The Best Trail Camera Photos of 2024
From an uncontacted tribe living deep in the Amazon rainforest to an animal previously believed to be extinct, trail cameras have captured some incredible images in 2024.
From an uncontacted tribe living deep in the Amazon rainforest to an animal previously believed to be extinct, trail cameras have captured some incredible images in 2024.
A lesser-spotted American yellow warbler visiting a sleepy village in England has prompted hundreds of nature photographers and bird watchers to turn out in the hope of catching a glimpse of the tiny yellow bird.
Photographer Ralph Man developed a highly versatile new pinhole camera system, the Mania MFZ, which stands for "Multiformat Zoom."
Filmmakers may never look at their iPad or Mac the same way again after using CineMon.
Canon had a strong 2024, launching a new flagship camera, a highly anticipated (and excellent) sequel to the popular EOS R5, and a bunch of diverse new lenses.
Over the weekend, the European Union (EU) implemented a new law that makes the USB-C port mandatory for a range of electronic devices including smartphones.
Photographers waited hours -- in cold rainy weather -- for murder suspect Luigi Mangione to appear at the Blair County Courthouse in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania.
At the end of 2023 it was beginning to look like AI images -- a new and novel way of producing pictures -- were an existential threat to photography. By the end of 2024, that threat had been extinguished somewhat.
The parents of Suchir Balaji -- a former OpenAI employee turned whistleblower -- have said they don't believe their son committed suicide.
Recent research has revealed that generative AI and deepfakes barely impacted the 2024 U.S. election as the images are just not good enough yet.
A photographer who usually reserves her lens for dogs embarked on a project focusing on rescue cats and their stories.
After a torrid pace in 2023, during which time Nikon launched a pair of cameras and nine all-new lenses, the company slowed a bit this year, releasing just two new cameras and three lenses. Nonetheless, it was a strong year for the Japanese company and one that helped Nikon continue to claw back market share in the mirrorless era. Plus, Nikon bought RED, so there's that.
The Lomography Lomo'Instant Automat Wide Glass aims to be the best instant camera on the market, and in many ways, it lives up to this ambitious goal.
Sony had a very solid year. Releasing two cameras and five lenses, Sony wasn't quite as busy as in 2023 but busy enough to maintain its firm grip on the mirrorless camera segment.
A U.S. Air Force employee was arrested for secretly taking photos of children in order to create AI child abuse images.
Pergear announced an upgraded version of its fast 12mm f/2 wide-angle prime lens for APS-C mirrorless cameras. The new manual focus lens is significantly lighter than its predecessor while still promising strong optical performance and good value.
Director Christopher Nolan's next film will be based on The Odyssey and will be released in IMAX theaters on July 17, 2026.
Astonishing photos that were taken on remote cameras set up inside the Amazon rainforest reveal an uncontacted tribe living in complete isolation.
For the first time in its 25-year history, the UNICEF Photo of the Year prize has been shared by two photographers covering different sides of the same conflict.
Very shortly after publishing the dynamic range performance for Canon's latest flagship camera, the EOS R1, the prolific Bill Claff at Photons to Photos added Sony's new flagship, the a1 II, to his ever-expanding library.
Zhuoyao Chen and her partner are both large-format camera enthusiasts from China, now living in Tokyo, Japan. The pair, who especially enjoy landscape and portrait photography, have found existing large-format camera solutions lacking in certain key areas, so like many enthusiasts, they began custom-making cameras -- and now one of these will be available to all as the Smartflex Camera.
Nikon’s latest innovation breaks the mold. It’s not a lens you can hold but a new in-vehicle system making its debut inside a truck at the upcoming CES 2025 event in Las Vegas.
Fujifilm was prolific this year, launching four new digital cameras, including the hyper-popular X100VI, a pair of new Instax instant cameras, and four new lenses (although it's more like three).
For many photographers, when the weather outside hits negative cold temperatures it's a sign to stay indoors and hope that conditions improve.
With firmware version 5.10 launching earlier this month, Nikon has made its flagship Z9 mirrorless camera, released in late 2021, even better. The new firmware is the latest in a long series of free post-launch updates that have made the Z9 even better and much more versatile. Many camera companies believe strongly in post-launch support, but arguably, no camera has benefited more from free firmware updates than the Z9.
The Canon EOS R1 and R3 set new benchmarks for flagship cameras, but a dynamic range comparison by Photons to Photos hints at one taking the edge, and it isn't the newest flagship.
