There's a new dynamic range champ, the Sony a7R VI.

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After over 7,100 Kickstarter backers pledged over $2.4 million for Peak Design's new Travel Line bags, the four new travel-friendly, adventure-ready bags are now available for direct retail purchase.

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Vintage-inspired, retro-styled cheap digital cameras are everywhere these days. The new Leaf Camera is yet another affordable digital camera trying to be the next Kodak PixPro.

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The world of photography is currently navigating a crisis of authenticity. AI-generated images are now indistinguishable from photographs. Judges and audiences alike can’t tell the difference. Even experts are getting it wrong.

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When it comes to Android phones, Samsung is among the first to come up in conversation. The company built part of that cachet on the camera performance of its flagship Galaxy S series, but has long since abdicated the role of setting the pace for mobile camera hardware.

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Yesterday, PetaPixel shared that a fully AI-generated film titled "Dreams of Violets" had been accepted into the Tribeca Film Festival. For some reason, there are people who insist this is the future of films. If that is the case, then congratulations: I hate movies.

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The world-famous Tribeca Film Festival starts next week and will feature a "live action" feature-length film entirely AI-generated, a world's first.

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The Belfast Photo Festival is still over a week from starting in Belfast, Northern Ireland, but it has already instigated serious outrage among photographers. The Belfast Photo Festival will include a major interactive public exhibition that invites visitors to pick up a hammer and destroy "obsolete" cameras, and not everyone is on board.

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Low-budget horror movies aren't for everyone. But it's difficult to ignore Obsession, which just raked in over $30 million in ticket sales over the Memorial Day weekend, taking it to $80 million worldwide. Not bad for a film that was made for just $1 million.

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Canon's recent video-first and hybrid cameras, the EOS C50, EOS R6 Mark III, and brand-new EOS R6 V, are a perfect example of what I consider Canon's biggest EOS R System mistake. These products are segmented in extremely annoying ways.

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As Japanese retail analyst BCN+R described earlier this year, DJI had a massive market share in the video camera market in 2025. The Chinese tech company's dominance has only strengthened so far in 2026.

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As soon as I learned about the exciting and excellent new Sony a7R VI and got my hands on it a few weeks ago, I knew exactly what people would be asking once they learned about the camera's new, faster stacked sensor and 30 FPS burst shooting rates. Why would any photographer choose the Sony a1 II over the a7R VI? And I was right. I heard this question at least a dozen times at Sony's a7R VI event in New York City without any prompting whatsoever.

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Sony unveiled the Xperia VIII smartphone this week, boasting photographer-focused upgrades and improvements. American buyers, who are yet again missing out on the latest Xperia, may have felt a little left out. Looking at the phone's new AI Camera Assistant with Xperia Intelligence and its terrible results, perhaps U.S. buyers aren't missing out on much at all.

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In a world where photography software companies don't always give photography or photographers the respect they deserve, VSCO has committed to the importance of photography.

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The media award season -- a time for applause -- also highlights an irony of the fast-changing marketplace: the winners could be gone.

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Another day, another Wi-Fi camera hack. "A million" network-connected baby monitors and security cameras were visible to hackers, exposing many households to extreme privacy violations and security concerns.

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Last week, President Donald Trump and the U.S. Department of War launched a new website to publish unsealed photos and videos related to unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). Of the 161 files released so far, the most attention-grabbing ones are from NASA's Apollo missions in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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Last year, a client came to me with a straightforward brief: they needed a full lookbook for their new clothing line. But there was a catch. “We don’t want a shoot,” they said. “Just take our phone photos and make them look professional with AI.” I could have said no. Instead, I said yes -- and it changed how I think about my entire career.

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There's a dubious rumor circulating about OM System launching an OM-3 Monochrome camera in 2026. While there are plenty of reasons to doubt the rumor, there are even more reasons why an OM-3 Monochrome is actually a really good idea.

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Yet another photo contest has attracted significant attention in the online photography community for all the wrong reasons. The winning photo in the National Wildlife Federation's (NWF) recent Garden for Wildlife Photo Contest was disqualified following public outcry. However, the NWF and photographers disagree on why the winning photo violated competition rules.

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