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A GI Got a Leica from a Captured Soldier and Spent a Decade Photographing Post-WWII World Rebuilding
Sep 15, 2026
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
John Baer didn’t set out to be a photographer at first. In 1945, while serving with the 644th Tank Destroyer Battalion, he acquired a Leica…
Insta360 Luna Pro Could Replace Half Your Creator Bag
Sep 15, 2026
Alysa Gavilan
The Insta360 Luna Pro combines a 1-inch Leica sensor, 8K video, a three-axis gimbal, and a detachable touchscreen, potentially replacing several pieces of creator gear.
Amateur Astronomer Discovers Impact Crater from a Satellite Map
Sep 15, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Joël Lapointe was looking at satellite maps for a campsite when he noticed something unusual in northern Quebec. The feature sat around Lake Marsal, in…
ESO’s VISTA Captures Hidden Stars of the Magellanic Clouds
Sep 14, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds look amazing through a wide-field telescope. They appear as two diffuse patches beside the Milky Way, familiar sights in…
The iPhone 18 Pro Is Finally Starting to Feel Like a Real Camera
Sep 14, 2026
Alysa Gavilan
The iPhone 18 Pro adds variable aperture, manual camera controls and new image provenance tools, making it feel more like a dedicated camera.
NASA Astronaut’s Photos from ISS Reveal How Cities Have Changed at Night
Sep 14, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Cities look very different from space after dark. Over the past two decades, the view has kept changing. The orange glow that once covered many…
A New Supernova in NGC 7331: You Can Photograph It Too
Sep 13, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
If you had photographed NGC 7331 a few weeks ago, you would have captured a familiar deep-sky scene. The galaxy‘s bright core would sit among…
This is the Deepest Image Yet of Cloud-9: Almost No Stars Found
Sep 13, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Astronomers have pointed one of the world’s largest optical telescopes at Cloud-9 and pushed an extremely faint target to the limits of deep imaging. The…
NASA-IBM’s New Lunar Foundation Model: AI to Study Lunar Images
Sep 12, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
For 17 years, NASA‘s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been photographing the Moon from above. It has recorded craters, lava plains, boulders, ridges, and the permanently…
ToupTek Launches AFW-Mini: A Compact 5-Position Filter Wheel
Sep 12, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
A filter wheel makes a monochrome astrophotography setup much easier to operate. Once several filters are loaded, the camera can move from one wavelength to…