Blackmagic Design announced Blackmagic Camera for Android 2.0. The updated video camera app adds support for new Android devices, including the Samsung S25 Ultra, which added log recording this year. The app update also adds new features, functionality, and other improvements.
TNT Sports and Max are launching a new NASCAR driver camera and audio experience this season, and it debuts this weekend for the 2025 Cook Out Clash at the historic Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, NASCAR's first race at the stadium since 1971.
Canon Inc. released its financial results for the fiscal year 2024, showing a decrease in operating profit and net income year-over-year but strong performance in the imaging sector. Canon's 2024 performance also missed projections, although the company expects improvement in 2025.
Vision Research announced the Phantom T2110, a sophisticated high-speed camera that can record video as fast as 483,300 frames per second (fps).
Canon unveiled two new 13-inch wireless inkjet photo printers ideal for photographers who want to print their favorite photos at home. The Pixma Pro-200S and imagePrograf Pro-310 share quite a few features with each other and look similar, differing primarily in terms of their ink and promised print quality.
Exceptionally talented Finnish astronomical nature photographer and visual artist J-P Metsävainio is very passionate about the cosmos. His latest image of IC 410, better known as the Tadpole Nebula, is a perfect example of his passion and how his craft has evolved over the decades.
Lomography's Lomo'Instant Square was a groundbreaking instant camera when it launched in 2017. In the years since, Lomography released an improved version with a glass lens, the aptly named Lomo'Instant Square Glass. This "sharpest instant [camera]" now sports a fresh style with two new versions, including one with a blue denim wrap.
Super Bowl LIX on February 9 in New Orleans is among the most anticipated sporting events of the year. Sony is pulling out all the stops to ensure that every exciting play is captured in incredible detail, whether for the broadcast on FOX or through the still images photographers capture from the sidelines.
Arri is lowering the barrier to entry in high-end cinema by making its very popular Arri Alexa 35 camera more affordable via a new "base model," starting at 49,800 euros.
The Travel Photographer of the Year competition unveiled the 2024 winners, and photographer Piper Mackay won top honors for her incredible infrared images from Kenya.
Taiwanese computer hardware company Team Group, best known for its PC memory products, announced a 2TB SD card. Unlike the few other 2TB SD cards on the market, this high-capacity card promises high speeds and sports a V90 rating.
Photographer James Warner, who goes by Snappiness online, built a do-it-yourself waist-level viewfinder that works for any camera, whether it's analog or digital. Better yet, it requires only about $10 worth of materials.
Canadian company Reveni Labs, operated by self-professed analog photography nerd and talented builder and inventor Matt Bechberger, is back with another new product for photographers, the Lumo light meter.
The OWC Atlas CFexpress Type A memory card is one of PetaPixel's favorites, but OWC has found an issue with the card, and customers are advised to update their card's firmware as soon as possible. The good news is that the data on the card is safe.
For those lucky enough to have one of the new Thunderbolt 5-equipped Macs, including the latest MacBook Pro and redesigned Mac mini, there are very few Thunderbolt 5 external SSDs to take full advantage of the new speed. LaCie's new Rugged SSD Pro5 aims to address that problem. But does it do so effectively?
It's no secret that Fujifilm's Instax business is huge, but the company recently said it expects it to get even better, anticipating that 2024 will be Instax's most lucrative year ever.
Backdrops are a vital and underappreciated aspect of many iconic portrait photos. The short film, The Promise of Spring, provides an intimate look at one of the most prolific but almost entirely unknown backdrop artists, Sarah Oliphant.
Alongside teasing its next camera, OM System announced the winner of its "Creativity. It's in Our Nature" photo competition.
Last June, Sony announced that some of its Tough CFexpress Type A memory cards had a problem. Sony addressed the issue with a free repair program for affected customers. Sony has now said that more cards are affected, extending free repair services to additional photographers and videographers.
Luminar Mobile version 2.2 is available now, adding comprehensive RAW image editing support and iCloud syncing to the iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro photo editing application.
The annual BCN Awards have arrived, detailing the most popular cameras and lenses at Japanese retailers in 2024.
Syrian sports photographer Ibrahim Ajaj, who had worked for the SANA state news agency under ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, has been assassinated.
It appears a new OM System camera is just around the corner, as the company has launched a teaser saying "exciting news" is arriving on February 6.
Canon's new RF 16-28mm f/2.8 IS STM lens for full-frame Canon EOS R-series mirrorless cameras expands the company's compact and affordable f/2.8 zoom series.
Panasonic is updating four of its mirrorless cameras, including the full-frame Lumix S5II and S5IIX and the Micro Four Thirds GH7 and G9II. The new firmware promises to improve functionality and overall user experience. In many cases, the firmware updates add features that were introduced in the Lumix S9.
