Photography News

The New York Attorney General has filed a major lawsuit against photo and video gear retailer B&H Photo alleging that the retail giant has dodged millions in sales taxes over the past 13 years. B&H calls the lawsuit “outrageous” and says these claims are “flat wrong.” As initially reported by The Verge, the lawsuit was

[embedded content] A FedEx delivery guy was caught on camera this week throwing a package containing a $1,500 Canon camera lens to a front door instead of walking a few extra steps to put it down gently. The whole thing can be seen in the 3-minute video above. Florida-based photographer Greg Riegler shared the video

One of Sigma’s most anticipated lenses for the full-frame Sony E-Mount cameras has an official price tag, and it’s shockingly affordable. The recently announced Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 Art lens—a direct competitor to Sony’s expensive 24-70mm f/2.8 G Master—will begin shipping in early December for just $1,100. The Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 DG DN Art—which is designed

The Dallas Area Rapid Transit system (DART) has agreed to pay blogger and photojournalist Avi Adelman $345,000 to settle a lawsuit in which Adelman alleged that he was illegally arrested for taking photos of someone being treated for an overdose. The incident in question took place over three years ago, in February of 2016, when

[embedded content] An engineer has developed a computer program that can, in her words, “remove the water” from an underwater photograph. The result is a “physically accurate” image with all of the vibrance, saturation and color of a regular landscape photo. The technology, called Sea-thru, was developed by oceanographer and engineer Derya Akkaynak from MIT

Apple’s recent attempt to invalidate one of RED’s most important patents has failed. Earlier this week, a US court dismissed Apple’s challenge to RED’s main RAW video patent, allowing RED to maintain some control over Apple’s ProRes RAW codec. This story began back in May, when Apple quietly filed a legal petition to try and

VSCO has partnered with Snap Inc. to release its first ever Snapchat lens. Dubbed ‘Analog,’ the sponsored lens is free to use and “designed to celebrate the imperfections, mistakes, and happy accidents found when shooting with film.” This special-edition Snapchat lens will be around for a month starting today, and offers two different filters that

AMD has revealed its latest and greatest Threadripper desktop CPUs, promising “unmatched performance with no compromises,” including a huge performance boosts for Adobe users. The new family of high-end desktop processors is made up of two 3rd Gen Ryzen Threadripper CPUs—the 24-core 3960X and the 32-core 3970X—both of which are built on AMD’s 7nm “Zen

Adobe generated considerable hype when it teased “full” Photoshop for iPad last year. The app officially launched to the public this week, and it hasn’t exactly lived up to the hype. In fact, it’s been quite the opposite: early reviews from users have been terrible. Over in the Apple App Store, where it’s presented as

During an interview at WIRED25 just two hours ago, Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri announced that the Facebook-owned photo sharing app is going to begin testing the hiding of “likes” in the USA next week. Instagram’s experiment with hiding likes began in May, when the company suddenly began testing the removal of the feature for users

Elle Germany has issued a public apology after the magazine’s most recent issue declared that “Black is Back,” a statement that has been widely interpreted as implying that black models are a “trend” to be capitalized on by the fashion industry. The controversy first broke on October 29th, when popular Instagram account Diet Prada pointed

Adobe MAX 2019 ended last night with, perhaps, the most anticipated event of the whole show. No, it wasn’t the reveal of Photoshop for iPad; we’re talking about the “Adobe Sneaks” showcase, where the company demos some of the craziest early-stage technology being developed by Adobe employees. This year’s R&D showcase was hosted by Adobe

The first release candidate for Darktable 3.0—the popular free, open source Lightroom alternative—was announced earlier today, and it comes with some major improvements over 2.6, including UI improvements, a major rewrite of the Lighttable module, bug fixes, and more. The release of Darktable 3.0.0rc0 comes (perhaps on purpose?) just as Adobe revealed its latest build

A 17-year-old high school student was struck and killed by a Union Pacific train in Troutdale, Oregon this weekend during an ill-fated and ill-advised senior portrait shoot on the tracks. According to local news outlet KATU 2, 17-year-old River Baker, a senior at Estacada High School in Estacada, OR, was struck by the train on

Earlier this year, a group of well-known professional photographers was robbed… by another photographer. Approximately $12-$15K worth of gear was taken from their studio by a peer almost three months ago, and they were only able to recover the gear earlier this week, though they still don’t feel they’ve received anything resembling justice. Seth Miranda,

