Actress Mia Goth -- who recently filed for divorce from Shia LaBeouf -- has slammed Instagram after the platform let an AI-image of her wearing a t-shirt that read "MY EX IS MY BIGGEST FAN" to go viral.
This week on The PetaPixel Podcast, Chris, Jordan, Sarah, and I discuss a big heaping pile of news, including the biggest story of the week: Adobe Creative Cloud getting ripped off and rebuilt with AI.
A U.S. worker has sued her employer after the company fired her for refusing to take a photo of herself on a webcam every three minutes.
A bride took to TikTok to complain that her wedding photographer had died before sending her the wedding photos.
On an evening late in the season at Wrigley Field, a narrow beam of low sunlight reached the top step of the Chicago Cubs’ dugout. Pete Crow-Armstrong, the front-runner for National League MVP, was standing on that step, a spot he usually leaves to the team’s veterans, as the take-the-field video played. Team photographer Matt Dirksen saw the light land behind him. He had a few seconds to get the picture.
James Warner, the photographer behind the YouTube channel snappiness, has gotten his hands on yet another bizarre piece of camera history. This time it's the EPixPro, or is it the Obsidian Imaging IC/100? Or maybe it's the NEC PC-DC401? Whatever it is, it's weird, it's wacky, and it's worth checking out. It's also maybe psychic?
Sony has announced the ECM-W5 wireless audio solution, which includes the ECM-W5T Wireless Microphone Transmitter, the ECM-W5R Wireless Audio Receiver, and a kit with the receiver, two transmitters, and a charging case.
AstrHori is teasing a new 8mm f/2.4 circular fisheye lens for medium format mirrorless cameras. AstrHori says the lens will be fully unveiled on October 16 and will feature a 220° field of view and 0.1-meter minimum focusing distance. PetaPixel will cover this lens with a dedicated story once it's entirely revealed.
It was supposed to be a happy post celebrating Gayle's 44 years working at Walmart. But it hasn't gone according to plan.
The Walmart Owensboro Facebook page shared a photo of Gayle looking extremely sad while holding a bouquet of flowers. The caption on the post, which has since disappeared, read: "Congratulations Gayle on 44 years with the company!! What a huge accomplishment! We appreciate everything you do!"
The post has since been reshared on multiple platforms, with viewers drawing their own conclusions.
GitHub contributor Radium Wang is working on various open-source Hasselblad X2D 100C and X2D II 100C firmware projects, including for some reason, running pioneering 1993 first-person shooter, Doom on the camera. We've seen this same idea before, and it's always equal parts absurd and fun. This time is no different. Radium Wang says they'll release the necessary files on their GitHub soon.
Google is celebrating World Space Week with Doodles that were taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.
World Space Week runs from October 4 to October 10, and today's Google Doodle (October 9) is of Herbig-Haro 46/47.
Webb used its infrared vision to cut through the dense cosmic dust to captured the Herbig-Haro, a rare cosmic structure created when newborn stars shoot out high-speed gas. This gas runs into nearby dust clouds, causing them to light up and glow.
Camp Snap is adding three new color options for its CS-8 Camcorder: Espresso, Champagne and Rose. The company is debuting these colors along with the news that it generated $20 million in sales in the past 11 months. That explains why it keeps releasing new models and colors: people keep buying them.
Fujikina is returning to New York City this month and is warming up with a gallery of photography on the walls of the Delancey/Essex subway station. There is some stunning work featured here, including a spectacular photo from PetaPixel's Sarah Teng. If you're in the city, you can take a look at the free exhibition until October 18.
More and more movies are being shot on film, but which formats are being used? Check out this useful guide from Panvision that runs through the advantages and disadvantages of 16mm, Super 16, 35mm, Super 35, and 65mm.
