The rise of "noctourism," or nighttime travel, among photographers is about much more than just stargazing. As a night photographer, here are my best tips for capturing the growing art of noctourism.
Western Digital (WD), now separate from SanDisk and focused on hard drives, announced a new 26TB WD Red Pro HDD designed for use in RAID arrays and network attached storage (NAS).
A total lunar eclipse will be visible across the entirety of North America, most of South America, and other parts of the world tonight and tomorrow, March 13 and 14.
Nextorage recently unveiled the "world's first" VPG 800-compliant CFexpress Type-A cards and expects them to be available in late April 2025. While the speed peaks aren't anything that hasn't been seen before, VPG 800 means the cards are certified to sustain far higher speeds in extremely taxing situations.
A sports card photographer asked Topps to adjust the crop of his image of basketball star JuJu Watkins, as it altered his artistic vision. In a big win for creatives, the company agreed and made the change.
Is there any camera better equipped to ignite a conversation with a stranger than a Rolleiflex? The twin-lens classic screams old-world elegance and precision engineering.
Bon Iver, the popular indie folk act fronted by Justin Vernon, will debut new music today via a 24/7 trail camera feed set up in the woods of Wisconsin.
TikTok will block teens from using the video app after 10 P.M. and instead wind them down to sleep with calming music and meditation exercises.
In the DSLR days, Sigma was well known for making affordable super-zoom lenses that traded convenience for some image quality. However, recently, Sigma has transformed itself into a preeminent optics manufacturer, building high-grade lenses that many professionals prefer over OEM glass options. Now Sigma is back at it, and it's a welcome return.
Portrait photographer Sophie Elgort and All Arts, an award-winning channel created by PBS in New York, teamed up to create Portrait Mode with Sophie Elgort, a four-episode docu-series that follows Elgort on four professional portrait shoots.
A new generative AI video model made for high-end film and animation studios has been released but unlike many machine learning programs, this one claims it has been exclusively trained on ethical data.
A court in eastern China has ruled that an AI-generated image is eligible for copyright protection. The ruling from Jiangsu province is the second such decision from mainland China where an AI-generated picture has been afforded protection.
After Blue Ghost successfully landed on the Moon at the beginning of March, it has now been spotted by an orbiting NASA spacecraft.
After two scrubbed attempts on March 8 and 10, NASA and SpaceX finally launched NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope aboard a Falcon 9 rocket late on March 11.
Tusk and ShiftCam teamed up to create the Cinema Series: the world's first commercial-grade mobile lens and filter system.
Fujifilm's upcoming GFX Eterna cinema camera remains mostly under wraps. First announced last November, very little has been shared about the camera since. However, speaking to PetaPixel at CP+ in February, the company confirmed two more features.
The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards 2025 competition is open to entries. To celebrate the 2025 contest's opening, the organizers shared a smattering of never-before-seen entries from the incredible 2024 contest, which photographer Milko Marchetti won with his hilarious photo of an adventurous squirrel temporarily stuck in a tree.
If photography is a custodian of collective memory, then Jessica Brandi Lifland has a high calling.
In 2005, Sony Bravia filmed a striking ad for its televisions featuring a quarter of a million colorful bouncy balls hopping down the steep streets of San Francisco.
This week on The PetaPixel Podcast, the team is joined by David Imel to talk about the Sigma BF and why Chris Niccolls -- who laments the many things cut out to make it "radically simple" -- might be wrong.
Speaking to PetaPixel last week at the CP+ show in Japan, Fujifilm says it is aware of the demands for an X-Pro series successor but wants to make sure that what it produces isn't just a small, "boring" upgrade.
There has been a lot of new gear for Gordon Laing of Cameralabs to review the last few months, but with CP+ now squarely in the rear-view mirror, the time is nigh for Laing to take a trip down memory lane for another Retro Review. This time, Laing's target is the Canon PowerShot 350 from 1997, Canon's second conventional digital camera and a fascinating relic of digital photography's past.
Photographers have repeatedly asked camera manufacturers to lean into their heritage and produce modern cameras with vintage design and charm. While some companies, like OM System and Nikon, have done so, both Canon and Ricoh Pentax don't seem interested in following suit if design is the only reason.
Researchers discovered 27 animal species new to science on an expedition in Peru including a “blob-headed fish” and a type of semi-aquatic mouse.
Delkin Devices, a leading storage solutions company, announced new Delkin Devices Black CFexpress Type B 4.0 memory cards. Available in 512GB, 1TB, and 2TB capacities, these CFexpress 4.0-equipped cards promise extreme speed and performance.
Insta360 and Leica Camera AG announced an extension of their partnership. The continued collaboration promises to bring high-end imaging performance to Insta360's AI-powered action cameras and other products.
A videographer is suing the city of Cincinnati after he was arrested for refusing to stop filming the scene of a car crash.
Mary Ellen Matthews has been capturing Saturday Night Live (SNL) "bumpers" since the year 2000. All-in-all, roughly 4,000 of her photos have appeared on-screen -- albeit for just a few seconds.
Despite its embattled status, TikTok still boasts nearly two billion monthly active users, making it an excellent platform for photographers looking to showcase their work.
The James Webb Space Telescope's latest high-resolution photo shows Lynds 483 (L483), a pair of actively forming stars, in extraordinary and unprecedented detail.
