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GoPro’s difficult year has taken a turn nobody saw coming: Mark Fischbach, the YouTuber known to tens of millions of subscribers as Markiplier, is now the company’s largest single shareholder. An SEC filing shows he quietly built an 8.5% stake worth roughly $9 million while GoPro’s board was shopping the company around
Eddie AI has rolled out its broadest set of changes since the v3 release, and the most consequential one is not a feature at all: subscriptions are gone. The assistant editor now runs on pay-as-you-go credits, exposes its entire toolset to Claude and ChatGPT through an MCP server, and fits in your pocket with a native
The center of gravity in big-budget filmmaking is shifting, and the numbers now back up what crews on both sides of the Atlantic have felt for two years. Los Angeles just recorded its weakest production year outside the pandemic, while London soundstages are booked solid with Marvel, Star Wars, and streaming tentpoles.
GoPro’s sale process has ended, and the buyer is not a camera company. Starman Optical, a privately held US optical-photonics business, has signed a definitive merger agreement that pays GoPro shareholders $285 million in cash, or $1.14 per share, repays roughly $92 million of debt, and leaves existing holders with abo
Blackmagic Design has released a beta build that brings phase detect autofocus to the PYXIS 12K for the first time. Until now, the feature was limited to the company’s Bayer-sensor cameras, and Blackmagic had never confirmed that the 12K RGBW sensor could support it at all. This test build settles that question. Here i
The interchangeable-lens GoPro is no longer a trade show promise. The Mission 1 Pro ILS, the Micro Four Thirds version of GoPro’s large-sensor action camera series, can now be ordered for $699.99, with pre-order shipping starting in early September. Alongside it, GoPro is launching a free monitoring app for iPhone and
Samsung has introduced the P9 and P7, two portable SSDs that bring USB4 connectivity to the company’s external storage lineup for the first time. The flagship P9 claims sequential read speeds of up to 4,000MB/s, roughly twice what the current T9 delivers, and Samsung is aiming it directly at production work, including
Anthony Bottini has watched people take a Vision Pro headset off in tears. Cirrus Aircraft spent five days over the Arizona desert with three Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive cameras, came home with 25 to 30 terabytes for two hours of footage, and turned it into an Apple Immersive Video that its global sales team now car
EXOCAGE is a custom cage system for LUMIX S1II and S5II series cameras that can turn the camera into a “box-style” rig with power management included. Made in Italy, the EXOCAGE system comes in multiple versions, and prices start at €199. We all know the traditional (rather minimalistic) camera cages that only offer ph
Sigma has put a date on the next expansion of its Aizu Prime Line. The 21mm T1.3 LF, 100mm T1.3 LF, and 125mm T1.3 LF will launch in November 2026 in PL and Sony E-mount, growing the large-format cine lens family to eleven. That leaves exactly one focal length missing before the set Sigma promised last year is complete
Avid has taken the wraps off Media Composer 2026.8, and it is a bigger release than the version number suggests. There is an AI feature that assembles a multicam first pass on its own, a free tier that finally sheds its track and resolution limits, and a licensing change around bin locking that has already drawn a shar
Joel Famularo has released his long-awaited Phantom LUTs for the Nikon ZR, bringing the ARRI Alexa emulation his packs are known for to Nikon’s compact cinema camera. The Gen 1 release covers RED Log3G10 footage only, while N-Log support is promised as a free update. Eleven looks are on offer, split between an ARRI pac
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