Responding to your takes on the OM System PEN, iPhone 18 Pro, and more The DPReview crew discusses a very busy week in camera news. Apple It’s been a week packed full of launches and announcements, so we thought: what better time to bring back our DPReview Discussions podcast series, where we get the editors together to discuss the latest cameras, lenses and more?... Published on 2026-09-12 As Seen On DP Review By Mitchell Clark Sigma 20-60mm f/2.8-4 DG Contemporary Review: Versatility is a Virtue More and more, I find myself prioritizing convenience in a lens rather than ideal optical performance. Having a lens that is compact and versatile with a focal range that covers more of an ultra-wide field of view, means that I don't have to bring a second lens with me. [Read... Published on 2026-09-12 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Chris Niccolls Far and wide: how the Sigma 20-60mm F2.8-4 works as a travel lens We took Sigma’s latest small, full-frame zoom lens to the UK Richard Butler Earlier this week, Sigma announced the 20-60mm F2.8-4 DG Contemporary, a surprisingly small full-frame lens that offers better range and a faster aperture than most full-frame kit lenses, in a package that’s smaller than any of its... Published on 2026-09-12 As Seen On DP Review By Richard Butler Photos of Bureaucrats From All Over the World Jan Banning has been photographing bureaucrats from all over the world since 2002. He first published his acclaimed book, Bureaucratics, in 2008. He recently released Bureaucratics Revisited, which explores his archive and includes fresh work. [Read More]... Published on 2026-09-12 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot This New App Is the First to Send Custom Recipes to Fujifilm Cameras Wirelessly Huginn is a new iPhone and iPad app that can wirelessly send custom film recipes directly to a Fujifilm camera, making it a distinct offering in an increasingly crowded app landscape. Per its developer, the Forge, Huginn is the first app to send recipes wirelessly to Fujifilm cameras. [Read More]... Published on 2026-09-12 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray There's More to Background Blur Than Aperture You can shoot at f/1.4 and get almost no background blur, or shoot at f/4 and get plenty of it. That single fact upends how most people spend money on lenses, and it explains why some expensive glass never delivers the creamy backgrounds you paid for. [Read More]... Published on 2026-09-12 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke How India and Pakistan Shaped Influential Fashion Photographer Frank Horvat’s Career A new book explores the images groundbreaking fashion photographer Frank Horvat took in India and Pakistan early in his career, and how the experience shaped his work. [Read More]... Published on 2026-09-12 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Pesala Bandara The 3-to-5 Pose System That Carries an Entire Wedding Day Your mind goes blank the second the couple stands in front of you, every Pinterest board you studied the night before suddenly gone. That blank moment is the difference between a wedding day that flows and one that stalls while two nervous people wait for direction. [Read More]... Published on 2026-09-12 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke 25 years after 9/11: The flag photos that gave me my voice as a photographer Twenty-five years ago, I spent several days photographing American flags in New York. It might be some of the most important work I’ve done. Copyright Dale Baskin It’s difficult to believe that 9/11 happened 25 years ago this week. It’s equally difficult to think that day helped shape the photographer... Published on 2026-09-11 As Seen On DP Review By Dale Baskin 25 Years After the World’s Deadliest Terror Attack, Photographers Recall 9/11 25 years ago today, the United States suffered the largest terrorist attack in world history, killing nearly 3,000 people and injuring countless more. The death toll continues to climb as people succumb to illnesses and diseases related to the attacks. It is widely considered the "most photographed event in history."