National Geographic's new three-part docudrama series, Pompeii: Out of Time, combines Tom Hiddleston's charming presentation skills, cinematic filmmaking, and a passion for history to tell the story of Pompeii's final hours before it was decimated by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.
Field monitors have long been considered an essential tool for videographers, but they're becoming increasingly useful for photographers as well. For this hands-on showcase, I spent time using the Neewer F700U during both photography and video sessions to see whether adding an external monitor to my kit would genuinely improve my workflow or simply become another accessory to carry.
Australian company 3D Film Parts has unveiled two new tools aimed at making life easier for filmmakers and camera crews: a free digital camera report app called SmartLog and a proof-of-concept electronic clapperboard known as the Smart Slate P4.
Ukrainian military photographer Iryna Rybakova captured the moment a Russian first-person-view drone blasted into a vehicle in Kramatorsk on July 15 amid a reported increase in FPV drone attacks on the city.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup has come to its conclusion -- with Spain lifting the trophy. But what was it like covering this year's expanded tournament as a photographer? PetaPixel spoke to two of them to find out.
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered a giant planet, hiding in plain sight just outside the solar system.
Scientists have warned that the increasing use of AI editing tools by wildlife photographers seeking the perfect image could threaten the reliability of bird research.
New Mexico turned Ansel Adams and Georgia O’Keeffe into legends, so in our next Trail Camera episode, Chris and Jordan head there with their OM SYSTEM OM-3 cameras to find out why. They shoot the red cliffs of Abiquiú and the same adobe church that O’Keeffe painted and Ansel photographed. Watch the trailer and catch the premiere on YouTube Thursday, July 23. Subscribe now so Chris and Jordan’s New Mexico film hits your feed the day it drops!
Godox's first camera – the C100 – has arrived, and it has a nicer build quality than I expected, especially for $45. It has multiple capture modes, makes a pleasant chime sound when turned on, and the icons that appear on the transparent panel are easy to see. I'll be handing this off to Chris Niccolls so he can do a full review.
The PetaPixel Podcast is taking a short two-week hiatus but will return on August 5. To tide you over, we recorded an extra-long episode this week with friend of the channel Chelsea Mercado Northrup!
Canon Canada was generous enough to gift my family the North American version of the Canon R5 Transformer originally released back in 2022 in Japan. My son had a great time transforming an ordinary looking EOS R5 replica into a glorious warrior robot!
As we approach the FIFA World Cup finale on Sunday, you're very likely to be seeing this photo of a younger Lionel Messi "blessing" a baby Lamine Yamal, Spain's young phenom. The photo's existence is next-level coincidental, considering the two stars will be facing each other on football's biggest stage.
Lexar products, including its memory cards and SSDs, are now available at Best Buy, both in stores and online, starting today. This is Lexar's largest US retail expansion yet and gives photographers and other creators more ways to buy Lexar memory products.
"For 30 years, Lexar has helped capture, create and preserve what matters most," says Van Baer, Lexar's general manager for the Americas. "As demand for high-performance storage continues to grow, expanding into Best Buy significantly strengthens our ability to reach consumers wherever they choose to shop."
Light Lens Lab shared an exciting, albeit short, update about its peel-apart film project on Instagram, showing that the new peel-apart film structure itself has reached in-camera testing. The company promises a new development update soon for the project that has been in the works for years. Light Lens Lab is also developing all-new black-and-white photo film, which it says will have unique "character." Light Lens Lab is doing some very exciting things in the film space.
Need a break from photo editing and love playing word games? It's Wordy is a free new browser-based game in which different letters are worth different values each day. Find the highest scoring words to complete your daily pyramid!
Google has released its first Pixel 11 teaser. The short video appears to show a circular, color-changing light next to the camera bar, which The Vergespeculates has something to do with Google Gemini. Google says it will fully reveal the Pixel 11 on August 12, presumably putting an end to the mystery surrounding that new glowing orb.
