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French camera startup Pixii today announced the Pixii Max, a new 24.5-megapixel full-frame digital rangefinder camera that promises to be a "seamless upgrade" for current Pixii owners.

Panasonic is holding a Japanese photo competition over the next few months with a very specific set of rules: images must be captured only with the Lumix S9 and the 26mm f/8 lens and images have to be shot in JPEG in-camera; no RAW processing is allowed.

For photographers who were around during the emergence of the DSLR, few cameras are as influential or recognizable as early Canon EOS Digital Rebel models. Gordon Laing of Cameralabs has turned back the clock to look at the very first Rebel DSLR in his latest Retro Review.

Keen observers and students of leeches will no doubt have heard about the "great debate": Can leeches jump?

The National Portrait Gallery, part of the Smithsonian Institution, has purchased a daguerreotype of Dolley Madison for $456,000 -- the early known photograph of a First Lady.

While Meta deals with artificial intelligence in the form of its constantly-changing content tagging system, the company's research wing is hard at work on novel generative AI technology, including a new Meta 3D Gen platform that delivers text-to-3D asset generation with high-quality geometry and texture.

Scientists from the University of Maryland have developed a new camera system that replicates the minuscule movements of the human eye.

The latest CIPA results show that May was an excellent and interesting month for the photography industry. For the January through May period, camera sales hit their highest levels in the past three years.

Panasonic made a surprise announcement overnight, unveiling an updated Lumix FZ80D superzoom camera.

OM System quietly launched the E-M1 Mark III Astro in Japan this week, a camera that is nearly the same as the base E-M1 Mark III save for the infrared (IR) cut filter that allows 100% transmittance of Hα Radiation, allowing for the capture of vivid red celestial images.

The premium compact camera market is slightly more crowded today, as Leica's newly announced D-Lux 8 has officially launched.

Popular AI image generator Midjourney is returning pictures of Donald Trump when asked to make an image of the president of the United States, according to Engadget.

Last month, YouTube quietly updated its privacy policy to allow people to request the removal of AI-generated deepfake versions of themselves.

The CEO of Microsoft AI Mustafa Suleyman has shown an alarming ignorance of copyright law after he claimed that all content on the open web is fair use.

After it was on the receiving end of immense online blowback in response to its use of stock photos as "samples" for its S9 camera, Panasonic launched an internal inquiry to find and remove any other such cases from its Japanese website.

Yes!Star, which was recently tapped by Fujifilm to produce more film in China, announced a new point-and-shoot 35mm film camera.

In 2016, photographer and filmmaker Josh Gladstone designed a way to use Fujifilm Instax film in vintage Kodak cameras. It was very hands-on and had some limitations. Eight years later, Gladstone is back with a much more elegant 3D-printed solution.

A would-be photographer who climbed the roof of a soccer stadium in Germany prompted special forces and a helicopter to be deployed.

Built in collaboration with 500px, Pulsepx is a new contest platform that promises to usher in a new era of competition for photographers.

While Adobe has emphatically responded to the backlash surrounding its terms of use, and done so in a reasonably effective way, that hasn't stopped some other companies from taking swings at Adobe.

Every photographer encounters image quality issues at some point. Blurry or out-of-focus photos from shaky hands, grainy or noisy images caused by high ISO settings, too dark pictures due to low-light conditions, or low-quality or pixelated lacking details when zooming in – these are all common frustrations.

A survey of photojournalists found an overwhelming majority of them believe that freelancing is unsustainable.

A survey conducted by YouTube has found that the majority of Gen Z -- those aged 14 to 25 -- view themselves as content creators.

NASA's 23-year-old Odyssey Mars orbiter is days away from celebrating an incredible milestone: 100,000 trips around Mars. To mark the record-setting occasion, NASA has released a new image of Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano in the solar system.

Sirui, no stranger to interesting lighting solutions, has announced the C150X, a lightweight handheld pocket light for photo and video.

Fujifilm has new firmware updates for four X Series cameras, bringing its Reala Ace film simulation to the X-H2, X-H2S, X-T5, and X-S20 models.