Prime Day has arrived, which means deals on nearly every product under the Sun. For photographers, the big question is: What are the best deals on cameras? There are a fair number of pretty compelling ones, from instant film cameras all the way up to professional-grade digital cameras.
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We were sitting on a train between neighborhoods in Osaka, Japan, when Chris Niccolls turned to me. "I'm thinking of buying a new camera," he said. I was shocked. Chris, who has a different camera in hand every week because of his job as a reviewer, actually wanted to own one. "I want something small."
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Another day, another Kodak Charmera knockoff. Although, at least this time, it looks fun.
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Vintage-inspired, retro-styled cheap digital cameras are everywhere these days. The new Leaf Camera is yet another affordable digital camera trying to be the next Kodak PixPro.
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Yashica has announced the Funtastic, a tiny camera that bears much more than a passing resemblance to last year's smash hit Kodak Charmera and even more so the knockoffs that inevitably followed.
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Among the watch enthusiast community, one camera seemingly proves inordinately popular. Horophiles, or those who love timekeeping devices, gravitate toward the Ricoh GR IIIx. Why?
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Keychain cameras are all the rage these days. After the success of the Kodak Charmera, it is of little surprise that other companies are getting in on the fun. What sets the new Keymera apart, though, is that it's 3D-printable and can be built by photographers at home.
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VWFNDR has announced VWFNDR + MBL, a new Android camera app designed to work like a camera, "not as a computational filter." The company says it has built its new app to be a tool for intentional, deliberate mobile photographers.
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Panasonic has announced the Lumix L10, an updated take on the company's fixed-lens, compact zoom lens camera that is very much in the spirit of the LX100 series.
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Autofocus is one of the great invisible revolutions in photography. When it works well, it disappears. A photographer raises the camera, half-presses the shutter, sees a box snap to an eye, a bird, a car, or a face, and the lens silently moves to the right position.
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Vanguard, known for its photography gear, including tripods and backpacks, has announced some new bags specifically for photographers with compact cameras.
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The limited edition Canon PowerShot G7X Mark III 30th Anniversary Edition camera has begun arriving in select markets, including the United Kingdom, where it's in stock right now, and Australia, where photographers have already begun scalping the special camera on eBay. Photographers in the United States can get their hands on the camera beginning on April 28 (in most cases), and here's…
Last July, Sony surprised the photography world by unveiling the RX1R III, arriving so many years after the RX1R II that many RX1R fans had all but given up hope of a new model ever coming. Sony even released two more A-mount DSLRs after the RX1R II, to put the wait into perspective. So what took so long? Sony told PetaPixel that it needed to develop the right technology to make a new RX1R camera…
Earlier this week, Panasonic unveiled the Lumix ZS300, also known as the TZ300 in some markets. The new compact camera is nearly identical to its predecessor, released in early 2018, except for one big thing: the ZS200's electronic viewfinder has been removed, replaced with nothing but more plastic. There are logical explanations for this, but they do little to stop me from disliking the…
The compact camera market is white-hot right now. Compact camera sales more than doubled in Japan in 2025, and many of the best-selling cameras last year at Map Camera, a major Japanese photo retailer, were compact models. Canon is no stranger to compact camera success and is committed to giving people what they want.
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Lomography has released a new Simple Use Reloadable Film Camera that comes pre-loaded with LomoChrome Classicolor film, an ISO 200 color film Lomography launched last October.
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Ricoh Imaging has released a new firmware update for the Ricoh GR IV and Ricoh GR IV HDF compact cameras that adds an electronic shutter function to standard GR IV camera, adding the new feature that is already available in the Ricoh GR IV HDF and Ricoh GR IV Monochrome.
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Canon is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its PowerShot series in style with a limited edition version of its most popular PowerShot camera ever, the PowerShot G7 X Mark III.
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