Godox has announced the Lux Junior II, an updated version of its retro-inspired compact flash that introduces a new dual-axis design for more flexible bounce flash photography in both horizontal and vertical orientations.
Just over a year ago, Adobe released a new computational photography camera app on iPhone, Project Indigo. It arrived boasting impressive features, including desktop-quality noise reduction and upscaling technology, plus robust camera controls and an emphasis on natural, realistic-looking photos. Today, Adobe launched what it calls "AI Playground" inside Project Indigo, ushering in new ways for photographers to use generative AI.
The cinematographer behind HBO's upcoming Harry Potter series has described the "brutal" conditions for the camera team due to the young cast.
Just last week, PetaPixel wrote that Canon PowerShot compact cameras, including the SX740 HS from 2018, keep showing up in new digital camera sales charts. Sure enough, as Japanese retail analyst BCN+R reports, compact cameras in general are selling in huge numbers.
Scientists have identified a new species of monkey -- with a striking mask-like face and distinctive pinkish-orange lips -- after a decades-long search for the primate was sparked by a blurry photograph.
Whenever a new autofocus-equipped cinema lens is announced, I always have mixed feelings. While I often find autofocus extremely useful, the manual focus experience inevitably suffers compared to a mechanically coupled manual focus lens. When they were first teased, I was told that this would not be a problem with the new Sigma Cine Zoom with AF lens series. Now I have reviewable copies of the 28-45mm T2 and 28-105mm T3 and get to answer the very important question: Has Sigma really managed to make a breakthrough?
Throughout May, NASA's Psyche spacecraft approached and flew away from Mars, coming within just 2,864 miles (4,609 kilometers) of the Red Planet during its closest approach. A brand-new timelapse video released by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) features thousands of images that Psyche captured during its mission.
Photographer Annie Leibovitz has sued a website for allegedly using her photograph of Justin and Hailey Bieber without permission, seeking "substantial damages."
The finalists for the 2026 International Pet Photography Awards have been revealed, with photographers all over the world showcasing their best work.
Apple briefly became the world's most valuable company on Friday, overtaking Nvidia as investors sold off semiconductor shares.
Google's DeepMind lab has recreated Pelé's so-called lost goal -- a strike that the iconic Brazilian soccer player said was his best-ever but was never captured on video.
14-year-old award-winning underwater photographer Panitbhand Paribatra "Pari" Na Ayudhya of Thailand, made waves late last month after he won the Project // 21 category in the prestigious Hasselblad Masters 2026 photo contest. It was not Pari's first big awards win, and undoubtedly won't be his last.
28-year-old professional photographer and videographer Hunter McEwen was fired from his latest five-figure commercial job after he lost three days' worth of shooting when his bargain-basement, counterfeit memory cards failed on set.
This project grew out of the many water-drop imaging experiments that my students and I have done over the years. I wondered if combining water-drop photography with portraiture might produce some unique and interesting images.
Recently, I was asked to provide feedback on an unreleased product: a cocktail shaker from a well-known culinary brand. The company asked me to take it for a spin, make a few cocktails, and fill out a survey. Survey?! Boring. I’ll do you one better - I’ll make a whole promo product video, right here in my dining room.
A photographer has sued popular artist Mickalene Thomas for allegedly appropriating more than a dozen of her images without consent or attribution.
OnePlus has left the party. For a brand with a perpetual upstart status in a North American smartphone market that’s only getting worse by the year, OnePlus’ exit from North America and Europe is a loss by any measure, even if you find yourself wondering what I’m even talking about.
A good, versatile zoom is often the first lens photographers recommend after a camera kit lens, and for good reason. Covering everything from wide-angle landscapes to portraits and everyday photography, these versatile lenses handle travel and street photography, as well as events, wildlife, and video.
Cinestill 50D is the less popular sibling to Cinestill’s 800T and 400D emulsions. Because 50D often gets passed over in favor of those other two, we figured it would be a great film to feature on Film Friday. It is a different and lovely film in its own right and deserves a bit more attention than it receives.
