Photography
Photo-sharing community EyeEm will license users’ photos to train AI if they don’t delete them
EyeEm, the Berlin-based photo-sharing community that exited last year to Spanish company Freepik after going bankrupt, is now licensing its users’ photos to train AI models. Earlier this month, the…
Lapse, the app turning your phone into an old-school camera, snaps up $30M
It can cost a fortune in 2024 to find an analogue camera, buy film (and maybe special batteries) for it and take pictures that then need to be paid for…
Glass supercharges smartphone cameras with AI — minus the hallucinations
Your phone’s camera is as much software as it is hardware, and Glass is hoping to improve both. But while its wild anamorphic lens creeps to market, the company (running…
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7 stellar photography gifts that won’t break the bank in 2023
Shopping for someone whose love of taking pictures is bumping up against the creative constraints of their iPhone’s camera roll? There’s a whole world of photography gifts and gear out there, but you don’t need to spring for an expensive new camera body to get a gift that counts. If you’d like to stay well,…
The makers of pro photography app Halide venture into video with Kino, due this February
Lux, the startup and makers of the popular pro photography app Halide and others, is venturing into video. The team today announced its plans to debut a new app, Kino,…
While Adobe is bringing generative AI models to professional photographers and designers, another company is working to make easy-to-use generative AI tools available to a wider range of photographers, including…
Photon’s app for pro photographers lets you shoot and save to an external drive
Photon, an iOS app for pro photographers, is introducing a new feature that will allow iPhone 15 Pro users to save their photos directly to an external drive, freeing up…
Orion, from makers of Halide, lets you use an iPad as an external HDMI display
Lux, the makers of popular iPhone photography apps like Halide, Spectre and Skylight, is out today with its latest app: Orion, an app that turns an iPad into an external…
Photo layout app Series makes it easier to post your panos to Threads
Series, an iOS photo app that helps you lay out your photos in creative ways for posting on social media, is now shaping up to become the must-have companion app…
VSCO is growing into a legit social network for photographers
Four years after the dawn of the VSCO Girl, VSCO wants you to know that it’s still very much alive. Photographers and other aesthetically inclined creators still flock to the…
ImagenAI, which uses AI to personalize photo editing styles, lands $30M
ImagenAI, a startup using AI to help professional photographers edit photos and automate post-production work, today announced that it raised $30 million in an all-equity growth investment from Summit Partners.…
Metalenz ships millions of its tiny cameras and powers up with $30M B round
The cameras in our phones, laptops and, increasingly, home robots and the like are about as small as they can get unless we start doing something different, and that’s just…
Okay, Leica, have a seat, we need to talk for a minute. I know you’re one of the iconic camera brands. I love my Leica M3 so much that I…
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DJI’s new Mini 3 Pro drone hits the aerial photography sweet spot
DJI has just introduced a new drone — its most capable ever to squeak under the 250 gram limit that keeps operators free from a whole host of headaches and restrictions for flight (note that local laws and rules still do apply — being small doesn’t mean you can do anything you want). The DJI…
I don’t cover Kickstarter campaigns much, but when Thingify rolls up and is trying to sell a $430 pinhole lens, I’ll bite and take a closer look. There are a…
Leica’s a strange one. It only puts out a handful of cameras every year, and most of them are remixes or minor iterations on previous models. Since 2017 its flagship…
Gift Guide: 10 great cameras for when a smartphone lens just isn’t enough
As we wade into the second pandemic-era holiday season, there’s no better time to throw yourself headlong into a new hobby. Or that’s what you should tell your loved ones…
Google’s latest flagship phones have an impressive set of automated, AI-powered tools to help make your photos look better, with smart blurs, object removal and skin tone exposure. While we’ll…
Apple brings macro, low-light and cinema-focused updates to the iPhone 13 Pro camera
Apple continues its tradition of improving the photography capabilities of consumer devices with today’s announcement of the iPhone 13 and 13 Pro, available on September 24. Last year’s iPhone 12…
Twitter is testing big ol’ full-width photos and videos
Twitter is exploring ways to build a more visually immersive experience with its latest test, which brings edge-to-edge tweets to the app on iOS. Full-width images and videos track for…
Instagram may not be a photo-sharing app anymore, but Glass is
Instagram made headlines (including this one) when product head Adam Mosseri said in June that the app is “no longer just a square photo-sharing app,” since it’s pivoting its focus…
Twitter rolls out bigger images and cropping control on iOS and Android
Twitter just made a change to the way it displays images that has visual artists on the social network celebrating. In March, Twitter rolled out a limited test of uncropped,…
Brighton-based MPB snaps up $69M to build out its used camera equipment marketplace
Used-goods marketplaces, an online staple since the beginning of the internet as we know it, have really come into their own during the COVID-19 pandemic: They’ve been a place for…
Twitter is testing better image previews and fewer cropped photos
Twitter says it’s running a test with a small subset of iOS and Android users to “give people an accurate preview” of what an image will look like without the…
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Metalenz reimagines the camera in 2D and raises $10M to ship it
As impressive as the cameras in our smartphones are, they’re fundamentally limited by the physical necessities of lenses and sensors. Metalenz skips over that part with a camera made of a single “metasurface” that could save precious space and battery life in phones and other devices… and they’re about to ship it. The concept is…
Canon takes tentative step toward eliminating photographers with robotic PICK camera
Canon is embracing the AI-infused future with a strange new robotic camera called the PowerShot PICK. This little device swivels and keeps its subjects in view, taking commands or snapping…
Sony tempts professionals with the top-shelf, top-tier Alpha 1
Sony is making a play for the top end of the professional digital camera world, where videographers and sports photographers demand immaculate image quality at high resolutions in short order.…
Gift Guide: Fun photography gear to brighten up the holidays
It’s a difficult time to be a photographer. Getting creative feels impossible when every day is the same and the most exotic locale you visit is the living room. Travel…
Facetune maker’s new app Filtertune let anyone create and share personalized photo filters
Facetune maker Lightricks is out today with a new app, Filtertune, designed to create a community around custom photo filters. With the app, creators can make their own personalized preset…
Apple’s iPhone 12 Pro camera upgrades sharpen focus on serious photographers
Apple’s iPhone 12 Pro heaps improvements on the already formidable power of its camera system, adding features that will be prized by “serious” photographers — that is to say, the…