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May 24
- Marilyn Monroe 100 – the only official book that celebrates the Hollywood and cultural icon in photos
- The most un-GoPro GoPro yet is almost here – but don’t call the Mission 1 Pro an action camera
- This camera challenges the idea that more features mean better photography – and might make you a better photographer
- This remarkable wartime snapshot reveals an important truth about model-turned-photojournalist Lee Miller
May 23
- From Pan-African cinema archives to Chilean exile filmmaking after 1973: These moving image works just earned major recognition
- Ron Howard's new documentary movie, Avedon, reminds us why the greatest photographer of the 20th century didn't care what camera he used
- "At first, it was hard to believe" – Photographer captures a rare combination of night sky phenomena in one image
- Canon EOS RP + RF 24-105mm bundle slashed to £834 — a scorcher of a full-frame mirrorless camera deal!
- Photographing the British Isles Competition 2026 open for entries
May 22
- Beat SSD price rises by making your own portable hard drive
- Zeiss is teasing “the next major advancement in lens technology,” but the teaser looks unlike any lens that I’ve ever seen
- 150 photos depict 185 years of the US mining industry in world-first historical exhibition
- Get 15 bonus gifts with the June 2026 issue of Digital Camera magazine
- Insta360's new Luna cameras – with Leica tech – are coming to challenge DJI's pocket gimbal dominance with this unique trick
- Yashica guns for the Kodak Charmera with its new Funtastic Keychain Camera: a little box of delights that takes photos as well as keeping your keys safe
- Nikon Z8 price drops to its lowest-ever price ahead of Spring Bank Holiday
- The Nikon Z6 III drop to its lowest-ever price for the holiday weekend
- Todd Webb championed unmodified photographs in the post-WWII era. Now, 65,000 of his historic images will be preserved
- The new Brightin Star AF 12mm f/2.8 crams an ultra-wide view with autofocus for less than native Sony camera lenses
- Confirmed: Fujifilm has officially discontinued both battery grips for its flagship mirrorless cameras, the X-H2 and X-H2S
- The world’s first AI-powered smart spotting scope could change birding forever - and it has a built-in camera
- The long-awaited Trump T1 camera phone is now shipping!
May 21
- I left my mirrorless at home to try the trendy Kodak PixPro FZ55. I get why the cheap point-and-shoot is a best-seller – but I’m not sold
- Sorry, trendy pancake lenses – Laowa’s new multi-mount compact fisheye zoom is a “muffin lens” with a neat parafocal trick
- The “American Amazon” needs protecting too, and this photography book explores its disappearing biodiversity
- Compact cameras may be the photo trend of the decade, but there is such a thing as cameras that are too small
- This new fisheye lens fits in a pocket, weighs less than a baseball, uses a longstanding focus trick – and costs US$75 / £56
- Photographers voted this camera a winner – reminiscent of an iconic DSLR
- Honor's weird Robot Phone concept device is officially being released later this year
- Our long-time favorite Sony camera drops to its best price this year!
- Canon: "We are the only ones supporting beginner photographers" with the Canon EOS R100
- It's small, full-frame, and affordable: this is why I still rate the Sony A7C as an everyday camera (and especially at this price)
May 20
- Philips just unveiled the most interesting monitor I've seen this year
- Save £50 on Road Angel's 4K front+rear dash cam combo
- Lexar teams up with an unlikely partner for its latest portable storage products
- Google Gemini will soon be able to edit photos for you across Lightroom and Photoshop – and videos in Premiere – as Adobe continues agentic AI push
- I tucked two Ricoh GR IV series compact cameras into my pockets. I was surprised by the one that I shot the most
- Nano Banana went viral. Now, Google is bringing the same AI idea to video with Gemini Omni. The internet already has mixed opinions
- “This isn’t about politics. It’s about representation.” This project turns a statistic into stunning portraits documenting the milestone 40% female representation in British Parliament
- This photograph isn’t the Moon. It’s Mars. But it’s not the only stunning image coming from Psyche’s Mars flyby
- The Nikon Z5 II packs powerful full-frame features at a hard-to-ignore price
- Where can I pre-order the Canon EOS R6V camera? Here's how to get your hands on the new 7K video flagship
- These top 3 exclusive camera deals in the Canon summer sale can save you up to a massive £500!