Canon isn't the only camera company hitting the links. Nikon announced a pair of new laser rangefinders for golfers, the Coolshot Pro III Stabilized and the Coolshot 50i GII.
Leica is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its groundbreaking Leica I, the first mass-produced 35mm camera ever, with some surprising new products, including teddy bears, writing utensils, cuff links, wooden puzzles, pins, bags, key rings, and more.
Samsung announced a trio of new Galaxy S25 series smartphones, including the base Galaxy S25, the large S25+, and the flagship S25 Ultra.
Canon Inc. developed a groundbreaking 410-megapixel full-frame CMOS image sensor, setting a new record for the most pixels achieved on a 35mm image sensor.
Chinese lens maker Funleader has collaborated with Artizlab to create the Artizlab Classic 35mm f/1.4 lens for Leica M mount. The lens takes heavy inspiration from Leica's legendary 35mm f/1.4 V2 lens, which fetches thousands of dollars on the second-hand market.
With the famous Sundance Film Festival kicking off this week in Park City, Utah, Adobe thought it a good time to discuss what's next for Adobe Premiere Pro, a popular video editing platform for amateur and professional filmmakers alike.
Panasonic remains committed to camcorders despite the popularity of its interchangeable lens hybrid cameras. After updating two consumer camcorders for the first time in six years last Halloween, Panasonic unveiled four new 4K professional cameras.
The World Photography Organisation shared the shortlisted young photographers who are in the running to win the Student and Youth competitions in the prestigious Sony World Photography Awards.
Photography enthusiasts have noticed in recent months that longtime website Imaging Resource was active again following its untimely demise in 2023. The nearly 30-year-old photography site's new editor-in-chief shared how the site rose from the dead and its plans for moving forward.
NASA astronaut Don Pettit is a prolific photographer, arguably the best to ever go to space. In a fun new video from aboard the International Space Station, Pettit shows how to change camera lenses in space, and photographers on Earth will surely be envious of Pettit's zero-gravity conditions.
ProGrade Digital announced a new, larger-capacity version of its CFexpress Type A Gold-class card. The ProGrade CFexpress 2.0 Type A Gold card now comes in a beefy 960GB capacity, joining existing 120GB, 240GB, and 480GB capacities.
Pelican, known for its rugged hard cases for photo and video gear, announced various new carrying solutions, including some "soft cases," like backpacks, duffels, slings, suitcases, and more.
Chinese lens maker Viltrox is attempting to join the L-Mount Alliance, which would pave the way for the company's lenses to work on full-frame Leica, Panasonic, and Sigma cameras.
On his first day back in the White House, President Trump revoked nearly 80 of President Biden's executive orders, including the one Biden signed in October 2023 to establish federal regulations concerning artificial intelligence (AI).
Following its firmware update for the 70-180mm f/2.8 Di III VC VXD G2 in November, Tamron had improved the performance of another of its popular E-mount telephoto zoom lenses, the 50-400mm f/4.5-6.3 Di III VC VXD.
Canon Inc. announced Live Switcher Mobile, a new iOS and iPadOS application that delivers multi-device integration and switching for live streamers, including content creators and gamers.
TikTok, which is currently offline in the United States following a ban, says it will return online thanks to President Trump, who initiated the years-in-the-making ban in the first place via executive order in August 2020, years before he used the platform as part of his bid to return to the White House.
Inspiring British photographer and teacher John Blakemore died this week at 88.
The winners of the 13th annual Ocean Art Underwater Photo Contest have been unveiled, with Eduardo Labat earning "Best in Show" with a jaw-dropping photo of white-tip reef sharks circling off the coast of Mexico. Labat also earned top honors in the black and white category.
The Pentax K-3 Mark III DSLR has been officially discontinued in Japan but Ricoh Imaging tells PetaPixel that the camera remains available in the United States and is part of the company's 2025 product lineup.
In a rare event earlier this month, the Moon occulted Saturn, meaning that from Earth's perspective, Saturn traveled through the sky behind the Moon.
Good photography requires excellent artistic and technical skills. Consistently great photography, on the other hand, relies upon determination, passion, the ability to work under pressure, and, in many cases, strong relationships. Official New York Yankees chief photographer Ariele Goldman Hecht has all these traits in spades, and it shows through not only her photos but how she captures them.
Adobe's celebrated Creative Residency program seeks to provide up-and-coming artists new opportunities to develop their work and gain stronger footholds in the broader art world. To that end, the program places artists at some of the world's most famous art institutions and gives them a chance to showcase their work.
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have completed the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda galaxy and created a 417-megapixel panorama. It took over a decade to make and includes more than 600 photos.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured a photo of two stars actively producing carbon-rich dust, which may one day fuel the formation of new stars and planets.