DxO released new versions of PhotoLab 9.6. DxO PhotoLab is an advanced RAW photo editor covering the full workflow – from demosaicing and noise reduction to local adjustment, optical corrections, color management, and print soft proofing.
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New DxO PhotoLab 9.6 delivers remarkable image quality with DeepPRIME XD3, expanded control over AI Masks, and unprecedented DNG compression
The latest update extends DeepPRIME XD3 — now for both Bayer and X-Trans sensors — adds diffusion to its acclaimed AI Masks, and introduces High-Fidelity Compression to create DNG files up to four times smaller.
Paris (France): DxO, the imaging science pioneer and developer of the world’s most advanced RAW photo editing software, today announces the release of DxO PhotoLab 9.6, a major update focused on pushing image quality and workflow efficiency even further. Version 9.6 brings three headline innovations: the arrival of DeepPRIME XD3 for Bayer sensors, enhanced creative control with diffusion for AI Masks, and High-Fidelity Compression for DNG export — dramatically reducing file sizes without compromising RAW
quality.
“PhotoLab 9.6 is all about removing limits,” said Jean-Marc Alexia, VP of Product Strategy at DxO. “Whether it’s extracting more detail from the most demanding RAW files, refining selections with greater subtlety, or dramatically reducing storage requirements, this update gives photographers new levels of freedom — without sacrificing image quality.”
DeepPRIME XD3 for all sensors
Previously exclusive to X-Trans cameras, DeepPRIME XD3 now extends its groundbreaking denoising and demosaicing technology to Bayer sensor cameras, marking a major leap forward in RAW image quality.
An evolution of DxO’s renowned DeepPRIME technology, DeepPRIME XD3 is designed specifically for the most demanding files captured under challenging conditions. It produces cleaner, sharper images than ever before, extracting phenomenal detail while maintaining natural textures and accurate color reproduction. From high-ISO night scenes to finely detailed landscapes, DeepPRIME XD3 establishes a new benchmark for what’s possible in RAW conversion.
Paired with DxO’s exclusive DxO Modules, which deliver the most precise camera and lens corrections on the market, DeepPRIME XD3 offers the ultimate image quality pipeline. For photographers shooting at exceptionally high ISO values, it represents the current market leader in noise reduction, detail extraction, and color fidelity.
AI Masks gain diffusion for smoother, more natural selections
DxO PhotoLab’s acclaimed AI Masks — already celebrated for their speed, accuracy, and flexibility — become even more powerful in version 9.6 with the addition of diffusion controls. This new option allows photographers to soften mask edges and smoothly feather selections, making transitions more natural and adjustments more refined. Whether working on portraits, landscapes, or complex scenes with subtle tonal changes, diffusion provides greater creative control while preserving the intuitive workflow that has made AI Masks a standout feature of DxO PhotoLab.
High-Fidelity Compression: RAW-quality DNGs up to four times smaller
DxO PhotoLab 9.6 also introduces High-Fidelity Compression for DNG export, delivering RAW-quality files that can be up to four times smaller than standard uncompressed DNGs. This breakthrough technology means photographers no longer have to choose between image quality and storage efficiency. DxO outputs Linear DNG files, meaning images are fully demosaiced while retaining full dynamic range and editing flexibility. Intelligent compression now dramatically reduces file sizes without affecting image quality. Large-scale processing, archiving, and long-term storage become faster, lighter, and more efficient — without compromising a professional RAW workflow.
Price and availability
DxO PhotoLab 9.6 is available today from the DxO website for macOS and Windows machines:
New license $239.99 / 239.99 € / £219.99
Upgrade from DxO PhotoLab 7 or 8 $119.99 / 119.99 € / £109.99
After GoPro recently unveiled a new GP3 custom imaging processor for their next-gen models, the company has also released new photos and video teasers demonstrating the capabilities of their upcoming camera:
GoPro reported significant financial losses for 2025, with full-year revenue dropping to $652 million (down about 19% from the prior year) and a GAAP net loss of $93 million (or $0.59 per share)—a big improvement over the previous year’s $432 million loss thanks to cost cuts. In Q4, revenue was roughly $202 million (flat year-over-year but missing expectations), with a GAAP net loss of $9.1 million and non-GAAP loss of $3 million. The company is optimistic about recovery through a new AI-enabled GP3 processor in upcoming cameras starting Q2 2026, while subscription revenue held steady at $106 million for the year.