- The Sony A7 V has led best-seller lists for months. But Sony’s new 67MP camera is already threatening to take the top spot
- Leica improves the color matrix of Q3-series cameras in the latest firmware update
- One of the best beginner DSLRs may be discontinued – just three years after its release
- Photography Weekends Britain is on sale now – get 25% off this book that's full of great photo opportunities!
May 19
- Insta360's new GO 3S Retro Bundle – old-school viewfinder and film filters make this ultra-light 39g camera look like your nan's 110 compact
- Thought there was nothing left improve with body-worn microphones? Insta360 teaches us all a lesson with the Mic Pro
- Just how annoying is the original RF rear lens cap? Canon Japan says the new dust cap is so popular, orders may be delayed
- PURE35 reloadable film camera gets back to basics with a simple design made for capturing "everyday moments"
- GoPro just avoided an $8.2 million fee as judge rules on a decade-long patent infringement fight
- This Nikon Z6 II bundle includes everything you need to start your full-frame journey – and saves you £750
- This trending footage of a one-day-old rhino makes me want to ditch photography to become a national park ranger
- Canon continues massive firmware rollout with more cameras added – including a PowerShot compact camera and pocket-sized cinema EOS
- The new Panasonic Lumix L10 is already so popular that orders are delayed in Japan, but I'm not at all surprised
- Sigma is updating one of its most popular Art lenses with an even brighter aperture, but I think the upcoming 85mm has more competition than ever
- Where can I pre-order the 67-megapixel Sony A7R VI? Here's how to get your hands on the new high-resolution flagship from Sony
May 18
- Rankin, Nile Rodgers and Raye among star-studded judging panel as Abbey Road Music Photography Awards 2026 opens for entries
- Compact cameras have an annoying heat problem. The Canon PowerShot V1 is one of the few point-and-shoots that cools itself
- Nikon buyout just “speculation”? Stock surge cools following bombastic claims of takeover
- Is this a joke? The most iconic Batman comic of all time gets a US$17,500 prestige edition that looks like a camera
- Apple buys one-person photo editing software application: What’s it got up its sleeve?
- Nikon cuts executive pay as camera giant looks to turn around declining revenue
- "Probably the best 70-200mm zoom in the world" successor just became the #1 selling lens in Japan – it's improved in almost every way
- Godox crams a bright light into a palm-sized, budget LED light using a modifier trick with the new ML40Bi and ML40R
- Why am I more excited about this random Canon accessory than the camera and lens it just announced?
- Where photographers are submitting work in May 2026 for real exposure
- Canon has given the Mark II treatment to one of its cheapest accessories – and photographers are actually really excited about the clever new rear lens cap
- Memory card prices may just be the start. These three camera brands warn of rising costs amid the AI memory crisis
- Your Digital Camera 308 download
May 17
- How do you photograph history that people would rather forget, or grief that has no shape? Two Japanese photographers give very different answers
- "I wish I’d never taken it" – Aberfan disaster photographer still haunted by his award-winning image
- The trendy Sony A7 V just gained pro audio features, including 32-bit float recording in a key firmware update
- All the new lenses revealed at the 2026 China P&E Imaging Show
- This compact camera just won a major Japanese award for "rich tonality" – but it's missing something most photographers consider essential
- This thought-provoking aerial photography documents humanity’s insatiable appetite for natural resources
- The Sony A7R VI has a hidden feature that I think every astrophotography camera needs – and it's almost more exciting than the 67MP sensor
- Meike targets budget creators with this US$159 Air lens – the first of a new ultra-compact and cheap lineup
May 16
- More Canon macro lenses finally see the light as Twin Lite MT-26EX-RT increases its compatibility at last
- What iconic fashion photography looked like behind the Berlin Wall in '70s and '80s East Germany
- John Baer grabbed a Leica from a captured German soldier in 1945. Nearly 50 years later, his son found the negatives – which were some of the best postwar street photographs ever
- The new Canon EOS R6 V offers a special mode that's built for stop motion animation – but it will cost you extra
- The Sony A7 V wins Japan's "Camera of the Year" award after setting "a new standard"
- The lens is key to getting the retro look. A 14-year-old Fujifilm lens is currently leading prime lens sales trends in Japan as nifty fifties dominate the list
- Is Nikon about to launch more retro cameras? I think these vintage beauties deserve the ‘Zf’ treatment
May 15
- 30 years of Rosalind Fox Solomon’s “unapologetic” depictions of suffering, survival and struggle on display at Photo London
- This retro compact camera secretly rules Japan's best-seller chart – but the #1 full-frame mirrorless won't slow down
- Canon launches firmware updates for 7 mirrorless cameras – with major upgrades for flagship models
- The Panasonic Lumix L10 is larger than some compact cameras despite a smaller sensor – but there's a good reason why
- These cameras are worth packing for your next travel adventure – save up to £285
- Bring Canon AE-1 back from the DEAD! • Waterproof compact king • Why buy a Mk II lens?
- Nikon's brilliant full-frame mirrorless gets new firmware – but don't expect dramatic changes
- I'm glad safaris are cracking down on smartphones – but even as a photographer, I think using “proper” cameras can put animal welfare at risk too…
- One of the world's most private photographers is finally showing his work
- I don’t care if Dua Lipa is already filthy rich – as a photographer, I’m glad she’s suing Samsung for millions over allegedly breaching copyright
- I don't usually come to the Cannes Film Festival – but for this much dynamic range, I will! The DJI Osmo Pocket 4P makes its Cannes debut
- Fujifilm’s gamble on compact APS-C cameras and color science is paying off – but rising memory and silver costs could mean higher prices
- Laowa has made an incredibly wide fisheye lens for APS-C cameras
- The world’s first slim laptop power bank with a replaceable battery aims to reduce e-waste and boost portability
- Canon rolls out C2PA-compliant image verification for professional newsrooms
May 14
- These "raw and honest" images bring modern Britain to the world – now honored with major photography award
- Thypoch’s first autofocus zoom is a budget Sony E-Mount lens with a bright aperture, weather-sealing, and a compact design
- GoPro founder “fully supports” action camera giant’s potential sale
- "The way you see the world can't be generated." Photographers use mix of retro film cameras and modern DSLRs in an anti-AI campaign
- I just photographed wildlife at 67MP and 30fps. The Sony A7R VI proves high-res cameras don't have to be slow, but there are still compromises
- The world's most high-octane photo contest is back! Prep your camera for battle
- I am IRON MAN! This wearable DJI Ronin 4D camera rig looks like wild sci-fi mashup
- The Nikon Z5 is a "very good entry-level full-frame camera" – and now available for just £789
- Helmut Newton made cars look as good as models. Now his work will be exhibited at a prestigious Italian automotive festival
- This is Canon's smallest full-frame telephoto lens – save over £220 on the RF 70-200mm f/4 L IS USM
- Godox bets on portability with new FL15Bi fill light aimed at mobile creators and filmmakers
- Godox unveils the RS100Bi/R: a “backpack-ready” LED lighting solution for mobile productions
- Sony A7 V overtaken by 3-year-old full-frame mirrorless – here's Japan's 'new' best-selling camera
- Compact cameras make up more than half of the top ten trending cameras at this retailer, as a viral PowerShot dethrones Sony’s most popular mirrorless
- EIZO teases its first-ever OLED ColorEdge monitor
May 13
- "There's nothing else like" Sony’s new lens! The Sony FE 100-400mm f/4.5 GM OSS boasts a constant aperture and faster focus
- Where can I pre-order the Panasonic Lumix L10? Here's how to get your hands on the killer compact camera!
- The new Sony A7R VI has the highest resolution fully stacked sensor yet – but that’s not even the biggest change
- Canon shrank one of its best cameras – and its price tag. The Canon EOS R6 V is a video-first hybrid with a more compact design and longer record times
- Canon's compact new 20-50mm f/4L PZ lens is both a power zoom and a traditional zoom in one
- This popular compact camera is nearly impossible to buy – but it's now Japan's new #1
- Rare signed photos of former US Presidents fetch a pretty penny at auction
- As memory crisis deepens, Nikon considers “passing on price increases depending on the situation”
- Sony’s new Xperia 1 VIII wants to use AI to make you a better phone photographer
- Get set for NINE new Viltrox lenses, plus a new flashgun
May 12
- Lumix celebrates 25th birthday with a new premium compact camera and it's got a proper viewfinder!
