Fstoppers

A man with more than 100,000 Instagram followers who filmed himself lifting a stranger into the air outside a nightclub, exposing her underwear on camera, has been ordered to pay $20,000 for posting the footage without her consent. A B.C. tribunal decided the clips counted as intimate images even though the man said he was just chasing views.

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A few years ago, when the shutter on my Canon 5D Mark II finally gave out after 12 years of use, I needed to upgrade my equipment. With so many mirrorless cameras available on the market, it was a difficult decision. However, one camera consistently stood out to me. No matter how many times I tried to convince myself that there might be a better option for my needs, something kept drawing me back to it. Before getting into why I ultimately chose the Canon R5 C, it's essential to outline what I actually needed. I shoot both stills and video professionally.

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Starting October 1, any company that lets New York City residents sign up for a subscription online will have to let them cancel it the same way. That covers streaming services, gym memberships, and the creative software many of you pay for every month. 

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A headshot has one job: to make a person look like the best, most confident version of themselves, and to do it in the fraction of a second a viewer spends forming a first impression. That is a narrow target, and it is easy to miss. What helps is that these failures repeat. Most weak headshots are not ruined by the camera or the location but by the same handful of mistakes, almost all of them fixable once you know what to look for. Here are ten that quietly kill a headshot, each with the fix. 

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Fujifilm's original XF16-55mm f/2.8 lens has long been considered one of the best in the X-mount lineup, and is a lens I've owned and loved to use for many years. I know from personal experience that it's truly one of the best, whether discussing sharpness, detail, autofocus, build quality, or usability.

So when the new Fujifilm XF16-55mm f/2.8 R LM WR II was announced a while back, I wasn't sure what to expect. Would it be possible for Fujifilm to keep the high quality standards set by the original 16-55mm in a new, smaller, more compact package?

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The Photoolex BB Series is a new modular camera battery charging system designed for professional photographers and videographers. Each model supports major battery types, including Sony NP-FZ100, Nikon EN-EL15c, Canon LP-E6P, and Fujifilm NP-W235. 

The flagship of the series, the BB Pro is a high-capacity power hub that doubles as a professional portable charger. It is ideal for field work where wall outlets are unavailable.

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The single biggest mistake in real estate photography has nothing to do with your camera or your marketing budget. Getting good before getting busy separates a business that lasts from one that burns out fast. 

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Most likely, this won't matter to many people, but I'm writing it and proposing it anyway, also because I'm convinced that there's only one person who will be interested in this piece about an antiquated setup that, in my opinion, still works great today. At least it works for me.

So I finally bought a lens that I really wanted: the Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM. 

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A single sunset photo, edited three different ways in the same frame, is the kind of thing that changes how you think about white balance. The trick lies in treating the sky and the water as separate zones instead of pushing one warm slider across the whole image. 

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Everybody loves a good pancake. A pancake lens, that is. Though some pancake lenses sacrifice quality for the sake of size, this new EVO lens begs to differ. 

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A 15-year-old camera with no USB-C charging, no eye sensor, and dated video specs still earns a spot in a working photographer's bag for a trip to the Italian coast. That says something about what actually keeps a camera in rotation years after its spec sheet stops mattering. 

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Tamron has announced the 12-20mm f/2.8, a fast-aperture ultra-wide angle zoom for Sony E-mount and Nikon Z mount full frame mirrorless cameras. The Sony E-mount version goes on sale July 30 at $1,699, and the Nikon Z mount version follows on August 27 at $1,799. 

The lens covers a 12mm to 20mm focal range and holds a constant f/2.8 maximum aperture across the entire zoom. Tamron is positioning the wide 12mm end and the bright aperture toward astrophotography and interior work, where both the extra field of view and light-gathering matter.

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The announcement itself was straightforward enough. On July 2, Hasselblad and Capture One confirmed that Hasselblad's .3FR raw files now open natively in Capture One, with dedicated color profiles for the X2D II 100C, the X2D 100C, and the CFV 100C digital back, and lens profiles covering 19 XCD lenses. Tethered capture is planned for later in 2026. After years of forum threads and feature requests, the wait ended with a software update. 

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Speeding down Highway 371, I received a call. The two photographers who knew the way around Bisti Badlands weren't going to show tonight. This was a problem. I had never been there, and it was basically Mother Nature's escape room.

Bisti has no trails, no signs, no landmarks, and no cell signal. Just thousands of hoodoos and winding canyons. I'd have to find my way to some of the features, then find my way back to my car in the dark in a place I'd never been before. It would just be me and my navigation app. Here's how it went.

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One of the arguments I hear most often against street photography has very little to do with photography itself.

"If you're going to photograph someone, why not just talk to them?"

Sometimes it comes from photographers who have never been interested in candid work. Sometimes it comes from people who are uncomfortable with the idea of photographing strangers in public at all. Sometimes the conversation drifts toward privacy, ethics, or consent, as if every photograph made in a public space begins with the assumption that someone has been wronged.

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Picking one full frame camera for travel means weighing color, size, stabilization, and price against each other, and the differences rarely show up on a spec sheet. Three cameras in the same price range can feel like completely different tools once you actually carry them through a city all day. 

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For years, telephoto performance on smartphones has felt like a compromise, often forcing photographers to choose between reach and image quality. With the global launch of the Huawei Pura 90s Pro Max, Huawei is looking to shift that narrative and establish a new standard for mobile photography by bringing some of the latest imaging tech to the smartphone.  

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Impostor syndrome hits almost every creative person at some point, and if you shoot photos, you know the feeling: you look at work you admire and wonder why you even bother picking up a camera. Jesse Senko has a surprisingly practical answer to that spiral, and it comes from an unlikely source. 

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For years, Nikon's f/1.8 S-line lenses stood almost alone: premium optics at a maximum aperture where you rarely find premium anything. That comfortable spot is now under real pressure, and a head-to-head test shows exactly how much. 

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Meta built an AI detection tool to catch images made by its new Muse Image generator, then failed a basic test with its own pictures. When those AI images were cropped, the tool missed more than half of them.

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