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The Fujifilm GFX Eterna 55 isn't the only recently released video camera to receive important industry certification. The Canon EOS C50, released last year, is now Netflix-approved.

Leica Camera AG's owners are reportedly considering selling a controlling stake in the legendary photography brand.

A new London exhibition, Lee Miller: Performance of a Lifetime, is not only celebrating the pioneering photographer’s extraordinary career but also raising crucial funds to preserve her fragile archive.

AI culling, editing, and retouching company Aftershoot has identified what it believes are the top five photography trends for 2026.

Yodobashi Camera shared its top 20 best-selling compact digital cameras of 2025. Fujifilm not only had the best-selling model, the X100VI, but numbers five and 11 on the list as well. However, the company with the most compact cameras on the list was Canon.

Reports published yesterday suggest that smartphone maker OnePlus is shutting down. The company has responded to the rumors, though different markets have expressed varying degrees of denial about OnePlus' demise.

The Fujifilm GFX Eterna 55, Fujifilm's first digital camera built explicitly for professional filmmaking, is now IMAX-certified.

Japanese retail analyst BCN+R has published its annual BCN Awards, detailing the best-selling photography brands across the majority of Japanese electronics and camera stores. There are some surprising results this year, although the major players have remained consistent.

The Sigma Foundation has released its first two photography books, Hanataba by Sølve Sundsbø and Songen by Julia Hetta, marking the foundation's debut publications. Together, the releases represent a significant step in Sigma’s evolving relationship with photography, shifting from product-focused storytelling to long-term cultural and artistic engagement.

There is now even more proof that the Sony a7 V, despite polarized reception, is selling very well.

Japanese retail analyst BCN+R has shared the top 10 best-selling interchangeable-lens mirrorless cameras of 2025, and Canon and Sony traded spots in the top five.

Canon showcased a prototype Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) sensor at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, promising extraordinary dynamic range and low-light capabilities while offering a tantalizing glimpse of how digital capture might evolve over the next decade, especially in environments where conventional sensors struggle.

Nikon Corporation held a groundbreaking ceremony on January 7 to celebrate construction starting on two new buildings to strengthen Nikon's Japanese optical production and development capabilities.

Japanese market analyst BCN+R's digital camera sales rankings for December 2025 are available now, and the Sony a7 V, which released last month, finished higher on the sales charts than the Canon R6 III did the month prior.

Alongside sharing its 10 best-selling digital cameras of 2025, major Japanese photography retailer Map Camera also revealed last year's 10 best-selling lenses. It's a diverse mix of affordable, versatile zoom lenses, compact primes, and professional-grade f/2.8 "holy trinity" zooms.

Leica is working on developing its own image sensors again, an exciting and interesting development in an industry where there is not all that much diversity in image sensor technology.

Big Japanese photo retailer Map Camera revealed its best-selling digital cameras of 2025, and the results are a surprising mix of very popular, high-end cameras and cheaper compacts, including the best-selling camera of them all, the Kodak PixPro FZ55.

The action camera market, once almost entirely owned by the American company GoPro, is now dominated by Chinese companies like DJI and Insta360, which together hold nearly 90% of the market share in Japan.

The global memory chip shortage, primarily driven by the increasing memory demands of AI data centers, has drastically affected the market, sending memory prices skyrocketing. It is widely expected to impact a wide range of products, including, per a press release from ProGrade Digital's Japanese operation, memory cards and SSDs.

After hitting a record high of over $82 per ounce over the past few days, analog photographers may have cause to worry about the price of their film. Silver is an essential component of film production, and silver prices have more than doubled in 2025.

Fujifilm Corporation announced this week that it will invest approximately 5 billion yen (nearly $31.8 million at current exchange rates) into expanding its production capabilities for Instax film. Fujifilm says this move is in response to growing global demand for Instax film products amid a broader increase in demand for analog photography overall.

After acquiring CreativeLive in 2022, Fiverr announced in September that it would be shutting the platform down by the end of 2025. That plan has changed, however, as it instead has found a new owner for the platform: CourseHorse.

Lensrentals has shared its top photography and videography rentals of 2025, continuing the company's annual tradition of recapping the cameras, lenses, and accessories customers want the most. Yet again, the list is dominated by Canon and Sony equipment across the board.

A new bill that is being proposed by Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) wants to make it less expensive for visual artists, which includes photographers, to protect their work. Called the Visual Artists Copyright Reform Act of 2025 (VACRA), it wants to reduce fees associated with copyright protection, “ensuring that professional creators can afford to register all their works."

