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- October 9
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- Half of Japan’s trendiest lenses are f/2.8 zooms, but the number one lens? It’s actually a five-year-old cheap telephoto that’s just gives you f/8 at 400mm
- This drone photograph looks like a striking pattern – but look closer, and it becomes a devastating reminder of the gruesome facts
- From professional wrestler to photography's top prize! Meet the remarkable winner of the 2026 Leica Oskar Barnack Award
- Filmmaker captures invasive species by dropping night-vision camera into the River Thames’ murky depths
- How long should a camera lens last, really? Canon is killing off five popular lenses. And the oldest one? It’s from 1996
- What on Earth is this “boring” seven-year-old last-gen APS-C mirrorless camera doing in Japan’s top-10 camera sales?
- October 8
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- I’ve been waiting for brass to come to the retro camera trend, and this film brand has finally done it (again!) with a camera that looks like it stepped out of the 70s
- Taylor Swift helped turn this retro video camera into a US$20 million hit in under a year. Now this popular camcorder just got its first fresh look
- Less is seemingly more with this Super8-esque super-simple digital video camera that records 6-second clips – I must say, I love the thinking
- Get 16 bonus gifts with the November 2026 issue of Digital Camera magazine
- Photokina camera expo is coming back from the dead... sort of. Here's what's really happening
- Sigma’s very first zoom lens for Nikon Z mount could be the ultimate 'one-and-done' superzoom for crop-sensor photographers
- “All Doom players aspire to go medium-format eventually.” Watch classic 90s video game run on Hasselblad X2D 100C camera
- Headless chicken bags Event Photographer of the Year 2026 title… "The photograph tells it all: it was a very, very hot day and I felt so bad for this poor young girl"
- “The light was extremely scarce and that was the greatest difficulty in getting the shot” – major wine photography contest winner explains the difficulty he had shooting his award-winning image
- Sigma has squeezed a 50-120mm with a bright f/2.8 aperture into a palm-sized lens – and there are three mounts including Canon RF!
- The Tamron 20-40mm f/2.8 earned a 4.5-star rating for its compact design and fast aperture. Four years later, it’s finally coming to the Nikon Z camera mount
- October 7
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- Real-life Patrick from Spongebob photographed by ocean researchers along with 57 completely new marine species
- Yashica’s new cheap compact camera fits in a pocket, but it’s hiding a flip screen plus 6x zoom – and oozing with Y2K vibes
- Photographers see AI as a threat. But Japan’s biggest camera makers agree on an entirely different trend – and it could shift the future of cameras
- Working photographer regularly uses TEN cameras – including old pro DSLR and 35mm film cameras alongside his cutting-edge full-frame mirrorless!
- Some of Magnum's finest photographers have been spending summer in the pub, and their pictures show exactly why documentary photography earns its salt
- Three new mirrorless cameras debuted in September, but it's the compact, retro one that's winning in Japan's charts
- A mystery drone is dropping rolls of cash on Americans. Not everyone seems happy, but at least one police officer doesn't seem to mind!
- A boyfriend served up for breakfast and a forest floor burning in the shape of a deer: this new exhibition shows just how much thought goes into a staged photograph
- Compact cine cameras are taking over in 2026, but I think they might actually be better for stills photography!
- Excited Jason Momoa drops 'F-bomb' after receiving two stunning all-brass Nikon ZR cameras you can't buy in stores
- Canon’s missing budget macro lenses may have just appeared in a new patent
- October 6
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- Voigtländer launches silver versions of two of its X-mount lenses
- Tiny "retro" keychain cameras are going viral. But this rare 1950s Leica is actually retro – and is only about 2.5 inches tall
- “I was confident I’d photographed the right species but given how rare they are, I also had a bit of doubt.” Photographer captures one of Australia’s rarest birds with a last-gen full-frame camera
- Armed with just a compact camera, housing, and a light, a diver returned to the same spot multiple times. Finally, a crab emerged in a “rare moment of maternal care,” snagging major honors
- This colorful, lost bird species hasn’t been seen in 13 years. A photographer just took the “best photos ever taken of this bird” – and the first-ever video
- In Britain kids can buy these drones, but the US government is threatening to call five of them "military" and take them off the shelves. Why?
- I wish this official Nikon jacket were available outside of Japan – and there’s a matching T-shirt and umbrella, too!
- Popular Sony FX5 cinema camera, originally expected in July, may not arrive until November after multiple delays – and one video hints why
- Unexpected changes to drone regulations were suggested at a leading industry event last week – could life get even more difficult for aerial photographers?
- October 5
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- A phone brand you'd forgotten just dropped the most incredible camera phone I've ever seen
- The GoPro Mission 1 Pro ILS is a weird camera – but using vintage lenses on GoPro’s first mirrorless actually makes a lot of sense
- Is the Insta360 mirrorless camera hoax doing the rounds online actually true?
