Stephen Dowling, founder of KosmoFoto, has shared what he believes to be a solution to the rising costs and limited options of color film photography emulsions. | Continue reading
Drone manufacturer DJI has moved its staff into an innovative and masterfully-designed new building in Shenzhen, China. Here is a first look. | Continue reading
Winners for this year's annual Comedy Pet Photo Awards have been announced. | Continue reading
It's a far cry from the conventional lenses you're used to seeing, but it's sure to give you a look, unlike any optic you can purchase online. | Continue reading
After years of confusion, DPReview and a group of leading websites and YouTube channels are changing the way we talk about small sensors. | Continue reading
Apple's most affordable iPhone model, the iPhone SE, has almost as large of an SSD as NASA's $10B James Webb Space Telescope. Webb uses a 68GB onboard SSD to store all its images and data, beaming data back to Earth twice a day. | Continue reading
The Nettle Magic Project uses a hidden Raspberry Pi device with an IR camera to scan and decode a deck of cards marked with invisible UV reactive ink. The scan produces a full breakdown of the deck and delivers it to the performer in nearly real-time. | Continue reading
DigiKam is a free, open-source raw photo management and editor for macOS, Windows and Linux. The team has recently released the latest version, bringing the app to version 7.7.0. The update adds many bug fixes, new features and file support. | Continue reading
Canon, Fujifilm and Sony have announced APS-C cameras and lenses within a few days of each other. Does this point to a bright new dawn for the format, or is it simply coincidence? Richard Butler has thoughts. Because of course he does. | Continue reading
A recent breakthrough means the future could include sensors that perfectly describe the light in the scene, offer new computational possibilities and give film-like latitude in the highlights. And yet we may never see them in cameras, says father of the CMOS sensor, Professor Er … | Continue reading
Apple has responded to an open letter published last month, wherein more than 100 individuals in the entertainment industry asked Apple to improve the development and promotion of Final Cut Pro. | Continue reading
Focusing on an object a few centimeters in front of your camera is easy with a macro lens. What if you want to focus on something over a kilometer away simultaneously? New research shows that it's possible thanks to a light field camera with an incredible lens design inspired by … | Continue reading
An open letter asking Apple to improve its video editor has been signed by more than 100 TV and film industry members, putting pressure on the Cupertino company to bring its video editor more up to date with industry standards and specifications. | Continue reading
LG is adding a new 27" model to its creative-centric UltraFine OLED Pro lineup and including built-in colorimeters for in-device color calibration. | Continue reading
Electronic waste and carbon emissions are major issues in the electronics industry. Making new products is demanding, and properly handling old products is challenging. Dell's new concept laptop, Luna, wants to address these issues by being cleaner to make and easier to maintain … | Continue reading
Apple's flagship M1 Max MacBook Pro offers a combination of performance, efficiency, build quality, and screen quality that you cannot find in any PC on the market, full stop. | Continue reading
Pictures and video can not now be shared without the express consent of everyone who appears in them, according to new rules implemented by Twitter a day after its CEO, Jack Dorsey, stepped down. | Continue reading
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, an executive order resulted in the imprisonment of 120,000 Japanese Americans, most of whom were American citizens. Some prisoners remain unidentified in the Library of Congress's photos, and it wants the public's help. | Continue reading
Juno has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016. In the last five years, we have learned a lot about the gas giant. Recent observations offer the first three-dimensional look at Jupiter's atmosphere and shed light on the depth of the planet's iconic cycles and bands. | Continue reading
Sony has just announced the Xperia Pro-I, which packs the 1"-type stacked CMOS sensor from the RX100 VII into a smartphone barely bigger than its peers. It only uses ~60% of the imaging area, but does that matter? | Continue reading
Bob Janes, writing for 35mmc, has taken a deep dive into the Asahi Pentax Auto 110 camera, an ultra compact system that promised SLR-like functionality in a smaller form factor. | Continue reading
View Apple iPhone 13 Pro Sample Gallery from DPReview. | Continue reading
Jupiter is hit with objects throughout the year, but it's an infrequent event that's often observable for only a second or two. Amateur astronomer José Luis Pereira observed Jupiter on a clear night earlier this week and caught such an impact with his camera and telescope. | Continue reading
While not known by much of the west until after the fall of the Berlin Wall, production of the high-end KMZ Start totaled 75,000 units and actually beat the Nikon F to market. Click through to learn more. | Continue reading
No, really. We mean it. They actually may. | Continue reading
A new regulation in Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) prohibits the production and distribution of phenol, isopropylated phosphate (3:1), which Fujifilm says is found in the emulsion for Velvia 100 film. | Continue reading
A decade ago I wrote some articles on the history of photography. Now I'm writing an eBook. Slowly... In the meantime, Barney and I thought we'd post the first chapter here on DPReview to see if anyone would be interested. Anyone other than me and Barney. | Continue reading
Wing, owned by Google parent company Alphabet, recently launched a free app in the United States to help remote pilots legally fly their drones. | Continue reading
The FAA released TRUST, free online training that is now required for pilots to legally fly under the limited exception for recreational flight in the United States. | Continue reading
There's a perception that cameras and lenses are getting more expensive. We had a bit of a dig into the extent to which it's true, and why it's happening. | Continue reading
There's a perception that cameras and lenses are getting more expensive. We had a bit of a dig into the extent to which it's true, and why it's happening. | Continue reading
In this edition of our beginner's guide to film photography, we'll go over the most common film types – from 35mm to large format – and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each. | Continue reading
In 2018, using ptychography and sophisticated algorithms, a Cornell University research team set a record with an incredible photo of atoms. With improved detection and algorithms, the team is back with another record-setting image, and it's the highest-resolution photo of atoms … | Continue reading
Why are modern 50mm lenses so complex? Lens designers didn't add all that extra glass just to charge more money and make the diagram look cool, explains Roger Cicala. | Continue reading
Canon's Larry Thorpe has seen lot of changes over his 60-year career in the industry. We spoke to him after his recent retirement, and in this interview he highlights some of the technological advancements he's seen during his career and discusses the convergence between stills a … | Continue reading
Industrious YouTuber Sean Hodgins has built his own digital camera from scratch, including its huge 1-kilopixel image sensor. | Continue reading
These first real-world examples, captured on an unnamed Qualcomm-powered smartphone, show what the CAI standard experience is like when viewing the images online. | Continue reading
Phantom cameras have been used for many high-speed applications, from cinematic endeavors to scientific research. The new TMX series, aimed at scientific applications, uses a backside-illuminated CMOS image sensor to record video at up to 1.75M frames per second. | Continue reading
Genealogy company MyHeritage has launched a new AI-powered service, Deep Nostalgia. The AI tech, licensed from D-ID, analyzes the faces in photographs and uses deep learning to apply animation sequences. | Continue reading
The Society has literally photographed every page of its Journal magazine between 1853 and 2018, and made it all free to read online in a massive treasure trove of photographic history | Continue reading
Pro tip: If you're planning to Photoshop yourself atop Mount Everest, be sure the composite is good enough to escape scrutiny, otherwise you could end up with a ten-year ban from actually visiting the mountain. | Continue reading
Fujifilm cites issues with sourcing raw materials as the reason for discontinuing the film stock in both its 35mm and 120 formats. | Continue reading
A Philadelphia-based remote pilot managed to accrue $182,000 in fines from the FAA. Renowned aviation attorney Jonathan Rupprecht says it's the second largest fine he knows of, to date, and explains how it happened. | Continue reading
This year, despite the disruption, plenty of amazing cameras, lenses, accessories and other products came through our doors. Now, as the year winds down, we're highlighting some of our standout products of the year. Check out the winners of the 2020 DPReview Awards! | Continue reading
Photokina has announced via a press release that after 70 years of shows in Cologne, Germany, it will be indefinitely suspended due to 'decreases in the imaging market’ that have ‘force[d] a hard cut.’ | Continue reading
Don't believe your eyes – neither of these strawberry images has a single red pixel in it. Read more | Continue reading
Roger Cicala delves back into the murky waters of sample variation among lenses and explains how – depending on how you define your standards – you might end up getting multiple 'bad copies'. | Continue reading
Kirsch is credited with being the inventor of the pixel, after capturing the first digital image in 1957. He passed away in his Portland, Oregon home August 11, 2020. | Continue reading