2016

Ricoh just announced the new Pentax K-70, a rugged DSLR designed for photographers who enjoy shooting in the great outdoors. It packs features that were previously only seen in high-end Pentax cameras, such as the new top-of-the-line Pentax K-1 full frame DSLR.

A tripod is an indispensable accessory for photographers, but you're bound to run into a situation where you either didn't want to or weren't allowed to bring one with you. The mini Plaster Hand was created for those exact situations.

Getty Images, one of the largest stock photo agencies in the world and the official photo agency of the International Olympic Committee, is preparing for Rio by embracing the role of virtual reality in photography's future.

Can an algorithm-based service such as Google Images be racist? That's what people are suggesting this week after one man's video went viral.

"If you can't fix it with gaff tape, it probably does not deserve to be fixed." …

The doctor looked straight to my mother's eyes. He wanted to break eye contact but he couldn't. There was bad news to deliver first.

Ever wish your smartphone could see in the dark? Your wish is Dutch electronics company Lumigon's command. Introducing the T3, a phone Lumigon claims is the world's first with a built in, HD, night vision camera.

Google just made Apple's 'Live Photos' feature a whole lot more usable. No, that's not a typo, a new iOS app created by none other than Google just took the neat-but-often-ignored Apple feature to the next level.

Hope you're in driving distance of Bolivia, because this one should be swallowed with "largest salt flats in the world" levels of salt. It seems the first picture of the Canon 5D Mark IV being tested in the wild might have leaked.

"Put Your Head Into Gallery," is an unusual interactive art project by Tbilisi, Georgia-based artist Tezi Gabunia. After creating realistic small-scale models of famous rooms in art galleries, Gabunia and his collaborators put them on display and invited visitors to his exhibition to pose with their heads inside the tiny spaces. The resulting photos show giant heads peering into well-known art galleries.

Cameras can make the invisible, visible. In this case, the magic of slow motion makes it possible to watch as a bullet smashes through 5 lit light bulbs, tearing through the frame at 62,000 frames per second and sending white-hot filament and shards of powdered glass in all directions.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk famously said recently that he believes there's a "one in billions" chance that we're not all living in a computer simulation. This idea of real being indistinguishable from digital is the basis for photographer Ollie Ma's project Open World.

Remember Flag? Back in 2014, the then-nascent idea raised over $150K on Kickstarter to launch a 100% free, ad-supported photo printing service. Today, that dream became an honest-to-goodness smartphone app reality.

Instagram just released version 8.2 of its iOS app. Among the "bug fixes and performance improvements" is a new iOS extension that lets you post directly to Instagram from elsewhere in iOS.

A few days ago, we had a crazy flood in Paris. The Seine rose by a whopping 6.10m (20 feet for you imperial friends), overflowing the banks, depriving people of electricity, and flooding buildings, public transports, and businesses. It was a rather destructive flood, especially for cities outside of Paris where entire towns, as I am writing this, are still chest-deep underwater.

The European investment group AURELIUS announced today that it has acquired Calumet Photographic and Bowens Lighting, two well known brands in the world of photography. The sale will allow Calumet to expand its retail stores in new cities in Europe.

The softbox is one of the staples of light shaping, but are you using it the same way as everybody else? If you need a bit of an inspirational spark to light your creative fire, this short video featuring lighting expert Andrea Belluso will show you how to, in his words, "think outside the softbox."

There are no real images of a black hole, only artist renderings like the one above and that really cool CGI version in the movie Interstellar. But that may change in the coming years thanks to an algorithm recently developed at MIT.

There’s an article, published here on PetaPixel, that’s currently making the rounds on social media. It's called “A Disturbing Trend in Photography.” In it, long-time photographer and photo educator Neal Rantoul makes the argument that the art photography of today is heavy on words and light on quality.

Thomas Heaton is quickly becoming an industry-favorite landscape photographer thanks, in large part, to the informative videos he's been creating, and his latest video is no exception. In it, he shows you how he's planning, packing, and otherwise preparing for a major landscape photography trip to the Alps.

Turning your smartphone into a 3D-capable machine might soon be a lot easier than you think thanks to the Eye-Plug: a tiny little Android accessory that wants to add a second camera to your smartphone, and will supposedly cost just $35.

Pike Place Market. The oldest running market in the United States, since 1907! Home of local fresh produce, fresh seafood, fresh flowers, arts and crafts, book shops, antique shops, the original Starbucks, a gum wall as well as restaurants that offer food from all over the world.

Another wonderful example of how technology is helping photographers and videographers capture unexplored beauty on camera. This video might not be possible if it weren't for the Sony A7s and its impressive High ISO capabilities.

Founded in 1854, the British Journal of Photography is one of the world's oldest and most influential photography magazines. The 162-year-old publication was sold back in 2013, and now it's raising money through a crowdfunding campaign. Put in some money, and in exchange you get ownership shares in the magazine.

Imagine being able to swap between medium format, instant film, digital full-frame, and even large format 4x5 at will—a single camera that could handle it all AND let you use almost any lens you want. What you're imagining is already in the works, and it's called the Mercury camera.

Have a virtual reality headset and enjoy browsing Instagram photos? Instamuseum is a new app that lets you combine those two things: it turns Instagram accounts into a virtual reality museum that you can "walk around" in.

DJI just released something really interesting. It's called the DJI Focus, and it lets you manipulate your camera's focus and aperture wirelessly and from the ground.

In March, ex-Stanford student athlete Brock Allen Turner was convicted of three felony counts: assault with intent to commit rape of an intoxicated woman, sexually penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object and sexually penetrating an unconscious person with a foreign object. Last week he was sentenced to six months in jail.

Back in February 2016, skier Nicolas Vuignier captured the worlds imagination with a video shot using his "Centriphone," a plastic glider that lets you swing a camera around your head and have the lens constantly pointed toward you. For their latest music video, Indie pop duo Matt & Kim created their own centriphone... using a wooden coat hanger and some fishing wire.

The camera has found its way into all kinds of products over the past couple of decades, from the phone in your pocket to the car you drive around. One of the latest everyday products to adopt a camera is one you've probably never thought would have one: the toothbrush. The Prophix is a new $400 toothbrush that has a built-in camera for capturing images of your teeth and gums.

In 2002, a renegade science photographer, Martin Waugh, was playing with high-speed photography and discovered he could image two drips of water hitting each other.

VSCO has announced that it's redesigning its popular mobile camera app for both iOS and Android. The new app will be focused on both creating and consuming content, increasing the app's strength as a photo sharing social network.

Want to see the power of ReelSteady's software based image stabilization for After Effects? The video above shows a crazy wingsuit stunt by BASE jumper Graham Dickinson and his friend Dario. The GoPro HERO footage has been stabilized using ReelSteady as a "stress test."

After seeing a drone crash in the distance, a woman took it upon herself to take it and claim the drone "almost killed her" to the police after she is confronted by the quadcopter's owners. Fortunately, the drone recorded the whole thing...