Drone Pilot Who Flew Into Firefighting Airplane Attempts to Avoid Prison
The co-founder of an influential video game company has pled guilty to flying his drone into a firefighting aircraft operating above the Los Angeles wildfires last month.
The U.K. will become the first country in the world to make it illegal to use AI tools that create child sexual abuse images.
Apple has reportedly scrapped plans to develop augmented reality (AR) glasses powered by its Mac computers.
A Ring doorbell camera captured the moment a medical airplane crashed into a residential neighborhood in Philadelphia on Friday night.
The Vivo X200 Pro sets the benchmark for what a telephoto lens can do on a smartphone.
2025 has so far proved to be the year of comebacks. Point-and-shoot compacts are flying off shelves faster than camera stores can restock them. But there could be another resurgence set to occur, and this one has flown well under the radar: camcorders.
The photographic world tends to flow into a state of normality, order, and conformity. Certain lenses just work for most situations, and the popular choices of the professionals quickly become the traditional tools of the masses. It seems everyone starts with a general-purpose lens that covers a rough full-frame range of 28mm to 70mm or so, and then eventually, you end up with something wider and something longer.
The megaphone-shaped SPHEREx space observatory may launch into space next month, ushering in a new era of cosmic exploration. These are the key things to know about SPHEREx and how it works.
Boris FX released a new version of its popular Optics plugin for Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom Classic that add new AI-driven masking for still images.
More than 60 years ago, in the far northern reaches of Greenland, the United States Army built an underground scientific research base, Camp Century. Carved into the ice and snow, the nuclear-powered base operated from 1959 until 1967 and comprised 21 tunnels, totaling three kilometers in length.
The photographer behind the official portrait of First Lady Melania Trump says that the image "didn't need to be retouched."
Anton Bauer announced a new 2.5kWh mobile power station called the Eden. The compact battery solution features two AC outlets and four USB-C ports to power a range of tools off-site for hours.
With more and more Thunderbolt 5-equipped computers hitting the market, including Apple's latest MacBook Pro and Mac mini models, companies are racing to bring as many Thunderbolt 5 accessories as possible to market, including versatile hubs. CalDigit is the latest, launching the Element 5 Hub, the company's fastest and most powerful hub ever.
CRDBAG announced the Brick Series, a new line of zippered pouches that come in two sizes and are compatible with the CRDTAB labeling system and Velcro patches.
A picturesque port city in Japan has hired security guards to control selfie-taking tourists at a popular photo spot.
A tiger has had his eyes removed and eyelids sown shut with the drastic operation being blamed on excessive camera flashes while he was held in captivity.
New York magazine is under fire from some quarters for cropping out Black people from the photograph of a cover story about young President Trump supporters.
Meta is reportedly offering popular TikTok creators deals up to $300,000 to post Reels on Instagram.
Photographing flowers is easy and very rewarding. You can create beautiful images with any equipment, most any day or evening, indoors and out. Spring is nirvana for flower photography but I find good opportunities all year.
Alongside releasing its financial results today, Canon also delivered a detailed presentation, where additional information was shared, including details about camera sales and market trends.
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.
Police have responded to viral Google Earth images that show the word "help" spelled out a dozen times on a piece of land.
Major League Baseball offered a behind-the-scenes glimpse of a photo shoot for the upcoming video game MLB The Show, where cover star Paul Skenes fired 100-mile-per-hour pitches toward a photographer.
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.
A photographer, who was celebrated as the unofficial lensman of a U.S. small-town, has been arrested for secretly taking pictures of unsuspecting passersby.
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).
Photographer Nick Ut is reportedly planning to file a defamation lawsuit against the filmmakers of The Stringer -- a movie which casts aspersions on his authorship of the Napalm Girl photograph.
The United States Copyright Office has issued a new report clarifying its stance on AI-generated artwork. Creatives using AI tools will now enjoy greater flexibility when seeking to register their works.
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.
OpenAI says that the viral Chinese AI app DeepSeek may have siphoned off massive amounts of data to build its models.
A cursory search and scroll on YouTube for the Hohem iSteady M7 will position the new smartphone gimbal as an emerging titan in the gimbal space. All kinds of content creators have gone to great lengths to detail the seemingly endless list of features built into the M7, including its patented AI tracking technology that works with any smartphone.
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.
Nextorage announced a new series of CFexpress Type B memory cards using the 4.0 standard, allowing them to reach extremely high transfer rates of nearly 4,000 MB/s with capacities of up to 2TB but with pricing that comes in below its more expensive Pro line.
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.
Thousands of mounds and hills scattered across the Martian landscape offer yet more evidence of the planet’s wetter past, according to recent research.
Light Lens Lab, a Chinese optics manufacturer that reproduces classic lens formulas for modern cameras, announced that it is expanding its efforts into film development and plans to release brand new emulsions in the near future.
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.
A revolutionary new documentary The Perfect Neighbor relies almost entirely on police body camera footage and dashcam video to tell the story of a 2023 murder.
A new photo app called "Firsties" is designed to help parents safely share their kids' photos amid rising child privacy concerns on social media.
Haggis is as Scottish as tartan and ginger hair. But many foreigners are clueless as to what haggis actually is and Scots are using AI images to fill in the blanks.
The PetaPixel team flew back to San Jose, California for 2025's Samsung Unpacked event ready to review the new Galaxy S25 Ultra smartphone as a tool for creators. Although all the new S25 phones feature a brand new Snapdragon 8 Elite 3nm processor and similar AI-based tools, it is the $1,299 Ultra which has the latest camera hardware that we want to focus on.
Aerial footage has revealed how remote-controlled drones are being used to scare bears away from human-populated areas.
50 Cent is being sued by a photographer who claims the rapper instructed his associates to hit him with the door of his car.