Additional information on the GP3:
GoPro Unveils GP3: Next-Gen AI Imaging Processor Delivering 2X Power and Breakthrough Low-Light Performance
Today we announced the upcoming launch of GP3, our most powerful custom imaging processor to date. Exclusive to GoPro, GP3 is a 5-nanometer System-on-a-Chip (SoC) that delivers more than 2X the pixel processing power and superior AI-driven image quality and low-light performance over its predecessor, GP2. GP3’s power efficiency and thermal performance are expected to significantly outperform the competition, resulting in industry-leading runtimes in the most demanding environmental conditions. These advancements position GP3 to usher in a new era of professional-level image quality, low-light performance, resolution and frame rates for small form-factor camera markets, including action cameras, 360 cameras, vlogging cameras, and ultra-premium, compact cinema-grade cameras.
Accompanying images captured on GoPro’s next‑generation camera system powered by GP3 showcase the breakthrough image quality and low-light performance enabled by this new technology.
At the heart of GoPro’s innovative GP3 processor is a specialized AI Neural Processor Unit (NPU) that enables next-generation video pixel processing and market-leading low-light image performance. GP3 also features dedicated cores for scene recognition and subject detection, allowing GoPro cameras to understand their environment in real-time and adjust camera settings automatically. And with its 5-nanometer architecture and exceedingly efficient power-profile, GP3 is expected to enable market-leading resolutions and frame rates with runtimes and thermal performance that significantly outperform the competition.
“We expect our new, exclusive GP3 processor to lead in every performance area—image quality, resolution, frame rates, low-light performance and power and thermal efficiency,” said Pablo Lema, GoPro’s Senior Vice President of Product Management. “Launching in our new products in Q2, GP3 provides a scalable, proprietary foundation we can leverage to power GoPro cameras across existing and future product categories. Our markets demand the very best performance, and we believe this sets the stage for GP3 to serve as a growth catalyst for GoPro.”
“GP3’s bleeding-edge, cinema-grade performance will enable GoPro to enter the ultra-premium end of the imaging market this year, serving the needs of a new, higher-end market segment that can grow GoPro’s business and brand,” said Nicholas Woodman, GoPro’s founder and CEO. “We’re excited for GP3 to empower GoPro as both an innovator and disrupter as we look to grow our business through market-leading technology and performance.”
Rewindpix non-disposable digital “Film” camera (a retro screen-free digital camera with a large viewfinder, a winder, and infinite customizable filters): $272,325 pledged of $15,000 goal by 2,053 backers with 55 days to go.
Some of the Camera Intelligence team, all holding Cairas. Left: Vik Kumar, COO. Middle: Vishal Kumar, CEO. Right: Liam Donovan, CTO. Photo: Mitchell Clark
"I think a lot of people mistake our product as a gadget," says Vishal Kumar, CEO of Camera Intelligence, the company behind the Caira, a Micro Four Thirds camera that attaches to the back of an iPhone. "That's the wrong way to think about it," he says. "We're building the full technology stack, we believe, for the future of cameras."
While the company is currently wrapping up its Kickstarter campaign for the Caira, it has much bigger ambitions than selling an accessory that makes your phone a better camera, or even than selling dedicated cameras. Ultimately, it says, it's trying to change how cameras are made, and trying to convince the established camera companies that its tech is the way to photography's next step forward.
What is Caira?
The Caira has a Micro Four Thirds mount and an 11MP sensor. It doesn't work standalone – it requires an iPhone and has a corresponding app. Product photos: Mitchell Clark
While Camera Intelligence's ambitions clearly go beyond its first product, it's worth looking at where they're taking root. If you didn't catch the announcement in October, the Caira mounts to the back of an iPhone using MagSafe and connects to it via Wi-Fi. From there, you get your image preview and can control it using an on-screen interface or via voice.
