Category: News

A solid week for gear news specifically. Fujifilm delivers a serious new super telephoto prime, OM System teases what looks like a new Pen camera, Pentax’s last DSLR quietly disappears from Japanese retailers, Westcott announces a genuinely clever collapsible cart, Metabones returns with refreshed adapters, and a Japanese retailer tests one of the strangest lenses…

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A genuinely varied week. A music photographer is suing over a painting made from his image that sold for nearly two million dollars, Linda McCartney is getting her own postage stamps, a New Mexico court hit Meta with its largest child safety fine yet, and the first photographs of a fresh impact crater on the…

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Meta wrongly disabled a sports photographer’s Instagram account, Leica quietly removed a finalist from one of photography’s most prestigious prizes, a team sent a camera to the edge of space to catch last week’s eclipse, and new gear ranges from an unusual Sigma lens patent to a real telephoto lens for iPhone.

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A genuinely varied week. VSCO had to clarify how photographers actually get paid for its ambitious billboard project, GoPro’s latest earnings confirm the going concern warning from a few weeks ago was not overstated, the Sony FX5 slips another month, a legendary surf photographer has died, and a trail camera captured something that has never…

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A total solar eclipse crosses the Arctic, Iceland, and Spain on August 12, and a new app promises to let photographers actually watch it instead of hiding behind a viewfinder. Colorado wildlife photographers are pushing back hard on a proposed annual fee. A decade long documentary project reframes how we see women serving life sentences.…

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A heavier week than most, worth sitting with rather than skimming past. A retired tourist has spent three months behind bars for photographing a train, Sony has made a formal offer to acquire Tamron, a group of tourists sparked real backlash for a photo shoot at Auschwitz, and a wildlife photographer documented one of the…

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A Ukrainian military photographer captured the exact moment a drone strike detonated, tourists at Yellowstone risked their lives walking across a boiling hot spring for a photo, new research raises real concerns about AI editing and wildlife photography, and Godox rounds out the week with two genuinely interesting budget releases.

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A genuinely rich week. We lost a pioneering photojournalist, a Dorothea Lange archive has been made public for the first time, a photographer is suing a well known artist over alleged image appropriation, and a new biography uncovers a photographer whose second career was espionage.

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A genuinely substantial week. Ricoh marks 30 years of the original GR1 with a special edition GR IV, freelance photojournalists are pushing back hard on a new Wall Street Journal contract, a rare gangster photography series gets its due, and a veteran street photographer makes the case for why the genre matters more now than…

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A genuinely eventful week. Fujifilm marks 40 years of QuickSnap with its first ever black and white disposable camera, Capture One and Hasselblad bury the hatchet after years of mutual silence, Annie Leibovitz gets caught in a real conversation about color grading and cultural bias, and two black and white exhibitions are worth knowing about…

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