Last December, the FY 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) passed by US Congress outlined a structured approach for evaluating the security concerns of Chinese-owned companies such as DJI. With less than nine months before the deadline for such an evaluation remaining, DJI is urging any of the five national security agencies to start the process.
In February, DxO announced PureRAW 5 which promised a large jump in performance versus the previous version as well as the promise for Fujifilm X-Trans support through the DeepPrime XD3 beta. The company revealed today that its beta wouldn't include support for the latest 40-megapixel X Trans sensor, but that information still isn't on its website.
The city of Ann Arbor, Michigan is expanding its ongoing chemical contamination investigation that has been linked to the former Argus Camera manufacturing facilities. Despite their closure in 1963, dangerous levels of TCE have been leeching out from the former factory into the surrounding neighborhoods.
Last night, Nikon announced a new entry-level full-frame camera in the Z5 II. Based on initial impressions, not only does it carry on the legacy of "good value" from its predecessor, it expands on it to the degree it might be the best camera in its segment right now.
ProGrade Digital is expanding its product line with more SSD products, expanding its business further beyond memory cards. The company's new SSDs promise high speeds and reliability despite their small form factors.
Nikon announced the Z5 II, a 24-megapixel full-frame camera that is a major departure from the line's predecessor thanks to dramatically improved performance across the board.
President Donald Trump today announced a huge swath of global tariffs that, if enacted, would increase the cost of camera products imported from Japan in the United States by 24%. Products from China would get hit even harder with a 34% tariff.
SD Express, a format that has been completely ignored by the camera industry, finally has a use case. In today's Nintendo Direct, the company said the new Switch 2 would make use of microSD Express for the faster transfer speeds. Unfortunately, it dumps the biggest "advantage" originally touted by the SD Association: backward compatibility.
Fujifilm says it could not have made an optic like the 35mm f/4 in the GFX100RF as an interchangeable lens for its medium format GFX cameras. Beyond that, the company has no plans to make leaf shutter Fujinon GF lenses either.
Everything about the Fujifilm GFX100RF has been designed in service of the overarching goal of making it as small and lightweight as possible. That doesn't mean Fujifilm didn't try adding a faster lens and in-body image stabilization to early designs, however.
Last week, Chris Niccolls and I were in Prague for the launch of the Fujifilm GFX100RF. While he spent the majority of our time with the new camera while I filmed his thoughts, I did enjoy several hours with it snapping photos of my own. Looking over them now, I can't help but be shocked at how sharp the lens is.
The GR III was released six years ago and over the course of its many different iterations, photographers have been asking with increasing urgency as the years pass when the next one will come. Ricoh assures photographers that there while will be a GR III successor, it might just not come quickly.
Asus announced a new ProArt Display that leverages QD-OLED display technology, allowing it to mix the excellent color and pixel response time of OLED with increased brightness and burn-in resistance.
Last week, PetaPixel published its review of the GFX100RF. Typically, pre-release cameras aren't ready for a full review let alone the publication of downloadable RAW files, but this time Fujifilm's sample cameras were production-ready and running on final firmware.
This week on The PetaPixel Podcast, Chris Niccolls, Jordan Drake, and I are joined by PetaPixel's mobile and computing contributing writer Ted Kritsonis to talk about the very good smartphone camera systems that North Americans might not know about or have outright disregarded.
When Ricoh announced the Pentax 17, the response was overwhelmingly positive. With the new film camera floodgates suddenly open, Ricoh suddenly found fans of analog begging it for more.
Kevin Raber, CEO and publisher of PhotoPXL and former CEO of Luminous Landscape, has passed away after suffering a series of strokes over the past 48 hours. He was 71.
This week on The PetaPixel Podcast, Chris Niccolls and I sit down with Fujifilm's Justin Stailey to talk about the design philosophy of the new GFX100RF and why the company made some of the decisions it did.
Fujifilm announced the GFX100RF, the company's first fixed-lens mirrorless digital camera in its GFX system which features a 28mm f/4 full-frame equivalent lens in front of a medium format 102-megapixel sensor.
Image sensor research and development is notoriously costly, which is why so many manufacturers have opted to work with an existing sensor fabrication company, like Sony Semiconductor, rather than develop their own in-house. Canon has been one of the few exceptions and, according to its executives, that will remain the case.
OM System isn't willing to sacrifice the performance of its computational photography features in order to increase the resolution of its sensors. That strategy leverages one of the company's competitive advantages, but it also very well makes it difficult for its cameras to appeal to any photographer.
The biggest benefit of Micro Four Thirds is size: cameras and lenses can be significantly smaller than APS-C or full-frame options. One perceived downside, however, is lower resolution. OM System says it could look into higher-resolution sensors but wouldn’t select them if it meant sacrificing computational performance.
Western Digital (WD), now separate from SanDisk and focused on hard drives, announced a new 26TB WD Red Pro HDD designed for use in RAID arrays and network attached storage (NAS).
Nextorage recently unveiled the "world's first" VPG 800-compliant CFexpress Type-A cards and expects them to be available in late April 2025. While the speed peaks aren't anything that hasn't been seen before, VPG 800 means the cards are certified to sustain far higher speeds in extremely taxing situations.
Fujifilm's upcoming GFX Eterna cinema camera remains mostly under wraps. First announced last November, very little has been shared about the camera since. However, speaking to PetaPixel at CP+ in February, the company confirmed two more features.
This week on The PetaPixel Podcast, the team is joined by David Imel to talk about the Sigma BF and why Chris Niccolls -- who laments the many things cut out to make it "radically simple" -- might be wrong.
Speaking to PetaPixel last week at the CP+ show in Japan, Fujifilm says it is aware of the demands for an X-Pro series successor but wants to make sure that what it produces isn't just a small, "boring" upgrade.
Photographers have repeatedly asked camera manufacturers to lean into their heritage and produce modern cameras with vintage design and charm. While some companies, like OM System and Nikon, have done so, both Canon and Ricoh Pentax don't seem interested in following suit if design is the only reason.
Last February, Fujifilm announced the X100VI and it quickly became one of the most popular cameras on the planet. Despite planning for increased demand and stockpiling cameras ahead of launch, wait times for the camera quickly exceeded months. The company says it has since increased production and is now closer to shipping outstanding orders.
Apple's new Mac Studio with M3 Ultra is an impressive, powerful machine that is worthy of the "ultra" moniker. That said, it better be for the asking price. However, most photographers are probably better served getting the M4 Max version.