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.
An anonymous photographer captured images of the first cougar cubs to be seen in Michigan in more than 100 years.
A photographer has warned others about a sophisticated "fake check" scam that began when he was hired for a seemingly ordinary shoot.
A couple saw their wedding photo shoot take a terrifying turn when a color bomb malfunctioned, leaving the bride with burns.
For this week's historical Friday feature, we are traveling to space to recap remarkable video and photographs showing a NASA astronaut flying untethered miles above Earth that have recently caught the imagination of Reddit.
Photojournalist Carlos Gonzalez covered the Minnesota Twins Major League Baseball (MLB) Spring Training in Florida with two vastly different camera setups. One, his traditional professional photo gear, and the other, his daughter's Fujifilm Instax SQ6.
An analog photographer temporarily stole the limelight during the 12 Hours of Sebring, a race in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
Skylum announced the latest major update for its new AI-powered portrait editing software Aperty. The 1.3.0 update adds three new AI-powered retouching tools as well as several workflow and UI/UX improvements, plus expanded language support.
B&H reportedly purchased Brookfield's 10-story 333 West 34th Street building for $150 million. The 287,000-square-foot property is just around the corner from the photo retailer's iconic retail store at 420 Ninth Avenue.
Canon is developing 3D photo technology that combines Canon's Dual Pixel CMOS image sensors with bespoke software to make 3D data creation more accessible and much more straightforward.
A proposed green hydrogen production facility in Chile’s Atacama Desert may significantly impact one of the world’s most important astronomical observatories, a new study has found.
Tourists have been blocked from a popular clifftop in Spain, that has become a famed selfie spot, by local protesters.
The New York Jets have released a video showing what it is like for their photographer Sarah Snyder to cover an all-action NFL game day.
Over 400 Hollywood creative leaders wrote an open letter urging the U.S. government to stop companies like Open AI and Google from weakening copyright rules.
Instagram has changed a great deal in the last 15 years and, as has been well-documented, it has moved away from being a photo-sharing platform to one that looks a lot more like TikTok.
Sirui is the ninth company to join the L-Mount Alliance and will release a wide range of photo and video-oriented lenses for L-Mount cameras.
A nature photographer is taking the fight to Canadian authorities over what he calls an unlawful killing of a cougar that left her two cubs orphaned.
It's turning out to be a surprisingly busy March for new camera announcements. In addition to Sony teasing a new full-frame cinema camera and Fujifilm debuting the GFX100RF, Canon is teasing a pair of new cameras, too.
Fujifilm's GFX medium format camera line features versatile and relatively affordable cameras in an industry normally dominated by prestigious names like Phase One or Hasselblad. However, Fujifilm also makes the insanely popular X100 series of cameras which make for a perfect compact companion to the traveling urban photographer. So what would happen if you combined the over-your-shoulder convenience of the X100 with the raw image quality of the GFX? The answer is the GFX100RF.
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.
The Center for Photography at Woodstock in Kingston, NY, announced its four eye-opening 2025 Vision Awards winners.
Award-winning "dogtographer,” Kaylee Greer uses her camera skills to help adopt out shelter dogs by transforming them into portrait heroes.
French photographer and YouTube creator Mathieu Stern's latest video discusses the wonderful world of close-up lens filters. Unlike some of Stern's stranger topics, like working with the world's blackest material and capturing travel photos with an infrared digital camera, close-up filters are something nearly every photographer might want to add to their kit.
A unanimous federal appeals court ruled that pictures generated solely by machines do not qualify for copyright protection.
Hidden cameras secreted by researchers at watering holes in Africa have found that wild animals change their behavior according to when people are around.
In a concerning development, people have been using a new AI model released by Google to remove watermarks from photos.
The first survey data from the 600-megapixel Euclid space telescope is available now. The European Space Agency (ESA)'s data release features classified, detailed images of 380,000 galaxies and provide a look at the large-scale organization of the Universe's cosmic web. Euclid observed 26 million galaxies in total in just one week.
