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Heads up: if you’ve been looking to stock up on some rechargeable AA batteries, there’s a great opportunity for a big discount right now. Amazon is selling Eneloop batteries as its Deal of the Day. Today (March 29th, 2018) only, a 16-pack of the batteries costs just $25 instead of ...

GoPro has just announced a brand new HERO to its action camera family. The $200 HERO becomes the most budget-friendly camera in the GoPro lineup, joining the $300 HERO5 and $400 HERO6. It’s a camera that makes “GoPro accessible to all,” the company says. The HERO has a 2-inch touch ...

UK wedding photographer Stacey Oliver was photographing a castle wedding ceremony earlier this month when an owl was brought out to bring the rings down the aisle. Things didn’t exactly go according to plan, resulting in a series of very memorable wedding photos. The bride and groom, Jeni Arrowsmith and ...

Goodbye, Lytro. The pioneering light field camera company has officially announced that it’s winding down operations. This comes just one week after it was reported that Google would be acquiring the company for somewhere between $25 million and $40 million. “It has been an honor and a pleasure to contribute ...

Netflix purchased the rights for the upcoming movie Kodachrome in September 2017, and today it just released the film’s 2.5-minute trailer. The movie is a story that’s centered around the final days of Kodachrome film. The film stars Ed Harris as a bitter, dying old man who’s a seasoned photographer ...

The Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei has just unveiled the P20 Pro, a smartphone that “redefines intelligent photography.” The Leica triple camera onboard has trounced the other smartphones at DxOMark, scoring a highest-ever mark of 106. The P20 Pro is the world’s first smartphone to feature a Leica triple camera system. ...

The mobile photography gear company Moment has just announced its first collection of products designed for shooting cinematic video on your phone. There’s a new Anamorphic Lens, iPhone X Battery Photo Case, Gimbal Counterweight, and Filter Mount. “Mobile filmmaking is exploding,” Moment says. “From Unsane to Youtube, creatives are using ...

In September 2017, an Ohio newspaper photojournalist was shot by a deputy at a traffic stop when a tripod was mistaken for a gun. Now lawyers are arguing that the deputy “reasonably” believed that the tripod was a gun and that the photographer’s “negligence” may have led to the shooting. ...

Here’s an interesting little factoid: did you know that the iPhone’s shutter sound was originally recorded from a Canon camera? Whenever you snap an iPhone photo (with your volume on) or capture a screenshot on a Mac, that shutter sound you hear is actually a Canon AE-1 film SLR camera ...

An Atlanta photographer was shot and nearly killed last month after entering the home he was assigned to shoot and surprising the homeowner inside. It turns out there was a miscommunication, and now the photographer is suing. The Gwinnet Daily Post reports that photographer Whitney Morris was originally scheduled to ...