When Sony announced the a1 II last November, much was made of its mostly incremental upgrades. However, while the imaging pipeline is almost entirely unchanged, for working pros, that doesn't matter -- Sony cannot make the a1 II fast enough to keep pace with demand.
Apple's redesigned M4 Mac mini and powerful Mac Studio are amazing computers for photographers and video editors, delivering excellent performance for the price. However, neither ships with a display, leaving customers to decide, "What's the best monitor for my Mac mini (or Mac Studio)?" PetaPixel offers three great options.
Zeiss made its long-awaited return to the traditional photography space by reintroducing its beloved Otus series for full-frame mirrorless cameras. The Otus ML 50mm f/1.4 and Otus ML 85mm f/1.4 lenses channel a classic, manual-focus photographic workflow that most first-party lenses eschew in favor of clinical sharpness, digital lens corrections, and perhaps most notably, blazing-fast autofocus. For Zeiss, this is the Otus ML's strength, not its weakness.
The Xiaomi 15 Ultra is designed and engineered to be the best in the business for mobile photographers, though tighter competition and a key drawback may make it harder to stake that claim.
NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 -- spacecraft that are 15.5 billion miles from Earth -- are having two science instruments turned off as they continue to struggle for power on their interstellar journey.
Keks Camera introduced a new M-meter light meter with digital OLED for Leica M cameras that lack a meter.
The sudden surge in demand for compact cameras may have caught some camera manufacturers off guard after years of systematic decline. Canon wants to respond to this sudden resurgence but will do so cautiously.
The Pentagon is deleting tens of thousands of images from a database as part of a government order purging diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) content.
When PetaPixel first laid hands on the OM System OM-3, it was easy to believe that this might be the best chance photographers could expect to see anything resembling a Pen series camera again. Luckily, that doesn't seem to be the plan.
Amazon is testing AI-powered dubbing for select foreign movies and TV shows on its Prime Video streaming service.
President Donald Trump says he will "probably" extend the deadline for the sale of TikTok -- as reports suggest there have still not been any negotiations between the app's Chinese owner and prospective buyers.
After an enormous SpaceX rocket exploded shortly after it launched from Texas yesterday, the falling debris created a spectacular show captured by citizens on the ground.
A little over two weeks after a camera store in Berkley was rammed with a vehicle and looted, another shop in the San Francisco Bay area has suffered the same fate.
