When I heard about the latest Sigma lens, the 500mm f/5.6 DG DN Sport, I wanted to revisit the Yamnuska Wolfdog Sanctuary. The new lens sounded ideal because it is unobtrusive, lightweight enough to handhold easily, and has the reach to capture these elusive Wolfdogs in their natural surroundings.
Sigma has long struck an exciting balance between offering high-quality alternatives to lenses the major camera makers offer and creating unique optics that offer something different from existing lenses. Sigma's two newest lenses both mostly fall into the latter category. The Sigma 500mm f/5.6 DG DN OS Sports lens is not wholly unique but fills an empty void in the E-mount and L-mount systems.
Alongside the Sigma 500mm f/5.6 DG DN OS Sports lens, Sigma has announced the 15mm f/1.4 DG DN Diagonal Fisheye Art. The new lens is the world's first-ever f/1.4 diagonal fisheye for interchangeable lens full-frame cameras.
Fujifilm made a splash at its X Summit event in Tokyo today. Beyond announcing the highly anticipated X100VI camera, which is nearly everything we wanted from a new X100 camera, Fujifilm added a few interesting tidbits to the end of its keynote speech, including teasing a new XF lens and announcing exciting firmware coming to older cameras.
The CP+2024 show is slated to start later this week in Yokohama, Japan, and Cosina has announced the Voigtlander lenses it will showcase at the event.
Venus Optics has announced its first autofocus lens ever, the Laowa 10mm f/2.8 Zero-D FF. The full-frame lens weighs just 0.93 pounds (420 grams) and is available for multiple mirrorless camera systems, including Canon RF, L-Mount, Nikon Z, and Sony E-mount.
Since OpenAI announced Sora last week, its upcoming AI video generator, there has been plenty of buzz as the world reacts to the novel technology.
Photography accessory and equipment company Sandmarc has announced a new Telephoto 6x lens for iPhone.
Puget Systems, the makers of the famous PugetBench software that many, including PetaPixel, use to test computers, has entered the laptop workstation market.
A wedding photographer has gone viral with her "unpopular opinion" that she would rather be sat at a table with other vendors for dinner -- and not other guests.
Years of traveling the plains of the Mara have etched countless wildlife encounters into my memory. From the heart-stopping chase of a cheetah to the tender moments in prides of lions.
A stark photo of a diver examining the aftermath of a whale hunt has won Underwater Photographer of the Year 2024.
A common method of reviving a wet electronic device, like a smartphone, is to put it in a bag of rice. Per a recent support document, Apple recommends against such phone-saving measures.
Downpour is a new app that allows users to turn their photos on their smartphone into games.
Dmitry Markov, a Russian photographer who shot exclusively on smartphones and was known for capturing provincial areas around Moscow, has died at age 42.
Rapper Cam'ron has been ordered to pay $50,000 for using an iconic photo of him wearing a pink fur coat on a slew of merchandise without the photographer’s permission.
I'm gonna let you in on a dirty little secret of mine: I never liked the original Fujifilm X100. When it first came out, I was -like many others- enamored by the beautiful styling, but the operation of the camera just never gelled with me. The rather boring -- in my opinion -- 35mm lens didn't help things either. It wasn't until I played with the newly designed X100V that I had my aha moment, and realized the appeal of this camera.
After teasing its arrival, Fujifilm announced the X100VI today at its X-Summit in Tokyo, Japan. The new version, pronounced "X100 six," maintains the familiar compact form factor but upgrades the sensor to 40-megapixels and adds 5-axis in-body image stabilization.
One of the biggest privileges of being a primatologist is spending time in remote locations with monkeys and apes, living near these animals in their habitats and experiencing their daily lives. As a 21st-century human, I have an immediate impulse to take pictures of these encounters and share them on social media.
Photographer Stefan Irvine spent four years exploring the New Territories and outlying islands around Hong Kong visiting villages that are being reclaimed by nature.
This week, NASA Goddard released a new video that highlights the Landsat program's achievements in 2023. A joint mission between NASA and the United States Geological Survey (USGS), satellite imagers have been orbiting Earth since Landsat 1 was launched in July 1972.
