The update also brings stability improvements and other minor fixes. In terms of changes, XPan Mode offers an aspect ratio of 65:21. Users will also find dedicated wide capture modes with the ability to choose between 30mm and 45mm focal lengths. To bring a realistic feel to the camera experience, the image preview section shows frame lines similar to an XPan camera. Moreover, users can see a “special animation of developing negative film” when an image is captured....

OPPO has announced that they’ve gone into mass production on their new 10x zoom camera module for smartphones and will release a phone utilising it in the second quarter of 2019. It’s a three-camera system which OPPO says is “built to work in perfect harmony” and allows them to offer an equivalent focal length range of 16-160mm – hence, 10x zoom. The three cameras are split into wide angle, normal and telephoto....

Phase One have today introduced a new variant of their IQ3 100MP digital back. The IQ3 100MP Trichromatic. Featuring a new Bayer filter CMOS sensor design, developed in partnership with Sony, the IQ3 100MP Trichromatic attempts to replicate how the human eye sees colour. The technology, Phase One say, promises that the Trichromatic back will bring “unsurpassed colour quality to the hands of the finest photographers across the globe”. A pretty bold claim to make, but knowing Phase One, they wouldn’t make it if they didn’t feel they could back it up....

Chris Rainier, a documentary photographer and National Geographic explorer, has been devoted to exploring and understanding the sacred. What does sacred mean for different people and different cultures from all corners of the globe? Is it a landscape, a nature’s wonder, a man-made building, or a language? Searching for answers to these questions, Chris spent the last forty years traveling across all seven continents and photographing what different people see as sacred....

This is news that’s going to make a great deal of people pretty happy. The Telegraph reports that controversial fashion photographer Terry Richardson has been banned from working with Vogue and other leading magazines. They say an email circulating the company this week announced that the company is no longer working with him. They go on to instruct staff that commissioned or already completed, but unpublished work from Richardson should be “killed or substituted with other material”....