Wasim Ahmad

When I was growing up, Nintendo's Game Boy was all the rage. I never did quite understand the appeal then of its Game Boy Camera accessory, a camera that plugged into the cartridge slot to make .014-megapixel black and white images, but the accessory itself has become somewhat of a cult hit. Tech YouTuber Becca Farsace revived the odd camera for a look on her YouTube channel, though with a (slightly) modern twist: a custom-made camera and lens mount as well as a USB-C hookup.

Buried in Nintendo's Switch 2 announcement during Nintendo Direct earlier in the week was a quiet accessory that brings Nintendo back into the camera game. Sort of. Nintendo's new camera, which is simply called "Nintendo Switch 2 Camera," is more designed for the system's new game chat feature, which places little video conference-like boxes along the bottom of the screen and uses the camera to capture a face for that box, but it seems like there's a lot more potential here. Like a Game Boy camera-style revival with the new device as the centerpiece for photographs.

As a longtime Canon user, it was a somewhat painful switch to buy a Sony ZV-1 as my point-and-shoot camera. Not because the Sony ZV-1 was a bad camera, but more so because the way that brand's cameras work is so different from what I'm used to. So what's it like the other way around with the Canon PowerShot V10? Filmmaker and YouTuber Brian Catalano answers that question. As a user of multiple Sony cameras, even previously the aforementioned ZV-1, he decides to put the Canon PowerShot V1 through its paces and is pleasantly surprised by what he finds. First, a bit about the camera.

Another year, another Insta360 release. While that sounds like an anti-climactic statement about the new X5, it's not meant to be. While there may not be any headline-grabbing features like higher-resolution footage, there are a few improvements that make the camera just a bit more livable than the X4. 360 filmmaker and YouTuber Hugh Hough takes a deep dive into the Insta360 X5 and compares it to many of the popular models out there, most notably Insta360's own discontinued ONE RS 1", the X4, and Kandao's latest offering, the QooCam 3 Ultra (which I reviewed and very much enjoyed).

It seems that the major manufacturers are hell-bent on making prime lenses obsolete, or at least it seems that way with Sony's release of the new FE 50-150mm f/2 GM lens. Should wedding photographers bite? When Canon first announced its RF 28-70mm f/2 L USM lens, it was a drool-worthy lens for many photographers shooting prime lenses in that range, potentially replacing several lenses with one (very large) lens instead.

While the 360 camera market has seen a lot of entries from established names like GoPro and Ricoh , as well as upstarts like Insta360 and Kandao , there's one industry giant that's been notably silent: DJI.

One need only look at GoPro's stock price, once at almost $94 in 2014 and now trading at less than a dollar, to recognize that maybe action cameras — and other niche, specialized cameras — aren't the best ideas. Still, that hasn't stopped me from buying a good many of them over the years, and after watching this video, I have some feelings.

If you've opened up any social media at all in the last year or two, you've probably seen a fair number of AI-generated videos set to music. I know for me, my feed is filled with many strange videos involving Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, and a bag of Cheetos. But none of those videos have had any dialogue—until now, with Google's Veo 3. About a week ago, Google unleashed it's latest AI video generator, Veo 3. Available as part of Google's $250 AI Ultra subscription package, the new model is able to generate speech that syncs right up with AI-generated characters.

What do you do when you’re out and about and forgot your camera? Well, if for some strange reason you don’t want to use your phone, Five Below has you covered. I checked out the store’s $15 camera offering, the Up-Tech Mini Digital Camera. Is it worth it? I’ve previously experimented with buying the cheapest camera I could find on Amazon. It was a camera that came in many guises with many different names, but ultimately ended up costing me $20 and tax.

I've had many a digital camera that I've regretted selling, but the truth is, I've probably been thinking more about the memories I made with them rather than how good the camera was. That said, I wouldn't mind if companies remade some of my favorites for 2025, with similar bodies crammed with modern sensors and autofocus.