Recently, I was asked to provide feedback on an unreleased product: a cocktail shaker from a well-known culinary brand. The company asked me to take it for a spin, make a few cocktails, and fill out a survey. Survey?! Boring. I’ll do you one better - I’ll make a whole promo product video, right here in my dining room.

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A photographer has sued popular artist Mickalene Thomas for allegedly appropriating more than a dozen of her images without consent or attribution.

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OnePlus has left the party. For a brand with a perpetual upstart status in a North American smartphone market that’s only getting worse by the year, OnePlus’ exit from North America and Europe is a loss by any measure, even if you find yourself wondering what I’m even talking about.

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A good, versatile zoom is often the first lens photographers recommend after a camera kit lens, and for good reason. Covering everything from wide-angle landscapes to portraits and everyday photography, these versatile lenses handle travel and street photography, as well as events, wildlife, and video.

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Cinestill 50D is the less popular sibling to Cinestill’s 800T and 400D emulsions. Because 50D often gets passed over in favor of those other two, we figured it would be a great film to feature on Film Friday. It is a different and lovely film in its own right and deserves a bit more attention than it receives.

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The Association of Photographers (AOP) has announced the winners of its annual Student Awards.

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Reto, the company behind the viral Kodak Charmera and the surprisingly excellent Snapic A1, has announced the EC35 film camera, an "everyday carry" compact designed to be eye-catching and simple to use.

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Squarespace users across the web have begun reporting receiving emails detailing impending price increases that range as high as 26%, depending on the selected plan and payment option.

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Picture this: you're photographing in the middle of the night, it's dark, and you desperately need light. So, you whip out your phone, open an app, pay some money, and boom, night becomes day thanks to a satellite in the sky that is now reflecting sunlight to your location like a bright full Moon.

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I love the 85mm focal length. I feel that when I walk down the street, the 85mm look is closest to the way I see the world. It's a great focal length for portrait work, shallow depth of field, and general street photography.

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When Joël Lapointe was planning an epic camping trip through the Côte-Nord region of Quebec on Google Maps, an area gave him pause for thought: it looked like a giant meteor crater.

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Google Vids has been updated with the Gemini Omni model and personal avatars, allowing it to edit and generate clips via almost any method, as well as enabling people to star in their videos with just a few clicks.

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Margaret Thomas, the first female staff photographer employed by The Washington Post, has died at the age of 84.

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Tech executives terrified of the public backlash against AI are beefing up their security as violent threats spill over into the real world.

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A videographer was shot dead as he put his camera back into the backseat of his car after doing a job at a party last week.

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Canon Inc. in Japan has published "The Secret of Canon Star," which Canon describes as a "company introduction booklet for children." It's bizarre.

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New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani is having a very busy week. Just a day after announcing a "click-to-cancel" rule aimed at companies like Adobe, Mamdani is cracking down on "deceptive landlord practices," including using AI-generated and AI-edited images designed to make properties look more appealing.

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Yesterday, SmallRig announced the Professional Outdoor Backpack (25L) 6521 that advertises an "innovative" interior that promises to hold dividers in place via a hook-and-loop system. That sounds great, but the innovation wasn't SmallRig's -- it was Hasselblad's.

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The Dark Energy Camera (DECam) pointed its 570-megapixel CCD image sensor, housed inside the Victor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, at the Corona Australis Molecular Cloud, one of the nearest star-forming regions to Earth.

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An influencer has been fined 20,000 Canadian dollars ($14,200) after he repeatedly posted intimate images of a woman he barely knew.

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