In 2016, Adobe developed a technology that was best described as "Photoshop for audio." It would be able to change words in a voiceover simply by typing new words. Sounds scary, right? It was, and Adobe never released it -- for good reason.
Predicting aurora activity is exceptionally challenging.
A police report has revealed how a deepfake nude scandal took over a high school in the U.S. last year.
Sony will finally set PlayMemories out to pasture this month. The company stopped new uploads to the service last September but on February 29 -- nearly 12 years after it launched -- Sony will terminate the service entirely.
During Sunday's Super Bowl commercials, a set of incredible photos were seen by some 123 million people. Regardless of where you stand on the Jesus-themed ad, it was a pretty cool moment for photography.
Reports out of China suggest that Viltrox is preparing to launch four new prime lenses, including its first LAB series prime lens, a new product line that promises pro-level image quality.
Phase One will finally make its medium format travel camera, the XC, available as body-only for those who might already own an IQ4 digital back.
In 1868, photographer Thomas Annan was commissioned by Scottish authorities to document the slums of Glasgow which at the time were considered to be the worst in Europe
A man was mauled to death by a lion after jumping into its enclosure to take a selfie with the animal.
The former home of legendary photographer Elliot Erwitt who recently passed away is on the market with listing photos showing his home studio.
Mac, iPad, and iPhone photo and video editing app Darkroom is celebrating its ninth birthday this week, and its developers have introduced new features to mark the occasion.
OpenAI announced Sora, a new text-to-video AI program that can turn short prompts into photo-realistic video. It still doesn't really know what to do with hands yet, though.
Last fall, Fujifilm unveiled its newest medium format camera, the Fujifilm GFX 100 II along with its first tilt-shift lenses and a new fast prime: the Fujifilm GF 55mm f/1.7 R WR.
Swedish astronaut Marcus Wandt recently returned from a three-week mission on the International Space Station (ISS) and captured some incredible photos and videos during his time in orbit, including footage of a powerful thunderstorm.
In the last few days, the internet has been gripped by photos that tell the eerie mystery of the Clarke family and the cube they were buried in. But the images are AI-generated.
Unistellar is bringing its Smart Solar Filter to the Odyssey line of telescopes with plenty of time to spare ahead of the highly anticipated solar eclipse hits North America this spring.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that the city government filed a lawsuit against five social media platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and YouTube.
The Gulags were a repressive system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union that cost the lives of millions of people.
Selfie-taking visitors are causing untold damage to priceless art in galleries, according to a new report.
Cosina announced a new ultra-large aperture apsherical lens, the Voigtlander Nokton 50mm f/1 for Sony E-mount.
Proposals are up and photographers are cashing in as American tourists flock to Paris, France to pop the question.
The Los Angeles Chargers have revealed what game day is like for its team photographer Mike Nowak in a fascinating behind-the-scenes video.
We've seen 24-105mm lens formulas before and we have seen f/2.8 zooms, too. However, we have never seen the two combined, and it's about time.
The spectacular hype surrounding Apple's Vision Pro mixed-reality headset may have peaked already.
Google is working alongside the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to better understand methane emissions and potential mitigations.
Angelbird has discontinued its massive 1TB capacity CFexpress Type A card. The $500 card was not only cheap, it promised full compatibility with Sony cameras. That might be the source to the "why" it has been taken off store shelves.
There is a lot of talk these days about social media use and its effects on children. It seems that states are proposing and passing laws restricting social media left and right, with California, Texas, and New York, among others, passing social media-related laws last year. Another state, Ohio, attempted to enact a strict law to keep children off of social media without parental consent, and a United States federal judge struck it down this week.
Patents are always a fun way to see what camera companies are up to and theorize about what might be coming next, even if they frequently don't find their way into actual products. A new Canon patent filed in Japan is particularly intriguing, as it outlines a triple-layer high-speed stacked image sensor.
Polarr has launched the Polarr Next Public Beta 1.0. Building on the company's experience with artificial intelligence and photo editing solutions, Polarr Next is "the world's first user-trainable AI photo editor that adapts to user inputs in real-time," promising to "revolutionize" how professional photographers work with large batches of RAW images.
