Wasim Ahmad

1 week ago | fstoppers.com | Wasim Ahmad

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.

1 month ago | fstoppers.com | Wasim Ahmad

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.

1 month ago | fstoppers.com | Wasim Ahmad

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. Afternoon Coffee House takes a real hard look at the action cameras/360 cameras they've purchased over the years and ponders the question: Are they worth it?

1 month ago | fstoppers.com | Wasim Ahmad

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. That may about to change. Photographer and YouTuber Joseph Blake highlights photos from DJI's regulatory filings on the new camera, which will likely bear the moniker "OSMO 360" and talks about where such a camera would fit in the current landscape of 360 cameras.

1 month ago | fstoppers.com | Wasim Ahmad

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.