- Michigan confirms unusual fox photo is “an incredibly rare sight” – and could be the only one like it in the region
- Siena Awards Photo Festival 2026: war, human rights and humanity's relationship with nature explored as major photojournalists take stage
- Canon’s camera graveyard is about to add a few new members, including two compact cameras, well-loved DSLRs, and a tiny 302g mirrorless
- The best-looking camera ever? When style IS substance!
- Why has a photo of women holding hairdryers been awarded Global Peace Image of the Year?
- “She just rocketed through and then it was over,” says Nat Geo filmmaker on first-ever underwater camera footage of great white shark ripping prey from fishing line at Cape Cod
- Nadav Kander's photographs show us why sometimes, fog, empty sky and flat water make better pictures than a crowded frame
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- A wide-eyed young hamster pauses at the mouth of a wire trap as a conservationist watches on. Christoph Kaula's prize-winning photo tells a small story of hope for one of Europe's rarest mammals
- October 4
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- A policeman directs traffic from a metal bin, Harrow boys queue for sweets in straw boaters, and men on stilts tend the Kent hops: new photo book opens a fascinating window on 1930s Britain
- Venus Optics doesn’t really do ‘ordinary’, and it’s latest Laowa 24mm f/2 Zero-D Tilt-Shift camera lens is anything but…
- "I visited this magical yet desolate mountain landscape. Some of the country’s last wax palm forests survive here" – Award-winning photographer captures threatened Yellow-eared Parrot in Colombia
- Does this pitbull look “dangerous” to you? “No” says 2026 International Dog Photographer of the Year
- Apparently, photography is a “granny hobby” – and I’m not sure how I feel about that
- On a dark March night off the coast of Japan, a ghostly ribbonfish trailing gossamer filaments rises through a swarm of salps. Photographer Mitsuna Kawai was there to capture it – and her camera choice was inspired
- A family with their dog, an old woman on a fire escape, a faded Stars and Stripes – For five decades, photographer Masao Gozu walked New York's immigrant neighborhoods and pointed his camera up at people's windows
- Fancy trying your hand at judging a photography competition? Cast your vote in this major monochrome contest
- October 3
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- "As my companions caught up with me, the cave came alive in an explosion of fluttering wings. I had a nasty fall on the river rocks on my return trip, but my knee pain vanished when I saw this photo"
- "Every discovery is great news": Rare Andean cat photographed in Argentina for third consecutive year, highlighting the real value of camera traps
- For one photography duo, “challenge” means “creativity.” So they built an entire set in the back of a pickup truck – and started driving it 7,000 miles across America
- No polar bears, no wind farms: this outdoor exhibition asked 20 photographers to find new ways of showing the climate crisis, and they didn't hold back
- Deep in the Costa Rican rainforest, an adult tapir teaches a youngster to survive in the most fragile of ecosystems. Here's how this prize-winning photography captured the scene so beautifully
- At 17 minutes past midnight, two men in the Costa Rican rainforest fight to save a tapir from a flesh-eating parasite. Michiel van Noppen was there to photograph the action in style
- October 2
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- Watch: Octopus steals camera, framing the perfect tentacled underwater shot and proving “the magic” of 360 cameras
- This camera category may actually be trendier than compact cameras, shipping half a million more cameras than all of Japan’s popular point-and-shoots
- This Fujifilm retro compact camera just got a major firmware overhaul – and a new mode for a more film-like look
- The unusual shape of this compact camera may be the least strange part. A binocular brand just built a screen-free compact camera – and it houses several features others don’t
- Voice coil motor AF, a versatile zoom range and an f/2.8 aperture: could Samyang’s forthcoming 28-135mm lens almost seems too good to be true
- Streetlights shine through the mist as two beavers touch noses, in a wetland on the edge of a building site in Olsztyn, Poland. Here's how Jan Wieczorek photographed this award-winning scene
- October 1
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- These animals only wanted to look sexy for the camera as they strike a pose to make it to the finals of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards
- Tenba's latest camera bags go large on retro appeal
- “A single camera deployment can reveal something entirely unexpected.” Researchers dropped a camera in the ocean for an hour – and caught footage of a rare shark
- Researchers filmed butterflies at over 1,000 frames per second. The results suggest butterfly wings aren’t just pretty; they’re optical illusions
- Making cameras is getting more expensive. This major camera brand has raised prices in Japan. Will other countries – and other camera brands – come next?
- Nearly as small as a credit card, this retro digital compact camera does one thing that other film-like cameras don't – it prints every roll
- Photo of pelicans frolicking on iconic US beach taken with 7-year-old DSLR is honored at major bird photography awards
- "We owe quite a few people an apology..." says Xtra. An unusal message from a camera company, but then it might have an even more unusual reason behind it...
- A student photographer wandered the streets of Detroit with a camera in 1972, then left the negatives in storage for four decades. Now they're an award-winning exhibition, and that teaches us something profound about viewing our old work
