Canon has filed a patent for a 70-135mm f/2 zoom lens for full frame cameras, an internal-zoom design with a fixed front group that reads like a direct answer to the Sony FE 50-150mm f/2 GM that went on sale last year.
A female humpback whale gave birth to a stillborn calf about a kilometer off Australia's Gold Coast on July 17, 2025, then kept diving to the seafloor to lie beside it, nudge it with her head and a pectoral fin, and hold eye contact for a minute or more at a time, until the boat watching her left at 10 a.m.
Adobe has announced Photoshop Elements 2027, with tools designed to make photo editing easier without requiring users to learn a complicated interface. As you might expect, the new additions are AI-powered and designed to speed up your workflow and help you organize your archive.
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir photographed an aurora glowing green and purple over Kyrgyzstan on September 7, shooting from the International Space Station at an altitude of 255 miles with a Nikon Z9 at a 15mm focal length. The frame catches the green band riding the curve of the atmosphere, purple rays climbing above it, and the lights of Central Asian cities scattered across the dark below.
Today, Canon announced a new full frame body added to the EOS lineup, the Canon EOS R8 Mark II camera. And I got my hands on one for an early look.
Canon has announced the EOS R8 Mark II, a 24.2-megapixel full frame mirrorless camera that adds 5-axis in-body image stabilization while retaining up to 40 fps electronic-shutter shooting. The camera is expected to ship in late October for an estimated $1,899 body-only price.
Fujifilm has announced the instax Pal 2 digital camera and instax Link WIDE 2 smartphone printer, updating the Pal with an optical viewfinder and adding a new Photo Mixer collage feature to the WIDE printer.
Apple has introduced the iPhone Duo, its first foldable iPhone, pairing a 5.4 in outer display with a 7.6 in folding inner display.
Apple has announced the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, introducing a new 48 MP Fusion Main camera with variable aperture, expanded manual camera controls, new image-authenticity features, and additional photo and video tools. The phones also introduce the A20 Pro chip, a redesigned thermal system, longer battery life, and iOS 27 with Apple Intelligence and Siri AI.
SIRUI has officially announced the launch of the Saturn V2 Full Frame Anamorphic Lens Series, representing a significant update to its popular Saturn anamorphic system.
OM Digital Solutions has announced the OM SYSTEM PEN, a new Micro Four Thirds interchangeable-lens camera built around a 20.4-megapixel Live MOS sensor, TruePic IX processor, 5-axis in-body image stabilization, and a compact rangefinder-style body.
Ricoh is ending production of its current Pentax K-series digital SLRs and starting work on a brand-new line built on what it calls an entirely new concept. The move retires the existing lineup while the company tries to reinvent what a DSLR can be.
Adobe has announced a substantial collection of AI-powered additions to Premiere and After Effects, with the updates focusing on generating media inside an edit, automating repetitive post-production work, improving audio cleanup, and expanding color-grading tools.
Sigma has announced the Sigma 20-60mm f/2.8-4 DG | Contemporary, a compact full frame zoom for L-Mount and Sony E-mount cameras. The lens covers a range from an unusually wide 20mm through 60mm while keeping its weight to 385 g in the L-Mount version.
Sigma has announced the Sigma 85mm F1.2 DG | Art, a new large-aperture portrait prime for full frame mirrorless cameras. The lens will be offered in L-Mount and Sony E-mount versions, with a planned launch on October 6, 2026, at a suggested retail price of $1,599.
For some Nikon ZR users, Christmas will come a little early this year as Nikon has laid out a clear roadmap for its upcoming firmware updates in 2026 and beyond.
A few months ago, Nikon teased that its journey into cinema products would extend beyond camera bodies into the realm of lenses. Well, today, we learned a bit more about what shape those optics will take.
DJI has officially introduced the Osmo 360 II at IFA 2026, marking a significant advancement in panoramic imaging technology.
A massive price drop across its line of cinema cameras allows Blackmagic Design to, once again, offer excellent value to filmmakers on a budget.
Fujifilm has announced the XF 400mm f/4.5 R LM OIS WR, a new super-telephoto prime lens for the X Series system. Designed primarily for wildlife, bird, sports, motorsports, and aviation photography, the lens provides a 400mm focal length, equivalent to 609mm on full frame, while weighing approximately 2.74 lb (1,245 g).
GoPro has agreed to merge with a privately held optics company called Starman Optical in a deal worth $285 million. The company will stay listed on the Nasdaq, keep selling cameras, and push into AI data center hardware and defense.
Dyson has built a toothbrush with a working camera inside the head, and it streams a live view of your mouth to a phone app. It went on sale September 1, 2026, at $499.
Apple has announced updated versions of the Mac mini with M6 and Mac mini with M5 Pro, bringing faster CPU, GPU, storage, and AI performance to the compact desktop while adding Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, faster Ethernet, and genlock support. Preorders open August 25, 2026, with the computers scheduled to begin shipping on September 22, 2026.
Apple has announced a new generation of Mac Studio, bringing its M5 Max and M5 Ultra processors to the compact desktop along with faster storage, Thunderbolt 5, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and significantly expanded unified memory options.
Apple has announced two new Apple silicon chips aimed at very different levels of desktop computing: M6 for the new Mac mini and M5 Ultra for the new Mac Studio. M6 introduces Apple’s first 2 nm chip design, while M5 Ultra uses a new quad-die architecture to push CPU, GPU, memory, media, and AI performance further at the high end.