The Association of Photographers (AOP) has announced the winners of its annual Student Awards.
Reto, the company behind the viral Kodak Charmera and the surprisingly excellent Snapic A1, has announced the EC35 film camera, an "everyday carry" compact designed to be eye-catching and simple to use.
Squarespace users across the web have begun reporting receiving emails detailing impending price increases that range as high as 26%, depending on the selected plan and payment option.
Picture this: you're photographing in the middle of the night, it's dark, and you desperately need light. So, you whip out your phone, open an app, pay some money, and boom, night becomes day thanks to a satellite in the sky that is now reflecting sunlight to your location like a bright full Moon.
I love the 85mm focal length. I feel that when I walk down the street, the 85mm look is closest to the way I see the world. It's a great focal length for portrait work, shallow depth of field, and general street photography.
When Joël Lapointe was planning an epic camping trip through the Côte-Nord region of Quebec on Google Maps, an area gave him pause for thought: it looked like a giant meteor crater.
Google Vids has been updated with the Gemini Omni model and personal avatars, allowing it to edit and generate clips via almost any method, as well as enabling people to star in their videos with just a few clicks.
Margaret Thomas, the first female staff photographer employed by The Washington Post, has died at the age of 84.
Tech executives terrified of the public backlash against AI are beefing up their security as violent threats spill over into the real world.
A videographer was shot dead as he put his camera back into the backseat of his car after doing a job at a party last week.
Canon Inc. in Japan has published "The Secret of Canon Star," which Canon describes as a "company introduction booklet for children." It's bizarre.
New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani is having a very busy week. Just a day after announcing a "click-to-cancel" rule aimed at companies like Adobe, Mamdani is cracking down on "deceptive landlord practices," including using AI-generated and AI-edited images designed to make properties look more appealing.
Yesterday, SmallRig announced the Professional Outdoor Backpack (25L) 6521 that advertises an "innovative" interior that promises to hold dividers in place via a hook-and-loop system. That sounds great, but the innovation wasn't SmallRig's -- it was Hasselblad's.
The Dark Energy Camera (DECam) pointed its 570-megapixel CCD image sensor, housed inside the Victor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, at the Corona Australis Molecular Cloud, one of the nearest star-forming regions to Earth.
An influencer has been fined 20,000 Canadian dollars ($14,200) after he repeatedly posted intimate images of a woman he barely knew.
DJI is in a bit of hot water after it was discovered publishing an AI-generated ad on TikTok, where AI-generated people are not all that unusual. DJI's now-deleted ad featured a video with an AI avatar who looks, mostly, like a real, actual person.
The Camera and Imaging Products Association (CIPA) has announced that the admission-free CP+ Camera and Photo Imaging Show is returning to the Pacifico Yokohama event center and will run for four days from Thursday, February 25 to Sunday, February 28, 2027.
This week on the PetaPixel Podcast, the team is joined by Chelsea Mercado Northrup to discuss the RX10 V (and why no one seems to agree with our less-than-sparkling review) and Tamron's new design shift, as well as take part in the highly-requested Lens Draft!
Photographer Alan Schaller's first book, Metropolis, explored the isolation of living in the big city, a somber subject. His second book, however, should bring out a few more smiles.
Hasselblad has announced that Phocus Mobile V1.0.0 for Android is now available and supports the the X2D II 100C, X2D 100C and 907X, and CFV 100C.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Stranger Things, a transformative original series for Netflix and its first true global hit, the streaming platform is releasing a commemorative "VHS special edition" of the show's first season.
If you're a pigeon, there is one bird you really want to avoid: falcons. Why? Because an urban falcon's diet almost entirely consists of pigeons.
After days of rumors and reports, Android smartphone maker OnePlus has officially announced that it is, in fact, leaving North America and Europe and will no longer release new phones in those markets.
Elon Musk's startup xAI is suing a man for allegedly misusing the company's AI image generator Grok to create child sexual abuse material.
