Digital cameras changed photography, and now smartphones are changing digital cameras. There’s never been more interesting ways to take a picture or record a video, and there’s also never been more ways to view those images. We’re focused on finding the most interesting innovations happening in all parts of photography.
Google has been testing adding Ultra HDR image capture to a limited camera API for Android 14 that’s aimed at the basic camera needs of social media apps, according to Android Authority.
Once the changes are available to developers, you’d no longer need to capture Ultra HDR images in a separate app to upload to Instagram.
[Android Authority]
Last year, GoPro CEO Nick Woodman confirmed the company was working on a new version of its twin-lens Max action cam that first debuted in 2019.
Yesterday, @Quadro_News shared what appears to be the first image of the next GoPro Max with its wide-angle lenses now centered and a housing featuring an integrated heatsink design to potentially resolve the original’s over-heating issues.
NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick, who’s been on the International Space Station since March, seems to enjoy sharing his camera settings. For the picture of the Boeing Starliner below, he followed up:
For the photography nerds: 1 second exposure, f 1.4, ISO 2000, 24 mm lens.
The Insta360 Go 3 was a cute little vlogging cam that was small enough to wear on a lanyard or attach to a pet’s collar. Now, the new Go 3S model has some nifty upgrades like 4K video (up from 2.7K), Apple Find My compatibility, and waterproofing to 33 feet.
The Go 3S starts at $399.99, around the same as the outgoing model.
Ricoh announced a new duo of waterproof / shockproof tough point-and-shoot cameras launching in July. No, the year is not 2011, but compact cameras continue to have their moment in 2024.
The 16-megapixel Pentax WG-1000 is the new entry-level with 4x optical zoom and waterproofing to 49.2 ft for $229.95. The 20-megapixel Pentax WG-8 is the flagship with 5x zoom, 65.6 ft depth range, and LED ring light for $399.95.
In the grand scheme of things, there have been far worse security breaches than what Peak Design, the popular camera accessory brand, is currently dealing with.
But if you had any customer service interactions with the company between October 2013 and May 2023, well... everything contained in those tickets was accessed by an unknown third party before the issue was fixed. Not great.
Amazon’s Fallout was a surprise hit of a streaming series, and the on-set pictures by photographer JoJo Whilden equally blew me away.
Whilden’s photos, shot on a Hasselblad 500cm medium format film camera, are perfectly matched to the show’s aesthetic (the series and set-stills both used Kodak film stocks). Check out the small collection of these beautiful images on both Whilden’s and Prime Video’s Instagram pages.
The Canon EOS R1 will “dramatically improve the performance of both still images and video” compared to the company’s previously flagship EOS R3. It’s “coming soon.”
Though it has the same Digic X processor, a new “Digic Accelerator” and ML algorithms can — for instance — allegedly tell when one player’s shooting a ball and focus on them automatically.
The Leica APO-Telyt-R 1600mm f/5.6 can take portrait photos from far away. Digital Camera World writes that Leica conceived the lens in 2006 at the request of former Qatari Minister of Culture Sheikh Saud Bin Mohammed Al-Thani. It’s so rare that there’s only three in existence.
It’s also so heavy that it takes two people to lift it onto a table.
Maybe this was an inevitable step from the camera brand that hangs its hat on film simulations that look wonderful straight out of camera.
According to FujiRumors, the upcoming mid-range X-T50 will have a physical dial for switching between different film sims. A bit unconventional? Definitely. But at least it’ll encourage people to try more of them.
Alongside its new wireless interview mic, Rode has announced a $130 smartphone cage that attaches magnetically to an iPhone, and presumably other Qi2 smartphones once they arrive. It has 33 mounting threads for lights, mics, and other accessories videographers like.
There’s also a $90 modular mount that includes a long handle and two hot shoe arms. Both ship April 24th.
And better than my video are all the comments about which system folks are most aligned with, either the $1,599.00 Fujifilm X100VI or the $1,046.95 Ricoh GR IIIx.
