Jeremy Gray

News Editor

Jeremy Gray is an award-winning landscape and nature photographer. Over the last decade, he has written extensively for many of the leading online publications in the photography industry. He has a passion for writing in-depth camera and lens reviews, educational content, and discussing the latest news from the photography world.

Articles by Jeremy Gray

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Sony’s New 100mm f/2.8 Macro GM Is Its Best Macro Lens Ever

Sony has announced its first G Master lens dedicated to macro photography, the Sony FE 100mm f/2.8 Macro G Master OSS. It arrives a decade after Sony's 90mm f/2.8 G Macro OSS, a lens celebrated for its excellent sharpness and close-focusing capabilities. Sony's new lens promises to be superior in every meaningful way and aims to be the best macro lens for full-frame mirrorless cameras, period.

A desktop computer displays a photo of a person holding a yellow umbrella in the rain. Surrounding the monitor are film cameras, photo film rolls, photography books, and a shelf with film boxes, all set on a wooden desk.

DxO FilmPack 8 Takes Your Favorite Photos Back Through Time

French photography software company DxO has announced FilmPack 8, the latest version of its premier film emulation software. The updated app introduces Time Warp mode, an interactive way to explore the rich history of photography, along with new film rendering options.

Nine black camera lenses of varying sizes are arranged in two rows against a plain white background, showcasing their different focal lengths and aperture markings.

These Rehoused 1950s Todd-AO Cinema Primes Are One-of-a-Kind

The legendary Todd-AO 65mm Prime lenses were originally built in the early 1950s and were used to film some true classics. The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC), Zero Optik, and Keslow Camera have teamed up to bring these lenses back, meticulously restored and rehoused, for modern filmmakers.

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How Tether Tools’ Custom USB Cable Solved a Huge Tethered Photography Problem

Tether Tools has long been a key player in the tethered photography community. This specialized but vital niche of the photography market has very specific cable requirements, which, when faced with increasing issues with USB-C PD, forced Tether Tools back to the drawing board. The company developed a brand-new USB-C cable, Optima, to deal with growing USB concerns on modern cameras.

Two Canon mirrorless cameras, the EOS R3 on the left and the EOS R5 on the right, are shown side by side with a 64GB ProGrade SD memory card positioned between them.

ProGrade Quickly Fixes SD Card Issue With Certain Canon Cameras

Canon EOS R series camera owners with ProGrade Digital SD cards should take notice of a new update to ProGrade's free Refresh Pro software. A newly discovered issue using ProGrade SD cards in certain Canon cameras has been resolved, but photographers will need to update their cards to ensure proper performance.

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Blend In (or Stand Out) With the Peak Design x Sitka Camo Camera Strap

Peak Design has teamed up again with the hunting and outdoor gear company Sitka for a limited-edition camouflage Slide Lite camera strap. If photographers slap camouflage on their telephoto lenses, and even wear a full-blown camo cloak, a camouflage camera strap is the next logical step for shutterbugs who want to blend in.

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Xiaomi is Obsessed With Proving It’s Better Than Apple


It's typical for Android smartphone makers to compare their latest products against the Apple iPhone. However, Chinese company Xiaomi has taken the rhetoric up a notch -- or two -- with its new Xiaomi 17 series, which comprises the Xiaomi 17, Xiaomi 17 Pro, and Xiaomi 17 Pro Max.

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OnePlus’ Next Flagship Smartphone Ditches Hasselblad’s Cameras

OnePlus teased its newest flagship phone, the OnePlus 15, at today's Snapdragon Summit China, revealing two key pieces of information. The new handheld will be powered by the brand-new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset, and it will feature a new camera system that ditches Hasselblad's engineering and participation.

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Nikon Small World in Motion Winners Reveal Hidden Microscopic Wonders

The 15th annual Nikon Small World in Motion winners showcase the world's best and most dynamic microscopic videography. The first-place video shows the self-pollination of a thymeleaf speedwell, while another prize-winning video captures actin and mitochondria in mouse brain tumor cells, demonstrating the diversity of the microscopy on display this year.

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KEH Awards NFL’s Atlanta Falcons for Trading Over 200 Cameras and Lenses

Many photographers know firsthand the great deals they can score by purchasing used cameras and lenses, but an oft-ignored benefit of used photography marketplaces like KEH is their circularity. The more pre-owned cameras and lenses people buy and sell, the less equipment that sits useless or, worse yet, ends up in landfills. KEH's partnership with the NFL's Atlanta Falcons demonstrates the power of photo gear circularity.

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Wild Leopard Sharks Mating Caught on Camera for First Time Ever

Scientists working in the South Pacific made scientific history after recording leopard sharks mating. The never-before-captured mating sequence caught the sharks, also known as zebra sharks (Stegostoma tigrinum), in a "threesome," and the footage could help aid vital conservation efforts.

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Nikon Can’t Fully Solve the Z6 III’s C2PA Problems Alone

Nikon suspended the brand new C2PA functionality introduced in the Nikon Z6 III's first major firmware update after a major security issue was discovered. Nikon has taken the critical step to revoke all C2PA signatures issued before the C2PA functionality was taken offline, but a complete resolution will require changes to the C2PA validation tools themselves.

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TikTok’s Algorithm Will Be Under American Control In Trump’s Deal

President Trump is expected to sign an executive order this week to finalize a long-rumored TikTok acquisition. In view of the impending deal, more details surrounding how the U.S. will tweak TikTok have come to light, including changes to the app's algorithm that is essential to its success and core to security concerns surrounding the app.

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Map Camera’s Three Best-Selling Cameras Are All From Fujifilm

Major Japanese camera retailer Map Camera just published its August sales rankings for new and used cameras. Not for the first time this year, Fujifilm has achieved the top spot in the sales rankings. In July, the X half was the most popular new camera. In August, Fujifilm retained its title but the X half dropped its crown.

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Minimalist Photography Awards Winners Show How Less Is More

The winners of the seventh annual Minimalist Photography Awards show that less is more, sometimes much more. Over 2,600 photographers from more than 50 countries entered this year's contest, each demonstrating the exceptional creativity in modern minimalist photography.

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WhiteWall’s New Sample Kits Solve a Major Headache for Photographers

Here at PetaPixel, we love printing and hanging our favorite photos. One of the best ways to do so is by using online labs like WhiteWall. However, when it comes to picking the perfect materials, like paper, mats, and frames, it's hard to know which materials are the best choice for a specific photo. That's where WhiteWall's new sample kits come in.

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Asus ProArt P16 Laptop Has High-End PC Power and MacBook Style

The new Asus ProArt P16 notebook aims at the Apple MacBook Pro, promising to deliver the powerful performance high-end PC notebooks are known for while maintaining a sleek style that is much rarer in the PC space. Powerful PC notebooks aren't just for gamers, after all.

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Protective and Slim Camera Cases for Photographers Who Hate Cases

Henley Bailey of Akara Labs, whom PetaPixel wrote about last year after he built the Leica M Mount 6-bit Encoder to easily adapting old lenses to Leica M digital rangefinders, is back with another creation for the modern photographer. This time it is a "Slim Skin" case for the popular Fujifilm X-E5.