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Canva’s New ‘Creative OS’ Promises to Be Its Biggest Evolution Yet

A colorful digital illustration shows three stacked layers labeled "Visual Suite" with icons, "Canva AI," and "Platform," with large text at the top reading "Your Creative OS" on a gradient background.

Canva has announced the Creative Operating System and it is calling it the biggest evolution of its product to date. It includes a new AI model, a better video editor, and a new version of Affinity that combines all of its apps into one platform and delivers it to customers for free.

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Rode’s New Wireless Micro Camera Kit Is More Powerful and Easier to Use

A black wireless microphone kit is shown in a charging case on the left. On the right, a woman in pink athletic wear is being filmed outdoors, wearing a clip-on mic while talking to the camera.

Rode has announced the Wireless Micro Camera Kit, the successor to the current Wireless Micro system that promises to be more powerful, significantly more flexible thanks to universal camera compatibility, and easier to use thanks to an improved receiver unit with an integrated display.

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Sabrina Carpenter Spotted Using a Gorgeous Contax G2 Camera

A woman with blonde hair, wearing a black coat and plaid scarf, smiles while holding a vintage film camera outdoors. There is a close-up inset of the camera in her hands. The background is blurred greenery.

It is becoming more common to see celebrities and pop stars using classic cameras as the vintage aesthetic continues to burn white hot. However, most tend to stick with digital -- Taylor Swift and Selina Gomez both really like the Olympus EM-10 Mark IV, for example. Sabrina Carpenter is going even further back in time though as she has been spotted sporting a beautiful Contax G2.

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Atlanta Film Co. Has Just 350 Rolls of This Gorgeous 120 Format Cine Film

Seven film canisters on a wooden surface next to a scenic photo of a rocky desert landscape with a large rock formation, sparse vegetation, and a cloudy sky. The photo has a film strip edge at the top.

Atlanta Film Company has a very limited quantity of 250D 65mm motion picture film that has been hand respooled to fit 120 format for stills photography. Due to a change in motion picture film availability, this is a very limited run that probably won't be back once it's gone.

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This Explainer on How a Rangefinder Camera Works Is The Best We’ve Seen

A diagram shows the internal optical path of a camera’s viewfinder system, with colored lines illustrating light passing through various lenses, prisms, and mirrors inside the camera body.

Photographer and technology expert David Imel recently published a video discussing why Leica got rid of the most iconic part of its M series cameras in the new M EV1: the rangefinder. But to do that, he first had to explain what a rangefinder is and how it works, and in doing so created the best modern breakdown of the technology that is very easy to understand.

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Adobe’s End-Of-Year Updates Are All AI, and Sometimes Not Even Its Own AI

A split-screen shows Photoshop editing a person in a pink coat, Premiere Pro selecting a dancing person, and Illustrator displaying a cartoon key character with arms, legs, and clouds.

Adobe MAX kicks off this week and, historically, that has meant a large drop of updates across the company's portfolio of apps. That is technically true this year too, but everything is revolving around AI -- and sometimes, that doesn't even mean Adobe's own technology.

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