Have you ever flown internationally and, in your desire to make sure to capture every great moment, brought too much gear? We know the feeling, and The PetaPixel Podcast team want to help you avoid the FOMO without missing any of the photos.
The nature of camera sales in North America is complicated, and that's an understatement. To help better understand it, The PetaPixel Podcast team is joined by Peter Jeune, the founder and owner of Calgary's The Camera Store -- where Chris Niccolls and Jordan Drake got their start.
In an unusual move, Canon says that it will announce three new "hybrid" L-series lenses for its RF mirrorless cameras on October 30. Based on the teaser image provided, the lenses are designed similarly to the 24-105mm f/2.8 L and the 35mm f/1.4 L that were announced earlier this year.
Apple announced a significant power upgrade for the iPad mini series this morning with a new model that packs the A17 Pro chip -- the same chip found in the iPhone 15 Pro -- along with support for the Pencil Pro.
DJI announced the $1,099 Air 3S drone which features a dual-camera system, improved 10-bit video across two cameras, a bigger Type-1 sensor on the main camera, and better low-light performance paired with new "nightscape" obstacle sensing to make after-dark photography more approachable.
Afghanistan's Taliban morality ministry says it will implement a new law that bans any photo that depicts a living thing from being published. This rule applies to everyone, including the media.
EssilorLuxottica, the world's largest eyewear company, has purchased a 5.1% stake in Nikon and is treating it as a "long-term financial investment to support the company and its management."
Easily missed in Adobe's giant dump of news out of its MAX creativity conference was Nikon's announcement that the Z6 III, Z8, and Z9 would get Frame.io integration through the NX Mobile Air app.
Over the weekend, Meta's official Threads account posted a series of AI-generated images of major cities with the Northern Lights overhead along with the line, "You missed the northern lights IRL, so you made your own with MetaAI." It's a stark reminder of the contempt Meta, and much of big tech, have for artists.
Nikon announced that it is preparing a firmware update that will bring the Content Authenticity Initiative's (CAI) C2PA content credentials to the Z6 III camera which will be ready to deploy by mid next year.
Fujifilm announced the X-M5, a mirrorless interchangeable lens compact camera that is the lightest in the X-Series and is designed to appeal to new and emerging content creators who want one small, compact camera that can take both photos and videos.
"Submerged" is a new film shot specifically for Vision Pro, making it the first scripted immersive film made for the platform -- and only for it. Because of how it was shot and mastered, it can only be watched on Vision Pro.
The James Webb Space Telescope continues to capture spectacular photos of the universe and the latest is an unusually dense cluster of massive stars that contain more than 10,000 times the mass of the Sun, yet are packed into an unbelievably small volume.
Last month, Canva warned customers that some plans would see a substantial price increase. One, Canva Teams, jumped from $180 per year to $500. Today, Canva rolled back one aspect of its unpopular price hikes as part of what it calls a "Pricing Promise" moving forward.
Early this morning, October 9, the historic Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas was imploded to make way for the new A's Major League Baseball park. The hotel had been a mainstay on the Las Vegas strip for over 60 years.
With fixed-lens cameras booming in popularity but only Fujifilm and Ricoh seemingly interested in capitalizing on it, The PetaPixel Podcast team discusses what they wish every manufacturer would make based on their previous camera designs.
Panasonic announced its Lumix S 18-40mm f/4.5-6.3 for L-mount. It is the smallest and lightest full-frame zoom lens for mirrorless cameras on the market and finally gives the S9 that was announced earlier this year the companion optic it always needed.
Pexar is a sub-brand of Lexar that makes one thing: digital picture frames that are available in 11 and 10.1 inch configurations and sold through Amazon.
As more people have gotten their hands on the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max smartphones, the change Apple made to the ultra-wide camera -- namely the boost in resolution up to 48-megapixels -- is getting more attention.
In 2020, DJI was placed on the Commerce Department’s Entity List, more colloquially known as the "economic blacklist." Now, four years later, the Department of the Interior reports negative effects of that decision.
JPEG XL is a new-generation image file format that recently got a big boost to awareness thanks to native support in the iPhone 16 series smartphones. So what is it, why does it matter, and why should you use it? Who better to ask than one of the people who helped make it a reality?
The UnifyDrive UT2 is a portable and expandable NAS storage solution -- the first of its kind -- that looks like a bigger, better, and more customizable version of the now-defunct Gnarbox. Unfortunately, despite its many good ideas, the UT2 is plagued by poor design and a bad user experience.
The Coalax Lancer300 is a modular backpack made for outdoor adventurers and was designed particularly with photographers and drone enthusiasts in mind. Part of the design was also inspired by the video game Death Stranding which brings the delivery simulator to life in an unexpected way.
The Siena International Photo Awards (SIPA) announced the winners of its 2024 competition that it hosts with the goal of making Siena and the region an international capital for photography.
Yesterday, Moment announced the SuperCage: a smartphone cage system with integrated USB-C and an SD card port. That might lead some mobile filmmakers to believe they can use their existing memory cards to take advantage of the iPhone's ProRes Log capture, but as PetaPixel has written before, it's not that simple.
While browsing Reddit yesterday, I came across a gorgeous photo of Earth that had been downloaded from the NOAA's GOES-East orbital satellite. Looking more closely, I realized the NOAA was uploading a new, 470-megapixel photo every 10 minutes.
This week, ProMaster announced a set of new tripods and monopods for mobile videographers called the Key Grip series which includes a new video head, tripod kits in carbon fiber and aluminum, and a monopod kit.
Moment announced a new all-in-one smartphone camera cage called the SuperCage. It features an integrated power-delivery-capable USB-C hub, microphone jack, headphone jack, SD card reader, extra ports, and the ability to add onto the cage to make filming on iPhone feel more like using a "real" camera.
When the R5 II launched, Canon said that while it was not recommended to use older batteries in it, they would work with some limitations. However, in August, PetaPixel reported that there were limitations with using these older batteries beyond what Canon stated.
Leica announced the Q3 43 which puts a new APO-Summicron 43mm f/2 ASPH lens in front of the same full-frame Q3 that became incredibly popular when it launched with a fixed 28mm lens last year.