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.
A previously unknown species of giant waterlily, that is large enough to be seen from space, was inadvertently discovered thanks to a selfie posted on Instagram.
This year's U.S. Open tennis tournament was marred by rowdy influencers who conducted impromptu photo shoots that interrupted matches.
What if you could build your photography website, deliver galleries, book clients, sell prints, and manage your business without piecing together different services? That's the idea behind Zenfolio's NextZen, a photography-focused platform designed to bring more of the business side of photography into one place.
Leica has announced the winners of the 2026 Leica Oskar Barnack Award and its inaugural LOBA Women Grant.
The xenon flash "look" is extremely popular right now. Many young customers are buying up old, used point-and-shoot cameras largely because of the look of a proper, real flash. Godox is bringing that same xenon flash look to smartphones with its new magnetic A2 flash.
The 2026 Leica Hall of Fame Award winner is renowned Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide. Her work has been exhibited worldwide and is housed in major museum collections. She is among the most acclaimed and accomplished photographers alive today.
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.
Kodak Ektachrome had been very difficult to find this past summer with stock running out in the United States as early as last June in either 35mm or 120. Luckily, the drought appears to have ended and stock is once again flowing across the country. Birgit Buchart, an excellent photographer who also works for Roberts Camera, said the store got notified late last week that stock was coming in and Blue Moon Camera and Machine just filled its inventory today. Rejoice!
We still aren't sure exactly why production of Ektachrome was so hung up, but at least the wait is now over.
Sony is discounting four of its cameras for Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days this week, but that's not the only place you get nab the discounts. If you're not a big fan of Amazon, both B&H Photo and Sony's own web store are offering the same discounts. The a1 and a7 IV are both $500 off while the a7R V and the a7S III are $300 off.
During our iPhone 18 Pro review last month, PetaPixel decided to stay at the Inn at the Presidio in San Francisco for the first leg of our grand travel adventure across California due to its excellent proximity to multiple destinations. It turns out we're not the only ones who like it: it was just voted #1 in the Conde Nast Readers' Choice Awards 2026. I thought it was great, and I'm happy to see the public agrees with me. Vindication!
Sony has announced the ECM-AX10, a spatial audio microphone designed for content creators that is the world's first to be certified by Eclipsa Audio. The mic uses omnidirectional capsules to capture sound that Sony says feels "more natural, immersive, and true to the moment."
WhatsApp users may have recently noticed an annoying pop-up message when sharing photos: "Restyle with AI."
Cameras, lenses, curry, ragù, and now... gloves. OM System feeds and clothes photographers. The company is one tent product launch away from hitting all the key survival requirements.
Yashica is back with yet another compact point-and-shoot camera designed to capitalize on the trendiness of old-school digicams. This time it's the Yashica Crew, an ultra-lightweight compact camera with a 13-megapixel sensor and 6x optical zoom.
Google has made its SynthID Detector publicly available, allowing users to check whether images, videos, and audio clips contain watermarks associated with generative AI.
NASA has released an image of the dark side of the Moon complete with handwritten annotations made by the Artemis II crew who were observing it at the time.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been photographed by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair's New Establishment edition.
The classic 70-200mm f/2.8 lens is such a useful staple in the professional photography world. Full-frame users have long lusted after these pro telephotos to handle everything from sports and events to studio portraits. Traditionally, these lenses are very expensive and very large, but on an APS-C platform, they could be far more compact and affordable.
Sigma has announced the 50-120mm f/2.8 DC OS Contemporary, the final piece of the company's compact "holy trinity" of zooms for APS-C cameras.
Tamron has announced that its compact, fast-aperture 20-40mm f/2.8 Di III VXD standard zoom lens is coming soon to Nikon Z-mount mirrorless cameras.
Software engineer Brandon Thomas has built and released an open-source, free alternative to Adobe's Creative Cloud suite, including versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom (not Classic), Acrobat, After Effects, and InDesign. The apps live under the ArtCraft banner and are available for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
This week on the PetaPixel Podast, Chris Niccolls and Jaron Schneider are joined by Gordon Laing and Sarah Teng for a discussion on the explosive popularity of digicams and why no matter how hard they might try, modern companies can't fully recapture the magic of the point-and-shoot cameras from 10+ years ago.
One of the most frustrating and time-consuming parts of being a photographer is dealing with all of the photos. The keepers make it worthwhile, but wouldn't it be nice not to slog through hundreds or thousands of photos to find the few you or your client actually want? That's where PhotoCuller comes in, helping photographers manage their photos from ingest to editing and save precious time.
The River Thames is one of the most famous rivers in the world, but what goes on beneath its waters? A YouTuber recently dropped a few cameras into the deep to find out.
Starting today, Instagram users can make carousels in the platform's free, dedicated video editing app, Edits. The update lets people mix and match photos and videos on a customized canvas using existing Edits tools, plus new ones built specifically for carousels.
