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Subscribe to News - Industry Two days after agreeing to merge with a company that does not make cameras, GoPro founder and CEO Nicholas Woodman published an open letter to the people who buy them. It exists because the merger announcement left one question unanswered for anyone shooting on the brand: does the camera business survive a pivot into AI data center hardware? Woodman’s answer is more explicit than anything in the deal paperwork. What it does not contain is a roadmap.

There’s a very specific kind of red-orange glow you’ve probably seen a hundred times. A photographic effect where bright light bleeds past its edges – off a neon sign, or a street lamp, or around high-contrast objects – and looks like it’s about to burn a hole through the frame. That glow has a name. Halation. It’s one of those phenomena that film manufacturers spent decades engineering out of existence. Yet somewhere along the way, filmmakers decided they wanted it back.

Subscribe to News - Cameras At IFA 2026 in Berlin (September 4-8), Hohem is stepping beyond stabilizers and into cameras. The Eyepic is billed as the world’s first 2-in-1 pocket gimbal camera: a handheld 3-axis gimbal with a detachable camera unit that clips to a cap or a lanyard for hands-free shooting, records full-resolution vertical 4K up to 2160×3840 at 60 fps, and is waterproof to 10m (32.8 ft).

Subscribe to News - Software FilmConvert has finally introduced a new Camera Pack for the RED V-RAPTOR. Using FilmConvert Nitrate and CineMatch plug-ins, it should now be easier to grade and match footage shot on RED’s flagship cinema camera. The Camera Pack is accessible for free for all existing users.

A YouTuber became GoPro’s largest single shareholder on Sunday. On Tuesday, GoPro announced it is being sold – to Starman Optical, an optical-photonics company that builds transceivers for AI data centres, for $285 million. Nino’s read: this is a move into defence, robotics and aerospace, and continued support for cameras is not the same as continued investment.

Subscribe to News - Industry Samsung’s launch film for the new Portable SSD P9, a drive the company pitches at professional production workflows and 12K direct recording, carries a small on-screen disclosure throughout its entire runtime that reads “This content is created using generative AI”. So the drive that is supposed to hold your footage is being sold with footage nobody shot. The product itself is not the issue here, so I will keep this short.

Subscribe to News - Accessories Hollyland has folded its flagship wireless transmission technology into a monitor. The Pyro 7 Ultra pairs the 4K60, low-latency link that debuted on the Pyro Ultra with a factory-calibrated 7-inch QD-LCD panel, all in a single camera-top device. At $1,399, it sits far above anything else in the Pyro line, and the display is what has to justify that gap.

Subscribe to News - Lighting NANLITE has pushed its FC series into new output territory. The bi-color FC-1200B and full-color FC-1200C are rated at 1350W each, move the power supply and control unit into the fixture head, and cost $1,290 and $1,490 respectively. Seven months after the 750W FC-720 models, the FC line now reaches an output class that until recently belonged firmly to high-end cinema fixtures.

Subscribe to News - Cameras So here it is, the second-generation DJI Osmo 360, and it is arriving globally today with a presence at IFA in Berlin from tomorrow. The headline changes are native 8K 360° video at 60fps (up from 50), user-replaceable lenses with a harder coating, a claimed 14.5 stops of dynamic range, a new AI SuperNight 2.0 low-light mode, and a tap-to-connect NFC area.

Subscribe to News - Accessories Tilta has quietly added dedicated EVF support to its Full Camera Cage for the Sony FX5: a purpose-built extension cable and an adjustable bracket that free Sony’s DVF-EL1 viewfinder from its fixed position on top of the camera. The addition targets one of the FX5’s most discussed design compromises. Here is what Tilta has shown so far, and what remains open.