Amid the shuffle and chaos of Apple's annual iPhone event, yesterday also marked Sigma's 65th anniversary, and the company celebrated in very Sigma fashion with a sincere letter to the world and a beautifully animated video featuring technicolor camera and lens parts.
News just broke that the new Apple Watch Series 12 will have a feature called "Siri Recap" that uses "ambient listening" to "take notes" that users can later review as a summary.
A.I. chatbots are inundating the world, and few people are talking about it.
After a teaser last week, Xiaomi has fully unveiled its first wide foldable phone, the Xiaomi 18 Fold. The new handheld features a wide 5.38-inch cover display and an expansive 7.58-inch 120Hz inner AMOLED display.
A short while ago I was reading the comments on a restaurant's Facebook group post. The post was a set of dodgy AI-generated food images, and they had that giveaway look. Too glossy, sauce behaving strangely, and bread that somehow looked like a sponge.
Adobe Camera Raw 18.6 arrived recently, bringing a rather interesting new Glow feature in its Effects panel that could easily fly under the radar. With this new tool, photographers can easily create an Orton effect or mimic film halation, delivering some pretty cool looks.
Over on Japanese crowdfunding site Makuake, photographers can support what is arguably one of the goofiest toy cameras to date. And that's a high bar to clear. The "DV42" is a 24-gram, teeny-tiny camera that, for some reason, is styled to look like a cassette tape.
Hohem has unveiled the Eyepic at IFA 2026, introducing what the company calls the "world's first 2-in-1 pocket gimbal camera." The device combines a detachable camera with three-axis stabilization, allowing it to function as a handheld gimbal camera or a wearable camera for hands-free recording.
Last week, DJI shared a rocket launch video recorded using Osmo Action 6 cameras. As is so often the case, DJI's primary commercial and legal rival, Insta360, is not content to merely watch from the sidelines. Insta360 has its own new rocket launch video, too.
Today, Tim Cook officially hands the reins at Apple over to John Ternus. During Cook's 15-year tenure as Apple's chief executive officer, Apple went from a $347 billion company to a $4.6 trillion one, a nearly 13.3 times increase.
A lot has been made of the fact that in the Nikkei Industry Map, Nikon lost its third-place position to Fujifilm. However, what most discussions miss is why that happened and whether or not it's actually a meaningful position swap. As I suspected, the conversation has missed important nuance.
A new camera from FarseerTech aims to simplify photographing distant, moving subjects. RocXZoom combines a 50x hybrid zoom, motorized pan-and-tilt movement, and AI-powered subject recognition in a compact body designed for wildlife, birding, and outdoor observation.
Once upon a time, when I was a student, I was in a London park and nearby there was a camera club taking still-life photos on the grass. They were doing absolutely no harm to anyone.
Hasselblad's latest financial statements offer further proof that it is a company in rebirth, and that Hasselblad's decision to join the mirrorless medium format market was exceptionally shrewd and well-timed.
I don’t usually reach for my iPhone Camera app for much beyond quick clips, social posts, and photos, and I’ve certainly never put any accessories or lenses on it. Then came the Moment T-Series II lens set, and now that very well might change.
According to the latest BCN Ranking in Japan, DJI made all 10 of the best-selling video cameras last month. Even by DJI's lofty standards, that level of dominance is absurd. In the US, this dominance is under threat from legal issues and competitors alike.
It's Saturday, and instead of enjoying the nice weather, I'm drawn to my computer to write the equivalent of a deep sigh. Two companies decided to publish generative AI slop this weekend designed to sell cameras, and I will never understand it.
DarkSky International's Capture the Dark 2026 photo contest undoubtedly featured some beautiful photos of the night sky captured by talented photographers. However, since the winners were unveiled last week, controversy has reared its ugly head.
The creator of a new vibe-coded iOS slow-messaging app, Carrier Pidge, admits that his app is pointless and has minimal, if any, practical use.
I'm a little late to the party, but when looking at Kodak's strong financial results yesterday, I realized that the company had released new large-format film and bulk roll products just a few months ago. They're worth looking at, even if they are no longer brand new.
Alongside its three new slab smartphones, the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, and Pixel 11 Pro XL, Google unveiled a new foldable, the Pixel 11 Pro Fold. It's sleek and stylish, but has serious camera compromises.
Pentax is in a challenging spot. Its parent company, Ricoh, remains committed to the Pentax brand, and Pentax wants to continue to make DSLR cameras. The problem is nobody wants new DSLR cameras.
I recently added a camera that shoots 6x6 to my shelf. Square negatives, twelve per roll. I expected to enjoy the lens, the build, the ritual of loading film backs. What I didn’t expect was how much the shape of the frame would mess with the rest of my photography vision.
Skylum, best known for its AI-powered photo editing software Luminar, is grappling with today's increasingly negative attitude toward artificial intelligence by changing its messaging to double-down on human creativity.
Canon's latest lens patent is interesting mostly because of what it represents than the specific lenses detailed. The patent features an interesting three-group lens design that Canon says delivers faster autofocus performance, all else equal.
