10 Technologies Photographers Inherited From the Military The zoom ring on a modern 70-200mm traces back to a viewfinder accessory the US Army Signal Corps clipped onto its 35mm combat movie cameras. Frank Back, the Austrian-born engineer who designed it, spent the war improving cameras and lenses for the Signal Corps and then turned the same optical... Published on 2026-09-06 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke How the Leica M EV1 Strikes the Perfect Balance of Old and New Leica is in a tricky position when it comes to creating a new M camera. The fanbase welcomes new models, but Leica knows that if they stray too far from the essence of the M, users may reject the new model. The M5, introduced in 1972, made dramatic changes from... Published on 2026-09-06 As Seen On Fstoppers By John Ricard Pocket Gimbal Camera With Large M/3 Sensor and Mirrorless Gimbal Prototypes Coming How about a pocket gimbal camera with a 100MP Micro Four Thirds format sensor to access as much quality as possible at the same time, with the same 100MP Micro Four Thirds sensor camera with a gimbal head that not only stabilises your shot in a very unique way, but... Published on 2026-09-06 As Seen On The New Camera By admin Stop Judging Light as Good or Bad and Start Using It Light gets talked about like it comes in two flavors, good and bad, and that framing quietly limits what you shoot. Treating every kind of light as workable, rather than sorting it into keepers and mistakes, opens up scenes most people walk past. [Read More]... Published on 2026-09-06 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Should photographers always carry a standalone camera, or can a smartphone sometimes be enough? DPReview’s Community Manager and his team reflect on when they choose a standalone camera, when a smartphone is enough, and why neither option is always the right answer. Mathew Anderson One evening, as sunset approached, I was on my normal walk around nearby streets. I cover pretty much the entire... Published on 2026-09-06 As Seen On DP Review By Mathew Anderson 10 Great Vintage Lenses for Portrait Photography Vintage lenses are often talked about as if their only value is “character.” That usually means lots of flare, low contrast, possibly swirly bokeh, spherical aberration, or some other charming defect that gives digital images a little analog grit. There is nothing wrong with that, of course. A flawed lens... Published on 2026-09-06 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Williams Apparently ‘Photography Is All Fake Anyway’ A short while ago I was reading the comments on a restaurant's Facebook group post. The post was a set of dodgy AI-generated food images, and they had that giveaway look. Too glossy, sauce behaving strangely, and bread that somehow looked like a sponge. [Read More]... Published on 2026-09-06 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Ryan Stanikk Why Time Blending Beats a Single Long Exposure Light trails on a road can turn a flat night shot into something with real energy, but capturing them all in one clean frame is harder than it looks. Time blending lets you combine several exposures so the streaks flow together the way a single long exposure rarely manages. [Read... Published on 2026-09-06 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Photographer Captured California Life in the 1980s From Behind the Wheel A photographer whose fascinating images of everyday life in California -- taken from behind the wheel of his car on his daily drive to work -- are the focus of a new exhibition. [Read More]... Published on 2026-09-06 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Pesala Bandara Fujifilm XF 400mm F4.5 sample gallery: testing the new wildlife prime Fujifilm’s latest long prime aims to make 400mm shooting more portable. Check out our sample gallery to see how it performs. Abby Ferguson Earlier this week, Fujifilm announced the XF 400mm F4.5 R LM OIS R, a super telephoto prime lens for its APS-C X-mount system. We had the chance... Published on 2026-09-06 As Seen On DP Review By Abby Ferguson Turning Yosemite's Chaos Into Clean, Minimal Landscape Shots Yosemite gives you waterfalls, granite walls, and postcard viewpoints that practically shoot themselves. The harder task is walking away with something nobody else made, and that starts with subtraction rather than addition. [Read More]... Published on 2026-09-06 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke How This Photographer Turned Drone Photography Into a Creative Advantage As photography becomes an increasingly competitive and crowded field, adding new skills can give photographers an important edge. In this exclusive PetaPixel interview, photographer and