The Pexar Bolt Thunderbolt 5 dock that hit Kickstarter a month ago is closing-in on half a million dollars raised and it still has a month left to go. Pexar, which is an offshoot of Lexar, says it is celebrating the achievement with two additions that will now ship with finished docks: 60W AVS charging (which supports the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max fast charging) as well as what it calls Vibe Plugins, which allow users to create touchscreen tools without coding. In short, users describe a tool in the desktop app, such as a Pomodoro timer, and a connected AI agent builds its interface and interaction logic.
The full update on the Pexar's $400K+ milestone can be read on Kickstarter.
A photographer was filmed tripping over French riot police during student protests, sending an officer flying to the ground. Hundreds of thousands of high school and university students have taken to the streets across France to campaign for better school conditions and what they called less police repression. Rights groups have accused police of using heavy-handed tactics, including batons and tear gas.
Apple is preparing an extensive in-store demonstration campaign ahead of the October 23 launch of the iPhone Duo, its first foldable iPhone.
I'm all for more lenses to support the APS-C platform. It often feels like major manufacturers treat cropped-sensor glass as a lower priority and leave a vacuum for third-party lens designers to fill. Well, let the third-party lens manufacturers cook, I say, especially when companies like Tamron can make a lens like this.
Tamron has announced a new 16-50mm f/2.8 A (Model B091) zoom lens for APS-C mirrorless cameras, promising a compact, versatile, fast option for Sony, Canon, Nikon, and Fujifilm APS-C camera owners.
Fujifilm has announced the Instax Square 2 instant camera, the latest addition to the company's popular, iconic Instax Square family of products.
A photographer who captured a heartbreaking image of an elephant carrying a deceased calf has won the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 competition.
Kids love Bluey, enjoy games, and sometimes really like photography. Now it's possible to combine all three of these things in a single experience: the Bluey Happy Snaps video game for Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC.
Nearly a year ago, Arri, one of the biggest names in cinema, launched Film Lab. It's an OpenFX plugin for industry-standard video editing and color grading workflows that promises to bring a filmic, analog look to digital video. Film Lab 1.5 has arrived, bringing even more analog looks to digital cinema workflows.
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has officially set a new record for the most distance driven by any vehicle on another world's surface.
At its "Welcome Home" event today, Apple announced its new "Apple Home Collection," including smart door locks, thermostats, temperature sensors, and cameras.
TTArtisan has announced a new ultra-compact pancake prime lens, the AF 24mm f/3.8 Mini, for full-frame Sony E-mount cameras.
After the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) put out a request this summer asking for sightings of gray foxes, it was surprised when it received a photo of an ultra-rare variation.
GoPro has announced a free update for the entire Mission 1 Series of cameras that boosts the system's photography capabilities, promising zero-lag shutter response and continuous 50-megapixel burst capture.
MagSafe was launched with the iPhone 12 and has increasingly become a popular way to attach iPhones to tripods, car windshields, power banks, and lighting accessories.
A man in the U.K. has been reunited with his parents' wedding album from 1957 after it was found abandoned outside a city centre cafe and traced to his late parents by a local historian.
As photographers and videographers, we all encounter images and footage that fall short of what we envisioned -- a noisy low-light shot, an older 1080p clip from a DSLR viewed on a 4K timeline, or a tightly cropped photo that lacks the detail needed for a large print.
Today, Getty Images announced a restructuring agreement and said it plans to begin a prepackaged Chapter 11 process in the coming weeks.
“It was a very unique project, to be sure.” With these words, Barbara Karant, a Chicago-based photographer specializing in architecture and interior design, as well as an author and educator, summarizes her immersion in the spaces of the Johnson Publishing Company (JPC), founded by Chicago media mogul John Harold Johnson during the Civil Rights Movement.
The OM System PEN is expected to begin shipping to customers this week, but per OM Digital Solutions (OMDS) in Japan, not everyone will be able to get their hands on it at launch.
A woman in Los Angeles has accused a camera repair store of stealing or tampering with her grandmother's Rolleiflex camera.
OnePlus may be dead in most of the world, including the United States and Europe, but that doesn't mean the company is done making interesting smartphones. In fact, quite the contrary: the OnePlus 16, just unveiled in China, looks pretty great.
