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DarktableSoftwareMeet the new AI tools in darktable 5.6 darktable 5.6 ships its first AI features: an AI object mask that turns a single click into a vector mask around any subject, and a neural restore module for ML-based denoise and upscale.

ePHOTOzineReviewsNeurapix Launches Studio Crop AI Feature for Lightroom Portrait Editing Neurapix Studio Crop is a new AI feature for Lightroom that applies consistent, predefined crops to entire portrait batches automatically, eliminating manual cropping for photographers working with…

ePHOTOzineReviewsThe Zero-AI Upgrade the iPhone Camera Has Been Waiting For Photosynthesis is a zero-AI iPhone camera app that merges simultaneous shots from multiple lenses, combining detail and context into seamless composite photos.

Digital Camera WorldReviewsChatGPT plans to replace your phone's camera app with AI-simulated DSLR-quality following this US$300 million acquisition – will it make a camera, too? OpenAI has acquired Glass Imaging for $300 million, a tool designed to turn a phone into a professional camera

Camera DecisionReviewsSony A9 III 120fps Lenses: 53 Sony Lenses Keep Autofocus Tracking at Full Speed The Sony A9 III shoots at 120 frames per second, but only some lenses let the autofocus keep up. Sony's own compatibility data says 53 of its lenses track at full speed, including every current…

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Photo District NewsCultureProof of Human: What Photography Becomes in the Age of AI We are entering an era where beautiful images are no longer scarce. Cameras can practically see in the dark. Software can correct our mistakes.

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Photo District NewsCultureYour AI Team: How to Build 3 Agents for a Smarter Photography Business This workshop is about using agentic AI to take the repetitive, soul-sucking parts of running a photography business off your plate.

The PhoblographerReviewsNo Algorithms, No AI: Why the 5 Boro Foto Fest Is Different There's no shortage of ways to discover photography online right now, and almost all of them run through an algorithm or, increasingly, generative AI.

PetaPixelReviewsPhotographers Outraged After Heavily AI-Edited Image Wins State Fair Photo Competition An image that was heavily edited with AI has controversially won a state fair photography competition, prompting organizers to change the rules for next year.…

RedShark NewsCinemaAfter Effects AI Assistant enters public beta Adobe's AI Assistant for After Effects has reached public beta, reading entire projects to reorganize files, write expressions, and fix broken rigs. The live demo on the IBC show floor was impressive.

Digital Camera WorldReviewsPhotoshop’s AI Assistant feels made for beginners – so now the tool is coming to the newbie-friendly Photoshop Elements image editor too The latest version of Adobe Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements brings new AI-powered features to the basic editing software

Digital Camera WorldReviewsForget variable aperture and folding phones – as a photographer, the reason I want an iPhone 18 Pro is this hidden anti-AI camera tool The iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max don't just get more camera controls; there's a built-in tool for authenticating an image in an era of AI slop

PetaPixelReviewsMeta’s Oversight Board Orders the Company to Remove Deepfake Videos From Facebook Meta’s Oversight Board has ordered the company to remove two AI-generated videos from Facebook and called for stronger measures to address the spread of deepfake content.…

CineDCinemaSIRUI Aurora 15mm f/1.6 and 24mm f/1.4 Full-Frame Autofocus Lenses Unveiled On the show floor at IBC 2026, SIRUI was displaying pre-production samples of two new focal lengths coming to its Aurora full-frame autofocus lens series: a fast, ultra-wide-angle 15mm f/1.6 and a…

Y.M.CinemaCinemaDaVinci Resolve 21.1 Uses MCP to Let AI Assistants Control the Edit Blackmagic Design has published the September 2026 DaVinci Resolve 21.1 Reference Manual, a document extending beyond 4,300 pages.

The PhoblographerReviewsThe Fun in Multiple Exposure Portraits Let's be honest, standard photography is really, really boring. AI can do it. Do you want to make images that AI can make?

No Film SchoolCinemaAdobe Unveils Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements 2027 With New AI-Powered Capabilities As has become a familiar refrain across photo, design, and video editing, new AI-powered tools and capabilities are here to speed up your workflows. It’s just a fact of life now.

SLR LoungeReviewsDxO PhotoLab 10 Review | Harnessing New AI Tools: Depth Masking, People Selection, & More! For all types of photographers, the cutting-edge tools that AI has brought to us have been a game-changer.

DPReviewReviewsAdobe is adding even more AI to its beginner-friendly versions of Photoshop and Premiere The 2027 update to Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements targets casual editors who want AI help without a steep learning curve.

CineDCinemaTilta EVF Extension Kit for Sony FX5 Detailed – Cage Base Plate, Nucleus Autofocus Integration, XLR Adapter in Development At IBC 2026, Tilta filled gaps around two Sony FX5 accessories CineD has tracked since the camera’s launch: the Full Camera Cage and the EVF Extension Kit that relocates the optional DVF-EL1…

Streaming MediaVideoAdtech Standardization in the Age of Agentic AI and Contextual Ads As agentic AI and contextual advertising move into the adtech mainstream, changing circumstances arguably call out for new standards to establish a working level of consistency and interoperability…

Photo Trend (FR)FrancePhotos floues, vidéos granuleuses : VideoProc Converter AI les sauve pour moins de 50 € Bruit, flou, faible résolution : VideoProc Converter AI utilise plus de 16 modèles d'IA pour restaurer photos et vidéos en quelques clics. Licence à vie à partir de 49,95 € pendant la promotion.

Streaming MediaVideoBias Toxicity, AI, and Contextual Advertising Inviting AI to play a leading role in the match game of contextual advertising raises a number of red flags, and one of the most concerning is the built-in bias in the way that LLMs are trained.

DOCMAGermanyMidjourney 8.2: Ich wollte das Abo kündigen, aber das wäre ein Fehler Midjourney verliert inzwischen fast jeden Vergleich als Produktionswerkzeug gegen Nano Banana, GPT-Image & Co.

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo