Ahead of the NAB 2025 show in Las Vegas, Blackmagic Design hosted a lengthy livestream during which it unveiled a bevy of new products and solutions for video professional and filmmakers, including the next version of its popular video editor, DaVinci Resolve 20.

On April 1, Fujifilm announced changes to its film product pricing in Japan, plus new branding for its disposable film camera. Unfortunately, the news was not an April Fool's prank, and Japanese analog photographers are already paying higher prices.

Yesterday, an email sent out by DxO regarding its PureRAW 5 DeepPrime XD3 beta for Fujifilm X-Trans sensors quietly revealed that the most recent 40-megapixel sensor wouldn't be supported -- a fact that wasn't made clear in the initial pre-order announcement in February. DxO today acknowledges that its messaging was "unclear or misleading."

TikTok users and the company itself will be pleased to hear that United States President Donald Trump has given TikTok parent company ByteDance a second extension to the deadline requiring the company to divest its U.S. operations.

Up until last week, Amazon was accepting pre-orders for the next round of Sony a1 II that were slated to be delivered by mid-May. Yesterday, the online retailer canceled all orders for the camera, telling customers that it was doing so "due to a lack of availability."

An international team of astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) located a gargantuan spiral galaxy located about 11.7 billion light-years away. This colossal spiral galaxy, aptly nicknamed "Big Wheel," is about five times more massive than the Milky Way galaxy.

During this week's Nintendo Direct, the popular video game company unveiled many new features of its upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 gaming console, including that it will use the maligned SD Express memory card format and work with many USB-C cameras, not just the official Nintendo one the company will sell as an optional accessory. This has opened the gates for some fun new USB-C cameras, including Hori's adorable licensed Piranha Plant one.

Midjourney has released a new version of its AI image generator, V7, which is its "smartest, most beautiful, most coherent model yet."

Clothing retailer H&M is making AI clones for 30 of its models and will start posting AI-generated fashion images to social media and including them in marketing campaigns.

A new book has revealed that after President Biden's disastrous televised debate with Donald Trump, he flew for a photo shoot with Annie Leibovitz rather than meeting with the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

Peek-A-Photo LLC, founded by San Diego mom and entrepreneur Maribel Angulo Bender, announced innovative photography storybooks for children.

Last December, the FY 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) passed by US Congress outlined a structured approach for evaluating the security concerns of Chinese-owned companies such as DJI. With less than nine months before the deadline for such an evaluation remaining, DJI is urging any of the five national security agencies to start the process.

In February, DxO announced PureRAW 5 which promised a large jump in performance versus the previous version as well as the promise for Fujifilm X-Trans support through the DeepPrime XD3 beta. The company revealed today that its beta wouldn't include support for the latest 40-megapixel X Trans sensor, but that information still isn't on its website.

Award-winning actress Tilda Swinton to curate gallery exhibition featuring portraits of herself titled Tilda Swinton -- Ongoing.

Words play a significant role in photography in many ways as we talk and write about them. I created the above image many years ago using an online app, Wordle, which used text content and analyzed the significant words. The larger the word, the greater the frequency of use.

The city of Ann Arbor, Michigan is expanding its ongoing chemical contamination investigation that has been linked to the former Argus Camera manufacturing facilities. Despite their closure in 1963, dangerous levels of TCE have been leeching out from the former factory into the surrounding neighborhoods.

Last night, Nikon announced a new entry-level full-frame camera in the Z5 II. Based on initial impressions, not only does it carry on the legacy of "good value" from its predecessor, it expands on it to the degree it might be the best camera in its segment right now.

ProGrade Digital is expanding its product line with more SSD products, expanding its business further beyond memory cards. The company's new SSDs promise high speeds and reliability despite their small form factors.

A study has shown that whether a person smiles or not in their profile picture matters to other people and can even affect how much money they earn.

Meta is reportedly working on a more exclusive version of the company's popular Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses that could be released this year, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.

Nikon announced the Z5 II, a 24-megapixel full-frame camera that is a major departure from the line's predecessor thanks to dramatically improved performance across the board.

