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Three Instagram photographers have been selected as recipients of this year’s Getty Images Instagram Grants. Their mobile-shared photos have earned them each $10,000 and an exhibition in New York.

Back in 2015, Getty Images teamed up with Instagram to create a new annual grant program that awards a total of $30,000... more

If you’re a member of the photo sharing service Flickr, you might want to change your password as soon as possible. Yahoo, which owns Flickr, has reportedly suffered a major hack.

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The Canon EOS M5 launches the M line of mirrorless cameras into greater significance than ever before. With abundant external controls, a mature touchscreen interface and extremely impressive Dual Pixel autofocus, it's a camera we can't help but like, even if we wish it had turned up to the mirrorless party a little earlier. And sure, it may not have headline features like... more

We dropped in on indie/pro video camera and grading software maker, Blackmagic Design and were impressed by their Video Assist monitor/recorders.

Alongside demos of various cameras (which now range from Micro Four Thirds mount drone-ready cameras up to the PL-mount, 4.6K global shutter Super 35 URSA) and the latest version of its DaVinci Resolve grading software, Blackmagic... more

Photokina's Greatest Hits

Every two years, all eyes in the photography world are focused on Cologne, Germany for the biennial Photokina tradeshow. The first Photokina was in 1950, and it moved into the giant Koelnmesse... more

Toshihisa Iida, Fujifilm's General Manager of the Sales and Marketing Group talks us through the new GFX medium format mirrorless camera, who it's for and why it features a Bayer sensor.

We'll be publishing details of a more in-depth interview conducted without the camera running, next week.

Photokina 2016: Hands-on with Laowa 15mm F2 FE and 7.5mm F2 MFT

Venus Optics is showing off two brand new lenses at Photokina - the Laowa 15mm F2 FE for Sony E-mount and 7.5mm F2 MFT for Micro Four Thirds.

Photokina 2016: Hands-on with Laowa 15mm F2 FE and 7.5mm F2 MFT... more

In hall nine, which encompasses Photokina 2016's 'Futurezone,' there are dozens of 360 and VR capture devices on display for attendees to ogle. There's also plenty of people wearing VR headsets and appearing vaguely zombified to ogle, as well. So whether you think VR and 360 capture represent a future that's dazzlingly bright or frighteningly dim, companies all over the world are jumping in with their own capture solutions. Heck, even... more

Photokina 2016: Hands-on with Hasselblad X1D

The star of Hasselblad's booth at Photokina is the X1D - a compact, mirrorless medium-format camera with a 50MP sensor. Announced earlier this year, the X1D has yet to to start shipping, and the Swedish company's booth was thronged with photographers eager to get their hands on the new camera.

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