Hubble is celebrating the holidays in style. The Hubble Space Telescope team is shedding light on Christmas-themed celestial objects, including the "Christmas Tree Cluster" and an ornament-shaped galaxy.
TikTok users are expanding their photos with artificial intelligence (AI) in a new trend.
Peakto, CYME's photo cataloging software for Mac, just announced another update Wednesday, this time focused on improving performance and speed.
Adobe and Figma started the week by halting their $20 billion merger. Adobe had to pay Figma $1 billion for the acquisition termination.
NASA has streamed a high definiton video of a cat from deep space to Earth -- a distance of almost 20 million miles away -- using laser technology.
New artificially intelligent (AI) technology can now diagnose childhood autism from photos of children's eyes with 100% accuracy.
The best-known dataset for training AI image generators, LAION-5B, has removed its service after a Stanford study found thousands of child sex abuse images in its library.
A photographer and pilot were killed after a local TV news helicopter crashed in New Jersey on Tuesday night.
A Kickstarter for the new MiracleArm tool might just be one of the handiest tools for photographers and content creators.
Last year, PetaPixel called the EOS R7 "one of the best cameras Canon makes," and that sentiment still rings true. In a new video, Canon details the R7's look and feel, including interesting insights from Canon engineers.
Last week, Apple released its latest iOS update, and with it the new Journal app. While Journal seems simple, it can actually be quite handy for managing photography shoots and other projects.
Lighting company Aputure, which recently acquired film and television LED lighting maker Prolycht, has launched the Spotlight Max, a Bowens mount projection lens for high-output LEDs.
Storage company Synology is preparing to sunset Disk Station Manager 6.2, and users must know what this may mean for their storage workflow.
The winners of the 2023 International Landscape Photographer of the Year have been announced -- the 10th iteration of the competition.
After 15 years of publishing photography industry news, the Australian website Inside Imaging has announced that it is shutting down.
70 years after she roamed the streets of the Big Apple with her camera, Vivian Maier is finally getting a major exhibition in New York City.
At a marketing event in Taipei earlier this month, Ricoh executives answered wide-ranging questions about Pentax's strategy, including the status of the company's DSLR cameras and its highly anticipated film camera revival.
The Pentax K-3 III Monochrome is among the most affordable cameras designed exclusively for black-and-white photography and a very good APS-C DSLR.
A fascinating short documentary about a photographer who shoots the Golden Gate Bridge every single day has been published by The San Francisco Standard.
Sony's expensive Airpeak S1 drone has been regularly improved since its disappointing launch. Sony released an enhanced battery and better gimbal earlier this year, and has today released a new firmware update that adds advanced mapping, new safety protocols, and better compatibility.
A new Christmas-themed Toyota commercial focuses less on the company's automobiles and more on the power of photography.
Just in time for the holidays, Kodak brand licensee Reto Production Ltd., the makers of the popular Kodak Ektar H35N half-frame camera, has released a Kodak Multi-Purpose Camera Strap designed for cameras and smartphones, big or small.
The top 50 wedding photographs taken in 2023, according to Junebug Weddings, have been unveiled.
TTArtisan released the 10mm f/2 ASPH. lens for APS-C mirrorless cameras.
The James Webb Space Telescope has an early Christmas present for space enthusiasts: A stunning new photo of the ice giant Uranus.
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has released a rallying speech from his jail cell -- with the help of artificial intelligence.
Adobe has abandoned its $20 billion takeover bid for design platform Figma. The prolonged acquisition attempt has been wrought with regulatory opposition in the United States, European Union, and United Kingdom.
A doorbell camera captured the moment a dog and its owner ran for their lives after apparently hearing a noise dubbed the "world's most terrifying sound."
Shocking footage filmed on Friday shows a press photographer being beaten by Israel Border Police in East Jerusalem.
As part of its long-running "Notes and queries" segment, The Guardian asked its readers why photographs of beautiful scenery "never do it justice?" The following week, reader responses were published, offering great practical advice for amateur shutterbugs seeking to improve their travel photos.
A photographer who has taken studio portraits of chickens for the last eight years says he is "captivated" by them.
In the early summer of 2023, I had an opportunity to play with the soon-to-be-released Nikon Z8. We met up with the Nikon crew in Yellowstone National Park to photograph some wildlife and the good folks at Nikon also had another surprise for us out there.
Sisu Cinematic Robots created a mobile power solution called the Battery Box that is capable of powering a full remote production -- complete with robotics and lighting -- for eight hours.
After updating its policy to allow some sexual content, a long contentious point on the streaming site, Amazon-owned Twitch rolled part of that decision back, citing artificial intelligence concerns.
A new camera design takes inspiration from an unusual, short-lived analog camera type in the 1980s to create a thoroughly modern image-making device. The camera concept, which looks remarkably real and was made by industrial designer Olga Orel, delivers a digital re-imagining of vintage quadrascopic cameras.
Along with the Voigtlander 40mm f/1.2 lens for Canon RF-mount cameras, Cosina today also revealed the Nokton Vintage Line 28mm f/1.5 Aspherical VM lens for Leica M-mount cameras.
The Japan-based memory manufacturer Nextorage released the fastest CFexpress Type A card made yet, promising read and write speeds of up to 950 MB/s.
In July, telescope company Vaonis announced Hestia, its first smartphone telescope. Ahead of Hestia's scheduled December delivery date, Vaonis has announced Gravity by Vaonis, a beta app for the telescope.
Friday, Cosina announced the Voigtlander Nokton 40mm f/1.2 Aspherical lens for Canon RF mount. Coming in January, it will be the second lens it has produced for the mirrorless mount and only the second third-party lens officially authorized by Canon.
Vivo announced the X100 and X100 Pro flagship smartphones last night. Co-engineered with Zeiss, the new handhelds are designed with photography in mind.
Friday, Instagram announced a new update to its Stories feature allowing users to create their own "Add Yours" templates.
A photographer captured this gorgeous image of the Gemenids last night when they were at its peak, but don't worry there's still to capture the shooting stars.
A Colombo crime family "underboss" sentenced to prison this week for extortion and money laundering has said he doesn't regret the topless poolside photo that led to his arrest.
Google has "launched" a second version of its AI image generator model but only to Google Cloud customers who use Vertex AI.
Anyone who follows the solar system closely will know the Sun is extremely active at the moment and video has emerged of a huge explosion on the surface that has already affected radio communications on Earth.
A wedding photographer in Japan has died after he fell from the roof of a restaurant while photographing a couple as they prepared for their wedding.
Hipstamatic has spent the better part of the last week hyping what appeared to be a new rangefinder camera, but today revealed it's not a hardware release but rather a digital skin for its app.
Videographer and PetaPixel reader Andreas Hofmarcher sent a voice message to the PetaPixel Podcast and Andreas' story is so incredible that it warranted a dedicated article.
When Threads launched earlier this year, the app was available in the US and more than 100 other countries. But those in the European Union were left out of the fun. However, in a short and sweet post on Threads, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta's social media platform is now available to EU users.
It has been a busy week for Adobe, for good and bad reasons alike. In addition to recording record revenue, yet again, and being sued by a Dutch data watchdog for alleged illegal data collection, Adobe is also under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for its disclosure and subscription cancellation practices.