The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) marks its eightieth anniversary with free global student memberships, alongside new advisory, legal, and education initiatives for 2026.

The prestigious Hasselblad Masters photography competition is back again, and the 2026 edition is now open for entries. Photographers compete across seven categories, with each category winner earning a valuable Hasselblad camera kit and €5,000 in cash. An overall winner will also be named a "Hasselblad Master," joining an elite group of photographers.

The Camera & Imaging Products Association (CIPA) released its latest data detailing global digital camera and lens shipments from Japanese manufacturers. After a terrible August, shipments bounced back in September. This bounce back continued in October, the most recent dataset available, which was the most prolific month for digital camera and lens shipments in the past three years.

Map Camera, one of Japan's largest photography retailers, has released its monthly sales charts for brand-new and used camera models. The Canon EOS R6 Mark III, PetaPixel's Camera of the Year, delivered an outstanding debut, topping the November sales charts "far ahead" of second-place.

As exciting as the latest and greatest cameras are, the best-selling models are, by and large, entry-level cameras with older, worse technology. Photographers love to talk about cutting-edge flagship cameras, but when it comes to consumer spending habits, entry-level interchangeable-lens cameras rule the day, as BCN+R's latest data from Japan shows.

EyeEm, an international stock photography community and marketplace, is shutting down on January 16, 2026. Photographers on the platform can transfer their content to Freepik if they want, but those who opt not to will see their images removed from both EyeEm and partner agencies like Getty Images.

Adobe has announced that it has achieved revenue of $6.19 billion in Q4 2025, growing 10% year-over-year. In FY2025 total, Adobe pulled in record revenue of $23.77 billion, growing 11% year-over-year.

With just weeks left before DJI's products will be banned in the United States pending a last-second security audit, as mandated by law, DJI is pulling out all the stops and imploring federal officials to take the necessary actions.

Micron, the maker of Crucial memory, including SSDs, has announced that it will shutter the Crucial brand and exit the consumer memory business to focus on supplying AI data centers.

Last week, reports surfaced that showed the company was closing two facilities, both of which primarily focused on producing lighting equipment. An Arri spokesperson has denied that Arri is exiting lighting manufacturing, but did not comment on any reductions in manufacturing capability.

The Associated Press (AP) has switched to Blackmagic Design's DaVinci Resolve Studio for its global news production operations, putting another feather in Blackmagic's cap.

It was already surprising that the relatively pricey Hasselblad X2D II 100C sold so well at launch in Japan, but now the new medium-format camera has done something even more unusual by sticking around at the top of Japanese sales charts even after the initial launch hype died down.

Amid Arri's ongoing financial challenges and the difficult professional cinema landscape, the German company announced this week that it will cut jobs and close two locations primarily focused on producing lighting equipment.

The World Photography Organization and the Sony World Photography Awards have announced that acclaimed photographer Joel Meyerowitz will receive the Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award at the Sony World Photography Awards 2026.

Canon Inc. and its U.S. subsidiary, Canon USA, are facing a new patent infringement lawsuit filed by Irish company Malikie Innovations Ltd. The suit alleges that Canon’s cameras, printers, and companion mobile app use Wi-Fi technology covered by six patents held by Malikie that pertain to how devices wirelessly connect to networks or apps for tasks such as photo sharing and printing.

Photographer Tammy Ljungblad has worked at The Kansas City Star for 36 years. She has never seen anything like the impact of megastar Taylor Swift on NFL games at Arrowhead Stadium and the broader Kansas City community.

After a worse "summer slump" than usual, camera and lens shipments rebounded in September, offering hope that 2025 may prove to be an even better year for the photo industry than 2024 despite global economic challenges and the impact of tariffs.

It’s no secret that things are changing in the camera and imaging space. As technology advances and the old guard passes the torch to the new, we’ve seen the digital camera evolve from a work instrument only accessible to industry professionals to a creative tool that even those of modest means can access.

Fujifilm celebrated the opening of two new "House of Photography" spaces in Europe this week. The first was in Barcelona, Spain, on November 5, and the second in Porto, Portugal today, November 7.

Nikon lost nearly 5 billion yen ($31.3 million) from April to September 2025, primarily because of U.S. tariff policy. It is the company's first operating loss in the first half of a fiscal year in five years. However, the company's imaging division remains strong.

TikTok has announced the launch of its first-ever awards ceremony in the United States, the TikTok Awards 2025, scheduled for Thursday, December 18, at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles.