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There's no denying that Russia is a fascinating nation to watch, and just like with anything, Russians seem to have their own take on how you should handle your Instagram account as well. In that case, nothing beats a photo of you casually chilling in your private jet plane, of course. boredpanda.com »
Photo: Instagram Instagram officially hit 800 million users this week, but the Facebook-owned company has no interest in resting on its laurels. In fact, alongside its "hey, we added another 100M users. dpreview.com »
We posted recently about the rumored and then confirmed revival of the legendary 58mm Biotar lens by Oprema Jena – a company founded by the same people behind Myer Optik. The company has set out to revive old legendary lenses, much in the same way their sister company Myer Optik has, and their second lens is the Biotar 58mm F2, for which they just launched their Indiegogo Campaign. thephoblographer.com »
Pixelmator, the company behind a $30 image editing application for Mac, has just announced a new product called Pixelmator Pro. Though it hasn't yet been revealed how much this software will cost, the company has detailed many of its features, some of them powered by artificial intelligence. dpreview.com »
Strength of Lexar Brand Combined with Longsys’ Consumer Storage Dedication Enables Continued Support to Existing Lexar Customers as well as Exciting New Growth Opportunities SHENZHEN, China and SAN JOSE, Calif (Aug. canonrumors.com »
The Ill-fated Lily Drone has returned from the grave courtesy of Mota Group, a company that acquired the Lily Drone assets after its original company, Lily Robotics, announced back in January that it was shutting down and then promptly got sued. dpreview.com »
Back in June, Micron announced that it would be discontinuing its Lexar retail removable storage business, which makes memory cards used by photographers around the world. But now it looks like the Lexar brand will live on: it has been acquired by the Chinese flash storage company Longsys. petapixel.com »
After months of financial troubles, GoPro's restructuring efforts have begun to pay off. The company showed notable growth during its second fiscal quarter 2017, including a 34% year-on-year increase in revenue and a 39% drop in quarter-on-quarter inventory levels. dpreview.com »
Arguably, VSCO's mobile presets are perhaps the most popular options as opposed to the company's film packs. Perhaps that's why they brought them to Adobe Lightroom recently. The presets are a number of the company's best products and have been casually slapped onto images all across the web for years now. thephoblographer.com »
Nikon turned 100 years old today. It’s a huge milestone for a company that was born back on July 25th, 1917, as an optics company based in Tokyo, Japan. One century later, the company has become one of the world’s dominant and beloved brands in photography. petapixel.com »
The sad news is now official. PDN has managed to confirm a report initially published by DIY Photography, claiming that UK-based lighting company Bowens had entered liquidation and was going out of business. dpreview.com »
Lighting giant Bowens, a company with 94 years of history and millions of customers under its belt, has entered liquidation. The news has not been officially confirmed by Bowens or Aurelius, the investment firm that acquired the company one year ago, but several independent sources have corroborated the story. dpreview.com »
Not too many smartphone users have heard of Corephotonics, but the Israeli technology company is one of the innovation drivers in the area of dual-cameras, with its zoom technology currently shipping in devices ranging from Xiaomi, to OPPO, to OnePlus and others. dpreview.com »
Chinese optical manufacturer 7Artisans has introduced a collection of four lenses that are intended to provide low-cost alternatives to branded optics. The lenses are all designed for mirrorless cameras, and the company intermittently provides mounts for Sony E, MFT, Fujifilm X and Canon EOS M users, as well as one lens for Leica M cameras. dpreview.com »
Panono's high-res 360° camera lives to shoot another day. That didn't take long. Just a few days after announcing that the company would be bought, ending an 'amazing but also exhausting journey,' the Panono brand has been well and truly saved. dpreview.com »
Despite cranking out CF, SD, and XQD cards in increasing speeds and capacities over the past year, Lexar will not survive 2017. In a bombshell announcement made through a short post on the company blog, Lexar parent company Micron has announced that they will shutter the Lexar retail brand. dpreview.com »
Episode 187 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. Download MP3 – Subscribe via iTunes, Google Play, email or RSS! Featured: What the Duck comic strip creator, Aaron Johnson In This Episode If you subscribe to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast in iTunes, please take a moment to rate and review us and help us move up in the rankings so others […] petapixel.com »
Comparison image (shot with a Sony RX100 IV) viewed through Varjo's 'bionic' display (above) and an Oculus headset. Image courtesy Varjo Poor display resolution is one of the hurdles VR needs to overcome if it's going to gain traction with a larger audience. dpreview.com »
Platypod, the company behind the compact camera support of the same name, has launched a new product on Kickstarter called Platypod Ultra. This latest model is designed for mid-size and mirrorless cameras, unlike the larger Max model and original Pro model. dpreview.com »
According to a Nikkei report, Sony is looking to prepare its sensor business to any appreciation in the yen by cutting costs, raising production yields for new offerings and increasing sales of image sensors used in automobiles. dpreview.com »
Following its first foray into hardware last year, Snap Inc. now appears to be making moves into the drone industry, having just acquired Crtl Me Robotics, and LA-based drone company. Industry analysts believe that the company intends to develop its own drone, which may compete directly with the recently-announced DJI Spark, and will be its second hardware offering. digitalrev.com »
At Google I/O 2017 the company showed off its new Google Lens technology. This AI-powered capability uses visual recognition to provide information about whatever your smartphone's camera is pointed at. dpreview.com »
Photo by Martin Martinsson licensed under Creative Commons PLR IP Holdings, LLC, the company that owns the Polaroid brand, is under new ownership. Wiaczeslaw (Slava) Smolokowski is a Polish investor and businessman who owns a majority share in the Impossible Project, the company that continues to produce Polaroid's legacy instant film. dpreview.com »
Canon's recent acquisition of Toshiba's medical equipment unit has helped spur strong first fiscal quarterly financial results for the camera company, and as a result it has increased its full 2017 operating profit forecast. dpreview.com »
According to a report by Reuters Japanese electronics manufacturer Sony has lifted its operating income estimate for the financial year ended March 31. Sony says it now expects an income of around The main reason for the adjustment of the estimate are lower amortization costs for Sony's financial services segment but the company also cites lower-than-anticipated costs for its image sensor business. dpreview.com »
When camera companies announce new cameras or lenses, the press releases are often filled with generic statements about the wonderful qualities of the product. Now the marketing teams behind those words have a new shortcut: the Random Photo Marketing Generator. petapixel.com »
Ricoh has issued a response to a report from the Nikkei Asian Review, denying that the company is considering leaving the consumer camera business. Ricoh's statement says that it will focus its attention on 'high added value products' in its Pentax and GR lines. dpreview.com »
After announcing that the company is going to focus on their mid to higher end cameras, Nikon is announcing the Nikon D7500. This camera is almost everything that the company's award winning Nikon D500 is. thephoblographer.com »
Since the company's last SLR camera, Nikon is choosing to go a different route with things in their brand new Nikon F3 SLR camera. The company is trying to change things up just a bit now with one of the most controversial features being the ability to completely change out the viewfinder type. thephoblographer.com »
Hasselblad has announced that commercial photographer and blogger Ming Thein has been appointed its Chief of Strategy. Thein is known for his popular blog, and is no stranger to Hasselblad as a former ambassador for the company. dpreview.com »
Panasonic is likely to significantly scale-back its camera business, according to a report by Japan's largest business newspaper. The Nikkei Asian Review says the move is one of the proposals of a report prepared by the company's business planning department. dpreview.com »
GoPro plans to eliminate another 270 jobs, the company revealed in its Q1 2017 guidance report, via a combination of layoffs and open position cancellations. The workforce reduction follows a similar layoff of 200 workers announced in November 2016, and is part of a larger business restructuring effort to cut costs and maintain profitability. dpreview.com »