Alongside the new Nikon Z5 II camera, Nikon announced that Adobe will introduce support for Nikon's efficient 12-bit N-RAW video format in an upcoming version of Premiere Pro later this year.

President Donald Trump today announced a huge swath of global tariffs that, if enacted, would increase the cost of camera products imported from Japan in the United States by 24%. Products from China would get hit even harder with a 34% tariff.

Lighting enthusiasts are in for a treat as Falcam announced a remote-controlled, motorized gimbal-like light control system.

On March 8, International Women's Day, Leica announced the four winners of its annual Leica Women Foto Project Award. Each woman's award-winning project demonstrates the power of visual storytelling and exemplifies this year's competition theme, unity through diversity. PetaPixel spoke to each winning photographer to learn more about their work.

Anna Isabella Christensen is a professional photographer whose self-portraits reflect an intimate connection between human beings and nature. Her work embraces nature in its purest forms, whether peaceful and calm, like when she works alongside glaciers, or powerful and violent, like when shooting during storms or near volcanoes.

SD Express, a format that has been completely ignored by the camera industry, finally has a use case. In today's Nintendo Direct, the company said the new Switch 2 would make use of microSD Express for the faster transfer speeds. Unfortunately, it dumps the biggest "advantage" originally touted by the SD Association: backward compatibility.

Amazon has reportedly made a last-minute bid to buy TikTok in the U.S. as the deadline for the sale of the popular video app approaches on Saturday.

The resurgence of compact cameras is well documented, with consumers flocking back to small, pocketable dedicated cameras. Even as smartphone image quality has continued to improve, photographers are again seeking a special, bespoke photographic experience. A new report from BCN+R in Japan notes that not only are compact camera sales increasing, but interchangeable lens camera demand is starting to wane.

Viltrox announced that its newest Air Series lens is a full-frame nifty fifty, the AF 50mm f/2 for Sony FE and Nikon Z-mount.

The newest version of Adobe Premiere Pro brings new AI-powered features, workflow improvements, and more tools to help video editors work smarter, better, and faster.

In recent years, YouTube has become a breeding ground for AI-generated fake movie trailers, flooding the platform with misleading yet captivating content. These videos, which often combine snippets of legitimate footage with AI-generated visuals, have amassed billions of views.

Barcelona is creating a large public square dedicated for tourists to take selfies near Sagrada Familia, after widespread anger over mass tourism in the Spanish city.

The astronauts currently orbiting both polar regions -- the first humans to ever do so -- are asking for help from photographers on terra firma.

A camera store in San Rafael has been rammed with a car and raided. It is the fifth such robbery in the Bay Area in a little over a month.

After the Sally Mann photographs controversy in Fort Worth, Texas, a lawmaker in the state has proposed a ban on "obscene" artwork being displayed at museums.

Let's celebrate April Fool's Day with some of this year's favorite photography jokes from Viltrox, Lomography, and Analog.Cafe.

World Press Photo apologized for its controversial decision to present two award-winning images captured by two different photographers as a thematic pair. One of the images showed a six-year-old Ukrainian child suffering from panic attacks following Russian artillery shelling, while the other showed a wounded pro-Russian militant.

Premiering April 21, the new Netflix documentary Pangolin: Kulu's Journey shares the heartwarming story of wildlife photographer Gareth Thomas and his rehabbing an endangered pangolin, Kulu.

If you had told me four years ago that Nikon would not only be in the business of making true, honest-to-goodness video gear but would also own what is arguably the most disruptive player in the truly professional, Hollywood-production-ready market, I would probably have laughed in your face.

Starting this upcoming season, the National Football League (NFL) is fully embracing Sony's Hawk-Eye technology for line-to-gain measurements in NFL games.

Alongside capturing auroras on Neptune for the first time , the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) also broke novel "ground" recently for its spectacular new image of an Einstein ring.

An underwater camera set up 55 years ago in a bid to capture the Loch Ness Monster on film has been accidentally discovered by a robot submarine.

Nikon filed a trademark application for a new brand, "Z Cinema," in Japan.