Getty has announced that it has secured the necessary financing to take the company private. This comes after the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) suspended trading in its shares and started the process of delisting the company on September 29.
The Siena Awards Photo Festival is a sweeping image competition that touches on many different styles, disciplines, and genres of photography.
In May 2023, PetaPixel reported on the growing ALERTCalifornia web of connected cameras established to detect wildfires and give firefighters a chance to contain them before they grew and became deadly. Over three years later, the network continues to grow, and California is even using space-based cameras to detect wildfires as quickly as possible.
Nicolas Cage says he is unwilling to allow artificial intelligence to be used in his performances, revealing that he declined to sign an AI waiver while working on the Prime Video series Spider-Noir.
It is now easier than ever to type a few words into an AI generator and create a photorealistic image of something that never happened. So, when a photo goes viral, how do we prove that it is actually real? How do we prove a camera actually saw what is in the picture?
A Leica 0-Series camera from 1923 sold at auction over the weekend for a staggering €4,250,000, or about $4.75 million at current exchange rates.
Brandon Thomas, the experienced software engineer behind the AI-assisted reverse engineering effort to rebuild open-source versions of Adobe's Creative Suite applications, including Photoshop, Premiere, and Lightroom, is setting his sights on another oft-maligned set of software: Microsoft Office.
A photographer is pleading with thieves to return the wedding photos he shot after all of his camera gear was stolen in Oakland, California.
A stunning photo book explores the giant pandas of China and the country’s efforts to protect the endangered species.
For several months, the most interesting thing about the Fujifilm X half to me was not its image quality, its Type 1 sensor or its resemblance to an old half-frame camera. It was the number of times it made me stop before taking a photograph.
Jim Wehtje is an American photographer and radiographic artist known for using X-rays to reveal the hidden internal structures of natural objects, particularly plants, flowers, and seashells.
Death in the Making by Robert Capa, first published in 1938, was a pivotal publication in photojournalism, taking a much closer and partisan look at the combatants of war.
Who said full-frame lenses have to be big? Pancake lenses are always popular because of their compact nature, and you can have the image quality of a full-frame sensor in a package that's easy to travel with.
Major League Baseball (MLB) playoffs are well underway. The on-field action has been great so far. Sophisticated camera technology, often going unnoticed, enriches the spectator experience, including telling viewers at home just how far that monstrous walk-off home run went.
Common Sense, one of the late photographer Martin Parr’s most ambitious and influential projects, will be presented at the Bristol Photo Festival this month.
Amazingly enough, not only is instant film not dead, it is actually thriving. That is in large part due to the popularity of the Fujifilm Instax films, so it is time for us to give one of those films the Film Friday treatment.
Godox has announced the Litemons SR20R, a new full-color LED light panel designed for mobile content creators, including those using smartphones and gimbal cameras like the DJI Osmo Pocket and Insta360 Luna series.
The winner of the Nikon Small World in Motion competition has been disqualified after Nikon determined that the winning video broke its rules regarding artificial intelligence.
A sports photographer has beaten a YouTuber's defamation lawsuit over comments she allegedly made about "suggestive" videos of youth wrestlers.
There are so many great full-frame mirrorless cameras on the market, and many are on sale right now. It may be tempting to buy only the latest and greatest camera equipment, but as PetaPixel's recent Full-Frame Camera Power Rankings show, sometimes slightly older cameras are not only just as good as the newest models, but arguably even better for some photographers.
Meta is reportedly testing a change that would make Facebook and Instagram open directly to full-screen vertical video feeds before anything else, as the tech giant continues to chase TikTok’s success.
Photographer, educator, and cofounder of Helium Design Lab, Hugh Brownstone, has teamed up with luxury bag company Oberwerth to create "The Street Bag -- Hugh Brownstone." Two years in the making, the bag combines the best of a backpack and a sling into a single, agile design.
The Curiosity Rover is on a roll: NASA has released another stunning panorama captured by the extraterrestrial vehicle that shows distant cliffs shaped by wind over billions of years.
