Sirui Vision Prime 150mm T4: My New Favorite Macro Lens There’s no shortage of macro lenses for modern mirrorless systems, especially if you include manual focus options. However, few go significantly beyond 100mm. In this field review, I’ll tell you about a relatively new one: the Sirui Vision Prime 150mm T4 lens, which I tested on both the gentle grasslands... Published on 2026-08-19 As Seen On Photography Life By Jason Polak Second Circuit Says You Have a First Amendment Right to Film Police in Public A federal appeals court has now made it clear that the First Amendment protects people who record publicly visible portions of a police station while standing on a public sidewalk. But the man whose arrest produced that ruling still cannot recover damages from the officers who arrested him. The ruling came... Published on 2026-08-18 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Sony's a7 V Retakes Japan's No.1 Spot as Fujifilm's Supply Crunch Reshuffles the Top Ten The Sony a7 V is back at the top of Japan's best-selling camera list for July 2026, extending a run that has kept it near or at No. 1 for most of its first seven months on sale. The bigger story sits below it, where a Nikon full-frame body has... Published on 2026-08-18 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke GXAce is making a panoramic camera “built specifically for photography” and sharing the journey The GX-P1 will reportedly be a fixed-lens digital camera designed to shoot XPan-inspired 65:24 images. GXAce Photography YouTuber Casey Cavanaugh, also known as GXAce, is working on something new: a camera called the GX-P1. Cavanaugh has been teasing the camera for a few weeks, and there’s still a lot more we... Published on 2026-08-18 As Seen On DP Review By Mitchell Clark How Scientists Photograph the Deep Sea, Miles From Where the Sun Shines In 2022, a camera on the floor of the Izu-Ogasawara Trench off Japan, 8,336 meters down, filmed a small translucent snailfish drifting through its beam. No fish had ever been filmed so far down. No sunlight has ever reached that trench, and the light that does exist down there, the... Published on 2026-08-18 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke DJI Completely Owns Japan’s Video Camera Rankings: Top 10 All DJI Not one, not two – all ten spots. DJI has locked down Japan’s video camera market like never before. So that’s really a big surprise that none of the camera makers, specifically those who create video cameras, can even reach 10th place in the ranking. And as you can see,... Published on 2026-08-18 As Seen On The New Camera By admin The 90-year history of the binoculars bolted to scenic overlooks Tower Optical’s coin-operated binocular viewers have stood at American overlooks since the 1930s, built by a company almost nobody can name. For the first time, it’s selling some of them off. Tower Optical If you’ve ever stood on an observation platform at Niagara Falls, at the edge of the Grand... Published on 2026-08-18 As Seen On DP Review By Dale Baskin Camera-Equipped AirPods Shown In Action in macOS Beta Earlier this month, Apple insider Mark Gurman at Bloomberg said that new AirPods with cameras could be coming this year. The evidence is mounting. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-18 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Relaunch update: image handling resolved, in-demand improvements to come User-requested features being developed, now the fundamentals are fixed Richard Butler It’s been over a month since we launched the new DPReview.com website, and we wanted to give you an update. We realize that a lot of the work we’ve been doing hasn’t been especially public-facing, so it hasn’t necessarily... Published on 2026-08-18 As Seen On DP Review By Richard Butler US Circuit Court Protects People’s Right to Record Police in Public The United States Second Circuit has held for the first time that the First Amendment of the Constitution protects a person's right to record law enforcement activity in public. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-18 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Caira review: the clever connected AI camera still has a lot to learn Camera Intelligence has a lot of good ideas and tech, but it doesn’t quite all add up to a camera that’s enjoyable to use. Mitchell Clark The Camera Intelligence Caira is something between a dedicated camera and a phone accessory. It has its own Micro Four Thirds mount, an 11.4MP... Published on 2026-08-18 As Seen On DP Review By Mitchell Clark The GX-P1 Is a Panoramic Digital Camera Designed By the Man Behind the Batmobile GXAce, the brainchild of photographer and videographer Casey Cavanaugh, is developing a new panoramic digital camera, the GX-P1, and it's very close to its full reveal. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-18 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Filmmakers Spent Four Years Following a Lion On His Journey to Become King National Geographic's latest documentary series, Lion, directed by Jon Favreau, premieres this week. It follows a lion cub for four years on his journey to become a leader. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-18 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Photographer Captures Acrobatic Dolphins Leaping From the Water A photographer who captured a pod of gymnastic dolphins acrobatically leaping from the water has revealed the tricks and techniques he uses to set up his stunning shots. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-18 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot From XQD to CFexpress: Futureproofing Your Nikon DSLR for the Mirrorless Upgrade Ahead Buying memory cards used to be a simple decision: match the slot, pick a speed class, done. That's no longer the case, and not just because of price. Every memory purchase has become a longer-term investment rather than a one-off consumable buy, and getting that decision right matters more than... Published on 2026-08-18 As Seen On Fstoppers By Kim Simpson Environmental Wildlife Photography: Powerful Wildlife Portraits Young lioness in tree, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, Canon EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM Extender 1.4x. Exposure: 1/1600 sec., f/4, ISO 800. During a typical wildlife encounter, the initial impulse of most beginning photographers is to grab the longest lens in the bag and capture... Published on 2026-08-18 As Seen On Outdoor Photographer By Text & Photography by Richard Bernabe Brightin Star’s Incomprehensibly-Thin 28mm f/2.8 Lens Now Comes In Stylish Silver Brightin Star's X-Slim 28mm f/2.8 Pancake Lens for Leica M Mount was originally launched in black in 2023, and now it's available in a new "Liquid Silver" finish, looking as stylish as ever. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-18 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Six Life Lessons Hiding in Street Photography Street photography looks like a hobby about cameras and light, but the habits it builds bleed into how you move through the rest of your day. Watch strangers long enough and you start noticing patterns in yourself, not just in the frame. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-18 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Polaroid turns Pokémon’s 30th anniversary into a full instant-photography ecosystem Polaroid has released a nine-piece collection in collaboration with Pokémon, encompassing cameras, film and accessories. Polaroid Our guess yesterday about what Polaroid was gearing up to release was correct, but we didn’t expect just how big this launch would be. As we surmised, Polaroid has released a Pokémon-themed Go Gen 3... Published on 2026-08-18 As Seen On DP Review By Abby Ferguson This wireless lav kit packs some serious specs for the price The NEEWER CM26 MAX provides creators with a portable, affordable solution for capturing better voice audio with less setup and more control. NEEWER For filmmakers and content creators, a lavalier microphone is one of the simplest ways to improve production quality: it keeps dialogue close, clear and consistent while allowing... Published on 2026-08-18 As Seen On DP Review By bsmith0100 Martien Aerts: Featured Photographer Spotlight Martien Aerts knows exactly where to stand. The Dutch photographer works out of Eindhoven under the name M10foto, and he builds his portfolio in series rather than single frames. His architecture and street photography sit side by side: concrete geometry in Rotterdam, warehouse bridges strung across an alley at Butler’s... Published on 2026-08-18 As Seen On 500 Pixels By 500px Blog The f/2.0 Zoom That Outshines a 24-70mm G Master A constant f/2.0 aperture across a full zoom range used to sound like a fantasy. Sony now offers it in a body smaller than the Canon equivalent, and the results push the limits of what a standard zoom can do. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-18 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Polaroid and Pokémon Team Up for Polaroid’s Biggest Collab Ever Iconic photography brand Polaroid has teamed up with the world's largest entertainment franchise, Pokémon, to celebrate the latter's 30th anniversary. As part of the team-up, Polaroid is launching nine limited-edition Pokémon items, including special-edition instant cameras. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-18 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Former Sony Vice Chairman: Why Sony Rejected (Micro Four Thirds?) Partners Nikkei Business published an interview with Shigeki Ishizuka, former vice chairman of the Sony Group. The one interesting bit is that he said this: There was already a group ahead of us in the mirrorless camera market, and we received an invitation to collaborate, but after much discussion within the... Published on 2026-08-18 As Seen On Sony Camera By SonyAlpha Admin Meta Can’t Stop the Avalanche of Content Filmed on Pervert Glasses Last month, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said that the platform would ban videos filmed on Meta smart glasses that harass women in public places -- but it seems the ban isn't working. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-18 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot Ordinary WiFi Can Now Identify You Without a Camera Researchers in Germany have shown that an ordinary Wi-Fi network can pick a specific person out of a crowd with near-perfect accuracy, no camera involved. In a test with 197 people, the system recognized individuals in seconds, from different angles, no matter how they walked. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-18 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke ByteDance and Hollywood Reach Agreement Over AI Video IP Rights ByteDance and the Motion Picture Association (MPA) have signed an agreement aimed at strengthening copyright protections for the Chinese company’s AI video and image models. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-18 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot Influencers Trying to Get Photos With Sharks Keep Getting Bitten More and more people intent on getting a photo with a shark are getting bitten as influencers and photographers increasingly ignore safety warnings. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-18 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot Insta360 Is Building Two Mirrorless Cameras, and One Will Have a Shape You've 'Never Thought of Before' Insta360 is developing two mirrorless cameras at the same time, and its CEO says one of them will have a shape you have never thought of before. He also says that camera could change the way we take pictures, moving past the old routine of framing, focusing, and pressing the... Published on 2026-08-18 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke This Tiny 28mm Lens Turns Your Leica Into a Pocket Camera Brightin Star launched a solid brass manual focus 28mm f/2.8 pancake lens last year, painted in gloss black lacquer. My first impression when I saw the publicity photos wasn’t its incredibly small size. It should have been, but I was distracted somewhat by that high-gloss black lacquer with gold and... Published on 2026-08-18 As Seen On Fstoppers By Simon Burn Google’s Pixel 11 Pro XL is here – unboxed, and open for your questions We’re testing the new Pixel 11 Pro XL. Watch the unboxing, then tell us what questions you have. DPReview Staff We recently got our hands on the new Google Pixel 11 Pro XL smartphone, and it’s time to do some testing. In addition to shooting a sample gallery to test... Published on 2026-08-17 As Seen On DP Review By Dale Baskin Adaptalux Wants to Make Macro Lighting Easy Adaptalux has announced a fresh addition to its macro lighting system, the Pod Mini 2.0. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-17 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray DJI Lands Partial Win in Legal Fight Over ‘Chinese Military Company’ Designation A U.S. Court of Appeals has partially reversed a lower court's ruling regarding DJI's label as a Chinese Military Company, sending it back to the lower court for further review. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-17 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jaron Schneider Hands On With The FX2 From a Non-Sony User Perspective The FX2 has been one of Sony’s most discussed cameras since its launch. So today, I got my hands on one and decided to take it for a spin. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-17 As Seen On Fstoppers By Christopher Malcolm This Dumb but Fun App Sends Photos to Your Friends at the Speed of Bird The creator of a new vibe-coded iOS slow-messaging app, Carrier Pidge, admits that his app is pointless and has minimal, if any, practical use. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-17 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray 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
