Photography

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…

Photo-sharing community EyeEm will license users’ photos to train AI if they don’t delete them

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…

Lapse, the app turning your phone into an old-school camera, snaps up $30M

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…

Glass supercharges smartphone cameras with AI — minus the hallucinations

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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,…

12:19 pm PST • December 14, 2023
7 stellar photography gifts that won’t break the bank in 2023

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,…

The makers of pro photography app Halide venture into video with Kino, due this February

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…

Luminar Neo brings generative AI tools to hobbyist photographers

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…

Photon’s app for pro photographers lets you shoot and save to an external drive

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…

Orion, from makers of Halide, lets you use an iPad as an external HDMI display

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…

Photo layout app Series makes it easier to post your panos to Threads

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…

VSCO is growing into a legit social network for photographers

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.…

ImagenAI, which uses AI to personalize photo editing styles, lands $30M

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…

Metalenz ships millions of its tiny cameras and powers up with $30M B round

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…

Leica’s new camera costs $20,000 and has zero megapixels

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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…

1:51 pm PDT • May 11, 2022
DJI’s new Mini 3 Pro drone hits the aerial photography sweet spot

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…

Pinhole Pro Max is a $400 tax on stupid photographers

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…

The M11 is Leica’s new flagship rangefinder

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…

Gift Guide: 10 great cameras for when a smartphone lens just isn’t enough

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…

Google’s Pixel 6 camera smartens up snapshots with AI tools

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…

Apple brings macro, low-light and cinema-focused updates to the iPhone 13 Pro camera

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…

Twitter is testing big ol’ full-width photos and videos

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…

Instagram may not be a photo-sharing app anymore, but Glass is

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,…

Twitter rolls out bigger images and cropping control on iOS and Android

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…

Brighton-based MPB snaps up $69M to build out its used camera equipment marketplace

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…

Twitter is testing better image previews and fewer cropped photos

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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…

9:02 am PST • February 4, 2021
Metalenz reimagines the camera in 2D and raises $10M to ship it

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…

Canon takes tentative step toward eliminating photographers with robotic PICK camera

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.…

Sony tempts professionals with the top-shelf, top-tier Alpha 1

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…

Gift Guide: Fun photography gear to brighten up the holidays

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…

Facetune maker’s new app Filtertune let anyone create and share personalized photo filters

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…

Apple’s iPhone 12 Pro camera upgrades sharpen focus on serious photographers