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
NEWS – Most flagship phones pretend to compete on cameras while actually competing on the same sensors, the same software tricks, and the same marketing language. The Xiaomi 17 Ultra is the first phone in years that feels like it was designed by someone who actually shoots with their phone, not someone who approves spec
REVIEW – One of the gadgets that has been on my bucket list to check out for a while now has been a thermal camera. While it’s not an every-day use item that I’m going to carry around with me, it’s definitely a tool that can be incredibly useful at the right place and time.
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REVIEW – By now, everyone knows how much I love cameras and new devices that can enhance either my work video conferencing or my passion for creating social media content. Years ago, I was fortunate enough to test a device from Yololiv and loved it. So I was very excited about the opportunity to take
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REVIEW – I just got a new vehicle so the timing was perfect to test the TRAPO S650 i-Sight Dashcam. The S650 is one of a series of dashcams by this manufacturer. The pricing is not out of line with other two camera dashcam sets with similar features. But did it live up to its
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REVIEW – Last year, I created a top-down video recording area in my office. I went with a PTZ camera connected to an OSEE Gostream video switching deck. My setup has been working pretty well for unboxing and other videos, except that the PTZ camera that I bought doesn’t zoom in close enough to show
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REVIEW – I’ve always had a mild fascination with astronomy, but my interest grew significantly after last year’s total solar eclipse. Capturing images with my iPhone during the eclipse’s totality made me curious about what it would be like to use an actual telescope. Although I’ll have to wait for the total solar eclipse in
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