Category: Photography News

We’ve got some of the first images back from China’s Tianwen 1 mission to Mars and are they more than worth the wait. Showing the northern ice cap as well as a kind of “selfie” of the Tianwen 1 with Mars as a backdrop, the images add to the growing catalog of impressive captures space… Continue reading China’s Tianwen 1 Sends Back Stunning First Images of Mars

Some of you might remember Yashica’s various Kickstarter projects that launched a few years back. And whether you remember them or not, fans of the brand certainly had some pretty strong opinions about what eventually came out. Let’s just put it this way: Retro cash grab or not, the company is back at it and… Continue reading Yashica Back with a New Teaser

TikTok probably isn’t the healthiest place to spend a lot of time. In fact, few social media platforms are. But what if it is your job to trudge through the muck on one of these platforms to determine whether or not content goes against community guidelines? That makes it that much worse because, not only… Continue reading TikTok Moderator Sues Company for PTSD

For many of us, it’s going to feel like the end of an era; for others, the writing was on the wall a long time ago. Canon just confirmed with major Japanese outlet Yomiuri Shimbun that the current 1D X Mark III, the company’s top-of-the-line DSLR camera, will be the firm’s last as it shifts… Continue reading No More Top-End DSLRs: Canon 1D X Mark III Will Be Company’s Last

Hot on the heels of the launch of the James Webb telescope comes news from the European Southern Observatory that it has photographed between 70 and 170 “rogue” planets outside of our solar system. Using data spanning some 20 years, the ESO located the planets by observing tiny shifts in the color and luminosity of… Continue reading European Southern Observatory Announces Slew of New “Rogue” Planets Discovered

A murdered photographer’s family is appealing to the public for help as they search for the sniper that killed Jason Cortez in a Los Angeles’s Ernest E. Debs Regional Park. The recently married 29-year-old Cortez was in LA to take some pictures for a friend’s project when a sniper who was reportedly hiding in a… Continue reading Sniper Kills Photographer in LA Park, Family Appeals to Public for Help

High-end electronics have not fared well during the COVID-19 era, and we’re getting new reports every day about just how widespread the shortages are. The latest comes from FStoppers who is reporting that Sony is suspending production of its a7C and a6600. But it gets even worse than that over at Nikon. Japanese camera retail… Continue reading Sony Suspends Production of Two Models, Nikon Z9 to Start Shipping October 2022

In what probably comes as a surprise to a very absolute few of us out there, a recent poll found that most people don’t trust social media outlets like Instagram and TikTok. Again, we’re not surprised by that, but this conclusion has to be somewhat concerning for the owners of these platforms who hope to… Continue reading Shocking Poll Results: No One Trusts Social Media