The difference between a good landscape photo and an extraordinary one often comes down to one thing: Light. And there's a magical window of time, called the Blue Hour, that offers some of the most atmospheric, cinematic light in landscape photography. However, many photographers overlook or struggle to fully capture its unique potential.
Sony released a short and mysterious new video on its YouTube channel today, teasing the unveiling of a new camera on March 26 at 10 AM EDT (7 AM PDT).
The Blue Ghost Moon lander has captured the first-ever high-definition photos of a lunar sunset.
In an impromptu dream come true, 11-year-old photographer Mason Johnson went behind the scenes at the "Today" show.
Fujifilm North America partnered with clinical psychologist Dr. Lauren Cook on Frame of Mind, a new survey investigating the positive impact photography can have on mental health and emotional well-being.
Google announced its latest affordable A-series smartphone, the Google Pixel 9a. The new phone promises many of the same features as Google's standard 9-series smartphones and an upgraded main camera.
Viltrox's excellent LAB 135mm f/1.8 portrait prime lens for full-frame Sony mirrorless cameras is coming to Nikon Z mount.
The winners of the British Wildlife Photography Awards 2025 are here, showcasing the best in British wildlife, nature, and landscape photography of the past year.
Nvidia announced a new series of professional-grade GPUs and AI-powered tools for PCs and workstations. The RTX Pro Blackwell series GPUs are designed for demanding professional designers, creatives, and developers.
Photographer Hanan Maamoun brings her portrait and architecture visions alive through Cubist and Deconstructionist-inspired photography.
Think Tank's new Walker Pro backpack series is designed to enable photographers to easily and comfortably carry a lot of camera equipment. The Walker Pro backpacks feature a newly designed harness that Think Tank says will fit most body types.
Kolari Vision, best known for its infrared and ultraviolet camera conversions and filters, announced that its popular magnetic clip-in filters are now available for Blackmagic's full-frame cinema cameras, including the Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K and Blackmagic Pyxis 6K.
Winning awards is a powerful way for photographers to quickly gain recognition for their work. I discovered Deanne Fitzmaurice while researching Pulitzer Prize winners, fascinated by how this prestigious honor transformed and accelerated her career.
London-based photography platform Life Framer's Series Award winners showcase environmental issues and moving portraiture.
Venus Optics announced four new wide-angle Laowa cinema lenses designed for VistaVision cameras.
Cyme released Peakto 2.3 today, adding significant new features to its AI-powered photo and video management platform. With Peakto 2.3, photographers can access all their media from anywhere, even when those files are stored locally on a computer hard drive.
Professional landscape and travel photographer Dan Zafra, known for his website Capture the Atlas, traveled from his home in Nevada to the wilds of Alaska last week to capture the total lunar eclipse against a beautiful backdrop of the Northern lights.
SmallRig released a new cooling fan for Canon EOS R5-series mirrorless cameras. The $60 cooling fan snaps onto the back of the Canon EOS R5 and EOS R5 II, delivering cool air to the back of the camera to improve video recording duration.
Upgrade plain Sony camera body caps with a customizable Alphagvrd Creative Weapon Sensor Cap that hides an Apple AirTag.
Magnum Photos is working closely with Fujifilm and MPP (Heritage and Photography Library of Paris / Médiathèque du Patrimoine et de la Photographie) to digitize Magnum's massive color library archive in Paris. The collection contains approximately 650,000 color slides that have remained mostly untouched and unseen for over 20 years.
Godox, makers of professional lighting solutions, announced a new powerful, waterproof RGBWW monolight, the Knowled M1000R. It is designed primarily with videographers in mind, although it could also be useful for photographers.
Famous YouTube creator and former NASA engineer Mark Rober, who provides his 65 million subscribers with scientific entertainment videos, put Tesla's vision-based safety features up against a LiDAR system, and the results, although arguably flawed, highlight the limitations of vision-based autonomous vehicle systems.
Last November, Austrian auction house OstLicht held the historic first camera auction in China. The auction appeared to be a smashing success, with the headline item, a one-of-a-kind Leica IIIg built for the German Army, selling for nearly $4 million.
