Camera

GoPro Hero 13 Black boasts up to 3 hours of battery life (with a caveat)

Sep 4, 2024 John Aldred

Another year, another GoPro camera. Two, actually. GoPro has announced the new GoPro Hero 13 Black ($399) and Hero Compact ($199) cameras. The new Hero…



Canon lends a helping hand to hardware hackers

Sep 1, 2024 David Prochnow

A round of applause goes to Canon, Inc. for innocently providing hardware hackers with disassembly instructions, accompanied by step-by-step illustrations, for the Canon Zoom monocular…



Fujifilm X100VI is a street photographer’s perfect pocket camera

Aug 27, 2024 Alessandro Michelazzi

I’ll summarize if no one has ever heard of the Fujifilm X100 series: these are fixed, non-interchangeable optical cameras. The 23 mm f/2 is equivalent…



Seeed Studio reCamera is a modular AI-powered “smart” camera

Aug 26, 2024 John Aldred

Electronics company Seeed Studio has launched reCamera. It’s a modular AI camera platform that promises to be the most advanced of its kind. It uses…



The Flip Video camera came from nowhere and disappeared overnight at its peak

Aug 23, 2024 John Aldred

There was a time, quite a few years before the mirrorless revolution, when everyone who wanted to shoot video bought a Flip camera. No, not…



This Nikon FM3A-inspired LEGO camera could become available as a kit

Aug 22, 2024 John Aldred

The Nikon FM3A is a pretty legendary camera. The features and history that give it this status are far too numerous to list here, but…



Modernising a 1984 video camera for use in the present day

Aug 16, 2024 John Aldred

There are a lot of old great cameras out there, whether it be for photography or video. Many older photography cameras are still in use…



Build your own digital Bolex D16 Replica using today’s camera tech

Aug 13, 2024 John Aldred

This is one of those cameras that seemed all the rage during its hype days but then disappeared into oblivion and nobody ever talks about…



Kandao steps up to Insta360 with the new QooCam 3 Ultra 8K 360 camera

Jul 29, 2024 John Aldred

Kandao has announced the new QooCam 3 Ultra ($499). An upgrade of the original QooCam 3 ($349), the new “Ultra” is an 8K 360-degree camera…



Canon EOS R1 flagship mirrorless finally announced – 6K raw video, 40fps stills

Jul 17, 2024 John Aldred

It’s been a minute since Canon announced a new flagship camera. The Canon EOX 1DX Mark III was released in January 2020 for the then-still-impending…