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Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Nov 26, 2025  |  First Published: Nov 27, 2025

Priced from $4 to $66 (most under $30), here are 7 gifts all photo enthusiasts would appreciate this holiday season. And they're all available now on Amazon. (At the end, don't miss the Best Deal on an innovative product from the legendary accessory manufacturer SmallRig that will make any Content Creator jump up and down with joy.)

Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Nov 24, 2025  |  First Published: Nov 25, 2025

Peak Design, everyone's favorite supplier of camera carry solutions, just announced a new lineup of camera straps plus another innovative accessory. Dubbed the "Form" series, the new straps are available in full-grain leather or braided nylon/polyester rope, four sizes each, and a collection of tasteful colors. There's more cool stuff, too, which we detail below.

Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Nov 23, 2025  |  First Published: Nov 24, 2025

Wacom, the brand that artists, graphics professionals and photographers everywhere rely on, just introduced the Wacom One 14. It's full of features and fun, and it's amazingly affordable. But don't let the budget price fool you; there's a mountain of horsepower behind the 14-inch screen.

Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Nov 22, 2025

Adobe just released the latest versions of Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements. Last month we itemized what's new in 2026 for both. Today we take a closer look at the former and explain 1) Why Photoshop Elements is the ideal photo editor for 95% of all people who take pictures, 2) How Photoshop Elements can play the principal role in improving and expanding your family relationships, and 3) Point you toward our earlier coverage of the upgraded features. Jump into the story at the point that matches your interests. This isn't a news story, it's an analysis.

Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Nov 19, 2025  |  First Published: Nov 20, 2025

Tamron just announced the 25-200mm f/2.8-5.6 Di III VXD G2 zoom lens for Sony E-mount full-frame and ASP-C sensor mirrorless cameras. Their latest lens is an amazingly portable (4.8 inches long) All-in-One zoom that features a fast starting aperture of f/2.8, provides 25mm true-wideangle coverage, and focuses as close as 6.3 inches (from sensor plane) for dramatic half-life-size macro shots.

Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Nov 08, 2025

What’s the best thing to do with an old, sub-2-megapixel camera? Go out and capture some remarkable images, that’s what.

Can you take good pictures with a 1.2-megapixel camera? Can anyone? Here’s a small album of images shot with a diminutive Sony CyberShot DSC U10 to challenge your preconceptions. The images were all captured 20+ years ago at various locations in the US, Germany and Japan.

Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Nov 01, 2025

Laowa just introduced a 180mm f/4.5 telephoto macro lens for full-frame cameras that delivers 1.5X image magnification at its closest focus setting. Shutterbug had a chance to exercise an early sample for a few weeks. Here is our review.

Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Oct 29, 2025  |  First Published: Oct 30, 2025

Just in time for Halloween, an exciting new camera filter from Cozen. This adjustable X-Ray Filter lets you peer through organic material with ease! Ogle your neighbors, check your feet for fractures and even detect Zombies!

Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Oct 24, 2025  |  First Published: Oct 25, 2025

Looking for that perfect gift for the photographer in your life—or yourself? The Click-Bit Photo Tracker uses Fuzzy Logic and IAI* to track every photo you take. I bought two—one for each arm. Here're the details of my personal experience. And BTW, in case you can't tell, this isn't an ad - it's a joke.

Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Oct 23, 2025

When we consider the bonehead blunders photographers unwittingly commit, we usually think about gross mistakes that result in fuzzy or poorly exposed images. But the error in this story involves sharp images that we want to abort at all costs. The catastrophic bungle we're identifying is…

Shutterbug Staff  |  Oct 21, 2025

Zoner Studio, winner of the prestigious EISA Best Photo Software Award for 2025-26, has announced several exciting enhancements that are available now. The new features are being added to Zoner Studio license holders' apps automatically.

Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Oct 16, 2025

Fry potatoes, not computers.
Here are seven potentially catastrophic misunderstandings about surge protection.

Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Oct 11, 2025

The overuse of abbreviations and acronyms by photographers SUX. Therefore, at the risk of being totally absent of SEO keywords, I share with you today what’s wrong, IMHO, with the verbal shortcuts photographers abuse.

Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Oct 07, 2025

3 Legged Thing's Kickstarter ends in just a few hours, this coming Friday (10-October) at 10:59 AM EDT to be exact. The funding for 3LT's new Axis straps has been enormously successful so far. It became fully funded in under one hour and therefore has been designated a "Project We Love" Kickstarter. Currently it's received pledges nearly 10X the stated goal.

And there's more big news that follows below. But act quickly, if you're going to. Tempus fugit.

Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Oct 03, 2025  |  First Published: Oct 04, 2025

Even if you subscribe to every big network newsletter and keep your TV tuned to a news station 24/7, you miss some important lies. We can't let that happen. So occasionally we manufacture a few interesting facts and deliver them to you as if they really happened. Hell, that's more than most of the real news outlets do. I mean, a lot of the dreck we report is at least plausible.

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