Veydra, a California-based cinema lens maker, has reported the theft of more than 200 lenses from its headquarters. According to a post on Facebook, someone broke into the company's California HQ on Sunday and stole 200+ lenses from the Veydra Mini Prime lenses inventory, leaving behind bare shelves and scattered recycling. dpreview.com »
Lino Manfrotto, the eponymous founder of Manfrotto, one of photography’s most popular camera and lighting support brands, died on Sunday at the age of 80. Passing away due to natural causes, Manfrotto was in the presence of several loved ones at his villa in Bassano, Italy. digitalrev.com »
As Snap Inc. , the company behind the ephemeral photo sharing app Snapchat, prepares for its Initial Public Offering (IPO), the company is filing papers that call out rival Instagram and reveal profitability may never be a part of Snapchat’s future. petapixel.com »
Sony has announced its financial results for Q4 2016 and the numbers show that the Japanese company's image sensor division has performed well. Within the semiconductors segment, image sensor sales have increased by 40% year-on-year which is largely due to significantly increased sales of image sensors for mobile devices. dpreview.com »
FILM Ferrania has announced the ‘rebirth’ of its P30 black and white film, which will be made available soon as a limited 'ALPHA' edition. This 80 ISO panchromatic offering is described by FILM Ferrania as ‘motion picture film for still photography,’ reintroducing the P30 stock first launch by the company in the 1960's. dpreview.com »
Triggertrap, one of the pioneers in the area of smart camera triggers, has today announced that it will cease operations within approximately a month. Triggertrap was founded in 2011, following a successful Kickstarter campaign. dpreview.com »
In a surprising and unexplained decision coming seemingly out nowhere, Hasselblad CEO, Perry Oosting, has announced that he is stepping down from his position at the Swedish medium format camera company within days. digitalrev.com »
The CEO who oversaw Hasselblad’s dramatic turn of fortunes over the past two years is to step down within the next week. Perry Oosting is widely credited with extracting the company from one of the worst periods in its 75-year history by finding new investors and helping to modernize the brand’s produce offering with the H6D and X1D cameras. dpreview.com »
Photo by pittaya via Flickr. Used under CC license Hold your horses, all you would-be Egglestons: Kodachrome probably isn't about to make a comeback. In all the excitement about the re-launch of Ektachrome, the Chief Marketing Officer of Eastman Kodak said that the company was going to look into bringing back the iconic filmstock. dpreview.com »
In the past decade, one tech company has come to dominate its field in a way that no other company has - drone maker DJI. The company isn’t headquartered in Silicon Valley, but in China, and is estimated to account for up to 60% of the global consumer drone market. digitalrev.com »
When the Lily camera drone was announced in May 2015 it garnered a lot of attention for being one of the first drones capable of flying itself and tracking a user while capturing video footage for up to 20 minutes. dpreview.com »
Snapchat is best known for being a social messaging app that has transformed the way people share photos. But its parent company, recently renamed to Snap Inc. , has much loftier goals: it’s aiming to become a juggernaut of a camera company. petapixel.com »
Yahoo has disclosed a new data breach affecting more than 1 billion user accounts. According to the company, this data breach – which is different than and unrelated to the one disclosed this past September – involved an unknown third party stealing user account data in August 2013. dpreview.com »
As photo industry sales numbers come in for 2016 it's looking like one of the worst years yet, and many have openly wondered how long many of these camera dedicated companies can continue to weather the storm. thephoblographer.com »
Barbara Kopple's documentary A Story of Yesterday & Today tells the tale of Kodak's demise framed within its affect on the city of Rochester NY, where the Eastman Kodak Company was headquartered. thephoblographer.com »
GoPro’s Q3 earning report was filed yesterday and shows that the company has underperformed even it’s most pessimistic predictions. With massive losses hitting the company and an uncertain holiday season approaching, GoPro is yet again looking shaky. digitalrev.com »
This was already preannounced last year and now it’s happening: Sony is separating it’s Imaging Business (consumer camera, medical and broadcast segment) in a new separate company that will commence its operations on April 2017. sonyalpharumors.com »
Tokyo-based maker of VR lens accessories Entapano is working on the Entaniya Fisheye 250 MFT lens, a model with a 250-degree field of view that it aims to make available in three varieties: 2. dpreview.com »