Canon engineers have designed a lens that quite literally and intentionally sucks. The lens pulls in air, swirls it across the image sensor in the camera body, and then pushes it out in order to get rid of the internal dust that causes nasty dark spots in your photos. In a newly published patent filing

[embedded content] An Australian wedding videographer landed on the national news this week after it was discovered that he was just a high school kid who severely misrepresented his experience level, charging clients $1,300 for shaky, sub-par footage that was nowhere near the quality level on display on his website. The story was uncovered by

A report by Digital Camera World earlier this week initially claimed that Canon was ditching JPEGs, replacing them with 10-bit HEIF files in the upcoming Canon 1D X Mark III, and possibly beyond. And while Canon eventually clarified that they are not getting rid of JEPG, the format may be (ought to be?) on its

An recent court order banning photography outside the Arizona Supreme Court in Phoenix and Court of Appeals in Tucson is being criticized as unconstitutional. The court says the order is meant to stop “abuse and intimidation,” but critics say it infringes on people’s First Amendment rights and puts photojournalists in an “untenable position.” As reported

If you’re one of the holdouts still using Apple’s defunct Aperture photo editor, and you upgraded to macOS Catalina, you might have discovered to your dismay that the application no longer works. Have no fear, IT consultant and developer Tyshawn Cormier is here to help. As we reported back in April, the end of Mojave

Apple has released iOS 13.2, debuting the ‘Deep Fusion’ computational photography tech that it showed off during the iPhone 11 keynote, and we decided to take it for a quick spin to see what all the fuss is about. Spoiler Alert: If you care about photography and own an iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, or

Earlier today, Samyang/Rokinon unveiled the new AF 14mm f/2.8 RF lens: a wide-angle prime that becomes the first third-party autofocus lens for Canon’s full-frame mirrorless RF-Mount. The AF 14mm f/2.8 RF promises a 113.9° angle of view, minimal distortion, and “fast and precise autofocus function” inside a weather-sealed, compact design that’s only 9.5cm (3.75in) long

Adobe accidentally exposed private details of over 7 million Creative Cloud accounts to the public, putting those members at risk of targeted phishing scams. The issue was first reported by Comparitech, which discovered (in partnership with security researcher Bob Diachenko) that the account details were exposed in a database that could be accessed by anyone

If the advertised astrophotography capabilities of the Google Pixel 4 enticed you to upgrade from your Pixel 1 or 2, you might be able to do without. The latest Google Camera mod brings this feature and lots more to the older Pixel phones. As with any software mod, your mileage may vary and the risk

The Elinchrom Rotalux Softbox system is finally complete. 25 years after the popular light shaping system debuted, Elinchrom has finally debuted “Rotagrids” for all 12 modifier shapes, allowing Rotalux users to better control their light spread. The newly announced Rotagrids are 30° grids that come in every size and shape of Rotalux Softbox, including Square,

A photographer in Austin, TX was attacked and robbed at gunpoint by a 19-year-old rapper and his friends after they were reportedly unhappy with the photos that she was taking during their photo shoot. According to local news station KXAN, the Austin PD has issued an arrest warrant for 19-year-old Jayden Cornell Green, who allegedly

Photographer Steve Fines is being hailed as a hero after he was able to use his drone and a thermal camera to help locate a 6-year-old boy who got lost last week on a freezing cold night in Sherburne County, Minnesota. The rescue was covered by Minesota’s KARE 11 News, and it’s a refreshingly positive

Camera maker Ricoh and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have released some beautiful 360° images and video captured with a modified Ricoh Theta from the International Space Station (ISS). This collaboration began back in 2018, when Ricoh and JAXA teamed up to alter a Theta S camera so that it could withstand the temperature

A Royal Caribbean cruise line passenger has been banned from the company’s cruises for life after she climbed onto the railing of her room’s balcony to pose for a dangerous photo in front of the ocean. We’ve seen our fair share of dangerous selfies and photo shoots, but this stunt made international headlines today thanks,

Flickr has announced that it’s tripling the maximum display size for Pro members’ photos, increasing it from 2048 pixels on the long end to 6144 pixels, or 6K resolution. Tripling the long edge is a huge increase in resolution — a photo that was displayed at a resolution of 3 megapixels before (e.g. 2048×1534) will