While Sigma absolutely earned its title of PetaPixel's Photo Company of the Year in 2024, legendary German photo company Leica was not far behind. Leica was not only prolific across multiple camera system segments, but the company posted the highest revenue in its 110-year history.
The Leica M2Pi starts with a question few dared to answer: What if the analog purity of a Leica M2 met the experimental, digital world of a Raspberry Pi?
NASA has shared some of its top images of 2024 featuring faraway galaxies, leaf peeping from onboard the International Space Station (ISS), and the space agency's ongoing mission to make interplanetary travel a reality.
My editor-in-chief, Jaron Schneider, tasked me with a Christmas challenge to review a camera unlike anything I had reviewed before. On my doorstep shows up a Bluey-themed kids' camera with the worrisome "eKids" branding on the bottom. I had a family vacation coming up in Alberta's capital city of Edmonton, so it was the right opportunity to put the camera through a rugged baptism of fire. We planned on shooting at the Royal Alberta Museum, which would give us bright and dark conditions in which …
Poker players are allegedly using tiny hidden cameras to cheat in high-stakes games.
The death of a motorsport photographer -- who was killed by an out-of-control car at a rally event -- was "preventable," according to a coroner.
These rare mugshots taken in December 1872 show Victorian thieves locked up at Christmas for seemingly trivial crimes such as stealing lumps of coal.
Lux, the developers behind celebrated iPhone camera app Halide, and the award-winning mobile video app Kino teased Halide Mark III today, previewing some of the features coming to Halide 3.0 next year (hopefully).
The LincStudio S1 Tablet from LincPlus Studio S1 may look like a standard run of the mill tablet, but this portable pen display has a bit more hidden up its sleeve. The retouching tool is also a fully functional handheld PC that, while not without its shortcomings, has a surprising amount to offer traveling creatives.
Darktable 5.0.0 is here, and it’s aiming to reshape how photographers approach free photo editing.
Blackmagic Camera 2.2 for iOS introduces meaningful enhancements tailored to real-world needs.
Prolific lighting equipment company Godox announced the V100, a new more powerful on-camera flash in the style of the company's V1 and V1 Pro. The V100's claim to fame is the ability to deliver up to 100 watt seconds of power compared to the V1 and V1 Pro's 76Ws output.
With three new lens releases, 2024 was a relatively typical year for Tamron. Last year, Tamron announced two lenses, while it released three in 2022 and 2020. 2021 was an unusually prolific year, with Tamron dropping five lenses.
Police have called off the search for a missing photographer who disappeared after going out to take photos of high tides at a U.S. Beach.
A Google Street View image of a man unloading what appears to be a body from the trunk of a car is a clue in a Spanish murder investigation.
A photographer's gruesome discovery inside an abandoned funeral home has sparked a police investigation after he took pictures of human remains on the site.
The U.S. Senate passed a bill that makes it easier to film in national parks and eliminates the need for photographers and videographers to secure permits.
A seven-year-old boy was left seriously injured after drones fell out of the sky during an aerial Christmas show this weekend.
What a fittingly unusual year for Ricoh Pentax, a photo company that itself is quite strange. Always one to march to the beat of its own drum, Ricoh Pentax did things unlike everyone else in 2024, and that's, by and large, a good thing.
Hasselblad was uncharacteristically busy this year, releasing a "new" camera and three new XCD lenses. The premium Swedish camera manufacturer continues to focus heavily on celebrating still photography and the experience of taking photos, and we're here for it.
The Old City of Jerusalem is a place quite unlike anywhere else on Earth. A focal point for all three Abrahamic religions, the narrow streets made out of stone bustle with Christians, Muslims, and Jews.
Gordon Laing of Cameralabs has an early Christmas gift for vintage digital camera enthusiasts, a brand-new Retro Review. Continuing Laing's current Nikon kick, the latest retro camera to go under the microscope is the Nikon Coolpix 990.
It's just a Fujifilm kind of day here at PetaPixel. Alongside some bombshells from an interview and a fresh X100VI teardown at Kolari, some Fujifilm owners have new camera firmware to download and install.
Infrared conversion specialist Kolari routinely shares teardowns of new cameras, such as the EOS R5 II in October, and the Nikon Z8 and Hasselblad X1D II 50C last year. The latest new camera to go under the surgical knife (or screwdriver) is the Fujifilm X100VI.
