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credits: Canon Retro, yet not quite retro, or perhaps a “retro sibling” instead? The story around the Canon EOS R8 Mark II is getting a little more complicated. For months, rumours suggested Canon could finally launch a proper retro-style mirrorless camera in 2026, potentially inspired by the Canon AE-1, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Early reports even referred to a possible EOS RE-1, but by April, sources were instead pointing toward the upcoming R8 Mark I

credits: 7Artisans In addition to the new AF 10mm f/2.5 MAX full-frame fisheye, which we looked at in last week’s Sunday magazine issue, 7Artisans has also announced an upcoming AF 18mm f/2 wide-angle lens for APS-C cameras. For now, the lens has been shown for Sony E-mount, where its 18mm focal length gives a roughly 27mm full-frame equivalent field of view. It is part of 7Artisans’ lightweight “LITE” series, so the lens weighs only around 109g and measures approximately 64m

credits: Godox Godox has announced the Flexible Macro Twin Light MA2, a new hot-shoe lighting setup for macro and close-up photography. It uses two LEDs on separate flexible arms, so you can position each light independently around smaller subjects. Both sides have their own A/B controls, with brightness adjustable from 1 to 100% and colour temperature ranging from 2800K to 6500K. Godox does not give a guide number or lumen rating, so these probably are not super powerful lig

credits: Samsung Samsung is not letting the volatile flash memory market stop it from releasing some pretty fast new portable SSDs. The company has introduced the P7 and P9, two new drives that make the jump to USB4 and bring a big increase in speed over Samsung’s previous portable SSDs. Models like the T7 and T9 have been popular with photographers and other creatives for years, and the new P7 and P9 take things a step further, with those faster transfer speeds and capacitie

credits: Adobe According to Adobe, the best creative software should let people spend more time on their ideas and less time figuring out the tools needed to make them happen, and apparently the latest Photoshop update is built around that. The update adds several new editing features, including a Light Adjustment Layer, Firefly-powered masking and markup tools, and a new AI Assisted Editor that is initially launching in beta. For photographers, one of the most interesting ad

credits: Ricoh Ricoh has announced that it is developing the GR IVx, a new version of the GR IV that keeps the same 25.7MP APS-C sensor but swaps the 28mm-equivalent lens for a 40mm-equivalent f/2.8 prime. And Ricoh is not simply reusing the lens from the current GR IIIx. The GR IVx is getting a completely new optical design, built specifically for this generation of the camera. The new lens has an actual focal length of 26.1mm, which works out to roughly 40mm in full-frame t

credits: Canon New details about the Canon EOS R8 Mark II have surfaced/leaked, including a specific announcement date and several new specs. The camera is now expected to be announced on September 15, 2026. In terms of size and weight, it should remain very close to the current R8, but the body is said to use better materials with improved ergonomics. We have also heard more about the rumoured retro-inspired design, apparently it means slightly sharper, more angular body lin

credits: OM System OM System has published a short teaser for a new camera coming on September 9, and everything shown so far points toward a return of the Pen series, or at least a new camera very closely related to it. The 17-second teaser posted by OM System Japan runs through the history of Pen, starting with the original half-frame film camera from 1959, jumping forward to the first Digital Pen from 2009, and eventually ending with the silhouette of a new 2026 model. Wha

credits: Metabones After a relatively long quiet period, Metabones is back with its second big launch in just a couple of months. This time, the company has unveiled new versions of its EF-X Speed Boosters and Smart Adapters for Fujifilm X cameras. It follows the upgraded EF-MFT adapters released in June and brings the same TruePDAF technology over to X-mount. Metabones says the system uses a library of profiles covering more than 100 Canon EF lenses to improve phase-detect a

credits: Panasonic Panasonic has announced four refreshed Lumix lenses, with three Micro Four Thirds models and one full-frame L-Mount lens getting a few small updates. The timing is worth noting given all the recent talk about Panasonic potentially pulling back from Micro Four Thirds, especially as several lenses have either been discontinued or become increasingly difficult to find. The refreshed lineup includes the Leica DG Summilux 25mm f/1.4 II ASPH., Lumix G 42.5mm f/1.

credits: Latent Co. Aphera is a new RAW photo editor built for macOS, with a focus on speed, colour, and a simpler editing workflow. It comes from Latent Co., a small team made up of photographers Ryan Carver and Naz Hamid and colour engineer/software developer Juan Pablo Zambrano. Carver and Hamid have both previously worked with VSCO, and the team says Aphera partly came from their frustration with how complicated and preset-heavy RAW editing software has become. The app ha

credits: Canon Canon may have even more new cameras on the way than we previously thought, with two additional models appearing in regulatory filings. The newly registered DS126986 and DS126991 join three unreleased Canon cameras that were already known, bringing the current total to five. Both new models were spotted in a Japanese regulatory database, although registrations like these do not necessarily guarantee a commercial release, and there is always a chance that one of