- Panasonic GH5 II camera just hit its lowest-ever price, and it is now seriously tempting at just £629
- Court case strikes back! Lawsuit over Annie Leibovitz’s Star Wars photos resurfaces
- Annie Leibovitz launched a new prize for emerging photographers, and it's already producing remarkable work
May 11
- Lexar's new USB flash drive has every base covered
- Cheetahs gatecrash South African bird hide – too close for comfort (and lenses!)
- Sony signs deal to produce sensors with "Physical AI" at scale with TSMC – this could be the future of imaging sensors
- Nikon publishes huge losses, but camera sales are solid. This is why dire financial results shouldn't cause alarm
- Ilford just gave large-format photographers the black-and-white film they have been begging for: Pan F Plus now comes in 4x5in and 8x10in sheets!
- pCloud’s lifetime family storage deal saves you up to 65% - and includes free encryption
- The world's largest photography competition is now open – and it's FREE to enter!
May 10
- ZY Optics looks set to announce bargain new medium format prime
- Japan's most popular compact cameras are years old but outsell newer releases – and start at just US$99 / £79 with retro style
- APS-C compact cameras like the Fujifilm X100VI and Ricoh GR IV have gone viral. But are photographers about to get another option?
- Sony's image sensors drive record US$9.6 billion profits, as electronics division slumps
- Compact cameras make up 7 of the top 10 trending cameras at this retailer, as a viral PowerShot dethrones Sony’s most popular mirrorless
May 9
- I REALLY want one of these hand-painted film cameras inspired by the Gundam anime. They’re affordable, too!
- 70% of photos on your camera roll are forgotten – and many photographers will relate to "digital photo overload"
- A mirrorless Nikon D500 successor infused with Red tech?
May 8
- DJI teases date for premium Osmo Pocket 4P – there will be a dual-camera upgrade to the bestselling video camera after all
- CMOS camera sensors will become obsolete. Revolutionary color LiDAR threatens to rewrite EVERYTHING we know about photography – even the concept of a grid of pixels!
- This top-selling beginner-friendly mirrorless camera is £110 off – and there's a zoom lens included too
- BREAKING: A new Sony Alpha camera is coming next week – and there is a big clue as to what it will be
- The trending kit that converts film to digital finally shoots more like a film camera as I’m Back Roll approaches US$1 million mark
- I’m a US drone pilot devastated by the FCC ban, but there is finally a way I can make my voice heard
May 7
- Sony says “APS-C is growing,” but I don’t think any major cropped-sensor Alpha upgrades are coming, despite prosumer speculation
- Stunning lakes, rugged mountains, and quaint villages – this is the UK’s most photographed national park
- DJI’s Osmo Mobile 8P is its biggest mobile gimbal upgrade ever – here’s what’s new
- From Victorian portraits through Nazi archives to NYC in the 70s: these photo works just earned major recognition
- BREAKING: A new Canon camera is coming next week!
- Saher Alghorra picked up his first camera less than a decade ago – but his Pulitzer-winning photos stopped me in my tracks
- Top quality primes are not cheap – but "one of the finest Nikon Z lenses we've ever seen" just dropped by £200
- Nikon is developing a 120-300mm f/2.8 with a built-in teleconverter, and I can already see pro photographers queuing up for one!
- Trail camera films exceedingly rare jaguar encounter in southern Arizona
- Rare Leica cameras with serious history are heading to auction — and one could reach nearly a $1 million!
May 6
- OWC is the latest memory card brand to announce yet another price hike
- For over one year, this camera has been No.1 in Japan – breaking sales records
- PolarPro’s new lens filter has half the glass missing – but that’s the point. This new camera filter keeps two things in focus at the same time
- An “achingly beautiful” photo series of life and death has just won a Pulitzer. Jahi Chikwendiu's series on young adult cancer brought immediate tears to my eyes
- Try not to wince at these poor cameras getting torture tested. NASA tests prove several off-the-shelf cameras can probably handle the extremes of space
- The No.1 budget retro camera drops £280 – paired with the "best pancake zoom lens ever"
- I don't even shoot APS-C, but I still want this super-telephoto workhorse lens
- Kodak goes big with new large-format film and 100ft bulk rolls
- This famous photo of New York workers eating lunch on a steel girder has been seen by billions, but the daredevil story of how it was photographed can only now be told
- The trendiest compact cameras in Japan right now have a key feature that’s hard to find on any smartphone
- Is your vintage film camera still telling the truth? Light meter watch could be more useful now than in film’s heyday
- Photographer captures Geminid meteors over giant telescope for the first time in stunning 400MP night sky panorama
May 5
- Want a more ergonomic thumb rest for your Leica? This one's made from steel usually used for SWORDS!