A photographer has captured a magnificent timelapse of the Milky Way above New York City using infrared camera equipment.
Parents are increasingly turning to AI to create their children’s school photos or remove watermarks from existing images to avoid paying photographers.
A few weeks ago, it looked like the Sony FX5 might start shipping by the end of this month. It seems the release date may have slipped a little bit again.
Scientists have developed an AI model that can “read” a person’s brain activity and reconstruct what they’re looking at with striking speed and accuracy. The astonishing results can be seen above -- with the original image that the person sees on the left and the AI’s reconstruction on the right.
A "racist" woman who yelled "go back to Mexico" at photographers capturing a couple getting engaged at a park in Laguna Beach, California, has been outed on the internet.
An Agence France-Presse (AFP) photographer was beaten by armed Israeli settlers yesterday (Tuesday) while covering violence against Palestinian olive farmers in the occupied West Bank, according to witnesses and colleagues.
SmallRig’s Autumn Savings promotion runs from October 6 through 15, 2026, with up to 30% off selected photography and video accessories. These offers below include tripods, batteries, camera and phone rigs, and portable lights.
Italian photographer Simone Marulli is at the very apex of aviation photography. PetaPixel spoke to Marulli about his incredible photos of planes, including commercial airliners and fighter jets alike.
Scientists using the Gemini North telescope in Hawai'i captured a new photo of Pa 30, a supernova remnant believed to be the remains of a supernova that people witnessed in August 1181.
Earlier this year, Chinese imaging technology company Shenzhen Sonida Digital Technology Co. Ltd. (Sonida) officially joined the Micro Four Thirds system and said it was making a Micro Four Thirds camera and lens. A few weeks ago at IFA 2026 in Germany, a camera appeared on the show floor that looked like it could be related to Sonida's announcement earlier this year. Not so fast!
Elon Musk's company xAI has successfully blocked Minnesota's landmark ban on AI nudification apps and websites that create explicit images of people, mostly women, without consent.
NASA’s Curiosity rover has marked 5,000 Martian days on the Red Planet with a new panorama captured from a sandy ridge known as “Chocolatal.”
A wedding photographer has been ordered to pay $1.7 million after leaving hundreds of customers without the services they paid for.
Aftershoot, known for its AI-driven photo editing platform for pros, has launched its own free RAW editor, Photon.
Scientists working for the Ocean Census Network identified 57 new marine species and five new genera in just two weeks of exploration. Initial photos show some pretty wild animals.
Shoten Koubou's first interchangeable lens, the Shoten Tribute 01 -- LTM 50mm f/1.1, is a gorgeous new lens for Leica M-Mount. At around 115,000 yen, or about $730, it's a modern twist on a classic Japanese-made portrait prime.
A Prague bridge has become a popular photo spot for Depeche Mode fans, with tourists lining up daily to recreate an iconic 1988 photograph of the band.
Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil has been a hit at the box office and praised by critics, even if some fans of the video game franchise it’s based on have voiced their disapproval.
A bride and groom who strapped a GoPro to their dog Swayze during their wedding day are thrilled with the footage he shot.
The U.K. has opened an investigation into whether Meta breached safety laws with its Instagram's Instants feature, which shares disappearing photos.
In the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Fox News journalist Benjamin Hall was traveling in a car in the suburbs of Kyiv with videographer Pierre Zakrzewski and journalist and interpreter Oleksandra Kuvshynova, along with two Ukrainian soldiers, when their vehicle came under attack.
Last month, Japanese publication Nikkei published a story that featured interviews with executives from the top camera makers: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Fujifilm.
In March, Apple discontinued the Mac Pro, ending a rather short experiment of combining Mac Studio guts with a massive Mac Pro housing. While the Mac Pro may no longer be an active product, I argue it died in name only.
Foliage season is in full swing here in New England, and so far, my wide-angle lens has spent far more time in my bag than attached to my camera. My name is Jeremy, and I'm addicted to telephoto lenses for landscape photography.
January is widely considered the bleakest month of the year, and astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy, who is putting together his cosmic calendars for 2027, chose the first month to feature an unnerving glimpse into the future.
Maven is expanding beyond (excellent) magnetic lens filters with a new series of folding, highly portable LED lighting products. The pocket-sized Talon lights launch next week on Kickstarter and look very interesting. They have been in development for seven years.
Trust me, just like you, I've had my share of bad prints, especially when I was first starting photography. The color would come out all wrong, the tone wouldn't match what I saw on screen, and the whole thing was frustrating and miserable. So let's demystify this a little, because it's not as hard as it seems.
Imaging World wrapped up on Sunday, October 4, in Nuremberg, Germany. The three-day photography trade show is coming back in 2027, and moving to Photokina's old stomping grounds, Cologne.
