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

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

Gary Pageau ,
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
Adobe’s Project Indigo camera app adds AI playground New Products Updates 

Adobe’s Project Indigo camera app adds AI playground

Gary Pageau ,
Adobe Inc. has posted on its research blog that its experimental camera app Project Indigo has added an AI Playground for free. “Since Indigo is an experimental app, and this is an experiment inside Indigo, we’re offering the AI Playground for free, with no sign-on required,” the post said. “However, this level of free access will be available only to... Read More
Picsart’s Earn Program crosses $1 million in creator earnings since April launch Marketing 

Picsart’s Earn Program crosses $1 million in creator earnings since April launch

Gary Pageau
Content platform Picsart announced participants in its Earn with Picsart program have collectively earned more than $1 million for the video content they create since April. The program offers a deliberate alternative to traditional avenues that have long frustrated creators held back by follower thresholds and closed invite lists. To date, content made through the program has exceeded 5 billion... Read More
Vivid-Pix expands Memory Station software storytelling capabilities News Updates 

Vivid-Pix expands Memory Station software storytelling capabilities

Gary Pageau ,
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
Feature: Lumica creates value via commitment to print Member only 

Feature: Lumica creates value via commitment to print

Gary Pageau ,
Smartphones made photography effortless, but they also made photos disposable. On a recent The Dead Pixel Society Podcast episode, Gary Pageau talked with Patrick Collet, founder of Lumica, about a direct-to-print photography app designed to recreate the film photography experience without the darkroom hassles. Lumica flips the usual mobile camera workflow: you buy a 24- or 36-shot “roll,” you take... Read More
Aiarty Image Enhancer aims to improve photo book printing with AI enhancement New Products 

Aiarty Image Enhancer aims to improve photo book printing with AI enhancement

Gary Pageau
Digiarty Software says its Aiarty Image Enhancer desktop app can help users prepare their digital photos for photo book printing with AI-powered image enhancement technology. Combining AI upscaling with intelligent enhancement features, Aiarty helps increase resolution, recover fine details, and create more natural-looking photos for printing. “Photo books provide a meaningful way to bring digital memories into the physical world... 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
Insta360 unveils “Cameraman” robot vision on 11th anniversary News 

Insta360 unveils “Cameraman” robot vision on 11th anniversary

Gary Pageau
On its 11th anniversary, Insta360 officially announced plans to build a “Cameraman” photography robot, mapping its existing products—including AI chips, Nano cameras, Link webcams, Yingling A1, and Luna Ultra—to the robot’s brain, eyes, neck, and body respectively, in an effort to integrate its fragmented product lines into a unified technology roadmap,  according to BigGo Finance. Founder Liu Jingkang had previously... 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

Gary Pageau ,
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

Gary Pageau ,
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

Gary Pageau
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

Gary Pageau
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

Gary Pageau
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