Photographer Arthur Felig, better known as Weegee, captured the gritty side of 1940s New York City and was known for his uncanny ability to arrive at a crime scene before the police did.
Photographers in New York City are being told to stay vigilant after a string of violent camera robberies linked to a crew of thieves.
A Meta official has revealed the company has fired 20 employees for leaking confidential information.
One of the only nine signed prints of Albert Einstein's iconic "Tongue" portraits recently sold at auction for $338,630.
Angelbird announced a pair of updated portable SSDs in 2TB and 4TB capacities. The compact, rugged drives are designed for professional creators and include a physical write-protect switch on the new SSDs, ensuring users don't accidentally overwrite or delete precious files.
This year's CP+ in Yokohama, Tokyo, is the gift that keeps on giving. Viltrox provided attendees with a look at four brand new lenses and a new battery charging case.
The BBC has released another clip from the endearing Spy in the Wild series which features cameras disguised as animatronic animals.
Meta-owned Instagram is reportedly toying with the idea of releasing a standalone application for its short-form video feature, Reels.
Dotted around the interstates that crisscross the United States are abandoned roadside attractions once erected to amuse wary travelers.
A start-up has developed a matchbox-sized wearable camera that "sees" for visually-impaired people.
TTArtisan unveiled a surprising retro folding instant film camera, the 203T, at CP+ this week.
Nikon released firmware updates for its Z6 III and Z8 cameras this week, adding an assortment of new video-centric features and improvements. One of the changes added to the Z6 III in firmware version 1.10 is "Reduced noise in dark areas of N-Log videos." While just a single line in the firmware notes, this is a huge deal.
Scientists used remote cameras over 10 years to capture unprecedented footage of polar bear cubs emerging from dens for the first time.
Lomography debuted a new compact, hassle-free development tank for 35mm film at CP+ in Yokohama, Japan. The Lomo Daylight Developing Tank 35mm enables analog photographers to develop their film anytime, anywhere, no darkroom or changing bag required.
I distinctly remember when the Zeiss Otus 55mm f/1.4 lens first entered the market. It was a lens designed to project a larger circle of light onto the sensor and therefore it was huge. As bulky as it was, this oversized design enhanced the overall sharpness of the lens, especially toward the corners, and quickly cemented itself a legendary status. However, the Zeiss Otus lenses were designed for DSLR cameras and it has been six years since the 100mm Otus was released. A lot can happen in six …
Selfies led to the arrest of criminals allegedly responsible for a string of high-profile burglaries targeting celebrity athletes’ homes last year.
While best known for its legendary cameras and lenses, Leica is back with another elegant and expensive timepiece. The Leica ZM 12 features a 39mm case, a dual-layered dial, new materials options, and interchangeable straps.
Meta has apologized after violent videos showing people being killed or badly injured were recommended to Instagram users yesterday (Wednesday).
An experimental photographer customized a 100-year-old 360-degree camera so it can shoot four rolls of film at the same time to create one cohesive picture.
The new DJI Dock 3 is DJI's first "Drone in a Box" solution that supports vehicle mounting, providing users with new ways to achieve 24/7 remote operation in a broader range of environments.
DxO will release DxO PureRAW 5 in April, promising a big jump from previous versions courtesy of a more refined interface, local adjustments, and AI-powered denoising via DxO's DeepPrime 3 technology.
A videographer died at an event he was hired to film and now his family is offering a $10,000 reward for answers about his death.
DxO, a company known for its photo editing software and lens correction profiles, has announced a new Photo Storm Cape designed for photographers who need to protect their gear during bad weather conditions.
Photographer Austin Bell photographed every outdoor basketball court in Hong Kong in an eye-catching new series titled "SHOOTING HOOPS."
Sirui has announced its new Vision Prime 1 series of T1.4 Full Frame Cine Lenses that offers 8K production quality optics with user-changeable mounts that can adapt the lenses from Sony E-mount to Canon RF, Nikon Z, and L-mounts to save consumers money.
Film photographer and educator Tim Klein's recent YouTube video explains the tricky concept of exactly why aperture affects your depth of field in a very digestible way.