If you ask a photographer what they specialize in, they may pause before answering. That pause is worth paying attention to.
Rollei Superpan 200 is a curious sort of film, making it all the better reason to feature it today. The first impression we would give you of Superpan 200 is that on the surface it can be easily unimpressive, but dig a bit deeper and Superpan quickly reveals that it has quite a bag of tricks at its disposal.
Sony has reportedly made a significant offer to buy Tamron, a leading Japanese lens manufacturer that makes more than 20 lenses for Sony E-mount mirrorless cameras.
Let's take a journey back to February 2016. DSLR cameras are a big thing, even Sony is still making them. Nikon announces the flagship D5 and the powerhouse D500. Nikon also unveils an all-new series of premium Type 1 compact cameras: the DL Series. But they never actually arrived.
The Sony FX5 has been unveiled, ushering in a new era for Sony's FX Series cinema cameras and, in many ways, answering the increasingly noisy critics who have been reasonably demanding more meaningful improvements from Sony.
Light Lens Lab has shown off one of its many photography projects, showing that it is in the early stages of making an all-new film camera.
Sony has announced the exciting new FX5 cinema camera, and it has a ton of interesting features and improvements. It also has among the strictest memory card requirements of any Sony FX or Alpha Series camera to date.
OnePlus has left the party. For a brand with a perpetual upstart status in a North American smartphone market that’s only getting worse by the year, OnePlus’ exit from North America and Europe is a loss by any measure, even if you find yourself wondering what I’m even talking about.
Cinestill 50D is the less popular sibling to Cinestill’s 800T and 400D emulsions. Because 50D often gets passed over in favor of those other two, we figured it would be a great film to feature on Film Friday. It is a different and lovely film in its own right and deserves a bit more attention than it receives.
Squarespace users across the web have begun reporting receiving emails detailing impending price increases that range as high as 26%, depending on the selected plan and payment option.
Yesterday, SmallRig announced the Professional Outdoor Backpack (25L) 6521 that advertises an "innovative" interior that promises to hold dividers in place via a hook-and-loop system. That sounds great, but the innovation wasn't SmallRig's -- it was Hasselblad's.
DJI is in a bit of hot water after it was discovered publishing an AI-generated ad on TikTok, where AI-generated people are not all that unusual. DJI's now-deleted ad featured a video with an AI avatar who looks, mostly, like a real, actual person.
Christopher Nolan's upcoming epic, The Odyssey, which was shot with groundbreaking IMAX cameras and features immensely talented actors, has an AI competitor. A new AI-generated adaptation of the classic Homeric epic is also hitting screens soon and I have to ask, what the hell are we doing?
We are living through the most photographed moment in human history, and somehow, street photography matters more than it ever has.
Sony unveiled the long-awaited RX10 V this week, bringing out a new versatile bridge camera for the first time since the RX10 IV in 2017. You've already seen what we think, but we believe it's important to get a diverse assortment of opinions when considering something as important as a camera purchase. $2,299 is a lot of money, after all.
Japan routinely gets a lot of cool, exclusive photography-related merch. For example, Ricoh's limited-edition camera straps made from seats salvaged from a retired train car surely made photographers elsewhere green with jealous rage. But it doesn't have to be this way. Everyone could have access to cool photo-related gear.
The more photos I take and the more cameras I test, the more I realize that the shooting experience is just as important as the results. So why has one of the most iconic experiences -- the waist-level twin-lens reflex camera -- been left by the wayside?
When I first threw out the idea of taking another look at the Canon EOS Digital Rebel 300D, the response from the team was tepid to say the least. Why devote time to what could be argued as one of the worst DSLR cameras of all time?
Photographers in 2026 live in the age of reusable film cameras. There is the Pure35 that U.K. retailer Analogue Wonderland launched last month, Lomography's huge array of cameras, and Dubble Film's SHOW camera, to name just a few. Now there's another one on the scene, and it arrives with a legendary name, the Praktica VF212.
For the past year, I've been focusing mainly on panoramic photography. It started with the Hasselblad XPan, which led me to purchase the Fujifilm TX-1, and even made me go further into the 3D printed 120 format world with Sasquatch, CCB, and Exposing Engineering. But that's all analog, and digital photographers deserve an option, too.
The AI-driven flash memory shortage has claimed yet another victim: the Apple MacBook Neo's extremely aggressive price. It's not just the Neo, either, as Apple has increased the prices of all its Macs, iPad models, and even the already-pricey Vision Pro.
Alongside Studio Pro, its new photo editing platform designed for high-volume working photographers, VSCO announced VSCO One, and it's getting a lot of attention, and not only for good reasons.
Is it a DJI Osmo? Is it an Insta360 Luna? Nope, it's a Goojodoq GFS025, and it, for whatever reason, is a handheld camera fan.
For the past several months, the photography community has been subjected to the strangest series of product launches that we've ever seen. I use the word "launches" very loosely, because two-thirds of those products have yet to actually "launch."
"I was scared to hire a photographer for my wedding," says the sister of Reagan Simmons Hancock in the harrowing Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct. It's not surprising. Her sister was murdered by her wedding photographer.
