Image: Panasonic Alongside the S9 social media camera, Panasonic has announced the 26mm F8, a manual focus, fixed aperture lens for the L-mount system. It’s also said it will release a compact 18-40mm F4.5-6.3 zoom lens for L-mount “soon.” The company refers to the 18mm-deep (0.71″) lens as a “pancake” lens, but its stripped-back feature […]

Product images by Dale Baskin/Mitchell Clark The Panasonic Lumix S9 is the newest addition to Panasonic’s line of full-frame mirrorless cameras, though it differs considerably from previous models. It’s the first in the series to diverge from the traditional DSLR form factor. More significantly, it’s the first full-frame Lumix camera aimed squarely at social media […]

The photo tour operator Capture the Atlas has announced the winners for the seventh iteration of its Milky Way astrophotography competition. This year, the competition received 5000 entries and recognized 25 photographers working in 15 countries, from the deserts of Jordan and Oman to the landscapes of Patagonia, Australia, and other locales. Photographers captured our […]

With ‘Generative Remove,’ Lightroom users can highlight an area they want to remove, such as this person in the background, and then let Lightroom fill in that space with what it thinks should go there. Image credit: Adobe Adobe announced several updates to Lightroom today. Adobe Firefly, first announced in March 2023 as a beta […]

Photographer Dale Chorman (above) was killed by a moose on Sunday. A photographer was attacked and killed by a moose after attempting to take photos of its two newborn calves. Photographer Dale Chorman was charged and kicked to death by a protective mother moose in Homer, Kachemak Bay in Alaska on Sunday. Chorman, who was […]

As Microsoft showed off its new Arm-based Surface Laptop Monday, just as much attention was paid to how it compares against its competition, namely, Apple’s popular MacBook Air. Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop is “the fastest, most intelligent Windows PC ever built,” with a big emphasis on artificial intelligence. That power arrives thanks to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon […]

Every week, we ask newsletter subscribers a question about gear, creativity or life. We recently asked readers: If you could only pick one lens for the rest of your life (yes, only one), what would it be and why? We got some insightful, unusual and snarky responses to the prompt. The idea of having a […]

Last week, Google announced the Pixel 8a, which slots in below the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro in Google’s smartphone lineup. Although it’s a member of the Pixel 8 family, the 8a uses the same sensors and lenses found in the Pixel 7a to keep its price lower than its siblings. On paper, one […]

Product images by Richard Butler The Fujifilm X-T50 is a classically-styled mid-level APS-C mirrorless camera. It’s built around the 40MP X-Trans sensor used by the X-T5 and X-H2, and gains image stabilization. It also gains the majority of the X-T5’s features in a smaller, less expensive body. Key specifications 40MP X-Trans BSI CMOS sensor X-Processor […]

Image: Fujifilm Fujifilm has released the XF16-50mm F2.8-4.8 R LM WR, a replacement for one of our favorite kit zoom options, the Fujinon 18-55mm F2.8-4.0 R LM OIS. The new lens loses a little at the long end, and becomes approximately half a stop darker, but now expands out to 16mm, meaning it gives an […]