How things change: 50 years ago, an industry celebrated a nation’s birthday Events Feature Marketing Opinion 

How things change: 50 years ago, an industry celebrated a nation’s birthday

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On the eve of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the comparison between how the photo industry – and the nation as a whole – is commemorating the event now, compared to the Bicentennial in 1976, is striking. By any measure, the general consumer interest in the FIFA World Cup has eclipsed America250. As the LA Times pointed... Read More
MyHeritage to lay off 15% of workforce News 

MyHeritage to lay off 15% of workforce

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According to Globes, genealogy company MyHeritage is laying off about 15% of the company’s workforce. MyHeritage currently has 500 employees in Israel, the US and Europe. MyHeritage was founded in 2003 by CEO Gilad Japhet as a platform for building family trees and later expanded its activities to family history research, historical databases and DNA tests for locating relatives and information... Read More
Amid financial turmoil, Shutterstock unveils unlimited downloads plan News 

Amid financial turmoil, Shutterstock unveils unlimited downloads plan

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Shutterstock, Inc. announced the global availability of its Unlimited downloads subscription. Previously only available in beta to select users, customers worldwide can now choose between two subscription plans: Unlimited Images, which includes a curated collection of more than 83 million premium images, and Unlimited Plus, which expands that collection to more than 100 million premium creative assets, including video, music, and... Read More
Aura Lab unveils the Aura 35 Minilab lab-grade 35mm scanner New Products 

Aura Lab unveils the Aura 35 Minilab lab-grade 35mm scanner

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French manufacturer Aura Lab announces the Aura 35 Minilab, a professional 35mm film scanner, coming to the United States in September 2026. The announcement comes 18 months after the launch of the company’s first scanner, the Aura 35 Pro, now distributed in ten markets across Europe and Asia-Pacific and available in the United States. The new model comes at a... Read More
Vivid-Pix expands Memory Station software storytelling capabilities News Updates 

Vivid-Pix expands Memory Station software storytelling capabilities

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Vivid-Pix announced new updates to Memory Station Software to help individuals and organizations easily scan, organize, enhance, describe, and share photos and videos, turning life’s cherished moments into easily searchable, archival quality, vibrant memories, printed keepsakes, and beautifully crafted video stories. Vivid-Pix Memory Station Software features add a new layer of creativity and realism to Memory Station Stories,  including the... Read More
Megadap announces Leica M Lens to Canon RF camera Autofocus Adapter New Products News 

Megadap announces Leica M Lens to Canon RF camera Autofocus Adapter

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Megadap announced the launch of its new Leica M Lens to Canon RF camera Autofocus Adapter. Designed for both full-frame and APS-C Canon RF cameras, this adapter brings autofocus capability to manual-focus Leica M lenses. The M2RF adapter offers these features: Powered by the electronic helical drive system, the M2RF delivers fast, responsive, and accurate focusing. It fully supports Canon... Read More
AWS funds Myseum.AI’s privacy-first AI media album creation agent for the Picture Party Investments 

AWS funds Myseum.AI’s privacy-first AI media album creation agent for the Picture Party

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Myseum.AI, Inc., a privacy-first agentic AI and social media technology company, announced Amazon Web Services (AWS) has committed to fund a portion of the development of the company’s privacy-first AI album creation and media management tool for its Picture Party social media platform. The AWS-backed initiative, in collaboration with Caylent, an AWS Premier Partner, supports Myseum.AI’s expanded development of proprietary,... Read More
Fujifilm to exhibit printing and imaging at IPIC 2026 News 

Fujifilm to exhibit printing and imaging at IPIC 2026

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FUJIFILM North America Corp. announced that both the Business Innovation and Imaging Divisions will jointly participate in the upcoming International Print and Imaging Conference (IPIC), being held July 26-30, 2026, in Las Vegas, NV. Fujifilm’s Business Innovation Division will feature its REVORIA PRESS SC285S (SC285S) onsite at IPIC. Bringing the high-end capabilities of Fujifilm’s flagship REVORIA PRESS PC2120 digital press... Read More
Sony Electronics launches FX5 cinema camera New Products 

Sony Electronics launches FX5 cinema camera

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Sony Electronics introduced the FX5, a full-frame camera in its Cinema Line series. A newly developed fully stacked CMOS image sensor raises sensitivity performance with 15+ stops of dynamic range, three base ISO settings, and a Dual Gain shooting mode. For the first time in the Cinema Line FX series, the FX5 supports Open Gate shooting and in-camera recording in... Read More
Kyocera Nixka Inkjet Systems installs first Belharra Photo Printing System in North American at Les Pros de la Photo News 

Kyocera Nixka Inkjet Systems installs first Belharra Photo Printing System in North American at Les Pros de la Photo

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Kyocera Nixka Inkjet Systems announced the successful installation and production deployment of its Belharra high-speed photo printing system at Les Pros de la Photo, one of Canada’s leading photo printing companies based in Montreal.The Belharra system has now been operating in full production for several months, consistently delivering outstanding performance and reliability, the company said. Every day, the press produces... Read More
How a travel photographer built an audience without algorithms, with Gary Arndt Podcasts 

How a travel photographer built an audience without algorithms, with Gary Arndt

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Travel photography looks glamorous from the outside, but the business behind it has been quietly collapsing for years, and the pandemic only accelerated it. We sit down with award-winning travel photographer Gary Arndt, creator of Everything Everywhere Daily, to trace the real arc: Starting with a high-end Nikon he didn’t know how to use, improving through sheer volume and deliberate practice,... Read More
Michaels launches Ask Mike AI-powered shopping assistant News 

Michaels launches Ask Mike AI-powered shopping assistant

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Michaels Inc. announced the launch of Ask Mike, a new AI-powered shopping assistant built with Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience. Now live on Michaels.com, the tool streamlines the digital shopping experience by delivering real-time, personalized creative guidance – turning the path from inspiration to purchase into a seamless conversation, the company claims. The function is available on desktop,... Read More
CatchLight, Sony Electronics collaborate to expand visual reporting capacity in local newsrooms Partnerships 

CatchLight, Sony Electronics collaborate to expand visual reporting capacity in local newsrooms

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CatchLight, a visual-first media organization, announced strategic equipment initiative with Sony Electronics that will put powerful professional camera and video tools directly in the hands of local visual journalists. With Sony and other collaborators, CatchLight is expanding access to the tools and support local newsrooms need to strengthen their visual capacity and tell deeper, more nuanced stories. Through the initiative, Sony... Read More
Pixfizz and Tracer’s TilePix brand collaborate on official TilePix product offering Partnerships 

Pixfizz and Tracer’s TilePix brand collaborate on official TilePix product offering

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Pixfizz and Tracer’s TilePix brand have come together to add official TilePix products to the Pixfizz Product Catalog. Combining TilePix’s recognized magnetic wall décor products, Tracer’s manufacturing expertise and Pixfizz’s e-commerce platform, the collaboration gives Pixfizz customers another premium product category to offer through their existing workflow, the companies say. TilePix makes wall décor flexible, allowing customers to create, rearrange... Read More
Women in Print Alliance brings networking, leadership, and community to PRINTING United Expo 2026 Events News 

Women in Print Alliance brings networking, leadership, and community to PRINTING United Expo 2026

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Women in Print Alliance, a division of PRINTING United Alliance, is again bringing a lineup of networking, professional development, and community-building experiences to PRINTING United Expo 2026, taking place Sept. 23-25 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Designed to help women maximize their Expo experience, this year’s programming includes pre-show education, exclusive networking events, leadership development... Read More