Category: News
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The PEN Is Back, and It Has a Switch Marked Mono
OM System has revived the PEN with a rangefinder body, a built in viewfinder and a switch on the front marked Color and Mono. Here is what it offers black and white shooters, and where it falls short.
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Apple Put a Real Aperture Inside a Phone
Phones have faked depth of field for years. The iPhone 18 Pro has six metal blades that actually move, and for once the choice about how much of the frame is sharp is yours.
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Weekly News Roundup
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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Weekly News Roundup
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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Weekly News Roundup
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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Weekly News Roundup
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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Weekly News Roundup
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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Weekly News Roundup
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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Weekly News Roundup
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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Weekly News Roundup
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.