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 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 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]... Published on 2026-09-11 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Icelandair’s worst photographer is back. Here are her Iceland photos $50,000 and 10 days later, the verdict is in: Iceland is still difficult to photograph badly. Though not for lack of trying. Blanche Mortemard Earlier this year, we reported on a novel photography contest sponsored by Icelandair: a competition to identify the worst photographer it could find, offering a free... Published on 2026-09-10 As Seen On DP Review By Dale Baskin The First Photographs on Every Continent: Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica The earliest surviving camera photograph of any continent is a grainy rooftop view that Nicéphore Niépce recorded in the Burgundy countryside in 1826 or 1827, and burning it onto a sheet of pewter took at least many hours of daylight and possibly several days. Every other landmass had to wait.... Published on 2026-09-10 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Canon R8 vs R8 Mark II: The Differences That Decide the Upgrade Canon R8 versus Canon R8 Mark II camera: We are comparing both of these cameras since we have almost confirmed a specific set of information about the camera, and we are just comparing the things that have actually been improved inside the Canon R8 Mark II camera that would be... Published on 2026-09-10 As Seen On The New Camera By admin ON1 Photo RAW 2027 Promises Much Better Image Quality ON1 has unveiled Photo RAW 2027, the latest version of its all-in-one, nondestructive RAW photo editor and management software. [Read More]... Published on 2026-09-10 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray 40 Award-Winning Photos From Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026 The winners of the Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026 competition have been revealed, showcasing an incredible array of exceptional underwater and marine-related photos that reflect the beauty of the world's oceans and all their inhabitants. [Read More]... Published on 2026-09-10 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray We went hands on with the tiny, travel-ready OM System PEN. Here are our thoughts. A first look at one of the smallest mirrorless cameras on the market. Mitchel Clark The OM System PEN brings a lot of camera (interchangeable lenses, twin command dials, an EVF, in-body stabilization and a rated degree of weather sealing) to not a lot of camera (it’s usefully small). Here’s... Published on 2026-09-10 As Seen On DP Review By Richard Butler Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold Review: Some New Looks but the Same Old Phone Google uses the word “Pixel” for its smartphone lineup, but what was once a camera-centric drive to stand out from the pack has become more of a stay-at-home, iterative lateral crawl. Granted, foldable phones aren’t mobile camera trend-setters, but their price tags suggest mid-range or mediocre shouldn’t be on the... Published on 2026-09-10 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Ted Kritsonis Laowa is releasing its first autofocus lens for Fujifilm X-Mount: a macro monster A Nikon F-mount manual-focus version launches alongside it, but the Fujifilm variant is the headline story as it ends a long wait for AF Laowa glass on the X-system. Laowa When you use DPReview links to buy products, the site may earn a commission. Laowa has announced that it is... Published on 2026-09-10 As Seen On DP Review By Abby Ferguson BenQ’s New 4K Monitors Are Purpose-Built for Serious Video Editors BenQ has announced the Creative Pro PV3250U and PV2750U monitors. They are BenQ's first professional monitors designed specifically for video color grading that include 3D LUT hardware calibration and dedicated content tools. [Read More]... Published on 2026-09-10 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Reviewing The Peak Design Travel Tripod Today, I wanted to take a break from discussing the cameras that capture our images and look at one of the tools used to make those images better. Let’s have a look at the Peak Design Travel Tripod. When it comes to camera-related products, it seems as though Peak Design’s company... Published on 2026-09-10 As Seen On Fstoppers By Christopher Malcolm The Beautiful iPhone Duo Has Serious Camera Compromises As we have seen time and again, foldable smartphones very rarely offer the same camera and photo features as their slab phone counterparts. Apple's debut foldable, the eye-catching and highly hyped iPhone Duo is no exception. At least for now, mobile photographers cannot have everything. The iPhone Duo's Cameras Apple... Published on 2026-09-10 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Viltrox teases several new lenses, including four L-mount options The company is bringing several Air lenses to a new mount, and introducing two fast APS-C models. Viltrox It looks like Viltrox is gearing up to release a lot of lenses, including bringing several of its existing full-frame designs to L-mount. The news comes from the company’s press release about its... Published on 2026-09-10 As Seen On DP Review By Mitchell Clark Open Gate or 40 Megapixels: Picking Between the X-M5 and X-E5 The Fujifilm X-M5 and X-E5 look like siblings, but the price gap between them runs about $1,000 and the experience of shooting each one splits along lines you might not expect. Deciding between an $800 body and one that often sells closer to $1,800 forces a question every buyer eventually... Published on 2026-09-10 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Honest Moments: Capturing Real Human Connection The most technically perfect portrait in the world can feel empty if nothing real is happening in it. Real human connection photography isn’t about the right light or the right lens. It’s about what passes between people when they forget the camera is there: a glance, a laugh that hasn’t... Published on 2026-09-10 As Seen On 500 Pixels By Devon Steele From Tri-X to Nikon Z9: Inside a lifelong sports photographer’s camera bag James Fawcette has photographed sports since his junior high school days, evolving from Kodak Tri-X to Nikon Z9 cameras while capturing professional tennis and creating distinctive photo-illustrations. James Fawcette Meet James Fawcette Home base: Los Altos Hills, CA USA For this spotlight series, we sometimes get a variety of photos... Published on 2026-09-10 As Seen On DP Review By Mathew Anderson Insta360’s Luna Pro Goes Global and Has Most of the Ultra’s Features Insta360 has announced the Luna Pro, the newest camera in its Luna Series of gimbal cameras co-engineered with Leica. [Read More]... 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