Photography

October 2026's Hunter's Moon is full at 04:12 UTC Oct. 26, the night of Oct. 25 in the U.S. Shoot it at moonrise with a telephoto at about f/8, ISO 100-400.

The Fujifilm Instax Square 2 costs $119.95 and ships in late October 2026, with warm and cool mood filters, a landscape mode and new Soft Haze square film.

Hokkaido police sent a 23-year-old rail fan to prosecutors after he allegedly chainsawed a tree by the JR Senmo Line, snagging a cable, to photograph a train.

After the Orionids, the Leonids peak Nov. 16-17, 2026, and the Geminids Dec. 13-14 under a thin crescent Moon, the best photo setup of the year's final showers.

Nikon Z6 III firmware 2.01 lets compatible Bluetooth remotes trigger Pre-Release Capture, adds focus limiter support for eight Z lenses and fixes burst bugs.

The 2026 Orionids peak before dawn Oct. 21-22. Shoot after moonset, around 2-3 a.m., with a wide lens on a tripod, f/2.8, ISO 1600-3200 and 15-20s exposures.

The Panasonic Lumix S 20mm f/2.5 costs $497.99 and is due to ship Oct. 28, 2026. The sealed full-frame L-mount prime weighs 142 g and takes 62mm filters.

The Sony FE 8-14mm f/3.5 Fisheye G costs $1,598 and began shipping Oct. 15, 2026. It zooms from circular fisheye at 8mm to full-frame fisheye at 14mm.

The Tamron 16-50mm f/2.8 A (B091) costs $529-$549. Sony E and Canon RF ship Oct. 29, Nikon Z Nov. 19 and Fujifilm X Dec. 17, 2026. It weighs about 305 g.

The Canon EOS R8 Mark II ships in late October for $1,899 body-only or $2,099 with the RF 24-50mm. It adds IBIS and a joystick but keeps the 24.2MP sensor.

The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2026 picked 40 finalist photos from a record 10,000+ entries. Winners are named December 8; public voting is open now.

TIME named Fujifilm's $409.95 Instax mini Evo Cinema a Best Invention of 2026. It films 15-second clips and prints them as Instax photos with a QR code.

Getty Images filed for Chapter 11 in Delaware on Oct. 21 to go private with up to $533 million from the Getty family and Koch, saying contributors are safe.

Lightroom 9.6 adds Prompt to Edit, an early-access tool that uses Google's Nano Banana 2 to regenerate a photo from a typed request. It uses generative credits.

Nikon disqualified its 2026 Small World in Motion winner for breaking generative AI rules after scientists flagged it. Vietnam's Nguyen Nam Nhat now wins.

The OM System PEN costs $999.99 body-only, $1,099.99 with a 14-42mm lens. It has a 20.4MP sensor, 5.5-stop IBIS, a built-in EVF and IPX1 sealing.

Sigma's 85mm f/1.2 DG Art is out now for Sony E and L-mount at $1,599 and 905g. How it compares with Canon and Nikon, plus Sigma's other new lenses.

Sony's FE 400mm f/4.5 GM ($2,698) and FE 600mm f/6.3 GM ($3,698) weigh under 1 kg each and are shipping now, but Sony warns 600mm orders far exceeded forecasts.

Federico Veronesi's The Aftermath, an elephant carrying her dead calf in Namibia, won Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026. All winners and exhibition dates.

Insta360's Luna cameras are the first real challenge to DJI's Osmo Pocket line. On paper they win on resolution: 8K against DJI's 4K. DJI wins on battery life, storage and dynamic range. But the deciding factor for American buyers has nothing to do with specs: DJI does not officially sell the Pocket 4 or 4P in the United States.

Sony has confirmed a non-binding proposal to make Tamron a wholly-owned subsidiary, reportedly worth around ¥200 billion. Nikon, Canon and Fujifilm shooters are worried about losing third-party lenses. The larger exposure is that roughly 41% of Tamron's lens sales are OEM — built for other brands, sold under their logos. And Sony isn't even Tamron's largest shareholder anymore.

The X-T6 is expected in the first week of September, with a 40MP sensor, 8K video, a new film simulation and reworked dials. Fujifilm has confirmed almost none of it. Here is the evidence tiered by how solid it actually is.

The world's first Leica M-to-Canon RF autofocus adapter puts a motor inside the mount, letting decades-old manual lenses tap into Canon's Dual Pixel AF — eye detection, tracking and all. It's up for pre-order at $399.

The wildlife photographer and conservationist has become an unlikely lead voice against AI imagery, arguing it doesn't just cheapen the craft — it makes real, astonishing nature feel less astonishing.

It's mechanically identical to the camera already on shelves. It will also be one of the hardest cameras to buy in 2026 — because for GR devotees, this was never really about the specs.