A Rescue Boat Filmed a Humpback Mother Standing Vigil Over Her Stillborn Calf
A female humpback whale gave birth to a stillborn calf about a kilometer off Australia's Gold Coast on July 17, 2025, then kept diving to the seafloor to lie beside it, nudge it with her head and a pectoral fin, and hold eye contact for a minute or more at a time, until the boat watching her left at 10 a.m. A rescue boat captain floating nearby with the engines off recorded it on a handheld GoPro, and the 12 minutes of usable footage are now the first detailed record of a humpback mother attending a stillborn calf.
The Push-Pull Zoom Was Faster Than Any Modern Zoom Ring and Dust Got the Blame
When Canon announced the replacement for the EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM in November 2014, the change photographers argued about was the disappearance of the sliding zoom collar rather than the optics or the stabilizer. The reason repeated everywhere at launch was that a rotating ring stops dust from being pulled into the barrel. That announcement retired what a lot of photographers still consider the fastest zoom control ever fitted to a camera lens.
Pelican Intros First Major TV Ad Campaign with Chris Burkard
Pelican has long been a name associated with gear transport and protection. I personally remember customizing their foam inserts to fit my camera gear and lenses as I transported them in their hard cases across the country and the world. I honestly never really looked to Pelican for anything other than their hard cases, but I have learned they actually offer a number of different camera bags and accessories. One of these camera bag series is called Aegis, and to help promote it, Pelican leadership decided to do something they'd never done before: launch a major TV ad campaign.
What the X100VI Does Better Than the X-E5 (and What It Doesn't)
The Fujifilm X100VI carries a fixed 23mm lens, a leaf shutter, and a 40-megapixel sensor in a body small enough to live in your hand all day. Deciding whether that fixed-lens design suits how you shoot comes down to a single tradeoff most buyers wrestle with.
The Vectorscope Trick for Perfect Skin Tones in Camera Raw
Adobe hid a color-grading tool inside Camera Raw that reads skin tones with real accuracy, and most people editing portraits have no idea it exists. The vectorscope lives in Camera Raw 18.4 and newer, it's not in Lightroom or Lightroom Classic, and even inside Camera Raw you have to dig to find it.
Sony's 66.8-Megapixel a7R VI Costs $3,000 Less Than the a1 II
Sony's new a7R VI packs a 66.8-megapixel sensor and lands $3,000 cheaper than the flagship a1 II, which forces an awkward question for anyone weighing a hybrid body. When a camera two-thirds the price does most of what your top-tier setup does, the math starts to sting.
Adobe Announces Photoshop Elements 2027 With New AI-Powered Tools
Adobe has announced Photoshop Elements 2027, with tools designed to make photo editing easier without requiring users to learn a complicated interface. As you might expect, the new additions are AI-powered and designed to speed up your workflow and help you organize your archive.
No Photoshop Needed: Building a Light Beam From Scratch in Lightroom
A dark, high-ISO frame with a heavy blue color cast doesn't look like much on the back of the camera. With the right sequence of adjustments, that same file can carry a warm beam of light streaming down onto the subject, and all of it happens inside Lightroom.
Astronaut Jessica Meir Photographed a Purple Aurora From 255 Miles Up With a Nikon Z9
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir photographed an aurora glowing green and purple over Kyrgyzstan on September 7, shooting from the International Space Station at an altitude of 255 miles with a Nikon Z9 at a 15mm focal length. The frame catches the green band riding the curve of the atmosphere, purple rays climbing above it, and the lights of Central Asian cities scattered across the dark below.
Canon's EOS R8 Mark II Shoots up to 40 fps and Adds In-Body Stabilization for Less Than $2,000
Canon has announced the EOS R8 Mark II, a 24.2-megapixel full frame mirrorless camera that adds 5-axis in-body image stabilization while retaining up to 40 fps electronic-shutter shooting. The camera is expected to ship in late October for an estimated $1,899 body-only price.
