Sigma launches a new line of compact, vintage-style lenses focused on character over sharpness The first entry is the full-frame 50mm F1.4 CL DG Contemporary. Sigma When you use DPReview links to buy products, the site may earn a commission. Sigma has announced the full-frame 50mm F1.4 CL DG Contemporary, the first entry in a new line of lenses that will sit within its... Published on 2026-10-23 As Seen On DP Review By Mitchell Clark Sigma FP2: everything is better for the second-gen modular mirrorless camera A similar exterior belies the amount that’s changed in Sigma’s latest modular stills/video full-framer DPReview The Sigma FP2 is the company’s second-generation ultra-compact full-frame mirrorless camera, and one that brings substantial improvements over the original. It’s also the world’s smallest full-frame interchangable lens camera. Sigma talks about preserving all the... Published on 2026-10-23 As Seen On DP Review By Richard Butler Peak Design Field Bracket Review Explaining what an L-bracket is for would probably be like taking owls to Athens. But as you surely know, an L-bracket is an extremely useful accessory for anyone who frequently shoots with a tripod, not only in landscape but also in portrait orientation. With that in mind, what does the... Published on 2026-10-23 As Seen On Photography Life By Libor Vaicenbacher Oppo’s Find X10 Pro Max puts 200MP sensors behind all three rear cameras The Find X10 Pro Max pairs three high-resolution rear cameras with 8K video and open-gate recording. Oppo Oppo has announced its latest flagship smartphones, the Find X10 and Find X10 Pro Max. The latter features what the company says is an industry-first triple 200MP camera system, along with expanded video... Published on 2026-10-22 As Seen On DP Review By Abby Ferguson Canon EOS R8 II review: new design, major fixes but frustrations remain Canon updates and upgrades its entry-level full-framer Mitchell Clark The Canon EOS R8 II is an entry-level full-frame mirrorless camera with a 24.2MP CMOS sensor. However, it’s gained in-body image stabilization and a joystick, addressing two of the biggest shortcomings of the original EOS R8. Key specifications 24.2MP FSI CMOS... Published on 2026-10-22 As Seen On DP Review By Richard Butler Apple’s iPhone Duo Case Has Adhesives and That’s Actually Normal With Apple's debut foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, launching tomorrow, the internet has been buzzing about Apple's iPhone Duo Case and how sticky it is. Yes, it's unprecedented for Apple to make an adhesive iPhone case, but it's common for foldable phone cases. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-22 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Lensbaby’s New Omni Collections Create Wacky and Wild Photo Effects Seven years ago, Lensbaby unveiled the creative Omni Filter System. Now Lensbaby is back with the fresh Omni Color II and Omni Crystal II collections, introducing even more ways to dramatically change the look of photos and videos in-camera. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-22 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Farmer Discovers Metallic Space Object in His Cornfield A farmer in western Minnesota discovered an approximately 11-foot-wide metallic object in his cornfield that authorities believe may have come from space. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-22 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot A Look Into the Latest Tripod Technology From Sirui: The BH-60 Hybrid Ballhead and SVS60 Rapid Tripod System. As someone who relies heavily on a geared head for precise hospitality work, the increasing demand for speed and video applications has left me considering how to integrate a hybrid ball head system into my professional workflow. Specifically, I was looking for a unit that acts as a traditional fluid head, yet... Published on 2026-10-22 As Seen On Fstoppers By Zhen Siang Yang Getting Started With Off-Camera Flash Equipment Used: Camera: Canon EOS R5 Lens: RF50mm F1.2 L USM Lighting: Westcott FJ250, Westcott FJ-X3 Wireless Flash Trigger, Westcott Rapid Box Switch Octa-M Team: Photographer: Sal Cincotta Model: Sydney Webb Makeup & Hair: Brandi Patton, ReFine Beauty FAQ What flash should I use when I’m getting started with off-camera... Published on 2026-10-22 As Seen On Behind the Shutter By Sydney Bray Why this Sigma fp photographer prefers film-era lenses on his digital cameras From Red Rock Canyon to Washington D.C., Travis Butler explores with his Sigma fp and special array of vintage lenses. His experience working with film-era lenses is revealing. Travis Butler Meet Travis Butler Home base: Kansas, United States Kansas-based photographer and frequent DPReview community member, Travis Butler, first became interested... Published on 2026-10-22 As Seen On DP Review By Mathew Anderson GoPro’s new filters bring closer focus and softer backgrounds to Mission 1 cameras Made by PolarPro, the three close-up filters promise to help visually separate subjects from their surroundings. GoPro When you use DPReview