The world of lens rentals just got a little bit smaller as Lensrentals itself literally got bigger with its acquisition of rival service, BorrowLenses. BorrowLenses has quite a long history, stretching back some 16 years since its founding in a San Francisco apartment room and acquired by Shutterfly in 2013. And it looks like things […]
Author: Kehl Bayern
Kehl is our staff photography news writer since 2017 and has over a decade of experience in online media and publishing and you can get to know him better here and follow him on Insta.
Generative AI is having a rough couple of weeks, particularly when it comes to creating images that aren’t controversial. As readers might remember, Google had to pull its service after it started displaying a unique form of bias and now it looks like problems have emerged over at Microsoft according to one engineer at the […]
A major problem that modern media is grappling with is the rise of fake news, images, and even video. As you can imagine, with the advance of generative AI, these media are even more sophisticated now than ever before. Some platforms can even generate voices, music, and whatever else you might need to paint a […]
The Apple Vision Pro is out in the wild and people have some pretty strong opinions about it. Some people love it, some people hate it, but that could be said about anything. What we are interested in is how it promised to push the envelope when it comes to cameras and photography. And there’s […]
If you’re active on the Internet, particularly social media, you might have already seen this but it’s a story about a viral disaster that involves AI-generated imagery that failed to live up to its promise. There’s a new Willy Wonka film coming out and, per marketing tradition, it has all sorts of promotional events tied […]
The annual drama around camera sales is a perennial exercise in “the sky is falling” prognostication but one persistently glowing (and growing) area of our industry is found in the more high-margin segment. Perhaps underscoring this, Leica just reported its third consecutive year of growth in sales revenue, and the company isn’t shy about bragging […]