filmmaker Megan Zabel Holmes shares how becoming a commercial drone pilot has helped her stand out, attract new clients, and turn aerial work into a... Published on 2026-09-06 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Kate Garibaldi Delete Someone From a Group Photo Without Ever Opening Photoshop Remove a person from the middle of a group photo, close the gap as if they were never there, and do it all without touching Photoshop. That option is now sitting inside Lightroom for anyone who has never gotten comfortable with layers and masks. [Read More]... Published on 2026-09-06 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke 10 Winning Photographs From the Underwater Awards Australasia 2026 The Underwater Awards Australasia has announced the winners of the third edition of the photo competition that focuses on marine photographers in Oceania. [Read More]... Published on 2026-09-05 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot Lens Flare and The Incredible Physics of Modern Lenses A bare, uncoated air-to-glass surface sends roughly 4 percent of the light striking it back the way it came, and a current professional 24-70mm f/2.8 zoom stacks about 30 of those surfaces in a row. Uncoated, less than a third of the light entering the front would reach the sensor... Published on 2026-09-05 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Take The Photograph While You Can There is something I have been thinking about recently, and it was not until I returned to a location I had photographed many years ago that it really started to bother me. We spend so much of our time as photographers looking for new locations, searching maps, saving places on... Published on 2026-09-05 As Seen On Fstoppers By Darren J. Spoonley Six Underrated Canon RF Lenses You've Probably Overlooked The best Canon RF lens for your kit might be one almost nobody talks about. Six of them sit in the shadows of pricier alternatives, dismissed over a single spec or forgotten entirely, even though they deliver image quality that holds up against Canon's L-series glass. [Read More]... Published on 2026-09-05 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Waterfall Photography New to waterfall photography? Learn how to choose your gear, find great locations, work with changing light, and use your camera settings to capture waterfalls in different ways. We’ll also cover the basics of staying safe around the water and creating that signature silky water effect. [Read More]... Published on 2026-09-05 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Kate Garibaldi Critique the Community: Personal Project Welcome to the September installment of the Critique the Community! This month's critique theme is going to be "Personal Project," and we want to see your best photographs that come from a personal project. These should be something you shot for yourself rather than for a client, an assignment, or... Published on 2026-09-05 As Seen On Fstoppers By Patrick Hall Ultrawide vs. telephoto: if the iPhone Fold only has one, which should it be? Many phones these days come with three cameras to cover ultrawide to telephoto. But on ones that pare it down to two, which is the right call? Mitchell Clark We here at DPReview aren’t immune from falling into time-worn debates. When discussing the upcoming iPhone Fold, which, if the rumors... Published on 2026-09-05 As Seen On DP Review By Mitchell Clark Continuous Light vs. Flash: What Actually Changes in Your Portraits The question of flash versus continuous light comes up constantly, and the honest answer sits somewhere between "barely any difference" and "a huge one," depending on what you're shooting. Both can produce nearly identical portraits, yet the way you work with each changes how you shoot, how you meter, and... Published on 2026-09-05 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Is the Poco F9 Ultra’s 200MP camera worthy of a €1099 phone? You be the judge. We’ve added more shots to our sample gallery, including some Raws, ultra-wide, low-light and portrait mode examples. Mitchell Clark Earlier this week, Xiaomi announced the Poco F9 Ultra, the latest entry in its lineup of phones that started as “flagship killers”; devices with specs similar to top-of-the-line models, but with... Published on 2026-09-05 As Seen On DP Review By Mitchell Clark ‘The Way We Never Were’ Photo Exhibit Examines the Myth of Postwar America Harvard Art Museums has delved into its extensive photographic collection to put on a thought-provoking exhibition titled The Way We Never Were that questions the postwar narrative in the United States. [Read More]... Published on 2026-09-05 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot 20 Photoshop and Camera