links to buy products, the site may earn a commission. GoPro has announced three close-focus filters for its Mission 1 and Mission 1 Pro cameras. The diopters, made by... Published on 2026-10-22 As Seen On DP Review By Abby Ferguson Throwback Thursday: why the Sony a7R II’s biggest improvement went under the radar The arrival of BSI CMOS technology in Sony’s high-res full-framer didn’t necessarily mean what people expected. Carey Rose The Sony a7R II was the company’s fourth full-frame Alpha-series camera, coming less than two years after it unveiled the first full-frame mirrorless cameras, the original a7 and a7R. 2015’s Mark Two... Published on 2026-10-22 As Seen On DP Review By Richard Butler Should a Photo Project Start With an Idea or a Feeling? Most advice on personal projects follows the same order: settle on a concept, write a rationale, set some rules, and only then pick up the camera. That sequence keeps a body of work coherent, though it can also screen out the images you keep returning to before you have any... Published on 2026-10-22 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Museum Acquires Rare Original Ambrotype Photo of Abraham Lincoln A rare original ambrotype photograph of Abraham Lincoln has been acquired by the museum in the city where the image was taken in 1858. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-22 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Pesala Bandara Close-Up Filters for the GoPro Mission 1 Pro Solve the Camera’s Biggest Issue GoPro has announced a new set of close-up filters for the Mission 1 Pro and Mission 1 cameras made in tandem with PolarPro. With these new filters, which come in three strengths, the camera can overcome one of its biggest complaints: poor focus distance. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-22 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jaron Schneider New Shutter Angle hack works on the Sony A7sIII too! Recently I did report about a new firmware hack that adds shutter angle control on the Sony A7sIV. A SAR reader successfully installed this on his Sony A7sIII too and wrote me this message: – I saw the recent GitHub research on unlocking hidden features on the Sony A7 IV... Published on 2026-10-22 As Seen On Sony Camera By SonyAlpha Admin Cooke Brings Its Legendary S4/i S35 Lenses to Full-Frame Cinema Cameras Cooke Optics, a legendary name in cinema lenses, has announced the S4 FF/i series of cinema primes. These are "invigorated" new full-frame versions of Cooke's iconic S4/i S35 lenses, and all six of them feature fast T2.0 apertures. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-22 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Suspect Arrested Three Years After Photographer Was Shot Dead After Leaving Studio A suspect has been arrested three years after a well-known local photographer was killed after leaving his photo studio in Atlanta. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-22 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Pesala Bandara Create Beautiful Portraits With One Lens and Simple Light Crafting beautiful portraits with a simple camera and lighting setup is possible, and limiting our gear choices can lead to even more creative results. In my latest YouTube video, I demonstrate how I use natural light, strobe, and continuous light to create portraits. Instead of focusing on a ton of gear,... Published on 2026-10-22 As Seen On Fstoppers By Pete Coco The Hasselblad-Branded Oppo Find X10 Pro Max Is the World’s First Phone With Three 200MP Rear Cameras Oppo has unveiled the Find X10 series, headlined by the Oppo Find X10 Pro Max. Both phones feature Hasselblad imaging technology, but only the Find X10 Pro Max is the world's first smartphone to include a triple 200-megapixel rear camera system. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-22 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Is Shooting Wide Open Making Your Photos Flatter? Background blur is usually the first effect you learn to create on purpose, and that early success tends to shape how you shoot for years. The settings you lean on, from aperture to shutter speed to exposure mode, decide whether your images feel flat or deep long before you open... Published on 2026-10-22 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke The Insta360 Mic Swaps Internal Storage for microSD for an $80 Discount Insta360 has announced the Mic, which is only very slightly different from the Mic Pro it announced earlier this year. Instead of an onboard SSD, the new Mic retains internal recording via removable microSD, which lets the company drop the price by $80. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-22 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jaron Schneider Insta360’s new mic keeps the customizable screen and cuts the price The $250 two-mic kit adds microSD storage, with support for 32-bit float recording. Abby Ferguson Insta360 has announced the third offering in its wireless mic lineup: the simply named Insta360 Mic. It shares many of the same features as the more expensive Mic Pro, including the customizable E-Ink screen, though... Published on 2026-10-22 As Seen On DP Review By Abby Ferguson Getty Seeks Court Approval for Bankruptcy Restructuring Plan Getty Images has launched a solicitation process to advance its bankruptcy proceedings in the United States so that the stock photo agency can restructure. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-22 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot Researchers Pinpoint the Exact Location of First Ever Photo of a Human Researchers have pinpointed the exact location of Louis Daguerre's 1838 View of the Boulevard du Temple -- the first photograph to capture human beings. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-22 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Pesala Bandara Photographer’s 1970s Pictures of Toronto Capture a Changing City More than half a century after they were captured on the streets of Toronto, photographer Brian Condron’s remarkable black-and-white photographs, most of them previously unpublished, are collected in a new book, Toronto in the Seventies: Photographs by Brian Condron. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-22 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot Is Samyang's Compact f/2.8 Zoom Set Worth Carrying? Samyang's three f/2.8 zooms, co-designed with Schneider-Kreuznach, cover 14mm to 180mm on Sony full frame bodies while stepping away from the familiar 16-35mm, 24-70mm, and 70-200mm ranges. Trimming a few millimeters here and adding a few there is how a lens maker cuts size, weight, and price, and those are... Published on 2026-10-22 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Tourist Snaps Photo of 120-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Footprint A footprint belonging to a 20-foot-long carnivorous theropod dinosaur that walked around on its hind legs has been discovered in Thailand. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-22 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot Finally: Sony FX5 Starts Shipping in Mexico—Here Are the First Unboxing Photos to Prove It! I don’t know why, but the first country in the world yo get the Sony FX5 seems to be Mexico! Two SAR readers from Mexico sent me this: Manuel Hello, I’m from México, I bought the FX5 through the official México Sony Store. I just got an email that my... Published on 2026-10-22 As Seen On Sony Camera By SonyAlpha Admin Is the Nikon ZR Enough Reason to Switch to Nikon for Video? Nikon now owns RED, and the first camera to come out of that deal is the Nikon ZR, a compact body that records RED's raw codec for a little over $2,000. If you shoot video for clients or your own films, that pairing puts a codec once tied to cinema... Published on 2026-10-22 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke New Sony A7rVI firmware update 1.02 Sony released firmware 1.02 for the Sony A7rVI: Benefits and Improvements Adds support for the Preset Focus function with lenses that do not have power zoom Some zoom lenses without power zoom are not supported. For more details, please visit the following page: (https://support.d-imaging.sony.co.jp/www/cscs/lens_body/). Fixes an issue where the monitor... Published on 2026-10-22 As Seen On Sony Camera By SonyAlpha Admin The winner of Nikon’s Small World competition shows the microscopic, magic world of printers A look inside an inkjet, a pen, pencil and, of course, plenty of cells. Justin Theodore Benttinen, Ole Bielfeldt, Kaelin Wulf & Ms. Rachel Flannery, Dr. Marcel Clemens, Dr. Bruno Cisterna & Dr. Eric Vitriol | Nikon Small World Nikon has announced the winners of its Small World Photomicrography Competition... Published on 2026-10-22 As Seen On DP Review By Mitchell Clark Pixii, the non-Leica digital rangefinder maker, is in liquidation A French court quietly ordered the company’s liquidation in July. Its cameras are still for sale, but support is uncertain. Pixii Pixii, the French maker of digital rangefinder cameras, has entered judicial liquidation. Under French law, this is a formal wind-down process for the business, not a pause or restructuring.... Published on 2026-10-21 As Seen On DP Review By Dale Baskin The Hurricane Katrina 'Looting' Photo Controversy and What It Still Teaches Us About Writing Captions Getty Images image number 53509740 is still on Getty's site today, and the caption still reads: "Two residents wade through chest deep water after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store after Hurricane Katrina came through the area on August 29, 2005 in New Orleans, Louisiana." An Associated... Published on 2026-10-21 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke 1 2 3 … Next Camera Manufacturers CanonNikonSonyFujifilmOlympusPanasonicPentaxLeica Camera Stores Abe’s of MaineAdoramaB&H PhotoCalumetHunt’s Photo and VideoKEH CameraNational Camera ExchangeRitz CameraSamy’s Camera Photographers Steve McCurryLee JeffriesJimmy NelssonRehahnEric LafforgueManny LibrodoLisa KristineDavid LazarDaniel NortonGavin HoeyVanessa JoyCanon Explorer’s of LightNikon Embassadors Rick Hamilton
