Photographer Spencer Lowell's first monograph, Futures Past, delivers 57 color images across nearly 100 pages, each unified by its visual investigation of technological progress and how technology intersects with humanity.
ShiftCam Gear, best known for its iPhone camera lenses and grips, has announced ProRig. Launching later this month as ShiftCam's 10th Kickstarter campaign, the company says it partnered directly with Apple on the new product, an entire camera system built for iPhone.
The new iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max smartphones have been out in the wild for a couple of weeks, and the headline new feature is the variable-aperture main camera. Third-party camera apps are getting updates to take advantage, including the popular iPhone camera app Halide.
One of the greatest strengths of E-mount is how many outstanding E-mount lenses there are. Sony makes a lot of lenses, but there are also a wild number of third-party E-mount lenses available. Right now, many are on discount.
Polish photographer Jan Wieczorek's striking black-and-white wildlife photo, "Urban Beavers," is this year's Rewilding Europe Award winner.
National Geographic's newest documentary series, Africa: Earth's Wild Home, is among its most ambitious to date. The seven-part series is the first in a new multiyear natural history franchise for National Geographic, and features cutting-edge camera technology across the board. PetaPixel spoke to showrunner Gavin Boyland about the incredible diversity of place, subject, and cameras in the new series.
Huawei has announced a new series of Mate 90 smartphones, including the Mate 90, Mate 90 Pro, Mate 90 Pro Max, and top-of-the-line Mate 90 RS.
Alongside a slate of new smartphones, Huawei today unveiled an add-on camera module. While companies like Vivo have Zeiss-made add-on teleconverter lenses, Huawei's new Ruiying Z10 is an entire camera, complete with a 50-megapixel image sensor and zoom lens.
Fujifilm has raised prices in Japan by up to 23% across much of its photography lineup, citing increased costs.
Chinese technology intelligence company IDC published new research about the global handheld "smart camera" market, which includes action cameras and the ever-popular gimbal camera. This quickly growing market is much bigger than the traditional camera market, and market leader DJI alone outpaces all the Japanese camera makers combined.
Last week at Qualcomm's annual Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, instead of soaking up the Sun or digging my toes into the sand, I heard an awful lot about agentic AI. Everywhere I went, the "AI agent" followed me like my own shadow. At first I was skeptical. I still am, but now I'm also thinking about the possibilities. Could an agentic AI actually make my life better?
It's fun to make photo books of precious memories or give them as gifts, but it's much less fun to organize and select all the photos for the book. Photo book company Mixbook sees the problem and hopes to fix it with its new iOS app, designed to help users rediscover and organize huge libraries of personal photos.
Venus Optics has announced another new Laowa lens this week, and it's yet another first-of-its-kind optic. The Laowa Acris 35mm f/2.8 1x Macro APO is the world's first full-frame, AF-equipped 35mm lens with 1:1 macro reproduction.
Venus Optics has another tilt-shift lens on the way. Although it hasn't been officially announced in the U.S. yet, the Laowa T/S 24mm f/2 is definitely coming soon.
The newest NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Picture of the Month is among the best and most powerful examples of gravitational lensing ever seen.
Ah, rumors, the unsubstantiated gift that keeps on giving. Rumors are often fun to think about, and sometimes they even come true. Color me skeptical that the current hot goss in the Sony world, the a7S IV, will become a reality, though.
Police in Singapore have arrested and charged a man after he allegedly posted an AI-generated image of a saltwater crocodile swimming in a public water area.
Imagen has launched a brand new post-production workspace, Intelligent Studio, that promises to adapt to a photographer's individual workflow. Photographers can cull and edit in any order they want, rather than the industry standard cull, edit, and deliver.
7Artisans has announced a new pancake prime lens for APS-C mirrorless cameras. Available now in E-mount, the AF Lite 18mm f/2 costs $169 and is designed as a general purpose travel, landscape, street, and even portrait lens.
In January, reports surfaced that Leica Camera AG's controlling owners were considering selling a majority stake in the legendary photography company. Per a new Wall Street Journal feature, those conversations appear to have ended, and Leica will, for now, maintain the status quo.
SmallRig has announced a pair of external optical viewfinders designed to give photographers more options for framing their photos with their go-to cameras.
Brightin Star's distinctly unusual 50mm f/2 Tri-Sight lens announced at CP+ has officially launched. The manual focus lens is available for E, L, RF, and Z-mount full-frame cameras and promises three rendering modes.
"Pro Max" is all the rage these days, and Honor is the latest smartphone company to get in on the trendy name. Honor's new Magic9 Pro Max also brings in another big name: Arri.
Chinese lens company Mandler made headlines for its debut lens earlier this year, a facsimile Leica 35mm f/2 prime. The company is back with another Leica copycat, the Mandler 50mm f/1.4 E46 Pre-A.
Brazilian photographer Kiko Fairbairn planned his total solar eclipse trip and photos in northern Spain for over a year. But you can only plan so much from thousands of miles away. The photographic search truly began when Fairbairn arrived in Spain, and his hard work paid off in a big way.