- Clusters of bright blue stars and glowing red gas clouds steal the show in this new Hubble image of a glittering galaxy that stopped me in my tracks
- NASA's biggest collection of Artemis II images is tucked away in this hidden album, from a colorful moon to star trails
- US$35 retro compact camera wins two major awards – it shoots 1.6MP low-resolution images
- This new compact camera mixes the real film look with in-camera special effects, thanks to a unique design
- This optional Instagram “AI creator” label is a step in the right direction – but I think it should be enforced
- This Milky Way photo looks out of this world – a perfect night sky over a surreal salt flat landscape
- If this rumor is true, "the perfect camera" just got even MORE perfect
- The world's greatest photography flea market returns to this small French town this June
May 4
- A US drone company is expanding amid the DJI drone ban. But as an American drone pilot, I’m not getting my hopes up yet
- This compact mirrorless is rising up the ranks of Japan’s best-selling cameras, but it hasn’t dethroned the Sony A7 V
- This sports photography trend feels like a gut punch. Sports stars are taking up photographers' courtside spots – but one change could be key
- Viral Sony 14-800mm f/0.5 is a myth, but these ‘impossible’ camera optics are as real as it gets!
- This Canon pro camcorder is a serious option for videomakers and live streaming – and the price has just dropped
- These 4 awe-inspiring photos show just what it takes to stand out amongst 10,000 images
- Revisiting Dorothea Lange's lost Californian valley: 3,200 photos from an almost-forgotten 1950s project just went free online
May 3
- "I have 1 second worth of success in photography, maybe 500 good pictures," says street photographer Matt Stuart. So are we all trying to achieve an impossible standard?
- Shot at 1/4000sec, this split-second frog photo proves that "Practice makes perfect" applies on both sides of the lens!
- This photographer spent 25 years documenting the small acts of kindness that often go unnoticed. His new book highlights "the art of being an American"
- No-edit photography: that's great if you’re an amateur, not so great if you want to be a recognized photographer!
May 2
- Shot on a 10-year-old DSLR and telephoto lens, this award-winning photo beautifully captures an elephant calf nestled beneath its mother
- Garden birds are dying and your bird feeder camera could be the unwitting accomplice
- New black-and-white monograph proves the “rollercoaster” of family life makes for the most powerful photos
May 1
- Looking for a RIDICULOUSLY cheap waterproof compact camera for the summer?
- Two years later, Instagram is finally giving photographers the same protection as videographers with this key change
- Researchers put a trail camera on a deer carcass. Four hours later, they had the “best trail camera capture yet" with first-ever footage of cougar cubs in Minnesota
- This YouTuber has "created a Ricoh GR IV clone for $200"
- Multiple 40-minute exposures identified hidden moon that even NASA’s Voyager 2 couldn’t detect
- Barmy mount adapter lets you put medium-format lenses on Nikon APS-C or full-frame cameras
- Adobe has been named to this influential list for keeping creators “in control of their process” in an AI era
- Britain in full color: why photographer Sophie Green refuses to make her subjects look grey
- These cameras and lenses have won seven major design awards for "innovation, quality, and influence" for just one company
- This common mistake could ruin your camera gear, says Canon – and most photographers don't even know about it
- New AI camera (not as bad as you think?) Is medium format superior? Why use custom buttons? It's the new Bokeh Face podcast!
- I can’t orbit the moon, but I can explore the universe from my backyard. As a photographer, I’m amazed at the space discoveries made possible with cameras
- Thypoch’s tiny new 28mm pancake lens brings 1950s charm to Leica M cameras
- Fujifilm’s stunning 102-megapixel compact camera just hit its lowest-ever price with over £600 off, thanks to a secret voucher code
- The Alfie BOXX camera may well be the most charming film photography Kickstarter of 2026 – and it's made from wood and brass!