Perfect Smoke Rings Blow Out of the ‘Gandalf of Volcanoes’
Spectacular footage of Mount Etna in Italy puffing out smoke rings has amazed onlookers with circular smoke appearing in the skies over Sicily for over a week.
Spectacular footage of Mount Etna in Italy puffing out smoke rings has amazed onlookers with circular smoke appearing in the skies over Sicily for over a week.
After announcing the regional winners earlier this month, World Press Photo has unveiled its 2024 global winners. Showcasing the biggest news stories in the world, the competition's winners demonstrate the importance of photojournalism and documentary photography and the incredible lengths photographers go to tell vital stories.
Thanks to improvements in sensor design, iPhone and Android smartphones are gaining traction with enthusiast and professional creators. However, one area that has lagged behind developments in imaging sensors is image stabilization. In a significant development, a recent patent granted to Apple hints at a potential game-changer in this field.
7Artisans has announced an exciting new prime lens, a tilt-shift 50mm f/1.4 for APS-C mirrorless cameras, including those with E, X, and Micro Four Thirds mounts. Although, of course, Micro Four Thirds is smaller than APS-C.
SmallRig announced a slew of new products this week and each is designed to make some aspect of photography and filmmaking just a little bit easier.
In the latest move to respond to the influx of visuals created using artificial intelligence, social media app Snapchat announced it would add a watermark to such images.
The 1994 James Cameron film True Lies starring Arnold Schwarzenegger was recently re-released in Ultra HD 4K disc format giving viewers the opportunity to watch these classic films in unprecedented detail.
Last spring, photography gear company Moment announced The Tuner by Module 8, the world's first variable-look cinematic lens system. The Tuner is now coming to even more mounts after initially launching for EF-mount lenses.
Almost every camera manufacturer makes its own photo editing software, but we aren't super enthused to use any of them -- especially if camera features are locked behind them.
When shooting a PR photo, it can be important to pay attention to small details. The US Navy learned that lesson the hard way recently after sharing an Instagram photo of a warship commander shooting a rifle -- gun-savvy viewers immediately noticed that the scope had been put on backwards.
Peak Design has released a new colorway for its camera strap products, including the Cuff, Leash, Slide Lite, and Slide. The new "Coyote" colorway, a medium brown, joins four existing color choices: black, ash, midnight, and sage.
A wildlife photographer lost $11,000 worth of camera equipment and very nearly his life after falling into a river while shooting wildlife photos.
The ink is still wet on Nikon's acquisition of RED Cinema, but the two teams are already meeting and working on integrating their technologies.
Drone footage has captured the astonishing moment hundreds of emperor penguin chicks jump off a 50-foot cliff in Antarctica for the first time.
The creation of sexually explicit deepfake images is to be made a criminal offense in the U.K. -- with anyone sharing these images facing the possibility of jail time.
An Allegheny woodrat is a rare sight even in its natural habitat among the Appalachian Mountains but a trail camera belonging to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service was lucky enough to capture one last month.
Meta's semi-independent policy body The Oversight Board will investigate two instances of sexual AI images of women being shared on Facebook and Instagram.
Avalanches are a terrifying experience that many don't make it out of. But this GoPro survived and lived to tell the tale (through footage).
Retouch4me has released an update for its free Adobe Photoshop panel that allows users to edit their images through a single interface with the plugin(s) installed locally or through the cloud, extending its original functionality.
Even though the historic flood plains of the once mighty Rio Grande have long been tamed by human dams and irrigation canals, birds keep returning annually to spend winter in the relatively mild climate of New Mexico.
Male photographers earn around $25 more per hour on average than their female peers in the U.S., according to new research.
In addition to unveiling the Pyxis 6K and Ursa Cine 12K cameras, Blackmagic Design also used NAB 2024 to tease an even higher-resolution camera with a large-format image sensor.
Nikon confirmed that it began considering acquiring RED due to the lawsuit the cinema company filed against Nikon back in 2022.
Do you want a compact lens with a constant f/2.8 aperture? Does it have to be as sharp as a G-Master lens without the high price? Sony may have just given you what you asked for, provided that you don't need an extensive zoom range.
Sony has announced the FE 16-25mm f/2.8 G, a compact and affordable ultra-wide lens that is the spiritual sibling to the FE 24-50mm f/2.8 G lens Sony announced in February.
The world's first fully AI-generated movie has been announced with the trailer for Next Stop Paris predictably containing one too many fingers.
Insta360's new flagship camera, the Insta360 X4, offers 8K 360-degree video, plus 5.7K/60p and 4K/100p video. It promises ease of use with its invisible selfie stick effect and a single-lens mode that is a 4K/60p action camera.
Three sailors -- who spent more than a week stranded on a remote, uninhabited island -- were rescued after a navy plane spotted a giant "HELP" sign made of palm trees on a beach.
A street photographer has won a legion of fans for his impromptu portraits of cops, firefighters, medics, and anyone in uniform who "works for the public good."
A circus has apologized after Photoshopping an image taken by a drone so that a serene lake appears in the background instead of a notorious neighborhood.
Ted Lasso star Hannah Waddingham has made headlines for calling out a photographer who apparently asked her to show leg as she posed for pictures at an event.
YouTuber Marques Brownlee, AKA MKBHD, has released a scathing review of the highly-funded, much-hyped, camera-equipped wearable device called the Humane AI Pin.
Instagram users may have noticed a new colorful circular logo at the top of their messages interface lately. It is Meta's AI-powered chatbot.
An upcoming Vivian Maier auction will offer up a rarity for the late photographer: images printed over her lifetime.
Long gone are the days of measuring memory card capacities in megabytes, and perhaps gigabytes aren't long for this world either. Not long after Wise introduced the world's biggest and fastest CFexpress Type B cards, including a 4TB one, Western Digital debuted SanDisk 2TB and 4TB SD cards.
Photographer Nick Bedford has announced Like A Frame 3.3, the latest version of his digital framing iOS app. The updated version brings some new features and faster rendering for photographers wanting to create a polished look on their digital images.
Oscar-nominated Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund, seen above, delivered some thought-provoking quotes in a new interview for The Guardian, raising interesting questions about the nature of cameras and visual storytelling.
Ahead of Earth Day on April 22, 2024, KEH has announced a new marketing campaign to promote the buying and selling of pre-owned cameras and lenses -- "Save the Planet. Buy Better Than New."
Oscar-winning movies are associated with huge crews and intense sets but that is definitely not the case with The Zone of Interest.
Bit Part announced its first product this week: a remote camera control with long range, easy setup, and a sleek design.