Hands On First Look At The New Canon EOS R8 Mark II
Today, Canon announced a new full frame body added to the EOS lineup, the Canon EOS R8 Mark II camera. And I got my hands on one for an early look.
I’ve written so many reviews and/or news pieces for Fstoppers over the years that, generally speaking, whenever a brand comes out with a new camera, I feel like I pretty much know all there is to know before ever even picking it up. But I do have blind spots, and I’ll admit that I was never fully versed on the original Canon EOS R8 and where it sat in the Canon ecosystem.
The Undeveloped Film Market: The People Who Buy Strangers' Mystery Rolls at Estate Sales
In late 2014, a lot of 31 undeveloped film rolls that had turned up at an auction in Ohio made its way to a photographer in Boise, Idaho named Levi Bettwieser, who started processing them one at a time. What rose up in the developer was a young American soldier's private record of World War II, shot on rolls that had sat exposed but unprocessed for roughly 70 years. Someone loaded those cameras, pressed the shutter, and then, for reasons no one will ever know, never got the film developed.
The Most Portable Darkroom I've Ever Used: REEL Paper 8 Field Test
Does the REEL Paper 8 from Vintage Visual really let you make prints up to 12x16 inches from virtually anywhere? I took this unassuming photographic tool into the heart of the Nantahala National Forest to find out.
I suppose life is full of “what ifs” and “could’ve beens.”
In the autumn of 2022 I converted my vehicle into a camper and sold my house to see what photographs waited for me out on the open highway.
The 20mm Zoom That Might Replace Your 24-70mm
Sigma just put a 20-60mm zoom against a rattlesnake at sunrise in the Sonoran Desert, and the lens walked away as the star. A 20mm wide end, a variable f/2.8-4 aperture, and a body compact enough to forget on a hot desert climb make this a different kind of everyday zoom.
Sony FE 400mm f/4.5 and 600mm f/6.3 Hands-On: Super-Telephoto Reach Without the Weight
Shooting wildlife from the passenger seat of a car usually means wrestling with a massive lens that takes up half of the cab. I recently took a slow cruise through the Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive to put two new, unreleased Sony GM lenses to that very test.
Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive is an amazing 11-mile loop packed with gators, herons, and ospreys, but you’re mostly confined to your vehicle. Usually, capturing wildlife in this scenario means dealing with the significantly greater weight of traditional Sony 400mm f/2.8 or 600mm f/4 primes.
The First Full Frame DSLR Was a $7,000 Flop Almost Nobody Owns
The first full frame DSLR ever made didn't come from Canon, Nikon, or Sony. It came from Contax, a nearly century-old brand tied to Zeiss glass, and the camera that earned that title may also be the one that ended the company for good.
The Five Beginner Photography Mistakes You're Probably Still Making
Most beginners think a better camera or a clever editing trick will fix their photos, when the real problem is usually a set of habits nobody warned them about. Five of those habits show up again and again, and correcting them costs nothing but time and attention.
The Three Habits Quietly Stalling Your Photography
More tutorials, a newer camera, and more hours in Lightroom will not make you a better photographer, no matter how much you spend chasing them. The traps that eat up beginners' time are easy to spot once you know them, and almost impossible to see when you don't.
Fujifilm Updates the instax Pal 2 and Link WIDE 2 With New Capture and Print Tools
Fujifilm has announced the instax Pal 2 digital camera and instax Link WIDE 2 smartphone printer, updating the Pal with an optical viewfinder and adding a new Photo Mixer collage feature to the WIDE printer.
The Secret No One Tells You About Lighting Great Night Portraits
Want to photograph portraits that don't look like deer caught in headlights or someone telling campfire ghost stories? While we might obsess over the Milky Way, the stars, or even light painting, most photographers don't figure out how to take fantastic portraits of people in their night or astro-landscape photos—something that looks polished, dramatic, and intentional. Here's how.