Its big trick, though, is that it's not just a lens mount and an 11MP Four Thirds quad-Bayer sensor from Sony Semiconductor (think Panasonic GH5S). It also has a Snapdragon processor, which it uses to power its AI autofocus and to make decisions about white balance and exposure. It also handles the processing for the camera's computational multi-shot modes.
"At the moment, it's mainly designed for denoising," says Liam Donovan, Camera Intelligence's CTO. "It's optimized for reducing noise in low light and giving you more dynamic range." He explains that the algorithm, which the company is still working on but is shipping on production cameras, takes up to 17 shots: eight before you press the shutter, one when you press the shutter, and eight after. "There's an algorithm that runs on all of those shots to align them all. It moves the frames about so that they match the central frame, and then blends them together. And one of the hardest bits of the algorithm is making sure that there are no artifacts."
This Photo from the Caira was created by stacking eight frames together. Click here to see the original in HDR.
Caira | OM System 20mm F1.4 | F2.8 | 1/710s | ISO 951
While the multi-shot capabilities are currently implemented as a separate low-light mode, the company is working on expanding what it can do with them. "We're working very hard on making it do super resolution, where you can actually increase the resolution of the images that it produces quite significantly," Donovan says. "Low-light mode is kind of a stepping stone on the way to that, because super resolution is much more difficult than denoising on its own."
The intensity of those algorithms is part of why the camera needs its own processor, despite being attached to a very powerful phone. "It takes quite a lot of time to transfer Raw photos off the camera, and it has to be the full Raws that go into the stacking algorithm," says Donovan. "So that all happens on the camera, and it's enabled by the fact that we have a very powerful smartphone-style processor from Qualcomm in the camera itself, which is pretty novel." He says it's much more powerful than the processors you'd typically find in more traditional cameras.
Influencing
While Camera Intelligence has obviously put a lot of work into the Caira and its predecessor, the Alice Camera, it has its eyes on a bigger prize: convincing other camera companies that this architecture is the way forward. "We're not just in Yokohama for CP+," says Kumar, who spoke to us at the Camera Intelligence booth, where the company is showing off Caira to attendees at the show.
"We're having deeper conversations with some of the camera brands to see if that resonates"
"We have more than a couple of meetings. We believe that the way in which we have gone about building our camera is more akin to how cameras in the future should be built. Because we use the image sensors from traditional mirrorless cameras, but we're using the processor from a smartphone. And that smartphone processor unlocks a whole bunch of things," he says. "So we're having deeper conversations with some of the camera brands to see if that resonates."
It's not just the features like AI-powered voice control, focusing, or exposure, he suggests. The company also wants to be able to implement other AI features, such as large language or image generation models; the current Caira app lets you edit images using Google's Nano Banana model, but it currently has to run in the cloud, rather than locally, and requires a subscription.
It's not all AI, though. "I think it's the full stack," Kumar says. "It's everything from the decisions we made on the electronics, the operating system layer that we've built, which is called Camera Intelligence OS, the image signal processing pipeline that we've built, which is entirely software-based, and can be updated over the air. And then it's also the user interface with the app and the large language model. It's that entire stack that we think is interesting."
In that respect, the Caira is almost a means to an end. "That's the product that we sell at the moment to prove that architecture and infrastructure can actually be robust. And we need to ship these units because it allows us to stress-test the architecture and the units. And it allows us to do those software and hardware improvements. But it's more to it than just a camera that attaches to your phone."
In that vein, Kumar tells us that the Caira is on schedule to start shipping to the 611 people who backed it on Kickstarter last year by the end of March. He also says they triple-tested a batch of 25 from the production line in their office in London to make sure they were ready to go. We have our hands on a pre-production model and have been doing some testing with it, so keep your eyes peeled for further coverage.
