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Cinematographer operating a Sony Venice cinema camera with vintage lenses on a film set, headphones on, crew visible in background

At Venice 2026, Cinematographers Kept Choosing Noise and Grain Over Clean Digital

September 29, 2026

The ARRI Alexa 35 was the default camera at the 2026 Venice Film Festival, showing up in 14 of the 39 films in official selection, according to a camera-by-camera survey…

Front view of the Canon EOS R8 Mark II full-frame mirrorless camera body

The Canon EOS R8 Mark II Adds In-Body Stabilization, and Keeps the Sensor Everyone Already Liked

September 22, 2026

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Canon announced the EOS R8 Mark II this week, a full-frame mirrorless update that arrives with a strange headline for 2026: the sensor stayed exactly the same. Where the EOS…

Close-up of the DJI Osmo Pocket 4P dual-lens camera head, showing the 1-inch wide lens and 3x telephoto lens

Isabelle Huppert Shot a Short Film Entirely on the DJI Osmo Pocket 4P, Which Americans Still Can’t Buy

September 20, 2026

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DJI put its new Osmo Pocket 4P in front of real filmmakers this month, and the most striking name on the resulting slate isn’t a working cinematographer. It’s Isabelle Huppert,…

Nikon NIKKOR Z Cinema 50mm T1.9 VV prime lens mounted on a cinema camera rig

Nikon’s Nine NIKKOR Z Cinema T1.9 Lenses Are Built to Share Glass With RED’s V-Raptor

September 16, 2026

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Nikon confirmed this week that it’s developing nine cinema prime lenses under the name NIKKOR Z Cinema T1.9 VV, and the strange part is that the company has only locked…

A current GoPro Hero action camera mounted on a tripod outdoors

GoPro Sells 90% of Itself to Starman Optical, Bets Its Future on Defense and AI

September 9, 2026

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GoPro is merging with Starman Optical in a deal that hands roughly 90 percent of the company to a private optical-photonics manufacturer, and the camera brand that basically invented the…

A camera fully disassembled into its individual components on a white surface

The CHC5 Is a Camera Built to Be Taken Apart

September 8, 2026

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The CHC5 doesn’t ship as a finished camera, it ships as a kit of parts. German electronics company CircuitValley just put the open-source, modular camera system up on Kickstarter, and…

The Caira AI camera system: a smartphone attached to its Micro Four Thirds lens module. Photo: Camera Intelligence, via PetaPixel

Caira Just Added Generative AI Video Editing, and the Limits Are the Real Story

September 8, 2026

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Caira, the AI Micro Four Thirds camera that clips onto an iPhone, now edits its own footage with generative AI. What the beta does and doesn’t do.

Rocket launch shot on the DJI Osmo 360 II

DJI Osmo 360 II: The Camera That Debuted on a Rocket, Not a Store Shelf

September 1, 2026

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DJI’s newest camera, the Osmo 360 II, hadn’t even reached most store shelves when it ended up filming a rocket landing. Riding along on the same launch: twelve of DJI’s…

Camera Reviews

At Venice 2026, Cinematographers Kept Choosing Noise and Grain Over Clean Digital

The Canon EOS R8 Mark II Adds In-Body Stabilization, and Keeps the Sensor Everyone Already Liked

Isabelle Huppert Shot a Short Film Entirely on the DJI Osmo Pocket 4P, Which Americans Still Can’t Buy

Nikon’s Nine NIKKOR Z Cinema T1.9 Lenses Are Built to Share Glass With RED’s V-Raptor

GoPro Sells 90% of Itself to Starman Optical, Bets Its Future on Defense and AI

The CHC5 Is a Camera Built to Be Taken Apart

Caira Just Added Generative AI Video Editing, and the Limits Are the Real Story

DJI Osmo 360 II: The Camera That Debuted on a Rocket, Not a Store Shelf

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