SmallRig and CineD have teamed up on an unusual new light, the OrBrella FM 60B Foldable LED Video Light, or mercifully, OrBrella FM 60B for short. It's a two-in-one umbrella light that folds down and deploys in just 15 seconds.
Adobe has announced that it is bringing its software and tools directly inside Google's Gemini AI platform. The Gemini integration follows Adobe's earlier moves to bring tools to ChatGPT, Claude, Slack, and Copilot.
PolarPro is nothing if not insistent that capturing a look in-camera is better than using digital filters and editing to achieve the desired results. This means the company sometimes launches filters that seem more puzzling than practical. The latest filters to fit that mold are the colorful Radial Gradient Filters.
There are some nice deals on L-Mount cameras and lenses right now, from Panasonic, Sigma, and more. However, photographers looking to upgrade their kit or start building a new one may want to act fast, as some deals are listed as ending later today.
In 2010, the world watched as 33 miners were trapped half a mile beneath the surface of the Earth in Chile's Atacama Desert for 69 days. These miners faced complete darkness, immense stress, and a never-ending expectation of death. Their experiences and how the rest of the world experienced the event are on full display in a new three-part National Geographic series, Chilean Mine Rescue: Race Against Time.
That didn't take long. Nikon announced its new Z5 IIC camera last night, and SmallRig has already unveiled new accessories for it, including a quick release cage kit and a baseplate.
The Sony World Photography Awards 2027 remain open for entry, and the World Photography Organization today announced the judges for this year's competition, the 20th edition of the Sony World Photography Awards. As part of the announcement, the Sony World Photography Awards shared 15 photos already entered into this year's competition, and they are fantastic.
RØDE, hereafter referred to as "Rode," has released RodeCaster Video 1.4. It is a free, major firmware update for the company's all-in-one video production consoles, the RodeCaster Video, RodeCaster Video S, and RodeCaster Video Core.
Leica Camera AG has launched Leica Lux 2.0, which it describes as the "most comprehensive update" yet to its iPhone photography app.
Japanese street photographer Shin Noguchi's images have been shown in exhibits worldwide and featured in many renowned publications. He has been part of Leica's 70th-anniversary M-System campaign and its recent 100th-anniversary celebrations. Now Noguchi's striking work has found another home, and it's an unusual one: playing cards.
Today at Snapdragon Summit, Microsoft unveiled its next-generation Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch, both powered by the Snapdragon X2 Plus processor.
Xiaomi has officially launched the very first phones powered by Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Elite Extreme and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chips, less than a day after the chips were unveiled. The Xiaomi 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max promise plenty of compelling camera features for photographers.
Adobe announced in June that it had entered an agreement to purchase Topaz Labs, a software company best known for its AI-based upscaling technology for photos and videos. As of today, the acquisition is now complete, and Adobe fully owns Topaz Labs.
The Natural Landscape Photography Awards (NLPA) has announced its latest winners, a collection of beautiful landscape and nature photos that emphasize realism and authenticity.
Today at Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit, where Qualcomm unveiled its new Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 Mobile Platform, Motorola took the stage to unveil its most advanced and powerful smartphone, the Signature 27. Motorola says its new flagship phone pushes the boundaries of mobile imaging.
Today at its annual Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm unveiled two new flagship mobile SoCs, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6. They both promise to supercharge the age of agentic AI, although there are some very interesting new features for imaging as well.
Just over a year ago, Adobe released an all-new, mostly-free Premiere app for iPhone. At the time, Adobe promised that Premiere would come to Android, too. As of today, the promise has been fulfilled.
Upstart camera company Caimera has teamed up with Austrian PC fan company Noctua, on a new prototype Micro Four Thirds camera that is all about cryptographic authentication at the time of capture. The CAIM1 camera's name stands for "Counter Artificial Intelligence Machine 1." Catchy.
It was only in May that PetaPixel reviewed the Vivo X300 Ultra smartphone, then the company's flagship handheld. Now the X500 Series has landed in China, bringing the debut of a brand-new Pro Max model dripping with cutting-edge camera technology.
So the new Sony FE 400mm f/4.5 GM OSS and FE 600mm f/6.3 GM OSS lenses are obviously different, right? Yes, of course, but not nearly as different as one might reasonably assume. Some seriously efficient optical engineering is going on here.
The modern reincarnation of Yashica is dipping back into the original Yashica's history yet again with an upcoming compact digital camera. The Yashica Y16, inspired by and named for a 1959 classic, is arriving soon with a decidedly retro look.
Brevitē is no stranger to Kickstarter campaigns, but the company best known for its camera backpacks is certainly a stranger to its newest foray: Clothing. Brevitē has launched a new Kickstarter for what the company calls "Creator Apparel."
I've been a big fan of the Mac Studio ever since Apple released the first one. It has a great design and form factor and delivers enough power for pros and then some. With the Mac Pro gone, the Mac Studio carries a heavy burden. The new Mac Studio with M5 Max is more than up to the task.
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and Google have announced that the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite will now power Googlebook, a new type of laptop designed for Gemini Intelligence.
The novelty of the M4-generation Mac mini's redesign has worn off. But on the plus side, there's something else all-new to enjoy, the first Mac with M6 is here.
