Pelican has announced the Next Generation Protector Series, an update on its most well-known hard cases that most photographers simply refer to as a "Pelican case."

A new iPhone camera app, M-Kamera, attempts to bring the rangefinder camera experience to mobile, including rangefinder-style focusing and a virtual film winder.

NiSi has announced the 16mm f/2.8 ultra-wide prime lens for Fujifilm GFX and Hasselblad XCD mounts. With a 35mm equivalent focal length of 12.6mm, the lens is not only extremely wide, but it is also the fastest such prime lens available for medium format systems.

Sony's first LOFIC image sensor, the Lytia L910, is arriving in flagship smartphones later this year. The upcoming 50-megapixel sensor promises significantly improved image quality with expanded dynamic range compared to traditional image sensors.

Is it a DJI Osmo? Is it an Insta360 Luna? Nope, it's a Goojodoq GFS025, and it, for whatever reason, is a handheld camera fan.

Japan introduced laws in 2023 criminalizing "photo voyeurism," which prohibits acts like upskirting. But despite the new legislation, it remains one of the country's most common sex offenses.

Fujifilm has opened applications for the 2026 GFX Challenge Grant Program, offering photographers and filmmakers worldwide the opportunity to receive funding, mentorship, and access to Fujifilm's medium-format camera system to help bring ambitious creative projects to life.

FIFA has agreed to move photographers during pre-match national anthems at the 2026 World Cup after complaints from England head coach Thomas Tuchel.

England national team coach Thomas Tuchel made headlines last week for two reasons. One, his team sailed to an easy 4-1 victory over European rival Croatia. And two, Tuchel complained about how the gaggle of photographers positioned between Tuchel and his players ruined a really important pre-game moment during England's national anthem. Another coach, German manager Julian Nagelsmann, is 100% on Tuchel's side.

Getty Images and OpenAI announced a multi-year display partnership to bring Getty Images' licensed content into OpenAI search and discovery experiences inside ChatGPT. The news sent Getty's stocks temporarily soaring more than 200% during premarket trading.

As digital technology has become ever more ingrained in modern life, a paradox has emerged alongside it: analog pursuits have experienced a remarkable resurgence.

In an era where we are obsessed with megapixels, AI-driven autofocus, and high-ISO performance, I find myself regularly putting down my Leica M10-R and my Leica M11-P to pick up a tool that, on paper, has no business competing in 2026: the Leica M9 Monochrom.

Japanese photo retailer Shoten Kobo is now selling the Wahei Optical 'Peace' 35mm f/1.4, a classic-looking, clearly Leica-inspired 35mm f/1.4 lens for M mount.

OM System Cameras have an enormous range of unique and uncommon features. Getting to know what they do can open up whole new photographic opportunities.

"I was scared to hire a photographer for my wedding," says the sister of Reagan Simmons Hancock in the harrowing Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct. It's not surprising. Her sister was murdered by her wedding photographer.

A new exhibition explores how photography became central to the making of the famed fashion house Yves Saint Laurent over four decades.

The winning photos from the third annual Nature and Humans Photo Competition reveal two very different but equally important aspects of non-human animals.

Looking for a Father's Day gift for the dad-slash-photographer in your life, or maybe that's you? This week's Father's Day deals include substantial savings on cameras, lenses, and tripods from Canon, Nikon, Sony, Panasonic, OM System, Manfrotto, Gitzo, Falcam, Fotopro, and Zeiss, with discounts of hundreds to thousands of dollars on select items.

Last fall, TourBox released the Dynamic Panel for Lightroom, a new plugin for Adobe Lightroom Classic and Lightroom that enabled full-screen, clutter-free photo editing inside Lightroom when used alongside the TourBox Elite creative editing console. Dynamic Panel V2 has arrived with several new panels that photographers demanded.

Pattern Recognition Company (PRC) has announced that Excire Foto 2027 is now available, promising improved search, organization, and workflow tools for photographers.

Camera traps have captured wolves hunting a herd of European bison in an ancient forest in Poland for the first time.

7Artisans has introduced its new Dream Cine Lens Series, a full-frame manual-focus lens lineup designed for creators stepping into filmmaking. Built around a unified cine workflow, the series aims to bring professional cinematic control into an accessible, lightweight system for independent filmmakers, content creators, and film students.

DZOFilm has announced the Octopus II, a new lightweight lens adapter that enables filmmakers to use Arri PL-mount lenses on Sony E-, Nikon Z-, Canon RF-, and L-Mount cameras.

Midjourney has been largely surpassed in the AI image world by tech behemoths Google and OpenAI. But today it’s made a surprise announcement: it’s getting into health.

England national football team coach Thomas Tuchel is begging FIFA to move photographers during the 2026 World Cup after they blocked Tuchel's view of his team during England's anthem, "God Save the King."

A wedding photographer who has the same name as a heinous criminal and subject of the true crime Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct says that people are mistaking her for the murderer and leaving her one-star reviews on her business.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) loosened restrictions on some Chinese-made drones this week, although only those that count as "toy drones" and only those that exist within a preposterously narrow definition of what counts as a "toy drone."

Xtra has revealed a host of specifications and a pricing window for its impending Muse 2 Pro, a DJI Osmo Pocket 4P look-alike that will be the only challenger to Insta360's Luna Ultra in the United States.

After axing thousands of jobs and monitoring employees as they train the AI that could ultimately replace them, it's perhaps unsurprising that morale at Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is at a low ebb.

Novelty popcorn buckets are typically characters from Hollywood blockbusters. For example, there was a Grogu bucket for the recent Star Wars movie.

The 48th Leitz Photographica Auction concluded over the weekend, and collectors spent huge sums of money to get their hands on rare, classic cameras, lenses, and pieces of photographic culture and history.

VSCO has launched Studio Pro, its next-generation professional editing experience, on iOS. The company promises a macOS version later this year.

This was a big week of news, and the PetaPixel Podcast team tackles every story. DJI and Insta360 are going to battle both in the market and in the courts, the Kodak Charmera is back with new designs, and there are claims that the new Otus lenses from Zeiss are actually just Cosina lenses... but is it true? All that and more!

Fujifilm has announced that it will host one of its Fujikina events in New York City this fall. Taking place from October 16-18, Fujifilm says to expect a full list of scheduled events in the coming months.

The Sony a9 III's 24-megapixel global shutter image sensor has a wide range of benefits for both photographers, including exceptional swiftness and flash sync at any shutter speed. This latter benefit has gotten significantly more useful for professional photographers thanks to a firmware update for eight of Profoto's lights.

This week, Microsoft announced new Surface and Surface Pro laptops, which are powered by Snapdragon X2 processors. These ultra-thin, ultra-light laptops promise more performance for the average user, and part of that pitch is shipping them all with Affinity.

Earlier this month, Nvidia unveiled its new RTX Spark "superchip," and Microsoft took the opportunity to show off its most powerful Surface laptop ever, the Surface Ultra. Now Microsoft is back with new versions of its existing standard Surface and Surface Pro machines. They're powered by a Snapdragon processor and arrive with significant price bumps.

Polaroid is an icon. But the instant photography brand so nearly disappeared entirely in the late 2000s when the original company announced it would stop making film.

Map Camera's latest sales charts reflect yet another strong month for Fujifilm, headlined by scoring four of the top five places in May. And finally, after five months at the top, the Sony a7 V relinquished its title as the best-selling new digital camera.

Drone footage has captured what experts believe is the first recorded case of a tiger caring for another mother's cubs in the wild.