... Published on 2026-09-11 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Autofocus Turns 50 in 2027, and the Camera That Started It Was a Konica Japan observes a Camera Day on November 30, and the date comes from 1977, when Konishiroku Photo Industry put the Konica C35 AF on sale. It was the first mass-produced camera that focused itself, and the part doing the focusing was built by a Minneapolis company whose main businesses were... Published on 2026-09-11 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke iPhone 18 Pro Camera Upgrade, Explained Simply iPhone 18 Pro has been announced, and as an iPhone 17 Pro user, I was thinking of upgrading the smartphone, but before that I wanted to do a little bit of research about the upgrade, specifically in the camera division. Most of my content is created with full-frame cameras or... Published on 2026-09-11 As Seen On The New Camera By admin Atomos’ New Shinobi 7 II Is its Brightest Shinobi Monitor Yet At IBC 2026 today in Amsterdam, Atomos announced the Shinobi 7 II, its brightest Shinobi monitor yet. [Read More]... Published on 2026-09-11 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray The king of slow-motion has done a deep dives on shutters, flashes and more If you’ve ever wanted to see how a camera works in more detail than your eye could possibly manage, here’s your chance. The Slow Mo Guys Gavin Free, one half of the YouTube duo The Slow Mo Guys, is a camera nerd through and through. His 2015 video “Inside a... Published on 2026-09-11 As Seen On DP Review By Mitchell Clark A Glowing Endorsement of CineStill’s Super Popular 800T Film With this week’s Film Friday we are hitting the highest point on the Cinestill triangle so to speak. Today we are taking a look at Cinestill 800T, arguably their flagship film and definitely the most popular of their film offerings. [Read More]... Published on 2026-09-11 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Zeb Andrews This week in photo gear: The launches you may have missed A rangefinder-style Micro Four Thirds body, Apple’s first moving-aperture phone camera and many new lenses all landed this week. Get caught up on everything we saw released. Richard Butler This year started out quite quiet for new cameras and almost as quiet for photography-related gear in general. We saw some... Published on 2026-09-11 As Seen On DP Review By Abby Ferguson The ColorChecker Turns 50: The 24 Squares That Outlived Almost Everything Around Them A small card of 24 painted squares turns 50 this year. It is still made, still sold, and still sitting in the front pocket of a lot of camera bags, because it answers a question that cameras have never learned to answer on their own: what color is this, actually? Happy... Published on 2026-09-11 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Why You Aren’t Getting Useful Feedback on Your Photography I recently wrote about why we should stop accepting standard "constructive criticism" on our photos. Instead, solicit feedback that actually helps you grow as a photographer. But most of us don’t know how to ask for anything better. We never learned how to ask. So how do you get more... Published on 2026-09-11 As Seen On Fstoppers By Adam Matthews Did the New PEN Impress You? Plus Apple Adds Aperture | The PetaPixel Podcast This week on The PetaPixel Podcast, the team discusses OM System's new PEN camera and then transitions to Apple Park where they are joined by Jason Vong and The Verge's Allison Johnson to talk Pros and Duo. [Read More]... Published on 2026-09-11 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jaron Schneider Seven Harsh Truths About Photography Nobody Warns You About Everything creative takes longer than you plan, your photos will get worse before they get better, and you will miss shots that were never yours to keep. These are the uncomfortable facts most people skip when they hand out photography advice, and accepting them early saves years of frustration. [Read... Published on 2026-09-11 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke This 24-inch camera was built to spy from 80,000 feet The San Diego Air & Space Museum unpacked an unused reconnaissance camera associated with the Lockheed A-12, showing off the camera that produced six-foot-long negatives. All Day Aviation Photographers usually discuss focal length in millimeters. But the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s newly unpacked reconnaissance camera is identified in... Published on 2026-09-11 As Seen On DP Review By Abby Ferguson Is the Sigma 85mm F1.2 Art the new portrait champion for E and L mount? Check out our sample gallery with portraits, portraits and more portraits. Mitchell Clark Earlier this week, Sigma fully unveiled the 85mm F1.2 Art, a lens it announced would be coming earlier this year. We had the chance to shoot with it, and mainly focused on testing out its capabilities for... Published on 2026-09-11 As Seen On DP Review By Mitchell Clark The Best Deals on Portrait Lenses for Full-Frame Mirrorless Cameras Portraiture is an extremely popular genre of photography, and like wildlife and sports photography, it comes with relatively stringent gear demands. You typically need a standard or telephoto lens with a fast aperture, like a 50mm f/1.4 or 85mm f/1.8 lens. But fast glass doesn't have to break