from Costco locations a few years ago (to the dismay of many). Now the entire in-store photo departments may be the next to go.
In late 2018, it emerged that Tetenal, one of the largest photo chemistry companies in the world, was in serious financial turmoil. It now appears that efforts to save the business have failed, and Tetenal will reportedly be closing up for good after a whopping 172 years in the analog photography industry.
Fotolia has announced that it will be shutting down its website on November 5, 2019, 14.5 years after its birth in 2005 and 5 years after it was acquired by Adobe for $800 million in cash in 2014.
If you backed a Meyer Optik Görlitz lens on Kickstarter and are still waiting for your reward to arrive, there's some bad news for you: it never will, and your money is now gone. net SE, the company behind those lenses and other vintage brand reboots, is dead.
Nikon Brazil is no more. The division has officially announced that it has ended all of its activities in the South American country, and the news comes less than a year after it announced the end of online sales.
The photography business Photojojo has closed up shop after 12 years of procuring content and products for photographers.
Jacobson Sound Blimps has announced that it's closing up shop, bringing an end to the 52-year-old business that produced the de facto official sound blimp used by still photographers on movie sets to suppress shutter sounds.
500px just shut down its Marketplace stock photo platform in favor of selling photos directly through Getty Images and VCG, as the company announced a month ago. And as part of the major change, 500px has wiped out over 1 million of the Creative Commons photos photographers had uploaded to the service.
Casio point-and-shoot cameras have long been popular among consumers looking for an affordable way to capture memories, but it seems that the rise of smartphones has taken a toll on the brand. The company is now reportedly shutting down the business.
Goodbye, Lytro. The pioneering light field camera company has officially announced that it's winding down operations. This comes just one week after it was reported that Google would be acquiring the company for somewhere between $25 million and $40 million.
ImageBrief has announced to its members this morning that it will be closing after six years of connecting agencies and brands with photographers.
New55 has announced that it has shut down operations, putting an end to its dreams of helping to bring peel-apart 4x5 instant film back from the grave.
There's major consolidation going on in the US camera gear rental industry. Lumoid, a camera and tech gear rental startup, has announced that it's closing up shop, less than half a year after signing a deal with Best Buy to offer gear rentals through the giant retailer.
It started full of hope and possibilities: In 2011, Lytro promised a camera that could change photography forever with its light-field technology, which allowed photographers to refocus after the shot. But having already announced a change in the company's direction towards video rather than consumer still cameras, Lytro has now shut down its online sharing platform for light-field still images. pictures.lytro.com is no more.
A week after announcing the closure of its camera factory in China due to the rise of smartphone cameras, Nikon has just announced that it's shuttering its sales operations in Brazil.
Just months after Verizon became its parent company in a $4.48B deal to acquire Yahoo, Flickr is pulling the plug on both photo book printing and its wall art creation services.
If you use the popular CrashPlan for Home as your cloud photo backup service, here's some bad news: you're going to have to start paying more or move your photo archive elsewhere. Code42 just announced that CrashPlan for Home is being discontinued.
Bowens, the 94-year-old photography brand best known for its lighting equipment, may soon be shuttered. According to a new report, Bowens has reached the end of its road and has gone into liquidation.
Pentax has a long legacy in the modern history of photography, but its days may be numbered: Ricoh is said to be considering killing off its consumer camera business, which is bleeding money.
Since late 2015, rumors and reports have claimed that Samsung was killing off its digital camera business, and the company subsequently pulled out of camera markets around the world while announcing zero new products. Now a new report is confirming that Samsung has indeed ditched the business, and largely due to the rise of smartphone cameras.
Popular Photography, the largest circulated imaging magazine that launched its first issue in May 1937 in New York City, has ceased publication after being continuously in production for 80 years. The March/April 2017 issue will be the last in print.