Finnish photographer Petri Damstén crafted a digital clock within a flash unit using a Raspberry Pi Pico, and it looks like a delightful accessory that many photographers would pay good money for.
Think Tank Photo updated its Mirrorless Movers bag series with four new and exclusive colors, increased front pocket volume, improved organization features, and additional adjustable dividers to enable a better user experience regardless of a photographer's kit.
Sony announced the PDT-FP1 portable data transmitter for Alpha cameras in Japan. Promising high-speed and low-latency video transmission using 5G wireless communications, the PDT-FP1 transfers data directly from a camera to an FTP server. The PDT-FP1 reduces the time required for data transfer, speeding up various content workflows.
British documentary photographer Edward Thompson released an infrared medium-format photography book, The Unseen: An Atlas of Infrared Prints, in 2016 and is showing selected works from the book at the Saatchi Gallery in London until March 3.
Since Apple announced its mixed-reality Vision Pro headset last June, tech enthusiasts have been eagerly waiting to hear how the futuristic-looking headset is during real-world use. Bits of information have come out in drips and drabs, but now, finally, some technology publications have been able to use Vision Pro outside the confines of controlled Apple PR environments and put it through its paces. Is the future of computing here?
Social media has been a bit like the old Wild West; there are few regulations, and, as we are learning, the apps are fraught with potential danger. A pair of proposed California regulations attempt to protect minors, aiming to reduce the impact the platforms can have.
The cinematographer behind the Oscar-nominated film The Holdovers has revealed how he made the movie look, feel, and sound like it was actually made during the decade it is set in: the 1970s.
With the announcement of the OM SYSTEM OM-1 Mark II and the M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 150-600 F5.0-6.3 IS Lens, wildlife photography has never been more accessible. Professional wildlife photographer Andy Rouse recently used both on a wildlife safari in the Masai Mara, and he shares exclusively with PetaPixel his favorite images and initial impressions of the kit's wildlife performance.
Capture One is undergoing what it characterizes as "significant changes" internally which has resulted in an unspecified number of layoffs at the company. It is at least the second round of turnover since it announced it was switching to a subscription model.
In my dream I’m standing on the rim of a deep, verdant canyon. Far below, a river glinting crimson and gold in the setting sun snakes toward jagged mountains dusted with snow. My camera’s viewfinder perfectly frames this epic vista in the wilds of northern New Mexico.
Never before seen footage of The Beatles shot on 8mm film is expected to sell at auction for $10,000.
With the recent release of the Samsung S24 Ultra, North America now has three premium-priced phones that happen to compete in a very similar way against each other. The Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max, Google Pixel 8 Pro, and Samsung S24 Ultra, all have state-of-the-art displays, HDR-compliant photos and videos, and a 5X telephoto lens to compliment the main and ultra-wide cameras.
A photographer captured a thundering photo of a Falcon Heavy SpaceX rocket passing in front of the Moon -- making the edges of Earth's satellite look as if they're rippling.
A 61-year-old grandfather is suing Macy's and Sunglass Hut over the stores' alleged use of facial recognition technology led to his wrongful arrest, imprisonment, and sexual assault in jail.
TikTok appears to be coming for YouTube -- after the company was spotted incentivizing creators to start posting horizontal, longer videos.
A drone photographer may have captured the first-ever footage of a newborn great white shark off the coast of Southern California.
OM Digital Solutions Corporation has unveiled the OM System OM-1 Mark II. The successor to 2022's OM-1 flagship camera includes everything that made the OM-1 "the best Micro Four Thirds camera ever made," but the "Mark II" moniker doesn't include the substantial upgrades photographers may be expecting.
OM System may have only announced one lens last year, but it's starting 2024 much stronger with two new Micro Four Thirds offerings: a 9-18mm f/4-5.6 II and the 150-600mm f/5-6.3 IS.
The national and New Jersey chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union filed an amicus brief in support of a man who was reportedly wrongfully arrested after facial recognition misidentified him.
Scientists and cinematographers are constantly searching for new ways to gather information about animals. In one such attempt, John Downer Productions launched a realistic-looking submersible robotic whale to capture unique footage and gain insight into the intelligence of these creatures.
In a partnership with the Center for Open Science, Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta revealed it will give data to researchers for a study.
Last week, Japan became the fifth country to land a spacecraft on the Moon successfully. However, the historic accomplishment had its challenges. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) landed upside-down on the lunar surface, preventing the lander from recharging its batteries with its included solar panels.
