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Police are searching for a suspect after camera gear was stolen from a TV crew filming on a popular beach in the U.K.

VSCO, a photo and video editing app, is offering photographers in every state the opportunity to have their work exhibited on a billboard.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured beautiful new photos of the Lion Nebula, NGC 2392, demonstrating its imaging prowess compared to the venerable Hubble Space Telescope.

GoPro has announced its second-quarter financial results and some of the core numbers are dire.

Sharge is just a few days away from wrapping up its crowdfunding campaign for the follow-up to the Sharge Disk Pro with a few nice upgrades, including a way to toggle off its obnoxiously loud fan.

Sony Group and chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) are planning to begin mass production of next-generation image sensors in southwestern Japan as soon as 2029, per Nikkei Asia.

Apple seemed to leak an unannounced Nikon camera over the weekend on a ProRes support page. It's a very strange way for a camera to be leaked.

Nearly three years after it launched, Blackmagic has added phase detect autofocus (PDAF) and a set of object detection tracking modes to the Cinema Camera 6K, which significantly ups the value of the video camera.

Tamron's financial results are always interesting thanks to the company's candor in breaking down its own-brand versus OEM lens production and sales data. However, Tamron's latest results are made even more compelling by the fact Sony is actively trying to acquire the lens maker, a very interesting move with huge potential implications.

The first photos of the impact crater left on the Moon after an out-of-control SpaceX spacecraft crashed into its surface last week have emerged.

A New Mexico court has ordered Meta to pay $567 million over harms to young people linked to its platforms -- in what is the largest fine against Instagram and Facebook’s parent company over child safety.

Chinese-made surveillance drones used by the U.K.'s elite special forces were found to have cameras that secretly sent data to China.

Several establishments across the U.K. are announcing bans on Meta smart glasses, citing concerns that the devices could be used to record customers and staff secretly.

A new exhibition examines how more than 80 years of documentary photography has captured the darker, more unsettling side of life in Britain and Ireland.

In a town close to the French/German language split in Switzerland lies a piece of photographic history that is worth taking a look at. In Marly, Switzerland, lies Machine E, a multilayer photographic coating machine that has been used to bring many world-beating photographic products to the market.

I recently added a camera that shoots 6x6 to my shelf. Square negatives, twelve per roll. I expected to enjoy the lens, the build, the ritual of loading film backs. What I didn’t expect was how much the shape of the frame would mess with the rest of my photography vision.

An extraordinary picture collection spanning 100 works by photographers including Diane Arbus, Dorothea Lange, Richard Avedon, Nan Goldin, and Edward Steichen will be on view at museums across the United States.

Continuing the slate of financial result releases, Fujifilm shared its latest earnings for the first quarter of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2027. Revenues are up, but operating income is down.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering expanding its already existing ban on new DJI drones to include drones that already exist in the marketplace, claiming it wants to “secure the drone supply chain” by preventing the sale of drones equipped with military technology.

Keeping track of photo and video files across multiple hard drives, memory cards, and cloud services can become difficult as projects accumulate. A new Mac application called Tusk is designed to give photographers and video creators a way to track those files while also handling parts of the backup and offload process.

The newest NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month delivers a spectacularly colorful look at a cosmic "Treasure Chest," a neat feature of the nearby Carina Nebula, located just 7,500 light-years away.

Zhong Yi Optics has announced the Pittura 30mm f/2.4, a manual focus prime lens designed to give Hasselblad XCD and Fujifilm GFX photographers an unusual combination of both fast aperture and a wide-angle.

Want to live in Hong Kong while getting paid to create photography and video content?

Late last year, Adobe introduced integrations for Photoshop, Express, and Acrobat inside OpenAI's conversational AI platform, ChatGPT. Now Adobe has upped the ante and announced the Adobe plugin in ChatGPT, which brings every Adobe app inside ChatGPT.

DJI has released a second teaser for its upcoming Osmo 360 II, this time showing footage captured with the new 360-degree camera. The company says the camera will officially launch later today.

There are many great deals on a wide range of very good cameras at B&H right now. While not all of them are the absolute latest and greatest, they are very good interchangeable lens cameras, ranging from Micro Four Thirds all the way up to full frame.

Scientists have captured the most detailed photos of the Sun's surface yet, revealing mysterious solar processes with incredible resolution.

Adobe released new updates across its Lightroom ecosystem, including Lightroom Classic, Lightroom on desktop, Lightroom for iPad, and Lightroom for mobile. There is a wide range of exciting updates across the board.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z instrument to photograph Earth as it passed behind the Martian moon, Phobos.

Nikon lost a record amount of money last fiscal year, and things aren't exactly off to a great start in FY2027. That said, Nikon only lost 0.9 billion yen (under $5.7 million) in the first quarter, a massive improvement versus the over $700 million the company lost in total last year.

A citizen petition submitted to Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) that would require photographers to pay an annual fee to operate commercially in the state has been slammed as "enraging" and "unenforceable".

Sony recently released its FY2026 Q1 financial results, and it has been an excellent start to the year for Sony overall.

Nikon is well regarded for its excellent post-launch firmware support, especially for its mirrorless cameras like the major releases for the Z8 and Z9. However, Nikon's latest updates aren't for its mirrorless cameras, but rather for a pair of the company's old DSLRs.

Camera traps have captured the first wild baby pine martens to be born in southwest England for over 100 years.

A NASA satellite has captured a striking image of a fractured Antarctic landscape that appears to resemble a hummingbird.

A talented wedding photographer gave the internet an unintended jump scare after including a pair of dangling legs in his frame.

Skylum, best known for its AI-powered photo editing software Luminar, is grappling with today's increasingly negative attitude toward artificial intelligence by changing its messaging to double-down on human creativity.

This week on The PetaPixel Podcast, Chris and Jordan phone in from the beach to talk about the ramifications of Nikon's loss to Viltrox in Chinese court as well as Sony's bid to buy Tamron. Plus, the two name what they think are every camera brand's greatest accomplishment... and their deepest shame!

Canon is working on a fluorine-free optical coating that offers the same water-repelling qualities and durability of fluorine, but without the PFAS problems.