Our Favorite Tripods of 2025 | The PetaPixel Podcast
This week on The PetaPixel Podcast, the team is back to go over a ton of news from Sony, Nikon, Fujifilm, Lumix, and more as well as discuss their favorite tripods of 2025 (and one they didn’t like as much).
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In This Episode
- 00:00 – Intro (our traumatic tripod stories)
- 14:24 – Sony has a new 100mm f/2.8 Macro
- 17:23 – You can trick the iPhone 17 Pro into recording open gate RAW internally
- 20:34 – Sony’s new global shutter sensor shoots 105MP at 100FPS
- 24:00 – The Analogue aF-1 is a brand-new autofocus film camera
- 27:25 – CreativeLive is shutting down
- 30:11 – Nikon says the ZR can record for over 2 hours without overheating
- 34:36 – Zeiss Loxia lenses are officially discontinued
- 37:18 – Fujifilm is going to make more cinema cameras
- 39:35 – Lumix 100-500mm is the system’s first ultra tele zoom
- 45:23 – Chris and Jaron are going to Brisbane for GR Space!
- 46:40 – Kodacolor 100 and 200 just launched
- 51:45 – Sony cameras and lenses got another price hike in the US
- 53:05 – Our favorite tripods in 2025 (and one not so favorite)
- 1:12:52 – What have you been up to?
- 1:19:18 – About the compact camera video… and how we’re going to do another one
- 1:20:30 – Tech support
- 1:30:34 – Feel goody story of the week: A brand-new camera company is making the spiritual successor to the Lumix GM5
