We are proud to announce the results of the fifth-annual PetaPixel Awards where we are able to honor the best new photography products released in the last year. We were really impressed with how big of a year 2024 was but, somehow, 2025 managed to be an even more impressive showing.
An Arizona police department has begun using AI-generated, photorealistic suspect images instead of hand-drawn sketches in what is believed to be a first in the U.S.
Aura Frames, a leading brand in connected photo frames, has launched Text to Frame, a new feature that lets users and invited contacts send photos directly to a frame through standard text messaging. The feature removes the need for an app download and positions Aura as the only major digital frame brand to offer this level of accessibility to date.
Editing app Darkroom has launched version 7, marking one of the most extensive technical overhauls in its 10-year history. At its core is a fully rebuilt rendering engine designed to deliver faster performance, smoother navigation, and a more reliable editing environment across photos and video for iOS and iPadOS.
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey will debut an extended six-minute trailer exclusively at 70mm IMAX screenings this weekend.
One of the key witnesses to the Napalm Girl photograph, David Burnett, has written an opinion piece for The Washington Post in which he says The Stringer film "does nothing" to shake his long-held conviction that it was Nick Ut who pressed the shutter.
As promised, Nikon and RED have launched their new Imaging Recipes for compatible Nikon Z Series cameras, including the Z6 III, Z5 II, Z50 II, Zf, and the most recent Nikon Z camera, the video-oriented ZR. There are nine new RED-developed Imaging Recipes, plus a trio of new ones from professional creators.
When the Sony ZV-E10 II launched in July 2024, it did so with the promise of significant improvements over its predecessor and high-level content creation ambitions. One of the biggest improvements was finally delivering 4Kp60 video, something the original ZV-E10, puzzlingly, could not. Now, with a free upgrade released today, the ZV-E10 II can do one better: 4Kp120 recording.
Adobe has brought tools from Photoshop, Adobe Express, and Acrobat into OpenAI's widely used conversational AI platform, ChatGPT. Adobe's new apps for ChatGPT promise to combine ChatGPT's straightforward conversational AI with Adobe's "industry-leading" creative tools. Adobe says it is now even easier for everyone to edit photos and transform documents, all without leaving ChatGPT.
When Google Street View rolled out in 2007, it became the "world's photographer." Since then, artist Jon Rafman has been collecting moments captured by Google's Street View cars.
This week marks the release of Rolling Stones: At The Max in theaters, a remastered version of the first-ever feature-length IMAX concert movie.
In modern photography, nearly every part of the workflow has evolved at an incredible pace. Sensors are larger, resolutions are higher, and video formats now reach deep into 8K and beyond. Yet one of the smallest pieces of gear in your bag plays one of the biggest roles in whether your camera can take full advantage of that power: the memory card. For professional photographers, choosing the right media is not a convenience. It is a critical decision that affects performance, reliability, data safety, and ultimately the quality of the work you deliver.
Viltrox has been busy so far in December. Alongside wide-angle and telephoto conversion lenses for Fujifilm X100 Series cameras, the Chinese lens maker has also launched a new 2x teleconverter for Sony E-mount cameras. The new teleconverter works with the expected Sony lenses, plus Viltrox's 135mm f/1.8 prime.
Japanese stationery and electronics company Nakabayashi Co. Ltd. is all-in on fun cameras. The company recently announced a wide-ranging line-up of cameras that runs the gamut from keychain toy cameras to point-and-shoot film cameras.
The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards have unveiled their highly anticipated winning photos. The annual competition, sure to put a smile on everyone's faces, garnered a record-breaking number of entries this year.
Alongside a new wide-angle conversion lens for Fujifilm X100-series cameras, Viltrox, maker of great optics, has also launched a new telephoto conversion lens for X100 models. The lens offers a 1.4x magnification, delivering a 50mm equivalent focal length on the X100.
Viltrox, best known for its excellent camera lenses, has announced a new Wide Conversion Lens that attaches to the built-in lens on Fujifilm's popular X100 compact cameras, including the newest X100VI model launched last year. The conversion lens turns the X100's 35mm equivalent lens into a wide-angle 28mm prime.
The winner of the inaugural Tom Stoddart Award for Excellence is Laura Pannack for her project ‘The Journey Home from School,’ which portrays the perilous journey children in the Cape Flats, South Africa, face while traveling to and from school.
Godox announced the AD300Pro II, a new all-in-one outdoor flash arriving five years after the original AD300Pro.
Google Photos may have "photos" in its name, but recent and upcoming updates focus on powerful new video editing tools. Leading the charge is a new feature to let users create an automated highlight reel of their video clips and photos in just a few clicks.
The Italian coffee brand Lavazza hired street photographer Alex Webb to shoot its 2026 calendar, using his colorful aesthetic to capture the essence of life in Italy.
Leica Sports Optics, which makes the legendary photo company's binoculars, spotting scopes, and weapon sights, announced a pair of new Leica Ultravid White Ocean binoculars. The 7x42 binoculars are designed to be a powerful and elegant companion for people's luxurious outdoor adventures, especially those on the ocean.
McDonald's released an AI-generated Christmas ad featuring morphed faces and mangled bodies, but the filmmakers behind it insist they "hardly slept" for seven weeks while adding, "AI didn't make this film. We did."
The window to enter the prestigious Sony World Photography Awards 2026 is quickly closing, and photographers have about a month left to enter this year's competition. Entries remain open for the Professional, Open, and Youth competitions until early January, and there are some fantastic prizes up for grabs. The Sony World Photography Awards have shared 21 entries from the upcoming competition to inspire other photographers to join the competition.
Capture the Atlas has unveiled the winners of its eighth annual Northern Lights Photographer of the Year contest, and the 15 award-winning photos below are as beautiful as they are inspiring.
Based on the novella of the same name, Netflix's new film "Train Dreams" is shot to look like photos from the era in which the movie takes place: the early 20th century. Although shot on modern Arri Alexa 35 cameras, the film employs a 3:2 aspect ratio, is almost entirely lit with natural light, and has an exceptionally filmic, beautiful appearance.
Sometimes the universe has a sense of humor. Other times, it hands you a $10 cinema lens that shouldn’t exist outside a collector’s dream and whispers, “Here, go make magic.” This is exactly what happened to Mathieu Stern, the intrepid lens hunter who just scored cinematic history for about the price of a nice latte.
Last week, photographer Dan Martland published a video on Instagram where he claims that a two-day old Hasselblad X2D II 100C that he purchased from Pictureline started to significantly malfunction. After trying to work with Hasselblad directly to resolve the issue, the camera company and Pictureline both declined to replace the unit, citing severe water damage.
A rarely seen seven-arm octopus known as “the blob octopus” was captured on camera 2,300 feet below the surface in remarkable deep-sea footage.
A photographer has captured a series of exquisite images of foxes in snow to highlight each of their personalities and to show they don't deserve their "sly" and "cunning" labels.
