You’ve burned through enough 720p laptop cameras to know that “good enough” is the difference between a 90-minute client call and a 90-minute apology. The 2026 market has reshuffled. Logitech’s MX Brio took the premium 4K slot at $199. Insta360’s Link 2 made AI tracking usable at $200. Elgato’s Facecam 4K undercut its own Pro […]
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You know the Charmera. It’s that tiny Kodak keychain that takes blocky 1.6-megapixel photos, sells out the moment it hits a shelf, and somehow turned a deliberately bad camera into one of the year’s most chased gadgets. Now it has hardware to match the hype. Price: $34.99 Where to Buy: Amazon Kodak and RETO have
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Some weeks the gadget cycle is all incremental upgrades and color refreshes. This wasn’t one of them. The past few days brought a wide-foldable phone that breaks a six-year design pattern, Dyson’s first product cheap enough to call an impulse buy, a pool robot that empties its own filter, and a retro handheld that looks
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DJI officially unveiled the Osmo Pocket 4, and the fourth-generation pocket gimbal is built for the creators who were already pushing the Pocket 3 past its limits. The 1-inch CMOS sensor carries over, but almost everything around it has been sharpened: 4K slow motion now runs at 240fps, dynamic range climbs to 14 stops with
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GoPro just made its most ambitious play yet. The company that built its name on tiny action cameras has officially entered the cinema camera market with the MISSION 1 Series, three compact cameras built around a new 50-megapixel 1-inch sensor and GP3 processor. One of them even has an interchangeable lens mount. The lineup includes
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The return of the square print didn’t come from a camera this time. Polaroid’s new Hi-Print 3×3 is a small, portable square photo printer that connects over Bluetooth, pulls images from a smartphone and turns them into 3-inch square prints. The prints come out smudge-proof and built to last, thanks to dye-sublimation, a method that
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There is a specific kind of joy that comes from not knowing exactly how a photo will turn out. Film cameras understood that. Every frame carried weight because you couldn’t just delete it and try again. The problem is that actual film is expensive, developing it takes days, and the cameras themselves aren’t built for
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TTArtisan doesn’t make cameras. The Chinese manufacturer built its name on affordable manual lenses and lighting accessories. Photographers who want good glass without the markup have followed TTArtisan for years. So when the company showed up at CP+ 2025 in Yokohama with a folding instant camera tucked into its booth, the photography world paid attention.
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Fujifilm is adding a jet black colorway to its Instax Wide 400 instant camera, giving the company’s largest consumer instant camera a more refined look nearly two years after its initial launch. The original sage green model arrived in June 2024 with a clear focus on simplicity and wide format prints. Now the same camera
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Fujifilm’s Instax Mini line doesn’t really need an introduction at this point. It’s the instant camera equivalent of a bestselling paperback that just keeps getting reprinted with a new cover, except millions of people keep buying it because the thing genuinely works. The Instax Mini 13, announced on March 16, is the latest chapter in
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ARTICLE – Pierro Pozella fixes broken film cameras for a living. He runs PPP Cameras out of a brick-and-mortar shop in Birmingham, England, processing film and breathing life back into gear that most people would toss in a drawer. Somewhere between the repairs and the chemical baths, he started making watches. Not from scratch, and
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Every photographer has a “don’t touch my gear” rule, and coffee near a lens triggers the kind of anxiety that non-photographers never fully understand. Somewhere along the way, a company figured out this anxiety is hilarious. A $12 mug on Amazon has been quietly exploiting it since 2018. Nearly 2,000 ratings and a 4.6-star average
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ARTICLE – Every phone camera in 2026 runs the same loop: shoot, preview, delete, reshoot. That cycle has been the default for so long that most people don’t notice it happening anymore. The Flashback ONE35 V2 exists to break it. For $119, you get a reusable digital camera with no screen, no instant preview, and
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Somewhere along the way, tiny cameras disguised as other objects became a legitimate product category, and the Kodak Charmera kicked it off last year. Now Japanese brand Opt! has entered with something even more committed to the bit: the OPT100 Neo Film, a tiny digital camera shaped exactly like a canister of 35mm film. It’s
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ARTICLE – Compact cameras didn’t disappear when smartphones got good. They got pushed into a clearer lane, and you feel that shift the second a zoom ring clicks under your fingers. Price: $1,299 Where to Buy: B&H Photo A phone’s fast, but it’s also a flat slab of glass that makes every move feel the
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NEWS – We keep hearing about AI in the cloud, but SwitchBot’s new AI Hub flips that model. It runs a Vision Language Model directly on the device, processes up to eight camera feeds locally, and hosts Home Assistant without needing a separate server. That challenges the assumption that serious AI work requires cloud infrastructure.
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ARTICLE – Most companies add features to charge more money. The Ricoh GR IV Monochrome does the opposite. It removes the ability to shoot color photos completely, then charges $700 more than the regular version. It’s a pocket-sized camera that takes out the color filter and bets that photographers who want to shoot black and
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ARTICLE – Instant cameras freeze moments, but this one records them, converts the footage into a scannable code, and prints both on film. The Fujifilm instax mini Evo Cinema captures up to 15 seconds of video, lets you pick a single frame, then embeds a QR link on the print that plays the clip when
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ARTICLE – Action cams keep getting sharper, yet the hardest shots still lose to the dumbest problem: there’s nowhere clean to put the thing. You feel it the moment you’re staring at a clamp and a cramped gap, with wind noise in your ears and grit on your fingers. Price: $439.99 (64GB), $459.99 (128GB) Where
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REVIEW – I started looking for a new job and after my first online interview I realized my previously reviewed Acemagic AX16 Pro’s standard 1280x720p definition webcam wasn’t going to cut it so when Targus offered me their new Full HD Webcam with IR Facial Recognition I couldn’t say no. Let’s see if it can