Speculation is circulating again that the Ray-Ban owner's steadily growing position in Nikon could be a first step toward buying the camera maker outright.
A class action filed in California accuses Logitech of raising prices to cover Trump-era import tariffs, then keeping both the higher prices and the federal refund it collected once the Supreme Court struck those tariffs down. The suit wants that money returned to the people who actually paid it: customers who bought a mouse, keyboard, or webcam at the inflated price.
A newly published Panasonic patent describes an alternative optical configuration for a 125-600mm f/5.6-8.3 full frame lens.
A man in a full Darth Vader costume walked up to the microphone at a San Diego city council committee meeting and delivered a sarcastic endorsement of the Flock surveillance camera network. His identity was never revealed, and the council simply called out "Darth Vader?" before he took the podium in a black helmet and cape.
A federal appeals court has now made it clear that the First Amendment protects people who record publicly visible portions of a police station while standing on a public sidewalk. But the man whose arrest produced that ruling still cannot recover damages from the officers who arrested him.
The Sony a7 V is back at the top of Japan's best-selling camera list for July 2026, extending a run that has kept it near or at No. 1 for most of its first seven months on sale. The bigger story sits below it, where a Nikon full-frame body has climbed into fourth and one of Canon's newest cameras is nowhere to be found.
Researchers in Germany have shown that an ordinary Wi-Fi network can pick a specific person out of a crowd with near-perfect accuracy, no camera involved. In a test with 197 people, the system recognized individuals in seconds, from different angles, no matter how they walked.
Insta360 is developing two mirrorless cameras at the same time, and its CEO says one of them will have a shape you have never thought of before. He also says that camera could change the way we take pictures, moving past the old routine of framing, focusing, and pressing the shutter.
A St. Louis public television station has lost access to more than 50 terabytes of its own archive after the cloud vendor holding the files apparently went out of business. The material spans about 70 years of programming, and it is now sitting inside a Denver data center that so far has refused to hand it back.
Nearly every camera and lens Nikon was expected to ship in 2026 is reportedly running late, according to a consensus drawn from several independent tipsters. Much of what was penciled in for this year may now be sliding toward 2027.
More than one in five people set their phone or camera down in a public place and step away to photograph or film themselves. That is the headline finding of new consumer research from a UK insurer, and it lands at a moment when street theft of devices is a serious problem.
Kodak returned to a profit in the second quarter of 2026, with revenue of $311 million and net income of $17 million, up from a $26 million loss a year earlier. The company's film and specialty-chemicals unit grew 40 percent, faster than any other part of the business.
A new free channel on Roku plays AI-generated movies, shows, and shorts around the clock, with AI-generated ads slotted between them. It is called Fairground AI Creator TV, and it runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
A new open-source typeface called ShieldFont looks like ordinary text when you read it, but hands AI scrapers a corrupted version of the same page. It swaps out select words in a site's source code so bots collect subtly wrong sentences while you see the real thing.
A Wisconsin woman was stopped by police with guns drawn twice in one week after an automated license plate camera wrongly linked her car to a Milwaukee homicide. Milwaukee police say the alert should have been deleted days earlier, but a staffer never cleared it.
Insta360 has announced the X6, the newest flagship in its X series of 360 cameras. The camera goes on sale today, starting at $669.99 for the standard bundle. The company says the launch coincides with its tenth year making 360 cameras.
Sony and TSMC plan to invest about 1 trillion yen, roughly $6.3 billion, in a joint venture to mass-produce next-generation image sensors in Kumamoto, Japan. Production could start as early as 2029.
Camera makers shipped 4.36 million digital cameras worldwide during the first six months of 2026, barely changed from the 4.34 million units shipped over the same period in 2025.
Scientists just released the highest-resolution images of the Sun's visible surface ever captured, taken in violet light at 416 nanometers. The pictures resolve features as small as 19 kilometers across and reveal tiny, swirling, whirlpool-like patterns nobody had directly seen on the Sun before.
Fujifilm just posted record imaging revenue, yet the same financial report shows the company spending more to design and build its cameras while the cost of key parts keeps climbing. The imaging segment brought in ¥627.1 billion, up 15.7% year over year, even as memory chips, processors, and silver got more expensive.
A camera company is offering to pay one person to move to Hong Kong and photograph the city for up to six months. The gig comes with a stipend and covers the cost of living there while you shoot.
Anthropic has verified that it is assembling an internal team tasked with creating bespoke chips for its Claude AI models. This marks the first occasion the company has openly recognized a hardware initiative that had circulated as rumor since the spring.
AI-generated images, video, audio, and certain text now have to be labeled in the European Union, and the rules reach any content shown to people inside the bloc no matter where you are based. Break them and the fines can climb to 15 million euros or 3 percent of worldwide turnover.
The new Pentax DSLR that fans have waited years for has reportedly moved past the drawing board and into production. A Japanese insider says the camera is being built now, though no launch date has been confirmed.
Researchers in Oregon have built a low-cost camera trap that uses AI to spot and identify wild bumblebees without netting or killing a single one. The system matched the species diversity that lethal traps and hand-netting turned up in the same field, at a fraction of the effort.