Tied to Apple
To start, Kumar says the Caira's target audience is smartphone shooters who want better image quality. "Smartphones, for better or for worse, have automated large parts of the three A's and everything else for almost a decade. And we always tell our users, 'You need to learn basic photographic theory because it will help you take better photos, take better videos, et cetera.' But we're approaching it from the point of view of: 'OK, how can we automate a lot of this complexity so that the UX matches up with the UX that our target customer base is familiar with?' Not something that's like a minefield for them to navigate."
The app lets you get at a level of manual control, letting you manually set aperture, shutter speed, and ISO (though there's currently no affordance for exposure compensation). "We're starting from a point of view of: 'let's automate as much as possible and then give you control,' rather than 'let's give you full control and then automate after.' Because our customers don't really want that."
There's also a hardware benefit; instead of having to build everything themselves at great expense, Camera Intelligence gets to benefit from the phone's display and connectivity. "I think the main reason was just a lack of resources," says Kumar. "So we were building the electronics. We're building the OS layer. We're building the Image Signal Processor. We're also building the actual physical body. So we thought, okay, why don't we just use the iPhone as the interface, as the screen?"
Donovon also points out that the displays on iPhones, which are up to 6.9" and can reach up to 3000 nits of brightness, far outclass those found on traditional camera models. That brightness, along with readily available software libraries, allowed them to easily add gain-map HDR to the camera, with results you can see as soon as you've taken the picture. The feature is similar to what we've seen with the Hasselblad X2D II; while the Sigma BF also pulls a similar trick with its files, you can't actually appreciate the effect with the screen built into the camera.
Kumar notes that Apple has put a lot of resources into ecosystem features like the App Store, APIs and AirDrop. "So it made sense for us to attach to the phone for our V1 and V2."
For us, our entire product relies on the UX being good.
Of course, that implies that there's a chance the company will try to produce a fully-featured standalone camera in the future, but Kumar says it'd take more than just money to make it happen. "I think we can only promise bringing a product like that to fruition when we have more resources. Not just in terms of money in the bank, but team and the right skill sets. Because if you get that wrong... We've seen a few camera brands release Android-based cameras with standalone screens in the last five years. And they didn't quite execute the concept as well as it could have been done, but those camera companies can absorb that because for them it's just experimenting. For us, our entire product relies on the UX being good."
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Photo: Mitchell Clark
Nikon says it's discovered a "manufacturing issue" affecting a number of Z5II, Z6III and ZR models. It says the issue may cause the cameras to become inoperable.
A longer version of its statement blames the issue on the use of "parts that do not meet our quality standards."
The company says it's identified the serial number ranges subject to the issue and asked users to check whether their camera is affected. It says it will repair these cameras free of charge, including shipping costs.
The company has not disclosed the specifics of the potential fault, nor the number of cameras affected.
Interestingly, the statements in some regions exclude certain models, with no Z6III built for the European market being affected and only ZR models intended for Canada being impacted. This, and the many posts on this article and in the forums by users saying their cameras aren't in the affected range, suggests a relatively small production period used the faulty parts.
Nikon USA Technical Service Advisory:
We have confirmed a manufacturing issue with certain Z6III, Z5II and ZR cameras which may cause the camera to become inoperable. We have identified a range of serial numbers for the affected products, and Nikon will provide repairs free of charge regardless of the warranty period, including shipping.
We apologize for any inconvenience to our customers. For more information or to check to see if you have an affected product, please visit this link: nikonusa.com/service-advisories/z-tsa-3-2026
Fujifilm has announced the latest entry in its Instax lineup, the Instax Mini 13. The new model brings only subtle changes to the table: a redesigned body and the addition of a timer. Fujifilm also announced an update to its Instax Up smartphone app, and a new space-inspired instant film.
As we saw with the last few iterations, the Instax Mini 13 underwent a slight redesign. It still looks similar to the Instax Mini 12, though with some added vertical ridges for a more balloon-like look. Fujifilm also opted for a metallic silver logo on the front of the camera. There's also now a circular timer on the front of the camera, with the option to choose between 2 or 10 seconds. There's also now an indicator light around the front shutter button, presumably to let you know when the timer is about to run out.
