Lomography sure knows how to make a stylish camera. If you need more evidence of that, it’s readily available on the Kickstarter page for its new Lomo’Instant Automat instant film camera. It’s currently in Kickstarter mode, but it’s predictably far beyond its original fund raising goal. The camera i...

For a while there, we couldn’t go more than a week without some new action camera hitting the store shelves. The flow has slowed quite a bit in recent months, but Garmin recently updated its Virb action camera lineup, and the Ultra 30 actually has quite a few impressive new features. Perhaps one of ...

SP 150–600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2 (Model A022) As the SP in the name suggests, the new 150–600mm lens has been given a redesign to look like the other current SP lenses, with the new logo and exterior finish. Inside, the optics have been “refreshed” to include 21 elements in 13 groups with three ele...

Photo of the Day A month of photos of the day A month of reader-submitted photos of the day.

"It began while leaving an airport in Rapid City, South Dakota. Myself, along with a group of other photo enthusiasts we loaded onto a bus and headed to Wall, South Dakota. It was a quaint old town with a very interesting past and we spent two days there. After getting up before the birds and rattle...

If you haven’t gotten to try out a 360° action camera yet, you may find yourself boggled by the proliferation of forms and functions that the new cameras have. While no two are exactly alike, they share the ability to produce immersive, “spherical” videos, whose point of view can be changed later, a...

Sony has been on something of a 50mm lens kick lately. First, it introduced its version of the ‘nifty fifty” in the form of the affordable 50mm f/1.8. Then came the super-high-end Planar T* FE 50mm f/1.4 ZA prime for pro shooters. Now, Sony has a ounced a new FE 50mm f/2.8 Macro prime lens for full-...

Yuneec makes some pretty excellent unma ed aerial photography machines (or drones, if you will), and today the company has a ounced a compact quadcopter that puts the emphasis on ease of operation. It’s called the Yuneec Breeze and it’s meant to be controlled with a mobile device or just follow you ...

For the 100th a iversary of America’s national parks, we decided to find out which ones you—the Pop Photo readers—love most. From your responses to our a ual reader survey, we highlighted the 25 top parks for getting the widest range of great pictures, along with the top choices from six individual ...

Facebook posted today that it will make its image identification software downloadable and available to the public. We've already seen the basics of image identification software come into play on Facebook when we upload a picture and get suggested tags based on recognized faces, but the new softwar...

Gear A first-look at Canon's new pro camera. A first hands-on look at the new Canon EOS 5D Mark IV DSLR camera.

From here on out, it seems like a pretty safe assumption that just about every new camera (like the brand new Canon EOS 5D Mark IV) is going to have wireless co ectivity baked right in. It’s an essential piece of many shooters’ workflow. Now, Canon has a ounced a new wireless adapter called the W-E1...

The big news out of the Canon camp today is, of course, the new EOS 5D Mark IV DSLR, but the company also has a pair of updates for its popular zoom lenses: The EF 16–35mm f/2.8L III USM and EF 24–105mm f/4L IS II USM. The 16–35mm f/2.8L III USM is, as the name suggests, the third iteration of the p...

The Canon EOS 5D Mark III was an unquestionable success as a pro-grade DSLR. It even won our Camera of the Year award back in 2012. Now, we get to meet its successor in the form of the EOS 5D Mark IV DSLR and there’s a lot of new stuff to talk about. We even had a chance to get some hands-on time wi...

The Fujifilm X-series cameras have been some of the most stylish around in recent years, and the entry-level X-A3 is certainly no exception. The new model brings a rather dapper new design, as well as the a ouncement of the new Fujinon XF 23mm f/2 R WR weather-resistant prime lens. The X-A3 is ado e...

Since launching their popular, crowd-funded PRVKE bag last year, the brothers Spencer and Ryan Cope, who comprise the WANDRD company, have had time to ruminate on how to improve the versatile bag. Their sophomore release, the PRVKE 21, is lighter and smaller than its predecessor, and owes its name t...

Back in 2014, we wrote about an app called Flag that promised free photo prints with ads printed on the back to pay for its operations. One of the main hooks—aside from the price tag, of course—was the fact that the prints were of extremely high quality, printed on thick paper with high-end equipmen...

WeatherHop is a new free app available in the iTunes store that combines two things we don't usually think of as being related: weather and personal photos. The app has all the fixings of a standard weather app—it tracks your current location, shows an hourly forecast and 7-day forecast, and let's y...

I could not have imagined that the Mentor Series Trek to Portsmouth, New Hampshire would tu out to be such a great experience for me. Our amazing mentor, Layne Ke edy, and our two wonderful group leaders, Michelle Cast and Vanessa Vasquez, did a fantastic job making sure we had a weekend full of pho...

If you have been to a wedding or really any event with an open-air photo booth in the past couple of years, you’ve probably stood in front of a Drop It Mode backdrop. The company makes interesting and often limited-edition prints on its heavy cloth backdrops that are very popular with many photograp...