Raw Updates You Probably Missed Photoshop's autofocus point checker inside Camera Raw 18.6 shows you exactly which points your camera locked onto, so you can catch a blurred watch face or a hand in focus before you commit to the wrong shot. That single feature answers a question you've probably asked yourself a hundred times... Published on 2026-09-05 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke David Bowie’s Official Photographer Transforms His Photo Archive Into an Immersive Experience David Bowie’s official photographer has transformed his vast archive of images of the legendary singer into an immersive audio-visual experience. [Read More]... Published on 2026-09-05 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Pesala Bandara Photoshop Just Replaced Brightness and Contrast With Something Better Photoshop's Brightness/Contrast slider is gone, replaced by a new Light adjustment layer that pulls Camera Raw controls straight into the main editor. Exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, and blacks now live in a single panel that behaves like a nondestructive version of the Camera Raw sliders many of you already... Published on 2026-09-05 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Big Price Drop on Blackmagic Design Cinema Cameras Including The PXYIS 6K A massive price drop across its line of cinema cameras allows Blackmagic Design to, once again, offer excellent value to filmmakers on a budget. [Read More]... Published on 2026-09-05 As Seen On Fstoppers By Christopher Malcolm A Coati in an Odd Coat: Photographing a Mystery in the Andes Have you ever seen the cute, cat-sized animal known as coatis or coatimundis? Although the range of these raccoon-like mammals extends as far north as Arizona, their primary habitat is Central and South America. The origin of their name can be traced to the Brazilian part of the Amazon, specifically... Published on 2026-09-04 As Seen On Photography Life By Libor Vaicenbacher How Long Exposures Erase People: The Math of Making Crowds Vanish Put a 35mm lens on a full frame camera, stand about 20 m back from a plaza, and each pixel in the file covers roughly 3.4 mm of the ground at that distance. A person walking across that view at an ordinary pace clears their own shoulder width in about... Published on 2026-09-04 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Fujifilm’s XApp tested: It’s finally the app your Fujifilm camera deserves We tested every corner of Fujifilm’s XApp with an X-T5 – from image transfers to camera backups, it’s a solid companion app, with a few rough edges. When you use DPReview links to buy products, the site may earn a commission. For many years, camera companies built excellent hardware while... Published on 2026-09-04 As Seen On DP Review By Dale Baskin A Photographer Reignited His Passion By Building a Custom Lens, Then He Founded an Optics Company Photographer Thomas Spicher has founded a lens company, Adapted Optics, and built what he calls the "Everyday Lens." It features a 3D-printed body and a simple camera lens salvaged from a disposable camera. It promises to combine the character of a disposable film camera with the build quality and control... Published on 2026-09-04 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Vimeo Can Decide To Change Your Plan and Force You to Pay 5x More Vimeo users probably believe they are the right people to determine what type of account they need. Vimeo disagrees and has begun switching some users to a new, significantly more expensive subscription tier at its own discretion. [Read More]... Published on 2026-09-04 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Kodak Gold is Somehow Both Very Popular and Underappreciated Welcome to another Film Friday spotlight! This time we’re turning our attention to a film that is simultaneously quite popular but still somehow underappreciated: Kodak Gold 200. [Read More]... Published on 2026-09-04 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Zeb Andrews Canon R8 Mark II Full Specification Leaked The key details in the supplied material are the 24MP full-frame sensor, 7.5-stop IBIS, 40fps electronic shooting, 4K 60p with 6K oversampling, Full HD 180p, Dual Pixel AF II, single SD card slot, LP-E17 battery, new modern design, and €1,880 European price. If this list holds, the R8 Mark II... Published on 2026-09-04 As Seen On The New Camera By admin Manfrotto Adds a Dedicated Video Tripod to Its ONE System Manfrotto has announced the ONE Video, rounding out its ONE System tripods with a dedicated professional video option. [Read More]... Published on 2026-09-04 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jaron Schneider 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
