The Godox A2 is a real flash for your phone The company is bringing its flash expertise to a whole new kind of camera. Godox Godox has announced the A2, a flash that’s designed to attach to the back of your phone. While almost every smartphone has a flash built-in, they’re almost always LEDs, which aren’t particularly powerful, and don’t... Published on 2026-10-15 As Seen On DP Review By Mitchell Clark Insta360 Ace Pro 3 Battery Capacity Revealed: 2250 mAh (Bigger Than Ace Pro 2) Updated: 15 October 2026 We first reported the hard confirmation of the Insta360 Ace Pro 3 on 13 October after spotting its FCC filing. Japanese media later covered the same documents and credited The New Camera. Now a new regulatory detail has surfaced from the filing: the battery capacity. FCC... Published on 2026-10-15 As Seen On The New Camera By admin ‘A Seal’s Nightmare’: Menacing Polar Bear Photo Wins Award The winners of the Ournature Environmental Photo & Video Awards, a competition that places environmental storytelling at its heart, have revealed its winners for 2026. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-15 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot New Sony 400mm and 600mm GM lenses are now shipping out in the US The new lenses are now shipping out in the USA: Sony FE 400mm f/4.5 GM OSS at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama, Fotokoch, FotoErhardt, FotoKöster, FotoLeistenscheider, Calumet, Clifton, WexUK, ParkUK. Sony FE 600mm f/6.3 GM OSS at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama, Fotokoch, FotoErhardt, FotoKöster, FotoLeistenscheider, Calumet, Clifton, WexUK, ParkUK. The 400mm is in... Published on 2026-10-15 As Seen On Sony Camera By SonyAlpha Admin Photographer Arrested After Taking Chainsaw to Trees In Search of a Better Train Photo Police arrested a 23-year-old Japanese man after a tree he cut down to get a better photo of a train landed on vital communication wires. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-15 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray The Real Reason Most Photography Websites Fail When you build your first photography website, the platform you use can make it remarkably easy to include everything. Within an afternoon, you’ve populated a portfolio template, drafted an "About Me" page, and installed an e-commerce plugin to sell prints. You create a space for your blog. It feels productive,... Published on 2026-10-15 As Seen On Fstoppers By Adam Matthews From a Kodak Brownie: one photographer’s decades-long journey through cameras Jim Kasson has spent decades following his photography wherever it leads. He talks about working in series, learning from the results and the gear that helps bring each new idea to life. Jim Kasson Meet Jim Kasson Home base: United States Jim Kasson, a long-time member of DPReview’s moderator team,... Published on 2026-10-15 As Seen On DP Review By Mathew Anderson Every Flash Photo Is Really Two Exposures Most people who freeze up with flash have memorized a few settings that worked once, and those settings fall apart the moment the sun moves or the room gets darker. A fixed order of decisions, run the same way with a small Westcott FJ strobe or a big one, gets... Published on 2026-10-15 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Fujifilm’s SuperCCD EXR didn’t take off, but its legacy might live on in your pocket For Throwback Thursday we look at the Fujifilm F200 EXR, an overlooked compact whose ideas live on in modern smartphones Richard Butler Launched in February 2009, the Fujifilm F200 EXR was an update to Fujifilm’s popular “F” series of large(r than typical) sensor compacts. It had a 28-140mm equivalent zoom... Published on 2026-10-15 As Seen On DP Review By Richard Butler Curiosity: Guy on Reddit enabled shutter angle on the A7IV by doing some reverse engineering We all love it when nerds hack our Sony cameras to enable new features! A guy on Reddit recently shared his experience. While he managed to add a shutter angle to his Sony A7 IV, he is currently working on enabling 8K recording (so far without success). He writes: ‘I... Published on 2026-10-15 As Seen On Sony Camera By SonyAlpha Admin Vivo’s New Foldable Phone Is Obsessed With Photography The Vivo X Fold6 has gone global, and its camera system is seriously impressive, especially for a foldable phone. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-15 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Is the Tamron 16-50mm f/2.8 the APS-C Zoom Worth Leaving on Your Camera? A constant f/2.8 standard zoom is the lens most APS-C shooters end up leaving on the camera, yet the options have often been heavy, expensive, or simply missing from certain mounts. The Tamron 16-50mm f/2.8 costs roughly half as much as Sony's own equivalent and weighs far less, which raises... Published on 2026-10-15 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Voigtländer Celebrates 100 Years of Legendary Skopar Series Lenses Cosina Voigtländer is celebrating the 100th anniversary of Voigtländer's "Skopar" series lenses with a commemorative model, the Color-Skopar 35mm f/2.5 100th Model. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-15 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Luminar Comes to Your Browser With AI Editing and Raw Support in a Slick Interface Luminar is now offering something pretty unique for photo editors who want a powerful yet portable web-based editor. It's called Luminar on Web, which certainly describes its functionality. Luminar on Web is a new browser-based product allowing for easier access to high-grade photo editing from anywhere without powerful hardware, long app... Published on 2026-10-15 As Seen On Fstoppers By Mel Martin Chinese Smart Glasses Come With a 50-Megapixel Camera Alibaba unveiled a new pair of smart glasses this week, with more impressive specs than Meta's. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-15 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot Why Last Week's Photos Are the Hardest to Judge The photos you hauled a heavy pack up a mountain to make will almost always feel stronger than the ones you grabbed on a walk to the grocery store. That gap between how an image feels to you and how it reads to everyone else shapes what you print, what... Published on 2026-10-15 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke OpenAI Employee Allegedly Tried to Steal the Company’s Intellectual Property OpenAI has referred a security incident to the FBI after discovering a concealed audio recording device in an executive conference room at its San Francisco headquarters. