The Discipline of Getting Lost There is a certain kind of photography that does not begin with a plan, a map, or even a clear idea of what you are looking for. It begins the moment you realize you are already lost and you decide, consciously or not, to keep going anyway. Mexico City is generous... Published on 2026-07-25 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Coghe A $690 135mm f/1.8 Full Frame Lens: Too Good to Be True? A 135mm f/1.8 full frame autofocus lens for $690 undercuts every rival on the market by a wide margin, and until recently, a lens this fast at this focal length simply didn't exist at this price. For portrait and event shooters chasing that tight, wildly out-of-focus look, the math suddenly... Published on 2026-07-25 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke First Amendment Auditors are Taking Their Right to Film in Public to the Extreme In the United States, it is legal to film in a public space. Photographers, especially those working in the media, know about this First Amendment right. [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-25 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot A growing problem: compact cameras just aren’t compact A class that used to be built around tiny sensors has outgrown its original meaning as the smartphone pushed it into niches Canon Compact cameras used to dominate the market. Every manufacturer made tens of new models each year, typically differentiated by pixel count, zoom range and screen size. Plus,... Published on 2026-07-25 As Seen On DP Review By Richard Butler How a Photojournalist Shoots Publishable Portraits With Nothing but a Window A window and a dark room are enough to shoot a portrait good enough for the New York Times. No strobes, no modifiers, no expensive gear, just daylight and a few decisions you learn to make on purpose. [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-25 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Haunting Photos Taken Under the Full Moon Turn Night Into Day Most photographers would not dare to use moonlight as their key light, but Darren Almond is not most photographers. [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-25 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot Canon’s latest vlogging lens shoots stills, too Sample photos from the RF 20-50mm F4 L IS USM PZ. We recently wrote about the experience of using Canon’s latest RF 20-50mm F4 L IS USM PZ lens for photography, focusing on what it was like to use its manual zoom mode which provides a more satisfying and tactile... Published on 2026-07-25 As Seen On DP Review By Mitchell Clark The London Shooting Locations Locals Guard for Themselves London rewards the photographer who stops rushing from landmark to landmark and instead learns a handful of spots inside out. The same corner shifts completely between a July afternoon and a January noon, and knowing when to show up matters as much as knowing where. [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-25 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Photographer Spends a Year with Inmates in Bulgaria’s Most Notorious Prison A photographer spent a year documenting inmates in Bulgaria's most notorious prison, home to the country's largest number of criminals serving life sentences for murder. [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-25 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Pesala Bandara New Sony FX5 reviews roundup Preorders: Sony FX5 at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama, Fotokoch, FotoErhardt, Calumet, Clifton, WexUK Sony DVF-EL1 Electronic Viewfinder at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama, Fotokoch, FotoErhardt, Calumet, Clifton, WexUK Sony XLR-H2 XLR Handle Unit at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama, Fotokoch, FotoErhardt, Calumet, Clifton, WexUK The post New Sony FX5 reviews roundup first appeared on sonyalpharumors.... Published on 2026-07-25 As Seen On Sony Camera By SonyAlpha Admin Small, Sharp, and Under $600: The Catch With the Sigma 15mm f/1.4 A lens can hit every spec on your wishlist and still leave you flat when you actually shoot with it. The Sigma 15mm f/1.4 DC is a case study in that gap between numbers and feeling. [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-25 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Insta360 X6 Retail Box Leak: Full Packaging and Bundle Details Revealed The first clear photos of the Insta360 X6 retail packaging box have now surfaced online. We finally have a complete look at both the front and rear of the packaging. At the beginning of this month, we had the product images of the camera body leaked by trusted sources, and... Published on 2026-07-25 As Seen On The New Camera By admin Everyone’s Favorite DJI Clone Just Stopped Selling its Osmo Pocket 4P Lookalike Just days after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) put Xtra and other similar companies in its crosshairs, Xtra suddenly removed the Muse 2 Pro from its website, halted preorders, and said it would start refunding customers. [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-24 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Wacom's MovinkPad Pro 14: Trying Something New Recently, I had the chance to try out the new Wacom MovinkPad Pro 14. It wasn't that long ago that I experimented with Wacom's One 13 Touch. Although the MovinkPad Pro 14 isn't built specifically for photographers, the upgrade in my experience over the Wacom One Touch was significant. As... Published on 2026-07-24 As Seen On Fstoppers By Mark Dunsmuir Red Bull Used a Vintage Camera to Film a 68-Year-Old Plane’s Historic Return to American Skies For the first time since it was manufactured in Santa Monica, California, in 1958, the historic DC-6B aircraft from Red Bull’s aviation collection returned to the skies over the United States for a series of flights, with New York City serving as its first stop. To capture the significance of... Published on 2026-07-24 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Kate Garibaldi Canon Adds Flash Support to the R6 V With New Firmware Canon released new firmware updates for the EOS R6 Mark III and EOS R6 V cameras this week. Arguably the biggest addition of all is the ability to shoot with flash on the R6 V. [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-24 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Has Street Photography Lost Its Soul? I love street photography; it’s fun. Everyone can do it because you don’t need to spend a lot of money to travel to far-off destinations. If there are no big cities nearby, no worries, we can do it in our local towns. Perfect! [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-24 As Seen On Fstoppers By Simon Burn Canon’s latest cameras are getting their first big feature updates The company has released new firmware for the EOS R6 V and R6 III. Canon Canon has released firmware updates for its vlogging-focused EOS R6 