
3 Legged Thing’s New Quick Release Camera Straps Target Peak Design
British camera accessory maker 3 Legged Thing has announced the Axis Strap System, a new approach to one of photography’s most fundamental tools.
British camera accessory maker 3 Legged Thing has announced the Axis Strap System, a new approach to one of photography’s most fundamental tools.
A new device, the MicroCam X1, has surfaced on Kickstarter, promising to combine microscopy, macro photography, and close-up video capture into an affordable pocket-sized tool. But is it too good to be true?
Bending Spoons has entered a definitive agreement with Vimeo to purchase the video platform for $1.38 billion.
Google recently introduced a powerful new AI model that can edit photos as well as generate synthetic images. And now a viral trend sees people turning theirphotos into imaginary figurines.
During the iPhone 17 Pro segment of Apple's keynote yesterday, the company revealed that the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max smartphones now support genlock, which helps filmmakers keep multiple video sources in sync. While discussing this, Apple showed the new Blackmagic Design Camera ProDock accessory for professional videographers, and it promises to power up the iPhone 17 Pro series in a big way.
Leitz Cine, a legendary brand in cinematic optics, has entered the mirrorless lens market. The new Leitz Cine Hektor lens lineup comprises six T2.1 primes, ranging from 18mm to 100mm, all designed for full-frame mirrorless cameras.
A photographer has been reunited with his long-lost 9/11 commemorative plaque -- a piece he thought he would never see again -- after it was discovered by a stranger and traced back to him through a Reddit post.
OpenAI plans to produce a feature-length animated film using AI technology, in roughly a quarter of the time normally required for a project of this scale.
Far be it from me to criticize one of my fellow PetaPixel writers, but I feel it necessary to counter Bimal Nepal's recent 'Stop making digital look like film' op-ed.
A 19th-century photography studio based in Gettysburg, PA, that produces Civil War-era wet plate collodion pictures for clients has been devastated by a fire.
When it comes to the longer telephoto ranges, even Micro Four Thirds lenses can still be big, and not everyone needs -- or can afford -- the full reach of an OM System 150-400mm f/4.5. OM System has a couple of 40-150mm lenses in various sizes, and they have longer zooms up to 300mm with slow apertures. The time is ripe for something in the middle, and that's where the 50-200mm f/2.8 IS Pro comes in; but it will cost you $3,699.
OM System has announced the M.Zuiko Digital ED 50-200mm f/2.8 IS Pro, featuring a massive full-frame equivalent zoom of 100-400mm while maintaining a fast f/2.8 aperture, all in a compact and lightweight lens body.
Blackmagic Design announced that DaVinci Resolve 20.2 and Blackmagic Camera 9.8 (public beta) are available now and add long-awaited support for Apple ProRes RAW, including footage captured using the brand-new iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max.
In the year and a half since Nikon acquired RED, both have been extremely busy with video-focused products. RED released Z-Mount versions of its cinema cameras and Nikon dropped the Nikkor Z 28-135mm PZ video lens as well as a library of RED LUTs for the N-Log profile. However, I’ve been wondering when we’d see a camera that truly fused Nikon and RED technology, and that day has arrived with the release of the Nikon ZR.
Nikon has announced its first cinema camera -- and first new camera in the Z Cinema series of products (technically the Z-mount V-Raptor [X] and Komodo-X were the first cameras, but those were just re-mounts) -- designed specifically for filmmakers: the full-frame Nikon ZR.
Apple unveiled its iPhone 17 family today, including the much-improved iPhone 17, the ultra-thin iPhone Air, and the redesigned flagship iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max. The PetaPixel team flew to Apple Park in Cupertino to witness the unveiling and go hands-on with the new-look iPhone 17 Pro, and there is much to like for photographers and videographers alike.
Paying homage to the very first Kodak single-use camera that was released in 1987, the Kodak Charmera blind boxes feature seven different colorful variations of miniaturized, working digital keychain cameras.
RED Digital Cinema, a Nikon-owned company, added another camera to its Z Cinema lineup today: the high-end V-Raptor XE. It is a streamlined version of the V-Raptor [X] and available in both Nikon Z and Canon RF mount versions.
Apple has officially unveiled the iPhone Air, the newest member of its flagship smartphone lineup, which also includes the iPhone 17, 17 Pro, and 17 Pro Max. Positioned between the standard and Pro models, the Air emphasizes thinness, portability, and design innovation while still carrying many of Apple’s latest performance and camera technologies.
Apple has officially announced the base iPhone 17 which has a new 'center stage front camera' that means users will no longer have to rotate their phone to change the orientation of the shot.
Audio technology company Rode, stylized RØDE, has announced significant price reductions across its wireless microphone range, lowering costs on three of its most popular systems.
Only a handful of hours after Sigma announced the 20-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DG Contemporary lens for full-frame E-mount and L-Mount cameras, Tamron revealed that it's working on a 25-200mm f/2.8-5.6 Di III VXD G2 (Model A075) zoom lens for full-frame E-mount cameras.
There was a scary incident at this weekend's NASCAR event in Illinois when a car got perilously close to a cameraman.
A unique Leica camera and lens that belonged to Pope Francis is set to be sold for an estimated $80,000 at the Leitz Photographica Auction.
Canon unveiled the EOS C50 this morning and the new RF mount-equipped full-frame cinema camera, Canon's smallest and lightest Cinema EOS series camera to date, seems like it could be the awaited successor to the Canon EOS R5 C hybrid camera. But is it? Let's see how the two cameras face off.
Canon announced a new compact point-and-shoot camera, the PowerShot 360 HS A. That said, there is very little new here and what is new is generally a downgrade.