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-15 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot How Photoshop Blend Modes Actually Work Blend modes sit in a dropdown at the top of the Layers panel in Photoshop, and a lot of people choose one by scrolling until something looks right. Once you know what each mode does to light pixels, dark pixels, and everything in between, that guessing becomes a choice you... Published on 2026-10-15 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Photographers Capture ‘Space Jellyfish’ Left Behind by Rocket Plume NASA has released a series of show-stopping photos showing a "space jellyfish" hanging over the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-15 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot Getty Images going private, following collapse of ShutterStock deal and rise of AI Editorial and stock photo agency will continue as usual, while Getty family and Koch investment company take full ownership GettyImages Getty Images has said it plans to go through the Chapter 11 bankruptcy process as a step to being taken private by members of the Getty family and Koch Inc’s... Published on 2026-10-14 As Seen On DP Review By Richard Butler Tamron's 16-50mm F2.8 A Puts a Fast, Featherweight Zoom on Four APS-C Mounts, Starting at $529 Tamron has announced the 16-50mm F2.8 A (Model B091), a constant-aperture standard zoom for APS-C mirrorless cameras. It is the company's first lens of this type to cover four APS-C mounts: Sony E, Canon RF, Nikon Z and Fujifilm X. The "A" in the name marks it as an APS-C... Published on 2026-10-14 As Seen On Shutterbug By Shutterbug Staff Fujifilm X100VI Review Just a few years ago, it looked as though the days of compact fixed-lens cameras were numbered and that smartphones with increasingly sophisticated cameras would soon run them over. But then the 40-megapixel Fujifilm X100VI appeared and unleashed an avalanche that is still rolling down the valley today. With its... Published on 2026-10-14 As Seen On Photography Life By Libor Vaicenbacher Fujifilm's X-Trans Sensor: The Rebel Design That Solved One Problem and Created Others Fujifilm, a company that spent most of a century making film, looked at the tidy checkerboard of color filters printed onto every digital sensor and decided the tidiness was the enemy. Its answer was a scrambled 6 by 6 grid of red, green, and blue inspired by the random clumping... Published on 2026-10-14 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Nikon’s Newest Japan-Only Merch Makes Me Wish I Had More Business Business cards are a big deal in Japan. Nikon, which certainly loves its cool, Japan-exclusive merch, is combining Japan's deep respect for business cards and Nikon's rich history. The result is an extremely cool business card holder that borrows its style from the classic Nikon F3 film SLR. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-14 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray This year’s winners of AOP’s Emerging Talent Award are photographers to watch The series tell the story of a shrinking glacier and refugee children. Austin Bradley / AOP The Association of Photographers, or AOP, has announced the winners of its 2026 Emerging Talent Award, highlighting up-and-coming photographers who have been working in the field for fewer than three years. This year’s Gold... Published on 2026-10-14 As Seen On DP Review By Mitchell Clark ‘Grandmaslop’ is Bizarre AI Imagery of Kids Made by Baby Boomers It's not quite Halloween yet. But people are getting freaked out by their parents' and grandparents' penchant for AI images of loved ones. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-14 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot This Competition Celebrates New Photographers Who Have Been Shooting for Less Than Three Years The winners of the AOP's 2026 Emerging Talent Awards have been announced, with the gold award going to photographer Austin Bradley. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-14 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot ASMP’s MSP Squared Event Next Week Is a Unique, 24-Hour In-Person Photo Contest The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) is hosting a very special event in Minneapolis on October 23 and 24 called MSP2. 75 photographers will have 24 hours to capture and edit a photo captured in their designated section of Minneapolis-St. Paul. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-14 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Actress Mia Goth Slams Instagram for Spreading AI Image of Her Actress Mia Goth -- who recently filed for divorce from Shia LaBeouf -- has slammed Instagram after the platform let an AI-image of her wearing a t-shirt that read "MY EX IS MY BIGGEST FAN" to go viral. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-14 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Pesala Bandara AI Remade Adobe, Sony’s New Mics, and APS-C Got a Lot of Love | The PetaPixel Podcast This week on The PetaPixel Podcast, Chris, Jordan, Sarah, and I discuss a big heaping pile of news, including the biggest story of the week: Adobe Creative Cloud getting ripped off and rebuilt with AI. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-14 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jaron Schneider US Worker Sues After Employer Fires Her for Refusing to Send 160 Webcam Photos Per Day A U.S. worker has sued her employer after the company fired her for refusing to take a photo of herself on a webcam every three minutes. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-14 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Pesala Bandara Bride Mad Because Her Photographer Died and Hadn’t Sent Her the Wedding Photos A bride took to TikTok to complain that her wedding photographer had died before sending her the wedding photos. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-14 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot Behind the Shot: How Do You Even Go About Photographing Radio Telescopes Under the Milky Way? How do you photograph something like this? Two enormous radio telescopes, the Milky Way rising between them, and a foreground that actually has detail instead of disappearing into blackness. The answer involves a little planning, some tricks to reduce noise, a way to light the radio telescopes, and access to... Published on 2026-10-14 As Seen On Fstoppers By Ken Lee Inside a Season With the Chicago Cubs’ Photographer On an evening late in the season at Wrigley Field, a narrow beam of low sunlight reached the top step of the Chicago Cubs’ dugout. Pete Crow-Armstrong, the front-runner for National League MVP, was standing on that step, a spot he usually leaves to the team’s veterans, as the take-the-field... Published on 2026-10-14 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Michael Bonocore 10 camera features DPReview readers wish camera makers would add We asked our readers which camera features don’t exist yet but should. Hundreds of ideas were proposed, ranging from the practical to the downright hilarious. Getty Images Last week’s Question of the week asked: what one camera feature that doesn’t yet exist would you like to have? More than 100... 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