The Board of Directors of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) unanimously selected ASMP Chief Legal Officer Thomas Maddrey to serve as its new CEO, the organization announced today. He will assume the position on December 14.
Fujifilm, Nikon, and Sony all released second-quarter financial results for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025, offering a look at the overall health of the imaging industry.
Music photographers have sounded the alarm over "copyright grab" contracts that are being enforced by major artists.
Just over four years since unveiling its professional drone, the AirPeak S1, Sony discontinued it and all associated products.
Japanese retail analyst firm BCN+R recently investigated the rapidly changing video camera market and has now set its sights on the compact camera segment, asking, "Is the compact camera dead?"
The co-founder and CEO of Runway Cristóbal Valenzuela has compared the current state of artificial intelligence to the invention of daguerreotypes in the 19th century.
A new report from Japanese retail analysts BCN Retail (BCN+R) shows that DJI dominates Japan's video camera market.
In an interview with French publication Phototrend, Franck Bernard, the director of the imaging division of Fujifilm France, shared a lot of interesting information about Fujifilm's market performance, latest cameras, and whether the company might make a new film camera in response to enthusiasm around analog photography.
Aftershoot's annual Photography Industry Trends report offers critical insights into the photography industry, how it is changing, and delivers fascinating information about photographers themselves.
Private equity company Permira has purchased all available common stock for the website builder Squarespace, ending Squarespace's publicly traded era.
EssilorLuxottica, the world's largest eyewear company, has purchased a 5.1% stake in Nikon and is treating it as a "long-term financial investment to support the company and its management."
Amateur Photographer magazine hit a massive milestone today, turning 140 years old.
The British photographer Rankin has been forced to declare his ad agency bankrupt after accumulating debts of over $1.7 million.
In another blow to the ever-depleting market, UK-based photography magazine N-Photo has published its final issue after 168 editions.
Hobolite is no more. The company that has been making a name for itself in LED photography lighting will henceforth come under a new name: Harlowe.
A study looking at how long hours spent editing images affect the well-being of photographers has found that 50.4 percent suffer from mental exhaustion after a lengthy editing session.
Camera companies are notoriously secretive. While companies share revenue and profit info and are happy to claim the number one spot in specific categories, they don't say how many actual cameras they sell. However, new 2023 sales data sheds some much-needed light on the matter.
In Sony's 2024 Corporate Report, the company explains the performance of all its sectors, including its camera business. Sony has claimed yet again that it has achieved the number one market share in the full-frame interchangeable lens market.
In a Japanese interview with Yomiuri, Nikon's president, Muneaki Tokunari, acknowledged that while smartphones harmed overall sales of digital interchangeable lens cameras, they may contribute to the demand for high-end cameras. Not many years removed from dire straits, Tokunari also outlined Nikon's ambitious expansion plans, including its recent acquisition of RED Digital Cinema.
Bending Spoons acquired file-sharing platform WeTransfer in July and has now laid off 75% of WeTransfer's staff.
With great technology comes great power. And apparently, so too comes significant price hikes. The price of some of Canva's subscriptions is slated to increase by around 300%.
Becca Farsace has been the face and mind behind much of The Verge's photography coverage for years, including the publication's "Full Frame" podcast and camera reviews. However, this week, Farsace left to venture out on her own for reasons that hit close to home for many content creators.
The Nikon Corporation and Geodesic Capital have joined to launch NFocus Fund, a new private venture fund designed to "accelerate innovation and inorganic growth."
Although Steve Jobs remains a complicated figure for many who knew him best, nearly everyone agrees that the successful inventor and businessman was a legendary visionary. Jobs was on the ground floor of many technological innovations, including personal computers, digital music players, and smartphones. His work also had a massive impact on photography.
It appears that Meta is no longer developing its rumored Apple Vision Pro competitor, a premium VR/AR headset codenamed "La Jolla."
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.
A lot of financial results have been released recently. This time, the company under the microscope is Nikon, who had a solid showing in the first quarter of the fiscal year, continuing the company's remarkable recovery.
The Nikon Z6 III launched last month to significant popularity, taking the top spot on Japanese photography retailer Map Camera's sales rankings for July.
As part of Tamron's financial reports for the second quarter of this fiscal year, the company breaks down the net sales and operating income of its "photographic products" into "own-brand" and "OEM" products, offering interesting insight into how much money Tamron makes by manufacturing lenses for other companies.
It's a busy time for companies to release financial results, and after Ricoh's strong results earlier this week, Fujifilm, Sony, and Tamron released positive financial reports.
