Digital cameras changed photography, and now smartphones are changing digital cameras. There’s never been more interesting ways to take a picture or record a video, and there’s also never been more ways to view those images. We’re focused on finding the most interesting innovations happening in all parts of photography.
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Sony’s new flagship A1 II has trickle-up features from cheaper cameras
It’s still got a 50-megapixel sensor, but its autofocus, stabilization, and screen are upgraded.
That’s what Fujifilm says it’s doing, teasing a new GFX Eterna camera for 2025 that will use the same 102-megapixel sensor in a filmmaking-focused form factor.
These are usually for high-end industry pros, though Fujifilm’s GFX line is one of the most affordable options for medium format photo cameras.
Some audience pictures snapped by Adobe Principal Director Terry White at today’s Max event started appearing in Frame.io in real-time as he was taking them, without needing to connect the camera to a computer.
And because his account was synced with Lightroom, they appeared there too — meaning there’s basically no delay for photographers to get their snaps ready for editing.
The incredible blandness of AI photography
I treated my photos like ‘memories,’ and it just made them boring.
So said Daniel Plasche, co-director of a Berlin venue, while talking to The New York Times about the club’s decision to follow other nightclubs by putting stickers on customers’ smartphone camera lenses.
“There is something unifying, ritualistic about the dance floor,” he added, but the atmosphere was ruined when people use their phones to take images that “they will never look at again, anyways.”
[The New York Times]
The original TTArtisan LED fake film roll was already cute when it looked Kodak-ish and just shined white light, but now there’s an RGB version. The new Mini RGB LED Light has a touch of Fujifilm vibes in its cartridge design, shines various colors for creative lighting, and costs just $10.99 on Amazon.
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Following earlier leaks of the Insta360 Ace Pro 2’s packaging that seem to confirm a bump in recording capabilities from 8K/24fps to 8K/30fps, @Quadro_News has revealed it will allegedly be priced at $399.99.
That would make it $50 cheaper than the previous model, the same price as the GoPro Hero 13 Black, but pricier than the DJI Osmo Action 5 Pro.
Was it too good to be true? Perhaps if you’re a pro — but when I slapped Anker’s $35 MagSafe gadget to the back of an iPhone 15 Pro and shot in ProRes Log, I did get several consecutive minutes of usable 4K60 footage.
For most of us, it’s just a fast SD reader that makes for an awkward grip on the phone.
A quick hands-on comparison by The Verge’s action camera expert. It’s going to be hard to justify paying $50 more for the new GoPro flagship now that DJI’s rival is here.