V, and its enthusiast mirrorless hybrid EOS R6 III, adding some new features and quality-of-life improvements. The EOS R6 V gets the heftiest update, adding... Published on 2026-07-24 As Seen On DP Review By Mitchell Clark Woman Wins Lawsuit After Company Forced Her to Use a Webcam During Remote Work An anxious travel consultant working from home for a British travel company successfully sued the company for discrimination after it made her turn on her camera during meetings. [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-24 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray I Shot the iPhone 17 Pro Max for Nine Months: The Phone That Handled Everything I Threw at It For years the honest answer to "is the phone camera good enough?" came with an asterisk. Good enough in nice light. Good enough if you did not zoom. Good enough until the sun went down. I have carried an iPhone 17 Pro Max since launch weekend, and after nine months... Published on 2026-07-24 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke User Guide: Making DPReview notifications work for you With the new website design, it is understandable that some things are in different places than you’re used to. This guide series aims to help you get acquainted with how the site now functions. DPReview This is the first of several guides intended to help you navigate the new website... Published on 2026-07-24 As Seen On DP Review By Mathew Anderson Quantum Efficiency: The Sensor Spec Nobody Publishes Almost every consumer camera you have ever bought came with a spec sheet, and that spec sheet left out the one number that most directly describes how good the sensor is at its actual job: catching light and turning it into signal. It told you the megapixel count, the ISO... Published on 2026-07-24 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke The Best Deals on Action Cameras for Your Summer Adventures Looking for a new action camera before your next adventure? This week's deals include substantial savings on action cameras, handheld gimbal cameras, 360-degree cameras, and a wide range of accessories from GoPro, DJI, Insta360, SmallRig, Xtra, and more. [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-24 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Kate Garibaldi 50 Years Later: The First Photo Ever Taken on Mars This week marked the 50th anniversary of the NASA Viking 1 spacecraft landing safely on Mars, spearheading a new era of space exploration. Just minutes after Viking 1 landed on the Red Planet, it captured a photo, the first ever taken on the surface of Mars and the first time... Published on 2026-07-24 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray The $200 Pancake Lens That Almost Made a Sony Setup Perfect A full frame pancake lens that costs around $200, mounts autofocus, and shrinks a Sony body down to something that reads as a point-and-shoot sounds like it has to give something up. The Viltrox 26mm f/2.8 EVO Edition FE gives up a little, but far less than the price and... Published on 2026-07-24 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Viltrox’s First Micro Four Thirds Lenses Promise Great Value As expected, Viltrox has announced its first lenses for Micro Four Thirds. [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-24 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray This documentary takes you on a detailed journey through Kodak’s history A recent Design Docs video walks through the company’s beginnings and its demise. Design Docs There’s no shortage of content out there about Kodak’s rise and fall, but this deep dive from Design Docs takes a slower, more granular approach to the story behind the company. The feature-length documentary dives... Published on 2026-07-24 As Seen On DP Review By Abby Ferguson The Accidental Double Exposure That Put a Late Father Back in His Daughter's Wedding Photos A bride carried her late father's 1970s Rollei to her wedding, handed it to a brother, and asked him to shoot whatever caught his eye. When the scans came back weeks later, the first frame wasn't the wedding at all. It was her mother and father, standing together more than... Published on 2026-07-24 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke More film options are worth celebrating, even if they aren’t entirely new A recent film announcement from Flic Film sparked a wave of discourse about what it takes to be a truly new film stock. Flic Film In June, Flic Film, a Canadian manufacturer and distributor of analog photography goods, posted on social media that it had released “an all-new film stock.”... Published on 2026-07-24 As Seen On DP Review By Abby Ferguson Sony FX5 In-Depth with Philip Bloom and CineD This is an interesting in depth discussion about the new Sony FX5. The question that arises is if there will be a new FX3II and a new A7sIV at all seeing that the FX5 seems to sort of cover them both. This is not a rumor but my speculation: There... Published on 2026-07-24 As Seen On Sony Camera By SonyAlpha Admin Iconic Hollywood Theater With 70mm Projector is Reopening its Doors After years of decline, it feels like cinema is having a moment. Ticket sales at the box office are up year on year and Hollywood is on course to have its best summer since the pandemic. What's more, an iconic L.A. theater is reopening. [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-24 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot Kanye West Sued for Allegedly Using Audio from Photographer’s Video in Song Kanye West is facing a lawsuit from a photo agency that claims audio from its video of his heated exchange with a photographer was used in a song without permission. [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-24 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Pesala Bandara HoverAir Teases Modular Pocket Flying Camera – Detachable Camera Unit Shown HoverAir may be preparing one of the biggest innovations in the self-flying camera market. The latest teaser videos have ignited discussions across online forums; even users are confused about how this can be possible. The drone company may be working on one of the world’s first modular self-flying camera drones.... Published on 2026-07-24 As Seen On The New Camera By admin Researchers Warn AI Animal Videos Are Harming Real Wildlife Science and Perception A growing wave of AI-generated animal videos is spreading across social media, and researchers say these fabricated clips are quietly reshaping how the public understands real wildlife. The concern is not just that the videos are fake, but that they present impossible or invented behavior as if it were documented... Published on 2026-07-24 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Police Search for Suspect After $20K Camera Equipment Stolen From Parked Car Police are hunting for a suspect after $20,000 worth of professional camera gear was stolen from a parked car. [Read More]... 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