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Photography once changed fashion but now fashion is changing photography, threatening to make it obsolete.

The camera market is a bastion of high tech as manufacturers constantly innovate to create market-leading products. Not only that, they appear to invest increasing amounts of money into research and development in order to stay relevant as the smartphone onslaught continues unabated. Or do they?

I guess I'm the sucker that keeps a lot of the digital photography software companies in business. In order to "stay current" in my recommendations, I have to keep looking at new versions of software products, and that requires a near endless tithing that's getting old.

Lensrentals has revealed its most rented camera and lenses of 2022, with Canon and Sony claiming all but one of the top 20 list.

Adobe's Fiscal Year 2022 earnings have been released and the company achieved a record revenue of $17.61 billion, which represents a 15% year-over-year (YoY) growth. Creative Cloud revenue grew to 10.46 billion on its own.

An artificial intelligence (AI) program has warned that photographers may have to leave the creative industries, because of AI.

Ricoh is set to evaluate its many business segments and determine which it will withdraw from or attempt to sell as it aims to increase its return on investment in the 2023 fiscal year.

Film photography may be enjoying a resurgence in popularity, but worldwide supply chain issues are now holding back the industry's return. Fujifilm is warning that its 35mm films are expected to be in short supply "for the time being."

A cutting-edge food commercial firm has revealed some of the complex photography tricks it uses for shoots.

A fascinating behind-the-scenes video details how cars are destroyed in Hollywood movies.

Facing business units that it does not believe are expected to grow, Panasonic's CEO says it will shift its business to focus on mirrorless video cameras.

Tech startup BOOM, which said it wanted to be the "Amazon for photography," has allegedly failed to pay photographers that it inherited from its acquisition of LemonOne due to financial difficulties.

The average family may shoot four thousand photos in a year. If you have been taking pictures since the iPhone 3G came out in 2008, it means that now, after 14 years of a trigger-happy existence, you are inundated with over 50,000 photos. And you probably cannot find a perfect shot from a vacation you took just three years ago.

Seeing television ads for cameras and camera products is not nearly as common as it used to be, but that is starting to change as companies realize they need more general consumer support to survive at a time when the market is shrinking.

Robot dogs are being trained to carry out Google Maps-style 360 virtual walkthrough tours in construction sites.

Snapchat is giving users more advanced video editing tools by rolling out a new feature called Director Mode.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, continued its free fall in 2022. The company had more than $65 billion wiped off its market value after it reported another quarter of declining revenues.

Even though technology is advancing at an incredibly fast pace, multiple studies show that regardless of the time we spend on our screens, more than 81% of people (at least in the USA) prefer to read or view images on print rather than on a digital screen.

Shutterstock has announced a collaboration with the makers of DALL-E that will allow users to generate synthetic images on its platform.

SmugMug has acquired the This Week in Photo (TWiP) podcast and media network along with its Editor-in-Chief Frederick Van Johnson. Johnson joins Smugmug to lead what the company calls "content and new media" in addition to his continued role at the head of This Week in Photo.

Earlier this month Olympus revealed some of the thought process behind the 2020 sale of its camera division in which the company jettisoned it in order to pursue greater stability and profitability from its broad portfolio of medical technology. This is in stark contrast to Nikon, which has wiped the slate clean and started again. What is going on with Japanese camera manufacturers and are there any lessons to be learned?

A market research study has concluded that the commercial photography business is growing, largely thanks to a surging e-commerce industry.

The death of the DSLR was always in the cards - as soon as Nikon and Canon entered the mirrorless fray in 2018 it was not a case of if, but when. However, what was perhaps not expected was the rapidity with which the sales rug would be pulled from beneath DSLR consumers' feet. It's all or nothing when it comes to mirrorless.

Canon has launched the Canon Precision Alignment service which will fix focus misalignment issues on its lenses and camera bodies.

Skies and Scopes have released its findings from analyzing all of the images shortlisted by the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition from since 2017 to figure out which cameras and accessories are being used by the best astrophotographers in the world today.

Over three in four stock photos of sleeping babies show them in an unsafe environment, according to a study.

Canva, a super-simple creative software solution, has more than 100 million monthly active users, an explosion of growth that sees nearly four times as many users on the platform as rival Adobe has Creative Cloud subscribers.

Eastman Kodak is hiring and the company says its tactic of being the "last color film manufacturer standing" has paid off as interest in analog photography continues to surge.

Free stock photography website Unsplash has announced a paid version, one year after Getty acquired the company.

The Africa Geographic 2019 winner "Tim in Amboseli National Park, Kenya is a great photo. It shows Tim the elephant majestically backlit against a dramatic sky. Except, it didn't win: it was later disqualified for excessive manipulation.

The Wedding and Portrait Photographers International (WPPI) organization is "pressing pause" on its Honors of Excellence photography competition until 2024 as it evaluates the program and how it can evolve in the current events landscape.

Eastman Kodak has received the National Historic Chemical Landmark designation by the American Chemical Society (ACS). This award recognizes companies for significant contributions to chemistry and science, and positive impact of the company's products on the lives of consumers.

Canon is about to begin constructing a new $345 million plant to build the equipment used in a crucial part of semiconductor manufacturing called lithography.

DJI has opened its striking new Shenzhen, China headquarters which it describes as a creative "community in the sky."

Today's smartphones have become the biggest competitor for DSLR cameras. And Qualcomm's VP believes that artificial intelligence (AI) technology will help smartphones to surpass DSLR cameras completely within the next three to five years.

An annual "Rants and Raves" survey of real estate photographers has found that their biggest gripes are homeowners not tidying up properties.

A patent filed by Canon for a moving selfie stick that automatically composes photos could lead to a groundbreaking camera.

As an industry, we need to do better. For our craft, for new and experienced photographers alike, for those clients who don’t get the full information.

Artificially intelligent (AI) images generated by machines are for sale en-masse on stock photo websites such as Shutterstock, iStock, and Adobe Stock.

Adobe has announced it has purchased Figma, a popular design platform and Adobe XD competitor, for $20 billion in cash and stock. The company says the merger will "usher in a new era of collaborative creativity."

A video has revealed the tricks that real estate photographers use to make properties look better than they do in reality.

In April, Atomos said it fired CEO Estelle McGechie because she refused to move to Australia, but she says it was actually because she refused to turn a blind eye to what she characterizes as securities fraud and revenue manipulation.

The Festival La Gacilly-Baden Photo is Europe's largest outdoor photography festival. This year is the fifth annual edition, with the event running from June 9th to October 16th, 2022, and entry has always been free. Last year it was visited by over 280,000 photography enthusiasts.

A new report from the World Silver Survey found that demand for silver increased 19% last year achieving its highest levels since 2015. Part of this increase is being attributed to the rising demand and surging popularity of film.

After several years of development and beta testing, PicFlow has publicly launched its client gallery and photo proofing service. The company says it aims to simplify photographers' workflow and make it easier to communicate and deliver to clients.

James Eagle created a fascinating data visualization that lays bare the dominance of the smartphone market over the camera.

Over the next ten years, the number of photographers is expected to grow by 17%, or more than double the average growth rate for all industries, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

Canon has ordered lens manufacturer Viltrox to stop selling RF mount products, according to a leaked customer chat text.