Photo: Fujifilm
Functionally, the only change is the addition of dual timers. The camera still offers a close-up mode, auto exposure, automatic flash control and a selfie mirror. It also carries over the Parallax Correction feature introduced on the Mini 12, which aligns the viewfinder with the lens in close-up mode for easier framing. As with previous models, twisting the lens turns the camera on and off and changes to close-up mode.
In addition to the camera, Fujifilm updated its Instax Up app, which is a free smartphone app that allows users to scan and organize their Instax photos. The company says that the new version uses AI to improve scans. It promises better recognition of the image versus the background or any other nonessential content, producing more precise scans.
Lastly, there's also a new Instax Mini film on the block, dubbed Pastel Galaxy. As the name suggests, the film's frame features a pastel-colored galaxy design with scattered stars.
Fujifilm is sticking with pastel colors for its latest Instax Mini. The official color names for the are Dreamy Purple, Lagoon Green, Candy Pink, Frost Blue and Clay White. Photo: Fujifilm
The Instax Mini 13 will be available in late June 2026 for $94. It comes in pastel purple, blue, pink, green and white. The Pastel Galaxy film will also be available in late June 2026 for $18 per pack.
Joy and Creativity in the Palm of Your Hand: Fujifilm Introduces instax mini 13™ Instant Camera
Company also unveils updates to instax UP!™ smartphone app and introduces a new instax™ mini instant film variety
VALHALLA, N.Y., March 16, 2026 – FUJIFILM North America Corporation, Imaging Division, announced today the introduction of its instax mini 13™ instant camera (mini 13). Following in the footsteps of the popular instax mini 12™ instant camera launched in 2023, mini 13 brings a fun, playful new look and feel with its soft, sculpted shape and a metallic silver logo that accents the front of the camera.
New for mini 13 is the introduction of dual timers, with options for 2 or 10 seconds, giving the photographer the opportunity to be in the shot themselves with their subjects, or for easy hands-free selfies (with the help of the included wedge-shaped angle adjustment accessory). Mini 13’s main features also include Close-Up Mode, Selfie Mirror, and Auto Exposure adjustment capabilities, as well as the Parallax Correction feature, in which the camera’s viewfinder aligns with the lens when using Close-Up Mode, minimizing object shifts to produce a centered photo. Mini 13 also features automatic flash control, which optimizes image quality in bright or low light situations. The lens structure is designed to provide intuitive steps both for powering the camera on/off and for accessing the popular Close-Up Mode with a simple twist of the lens
"Our instax™ mini line of mini instant cameras, smartphone printers, and film represents not only an incredible value for our users, but in many cases, it’s a user’s first foray into analog photography," said Bing Liem, president, Imaging Division, FUJIFILM North America Corporation. "Mini 13 is a perfect fit because experimenting with instant photography – trying out new lighting, poses, or scenes (especially by using the new self-timer feature), are all fantastic ways to express oneself artistically and be a part of your art. We’re looking forward to seeing what our community creates with Mini 13!"
instax UP!™ Smartphone App Update Announced
Along with the introduction of mini 13, the free, downloadable instax™ UP! Smartphone app is debuting new and enhanced features. This app is designed for instax™ users to digitally scan, import, organize, and store their photos in one place, regardless of which instax™ instant film, camera or printer product they use. The updated version brings increased image scanning precision by integrating the use of AI. The overall learning capability of the app has been greatly enhanced so that it can recognize images versus backgrounds or other extraneous content, resulting in cleaner, more precise scans.
New Film Variety Introduced
Pastel Galaxy, the new instax™ mini instant film, will be introduced along with mini 13, featuring a fun cosmic theme complete with sparkly, glossy embellishments, and soothing colors to add a cool vibe to a user’s instax™ photos.
Colors, Pricing, and Availability
Fujifilm’s instax mini 13™ instant camera will be available in Dreamy Purple, Frost Blue, Candy Pink, Lagoon Green, and Clay White. It is expected to be available in or around late June 2026 at a Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price of $93.95 USD and $109.99 CAD. The instax™ mini Pastel Galaxy film will be available late June 2026 at a Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price of $17.99 USD and $14.99 CAD.
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