This week on the PetaPixel Podcast, Sigma's CEO Kazuto Yamaki sits down with Chris Niccolls to talk about the newly-announced lenses, the Sigma BF camera, and -- of course -- the state of the full-frame Foveon sensor.
Zeiss unveiled its heavily teased Otus lenses for full-frame mirrorless cameras, revealing not only the expected Otus ML 50mm f/1.4 but a longer Otus ML 85mm f/1.4. Let's look closer at the two new premium manual focus primes for E, RF, and Z-mount cameras.
Kim Kardashian has been sued for posting a photo of the wrong man in an appeal to her 370 million Instagram followers last year.
Yesterday, PetaPixel reported on a rare planetary parade that won't appear again for years and one photographer has already captured all seven worlds in a single image.
Alibaba, the Chinese tech giant known for its e-commerce operations, is giving people free access to its generative AI model capable of creating realistic videos and images from text and image prompts.
LumaTouch announced that their mobile post-processing app, LumaFusion, will receive a big update with new Version 5.2.
Nikon announced new firmware for the Nikon Z6 III and Nikon Z8 mirrorless cameras. The free updates promise to improve each camera to meet the demands of professional videographers.
The release of the third season of The White Lotus on HBO has provoked a debate about its color grading and whether it's offensive to poorer, non-Western countries.
A professional photographer is offering free headshots to laid off federal workers to help them find new jobs.
The Blue Ghost spacecraft captured a stunning close-up video of the moon with the Earth rising and setting behind.
Alberta, Canada, has been pounded by polar vortex after polar vortex, pushing daytime temperatures down to -25 Celsius before any wind chill factors in. As Alberta-born Canadians, Jordan and I can brave the frigid temperatures for the sake of the show, but with our lavalier microphones refusing to hold a charge and our camera EVFs running at eight frames per second, we pressed on to review a fascinating little lens on what we knew would be a taxing day.
Sony announced the FE 400-800mm f/6.3-8 G OSS telephoto zoom lens for full-frame mirrorless cameras. It is the company's longest telephoto zoom lens, besting the prior record-holder, the Sony 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G OSS.
The Sony FE 400-800mm f/6.3-8 G OSS addresses many of the shortcomings of the popular Sony 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G OSS, delivering an excellent telephoto zoom lens for wildlife photographers.
Sony's new 16mm f/1.8 G lens slots in between the company's excellent, albeit pricey FE 14mm f/1.8 G Master released in 2021, which is $1,600, and the FE 20mm f/1.8 G that launched the year prior, promising photographers and videographers with a fast wide-angle prime that doesn't break the bank.
White House officials "will determine" which news outlets will have regular close-up access to President Donald Trump, wresting control away from the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA), which has determined the journalists who have access to the President and White House for over a century.
A new photo app called Yope -- which has recently become popular among Generation Z -- lets users share images to private groups.
Donald Trump is no stranger to AI video and has turned to the format once again to release a controversial video outlining his vision of Gaza.
The Sigma BF is milled from a single block of aluminum on state-of-the-art five axis CNC machine, which is a process that takes seven hours to complete. It should be no surprise, then, that the production capacity is extremely low: just nine per day.
Aptly named Vintage Resurrection shared a spellbinding video detailing the work of restoring a broken 1979 Canon AV-1 film camera in "From Zero to Hero."
Manfrotto announced five new tripod kits to celebrate 50 years as one of the world's leading manufacturers of photography and video equipment.
The TagVault AirTag Camera Plate is a convenient and discreet way to keep an Apple AirTag attached to your gear.
Annapurna Interactive’s upcoming landscape photography video game Lushfoil Photography Sim has a new trailer, and, finally, a release date: April 15, 2025.
The first clip of Peter Hujar's Day has been released, the biopic starring Ben Whishaw as iconic photographer Peter Hujar, who died of AIDS in 1987.
Researchers have developed a new CAPTCHA test that uses AI-generated optical illusions that are easily recognized by humans but are undetectable to other AI bots.
