NFT of an Iconic Meme Dog Photo Sells for $4.3 Million
An NFT of the photo of a dog a pink knit hat that served as the inspiration for the meme coin Dogwifhat has sold for a reported $4.3 million.
An NFT of the photo of a dog a pink knit hat that served as the inspiration for the meme coin Dogwifhat has sold for a reported $4.3 million.
7Artisans announced the 50mm f/1.8 lens for full-frame Sony E-mount mirrorless cameras. It is the company's first-ever autofocus-equipped lens.
Fujifilm's X100VI is already difficult to obtain, but getting access to the special limited-edition X100VI will be even harder: the company only plans to make 300 available in the United States on a first come, first serve basis.
As Apple continually reaffirms its commitment to developing artificial intelligence (AI), the Cupertino tech giant is reportedly in talks with Google to build its Gemini AI engine into the iPhone.
YouTube announced today that it will require content creators to label AI-generated content that people could mistake for being real.
An 18-year-old wildlife photographer was found dead in a state park he often visited to capture images.
Canon's groundbreaking micro-satellite, CE-SAT-IE, has entered orbit and successfully communicated with the ground station at Canon Electronics' Akagi Plant in Japan.
David Johnson, a celebrated photographer who was the first Black student of Ansel Adams, has died at the age of 97.
OpenAI is continuing to tease its pending AI video generator Sora with yet more text-to-video clips that are capturing people's imagination.
Famed fashion photographer Marc Baptiste has been accused of sexually assaulting a model during a shoot 20 years ago.
A human rights photographer who once worked for the Red Cross has been arrested and charged for allegedly being part of a gang that exploited migrants.
PetaPixel does not often share "call for entries" for photo contests, but the next edition of the iconic Comedy Wildlife Photo Competition is worth the exception thanks to some hilarious new photos and Nikon's involvement.
The landmark case between The Andy Warhol Foundation and photographer Lynn Goldsmith has finally been resolved with Goldsmith receiving more than $21,000 -- despite forking out "well above $2.5 million" to fight the case.
TikTok is reportedly working on a new stand-alone photo app called "TikTok Photos" in a platform that could potentially rival Instagram.
A photographer captured a "once in a lifetime photo" when a bobcat appeared from nowhere to pounce and take down a giant blue heron that he had his camera trained on.
I have stitched many panoramas, including those I took with my Canon 24 mm TS lens by shifting the lens from side to side. The TS lens gives easy-to-stitch frames. One uncontrolled element that remains in that case is the parallax shift because the lens position changes. Although that may go unnoticed in landscape panoramas, it is still there.
Photo Stealers, a website that has investigated and identified people who steal photos for over a decade, has become embroiled in increasingly expensive legal battles and was even brought offline by an alleged photo thief earlier this week.
Microphones are an absolutely critical part of my video kit, and I’m very hard on them. So when I find something that works, I tend to stick with it for a long time.
Walking into Leica's new flagship store in New York City immediately evokes a sense of luxury, and yet, the space still feels welcoming. It's a tricky line to toe, but somehow the shop and gallery pulls it off.
The W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund announced that photographer Irina Werning from Argentina is this year's recipient of its $30,000 grant for Humanistic Photography for her project Las Pelilargas.
Photography icons Helmut Newton, Weegee, Irving Penn, Brassaï, Berenice Abbot, and Bill Brandt all feature in a new exhibition focusing on nightlife in New York City, Paris, and London.
The uncanny valley's hungry cousin is coming for food photography, it seems. A recent study found people view AI-generated images of food more appealing.
Leica's medium format S-system has not seen an update since the S3 debuted in 2018 -- six years is an eternity as far as camera technology is concerned.
Cosina is further adding to its RF line of lenses by bringing its Voigtlander Nokton 75mm f/1.5 Aspherical lens to Canon's mirrorless mount in April.
I like to think I have relatively basic needs when I'm traveling for work. But the one luxury I miss when traveling is a second monitor for my laptop, especially when I need to edit The PetaPixel Podcast. But with the Espresso Display 17 Pro 4K, a hotel room can be as effective a work location as my office at home. It's a transformative product for my workflow on the road.
The global news director of Agent France-Presse (AFP) has compared Kensington Palace to North Korea, stating it is no longer a "trusted source" of information after the revelations Kate Middleton Photoshopped her own picture.
As the saying goes, deals are in the air. Okay, that may not be the real saying, but that certainly is the case this spring. Every camera brand still has sales running, with OM System lenses added to the long list. Plus, there still plenty of deals on film, bags, printers, and more.
The cinematographer behind Dune: Part Two has revealed how he was able to make everything look so big in the highest-grossing movie of 2024 so far.
In a world where nearly everyone has a very capable digital camera right in their pocket and can instantly capture, view, and share all their favorite images, a growing number look longingly at the “olden days” of photography, when photographers had to wait days to see your shots and camera equipment was terrible.
“Savvy minimalists are swapping out smart devices for ‘dumb’ ones… Tech you thought you’d never see again has a way of popping back up. What’s old to some is new to the young, whose latest discovery-slash-resurrection is the humble disposable camera,” writes Jessica M. Goldstein for The Washington Post.
Young people are flocking to disposable cameras, like the Fujifilm QuickSnap, and enjoying the process of photography more than the results themselves. The very people that older generations believe are addicted to the newest tech are bringing outdated equipment back to life, seeking a slower pace to photography and life in general.
Since using my first pen tablet over a decade ago, I found that working with display tablets provided an extra level of precision to my work since I could see exactly where my pen strokes were connecting on the screen. This let me be more precise and creative with my edits, but most of these tablets were either incredibly expensive or overly large. The $1,099 Huion Kamvas Pro 19 solves both these problems.
In this year's British Wildlife Photography Awards (BWPA), more than 14,000 incredible wildlife images were whittled down to a single grand prize winner, photographer Ryan Stalker.
Underwater drones are still in their infancy. While filmmakers are already using them to create magnificent art, underwater drones haven't approached ubiquity for consumers and enthusiasts. However, Australian company Advanced Navigation believes it can change the landscape (or seascape) with its new Hydrus autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV).
DxO PureRAW 4 promises to “supercharge your cameras and lenses” by offering a suite of image quality corrections for RAW files: deep-learning noise reduction, superior demosaicing, as well as per-lens correction of distortion, softness, vignetting, and aberrations.
Miles Myerscough-Harris of Expired Film Club was recently invited to recreate a 100-year-old soccer team photo. His camera of choice? An 1897 No. 4 Cartridge Kodak.
The companies developing generative AI technologies are, typically, skirting around the rules regarding copyright: very few actually provide the public with concrete information on how they train their models.
Using the remarkable 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam), astronomers have made a 1.3-gigapixel image of the ghostly Vela Supernova Remnant. The beautiful, detailed, and colorful image is the largest DECam image ever at 35,786 by 35,881 pixels, putting even the highest-resolution medium-format interchangeable lens cameras to shame.
The upcoming solar eclipse on April 8 is a highly anticipated event, in large part because it will be the last to cross over North America for 20 years. It is a special event to witness and photograph, though it does require planning and preparation.
A photographer in Tanzania captured a set of amusing photos showing a pride of lions snoozing on Caterpillar construction vehicles.
A concert photographer narrowly missed a guitar being thrown at him on stage -- after a heavy metal musician mistook him for someone else.
A study by the University of Waterloo found that 40 percent of people surveyed couldn't distinguish between an AI-generated face and a real face.