TerraMaster says its new D5 Hybrid is the industry's first to combine two series of slots for both standard HDDs and M.2 NVMe SSDs to support both "hot and cold" storage.
Last week, RED unveiled a pair of new large-format global shutter cinema cameras, the V-Raptor (X) and V-Raptor (X) XL. Tedious model names aside, these cameras have 40.96 x 21.6-millimeter image sensors and make lofty promises concerning dynamic range.
German film company Adox is branching out with another new color film. On the heels of Color Mission, which Adox released in 2022, Color Mission Helios is an ultra-low-ISO color option for photographers.
The James Webb Space Telescope captured images of 19 nearby spiral galaxies as part of its long-term Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS (PHANGS) program.
A trove of clandestine photos taken of Jewish people being rounded up in Nazi-occupied Poland so that they could be murdered has been released for International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
New York City is taking a strong stance against social media and becomes the first city in the United States to designate it as a "public health hazard" and using imagery that compares it to smoking.
A team from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has proposed a design for a lunar-based multi-camera telescope array that could start small, but expand to be much larger over time.
With Oscar season well and truly upon us, actress Florence Pugh has revealed that during the filming of smash hit movie Oppenheimer the camera broke at a very unfortunate moment.
Google has released Art Selfie 2, an app that harnesses generative AI to transform the user into a historical character.
This is the incredible moment a female chameleon erupts in glorious color in a poignant final display before its death.
Artist Richard Prince has agreed to pay at least $650,000 to two photographers in a pair of long-running copyright lawsuits against him for using their images in his controversial Instagram-sourced New Portraits series.
A commercial real estate investor who sold his properties to fund a mission to find out what happened to Amelia Earhart believes he may have a picture of the aviator's plane.
Celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D scored a resounding victory in the copyright infringement trial over her unlicensed use of a photograph of Miles Davis for a tattoo she inked on a client.
Filmmaker Alan Melikdjanian, known by millions of fans as "Captain Disillusion" on YouTube, creates entertaining and educational content where Captain Disillusion reveals the truth surrounding video effects and editing. Captain Disillusion also regularly dives into camera technology, as in his latest video all about shutter speed.
Ormond Gigli (1925-2019) is an American photojournalist with a career spanning over forty years. But today, he is mainly known for one photo – Girls in the Windows – that he created in 1960. It shows forty models and women posing in the window frames of a brownstone about to be demolished on East 58th Street in Manhattan's Upper East Side, an affluent New York neighborhood.
No camera is as exciting or interesting as the Sony a9 III. Since Sony announced it in early November, the a9 III has occupied considerable space in my mind. Many questions have swirled since, and the answers to each have proved mercurial.
Not to be outdone by the James Webb Space Telescope and its beautiful new nebula image, the Hubble Space Telescope delivered a pair of fresh new space photos this week.
The James Webb Space Telescope set its sights on a region of ionized interstellar atomic hydrogen in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) this week, delivering one of Webb's most colorful photos yet.
Make way, Sony: RED Digital Cinema wants to get on the global shutter train. RED's V-Raptor (X) and V-Raptor (X) XL video cameras feature newly developed global shutter image sensors.
Even among the now-crowded niche of instant cameras, Leica’s Sofort 2 stands out, representing the idealized version of a modern-day instant camera.
North America has been subjected to some of the most extreme cold in recorded history and views from space emphasize how frigid a couple of major U.S. cities have looked in recent days.
It took reportedly millions of people to view fake explicit photos of pop megastar Taylor Swift, but politicians now have a new reason to take up the fight against deepfakes.
A photographer who dived into the water with a huge pod of killer whales only had a few minutes each day to capture a rare shot of an orca bathed in light rays.
After greatly exceeding expectations and making dozens more trips into the Martian sky than planned, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter drone has made its final flight. Rest now, king.
The One LUT is able to "seamlessly match" the iPhone 15 Pro's ProRes log video to the cinematic quality of the Arri Alexa K1S1 rec709 look.
Japan became the fifth country ever to land a spacecraft on the Moon this week but the country's precision lander face-planted on the surface causing power issues.
Geoge Carlin's estate has begun legal action over an AI-generated hour-long comedy special created by a YouTube channel.
Among the many things you couldn't possibly forget about Emerald Fennell's hit movie Saltburn, one of them surely was the film's highly unusual 4:3 aspect ratio.