the bank... Published on 2026-09-11 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Lightroom’s New “Render to DNG” Feature Is a Big Change Here's a story that may sound familiar to Lightroom users: You're editing a difficult photo, and the sliders, gradients, and brushes are adding up. Even if the photo is looking better, a wall is looming ahead - specifically, new edits are interacting poorly with your prior edits, and there's no... Published on 2026-09-11 As Seen On Photography Life By Spencer Cox Will Adobe’s AI-Driven, Record-Setting Revenue Ease Wall Street’s Worry? Adobe has had a busy start to the month. Last week, its Board of Directors selected Adobe's next President and CEO, and this week, the company posted record-setting Q3 financial results. [Read More]... Published on 2026-09-11 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Desview’s Three New Pro Video Monitors Have Accurate Color and Big, Bright Screens Desview has unveiled three new professional field monitors. The OL14 Pro, OL16 Max, and OL16 Ultra 12G are all built for professional video workflows and promise the features and performance that pros require. [Read More]... Published on 2026-09-11 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Sigma's 85mm f/1.2 Undercuts Sony's G Master by a Wide Margin Sony sells a 50mm f/1.2 but has held off on an 85mm f/1.2 for its full frame mirrorless system, and now a third party has stepped in with autofocus and a price that undercuts Sony's own 85mm f/1.4 G Master II. The Sigma 85mm f/1.2 DG DN Art lands as... Published on 2026-09-11 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke The Unknown Photographer Who Got His First Camera From a German POW Soldier A photographer took thousands of incredible images of pivotal moments in postwar Europe and mid-century America with a Leica camera taken from a captured German soldier -- which were only discovered by his family after his death. [Read More]... Published on 2026-09-11 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Pesala Bandara Battle of the Pros: how the new iPhone 18 Pro stacks up to its predecessors Is an adjustable aperture Apple’s only new camera trick? Apple This week, Apple announced the iPhone 18 Pro, the latest entry in its lineup of high-end smartphones. As we’ve come to expect, the update includes several new camera features, and even some new hardware. So how does it stack up... Published on 2026-09-11 As Seen On DP Review By Mitchell Clark Angelbird’s New CFexpress 4.0 Type A Memory Cards Are Ready for the FX5 Wise isn't the only memory card company to show off a new product at IBC 2026 in Amsterdam. Long-time memory maker Angelbird is getting in on the fun, too, with a new generation of CFexpress 4.0 Type A cards. [Read More]... Published on 2026-09-11 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Plan Your Next Landscape Trip in Minutes, Not Days Autumn brings shorter crowds, softer light, and sunrise times you can actually reach without setting three alarms. The hard part is knowing where to point the camera in the first place, especially when time is short. [Read More]... Published on 2026-09-11 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke What Happens When Your Photograph Becomes a Viral Meme? Shooting a viral image is a surefire sign that you're doing something right, right? Yet most photographers who shoot something trendworthy quickly lose control of their original work. [Read More]... Published on 2026-09-11 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot It’s Official: Sony FX5 Shipments Delayed Until Mid-October It’s now official via Adorama: shipments of the Sony FX5 have been postponed until mid-October. Below, you can see the official message Adorama sent to one of our SAR readers. I want to add my own speculation here: The real problem is not a quality issue, but limited DRAM availability.... Published on 2026-09-11 As Seen On Sony Camera By SonyAlpha Admin Why the Expensive Film Shot Still Wins, Against All Logic A single medium format film shot cost about 470 times what the same scene cost on a digital camera. That kind of math should end the film-versus-digital debate outright, and yet the photos taken on film still mean more to the person who shot them. This is the tension every... Published on 2026-09-11 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Wise’s MK-IV CFexpress 4.0 Type B Memory Cards Are Basically Future-Proof Wise Advanced, more commonly known as just Wise, has announced new CFexpress 4.0 Type B memory cards. The new MK-IV series cards introduce dual VPG certification, preparing Wise's memory cards for the next generation of cinema cameras. [Read More]... 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