If you're in the market for a new camera, this holiday season is the time to buy. There are some great Black Friday camera deals available right now, including one on our favorite GoPro, the GoPro Hero 13 Black. There are plenty of other GoPro camera deals, along with some good buys on cameras from Insta360, DJI, Fujifilm, and more. Also, be sure to read our guide to the Best GoPros, Best 360 Cameras, Best Instax Cameras, Best Travel Cameras, and Best Mirrorless Cameras . Do You Need a New Camera? Probably what you need to do is spend a lot more time with the one you have, but if buying a new camera makes you feel like maybe you're getting better at photography, far be it for me to stop you.

Amazon-owned Blink debuted new cameras with 2K resolution and an accessory that enables a wider field of view. All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Amazon's budget security brand, Blink, announced two new cameras during the company's fall hardware event in New York City: the Blink Mini 2K+ and the Blink Outdoor 2K+. As the names suggest, these cameras sport 2K resolution to pick up more details.

After making the surprise announcement that several Ring security cameras need only firmware updates to deliver 2K video resolution, Ring has unveiled a new indoor/outdoor model that delivers that capacity on day one. The familiar-looking Ring Outdoor Cam Plus ( 99.99) is available for pre-order now and is expected to ship to customers on March 26. The Ring Outdoor Cam Plus's signature feature is its 2K resolution (which Ring defines as 2560 x 1440 pixels), but it arrives with a few other new specifications as well. This camera is not in the Ring Spotlight Cam family, so it doesn't have an onboard light source. Instead, a new feature that Ring calls Low-Light Sight technology uses image-processing techniques to deliver color night vision even in near-dark conditions.

Samsung's Galaxy S25 smartphones launched today, but when it comes to the all-important cameras, the company leaned on AI rather than making any meaningful changes. There is one welcome addition, though. Samsung finally caught up to to rivals like Honor by introducing log video to allow more precise color grading. Other key updates include improved low-light capability on all models, the new "ProVisual engine," a "virtual aperture" and a much higher resolution ultrawide camera on the high-end Ultra. Last year the Galaxy S24 Ultra's big selling point was the 200MP camera, which made the 12MP ultrawide look weak in comparison.

As it teased earlier, Canon has launched the R5 II, a successor to the powerful but imperfect EOS R5. With a new 45-megapixel backside-illuminated (BSI) stacked sensor, it not only has superior specs for video, shooting speeds and more, but also adds advanced features like eye-controlled AF. The R5 II was launched alongside Canon's new flagship, the EOS R1, which I've covered in a separate post. With the new R5, Canon has mostly dealt with the original's primary problem: overheating while shooting video. To see what's different and try out some of the new features, I spent some time with an R5 II pre-production camera in Phoenix, Arizona. The R5 II's body is largely the same as before, but there are a couple of key changes.

In this dizzy world of digital tricks and image manipulation where you can erase objects and alter images with a smartphone swipe, Leica wants photos taken on its camera to leave a digital footprint, known as a Content Credential. The M11-P also has a 60-megapixel sensor, and the typical understated layout and Leica styling. Content Credentials capture metadata about the photograph – like the camera used, location, time and more-- and locks those in a manifest that is wrapped up with the image using a cryptographic key. Those credentials can be verified online and whenever someone subsequently edits that photo, the changes are recorded to an updated manifest, bundled with the image and updated in the Content Credentials database. Users can click on an icon to pull up all of this historical manifest information, and is being described as a "nutrition label" for photographs.

Researchers have developed a tiny camera that takes amazingly clear photos. At the size of a coarse grain of salt, you may never find it again. Smaller cameras could mean lighter smartphones and new James Bond–style gadgets. Cameras on this scale could swim through the body, hitch a ride on an insect, scope out your brain or monitor hostile environments. And those are just a few of the possibilities.

Implementing tasks of public safety often involves driving a vehicle, whether that vehicle is a patrol car for law enforcement or an emergency vehicle at an accident site. Vehicle borne cameras record scenes and events along the routes for real‐time driving assistance, road status monitoring, evidence searching, accident analysis, event investigation, etc. Computer vision for driving tasks must understand road conditions regardless of the weather, time, season, and location. Current vision algorithms and tools have not been able to manage all the scenarios of automated driving. Many of the developed sensing algorithms were tested in good weather and under ideal illumination conditions. The development of autonomous driving has moved away from the computer vision approach to other sensors such as LiDAR because of computer vision's failure in adverse weather and under poor illumination conditions.

Stanford engineers have revealed the first-ever single-lens light field camera with a wide field of view. They say the technology has the ability to give devices like drones and self driving cars information-rich'supervision' that will make it much easier for them to navigate the world. The 4D camera has an extra-wide field of view and can capture nearly 140 degrees of information - essentially, the difference between looking through the new design and a typical camera is the equivalent of looking through a window versus a peephole, according to the scientists. The new Stanford camera is the first-ever single-lens light field camera with a wide field of view. It can capture nearly 140 degrees of information, meaning a camera-dependent robot like a car could take one photo instead of several to understand its environment.

After acquiring Dropcam back in 2014, Nest waited another year to launch its own home monitoring camera. It wasn't much of an improvement over the old Dropcam Pro, and aside from releasing an outdoor version with weatherproof body, Nest has focused on improving its software ever since. But now the smart home company is back with a second-gen connected camera -- the Nest Cam IQ -- which features serious upgrades in the hardware department and an inflated price tag to match. The $299/£299 Nest Cam IQ looks a lot like last year's Nest Cam Outdoor. In contrast to the very first camera, it has cute and curvy, all-white polycarbonate shell and a fancy, patented hinge that allows you to orientate the lens any way you want it.