With the popularity of film photography reaching a fever pitch recently, seeing Leica announce its first-ever black and white 35mm film shouldn't shock you. Leica is even making a film camera brand-new, so it makes a ton of sense. But is Leica Monopan 50 any good and -- more importantly -- is it unique?
We did it: The PetaPixel Podcast has reached 100 episodes! Come celebrate with us as we recap the biggest news stories from the last two weeks before Chris Niccolls, Jordan Drake, and Jaron Schneider recap their best and worst memories making the PetaPixel YouTube show over the last three years.
This week, Sigma announced that it would be absorbing the additional 5% cost of the newest US tariff on Japanese goods. When bigger, far more established companies like Canon have already said they plan to increase prices and cut costs in response, it's important to understand why Sigma was able to take the action it did while its contemporaries likely cannot.
Insta360 and DJI are swirling toward one another like two ends of a growing hurricane. As the Insta360-incubated Antigravity drone brand prepares for launch on one end, DJI introduced its first 360-degree camera on the other.
Earlier this week, PetaPixel reported that official Fujifilm dealers were sent a list of increasing prices set to take effect August 1. While the price increase is now in effect, it wasn't due to the new 15% tariff "deal" the US struck with Japan recently, but is instead the company's response to the first 10% tariff introduced earlier this year.
Yesterday, I shared a deep-dive into the Nikkor 105mm f/2.5 lens made by my friend Gordon Laing. As I was putting that piece together, a thought that has been flitting in and out of my consciousness for the last several months resurfaced: "wait, why hasn't Nikon remade this lens?"
This week, a decades-old technology and commerce site recommended taking advantage of a 79% discount on a digital camera which is now available at Walmart for $60. No, you should absolutely not buy this "popular vlogging camera."
Japan's trade agreement with the United States includes an increase from the current 10% tariff to a new 15% tariff, and while both Canon and Fujifilm have either already raised prices or are planning to, Sigma says that it intends to absorb the 5% internally.
Last November, Australia's parliament approved strict social media rules that would ban access to social media sites for those under the age of 16. YouTube was excluded from the initial list of properties covered by the ban, but Bloomberg reports that has changed.
Rode today announced CallMe, a new feature for the RodeCaster Pro II and RodeCaster Duo that adds the ability to connect devices remotely to one another for what Rode describes as a "seamless" remote call that is akin to having two callers sit in the same room as each other.
Canon recently revealed to investors that it does plan to raise prices (and lower its costs elsewhere) in order to make up for a new 15% tariff on imports into the United States. Unfortunately, the company isn't ready to reveal exactly what those price increases will look like.
Produced in various configurations over the course of 50 years, Nikon's 105mm f/2.5 lens is considered by many to be one of the best optics the company ever made. In his latest Dino Bytes video, Gordon Laing takes a look at the history and image quality of this much beloved lens.
Flickr has made some rather dramatic changes to the photo-sharing site in response to new safety standards put in place by the United Kingdom. While some of the new rules only affect citizens of the UK, the website is now acting like an adult website: in order to create an account, new users must be 18 years of age or older.
Photographer Tools Co. is a new store and line of products designed to solve common, yet often unaddressed, problems encountered by photographers. Described as “developed by a commercial photographer with over 15 years of professional experience,” this small store offers a few products that might be beneficial to working photographers casually running into everyday problems in the studio.
Despite no official ban on the company, DJI is having a difficult time selling drones in the United States. That is to say, it's having a hard time selling them under the DJI brand.
Despite initial speculation that Fujifilm would increase prices due to a new "massive" deal the US made with Japan that would result in 15% tariffs, the company is actually doing it for the first time, making it the last camera brand to change pricing due to the initial 10% tariff from April.
Antigravity is the name of a new drone company. Launched out of "incubation" inside of Insta360, the company says its goal is to "redefine aerial exploration and storytelling" and will do so when it launches a sub-249g form factor, 360-degree drone with 8K resolution later this year.
The online discourse surrounding the Sony RX1R III has been up and down. When Sony surprise announced it 10 days ago, the Internet's immediate response was jubilant. But then, not long after, the asking price of $5,100 sank in. The whiplash was hard and fast, leading many to believe it wasn't going to sell well. That doesn't appear to be the case at all.
In May, vintage-inspired analog camera company Reto announced the Reto Pano, a reusable point-and-shoot camera with both an ultra-wide lens and the promise of being able to switch freely between standard 35mm film aspect ratio and panoramic mid-roll. It got my attention.
Waves are a new brand of "all-day" camera glasses designed for content creators and are meant to be an invisible way to capture the world directly in front of the wearer. They're not smart glasses, but instead are just a face-mounted camera because "smart glasses are cringe."
Elon Musk says that he plans to bring back Vine, the short-form video-based social media platform that was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and then shut down by its parent company in 2017.
Canon has re-released firmware for the EOS R1 and R5 Mark II after having to pull both updates last week due to an error that caused video to not be recorded properly when using a memory card larger than 2 TB.
Instead of using a passive lock mechanism found on most mount adapters, Thypoch has announced a new positive-lock system that promises better lens connection, stability, and reliability.
Google has announced the ability to "bring your photos to life" with the introduction of a couple of new creative tools that give Photos users the ability to "remix" their memories.
A global, wide-reaching study has revealed that receiving a smartphone, and then using it to access social media, before the age of 13 is directly associated with poor mental health outcomes in young adulthood, specifically among young women. The results are so alarming that the researchers are calling for a global ban on them before a person reaches the age of 13.
Samsung, Google, and Apple are in a three-way battle when it comes to photography, but of the three, Samsung is typically the most forthcoming with explaining new advancements in its sensor tech. It recently published a deep dive into its nanoprism technology, a new type of microlens that it says improves light gathering significantly.
Wildlife photographer Sha Lu captured a unique photo of a hapless vole in the clutches of a white-tailed kite that has gone viral this week. Once again, nature is metal.
Harman is on a roll, expanding its support for analog photographers with multiple new film emulsions this year. Right on the heels of Kentmere Pan 200, its new Phoenix II film stock replaces the more experimental original Phoenix and improves on it in multiple areas. That said, it might not be for everyone.
The new firmware for the Canon EOS R1 and R5 Mark II, which was announced earlier this week and released yesterday, has been made "temporarily unavailable" due to an issue that renders playback impossible on the camera or PC when using a card larger than 2 TB.
The tale of the US government-mandated security audit of DJI has taken another turn. While for the last six months, DJI has begged the government to start the audit to no avail, lawmakers are now seeking to rush the audit through in 30 days.