Easily missed in Adobe's giant dump of news out of its MAX creativity conference was Nikon's announcement that the Z6 III, Z8, and Z9 would get Frame.io integration through the NX Mobile Air app.
Over the weekend, Meta's official Threads account posted a series of AI-generated images of major cities with the Northern Lights overhead along with the line, "You missed the northern lights IRL, so you made your own with MetaAI." It's a stark reminder of the contempt Meta, and much of big tech, have for artists.
Nikon announced that it is preparing a firmware update that will bring the Content Authenticity Initiative's (CAI) C2PA content credentials to the Z6 III camera which will be ready to deploy by mid next year.
Fujifilm's new entry-level X-M5 is very affordable and that is a good thing because mirrorless cameras are expensive. At a cursory glance, it feels like every smartphone and mirrorless camera nowadays is further and further beyond the reach of most people who are nonetheless enthusiastic about the art form.
Alongside a significantly improved XF 16-55mm f/2.8 R LM WR II standard zoom lens, Fujifilm improved its telephoto offerings too. The new XF 500mm f/5.6 R LM OIS WR delivers a 762mm-equivalent focal length and provides Fujifilm X users with a relatively portable choice for wildlife and sports photography.
Fujifilm announced the X-M5, a mirrorless interchangeable lens compact camera that is the lightest in the X-Series and is designed to appeal to new and emerging content creators who want one small, compact camera that can take both photos and videos.
Alongside the new Fujifilm X-M5 camera and XF 500mm f/5.6 R LM OIS WR lens, Fujifilm announced the Fujinon XF 16-55mm f/2.8 R LM WR II, a significantly overhauled version of the company's popular professional X Series standard zoom lens.
Alongside Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom is Adobe's most popular software for photographers. Since launching in 2006, Lightroom has helped photographers of all experience levels manage and process their images. The latest updates aim to make Lightroom more powerful and easier to use.
As mentioned in PetaPixel's coverage of the Photoshop updates, Adobe introduced a new profile in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) and Lightroom called Adobe Adaptive. Unlike existing profiles, like Adobe Color or Adobe Landscape, the new Adobe Adaptive profile is image-dependent thanks to artificial intelligence (AI).
Adobe unveiled its Firefly Video Model last month, previewing a variety of new generative AI video features. Today, the Firefly Video Model has officially launched in public beta and is the first publicly available generative video model designed to be commercially safe.
The new version of Adobe Premiere Pro offers many new compelling features for videographers and video editors, including significantly improved color management tools and new AI-powered features designed to streamline video creation.
Adobe Photoshop is a powerful, popular tool for photographers. With the latest update, Adobe further enhances Photoshop's artificial intelligence (AI) tools, improving the app's capabilities for photographers and other visual creators.
Back at NAB 2024 in April, Adobe and Frame.io revealed Frame.io V4 (version four), promising significant improvements to the cloud-based platform. While some of these features were available in beta for select users, they're available to everyone now. Plus, new Camera to Cloud partnerships brings Frame.io Camera to Cloud workflows to even more photographers and videographers.
A photographer recreated his parents' honeymoon pictures from 30 years earlier by traveling to New York with them and going to the spots they visited in 1994.
Pentax's popular Pentax 17 showed the market that there is demand for a new-production analog film camera. It wasn't clear if this risky venture would float, but the Pentax 17 has found a loyal following and now we have another player ready to make waves: Mint's Rollei 35AF.
The northern lights were visible across most of the northern United States, Canada and Europe last night in a rare widespread appearance thanks to a massive solar storm.
Although the Hubble Space Telescope is 34 years old, it can still deliver amazing photographs from space. Hubble's latest target is the grand spiral galaxy NGC 5248, located 42 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Boötes.
Austrian photographer Markus Hofstaetter is always doing fun photography projects, whether it's turning a Leica M11 into a fancy film scanner, shooting wet plate portraits with a teeny-tiny lens, or creating HDR tintypes. His latest project is refurbishing his grandfather's compact folding Agfa Super Isolette rangefinder camera.
Everyone takes photos but sharing them in the modern age is a bit of a conundrum. A new app called Swsh aims to help by using artificial intelligence.
A couple outraged and annoyed drivers in Houston, Texas, last weekend after holding up traffic so they could do an impromptu photo shoot on a busy highway.
Google has brought Imagen 3 -- the company's powerful AI image generator -- to Gemini, its artificial intelligence chatbot.
Researchers "shouted with joy" when a rarely-seen ocelot was captured on a trail camera this summer.
PetaPixel has covered many do-it-yourself (DIY) camera projects, but none quite like engineer and photographer Wenting Zhang's open-source Sitina S1 full-frame mirrorless camera.
"Submerged" is a new film shot specifically for Vision Pro, making it the first scripted immersive film made for the platform -- and only for it. Because of how it was shot and mastered, it can only be watched on Vision Pro.
Amateur Photographer magazine hit a massive milestone today, turning 140 years old.
The James Webb Space Telescope continues to capture spectacular photos of the universe and the latest is an unusually dense cluster of massive stars that contain more than 10,000 times the mass of the Sun, yet are packed into an unbelievably small volume.
Last month, Canva warned customers that some plans would see a substantial price increase. One, Canva Teams, jumped from $180 per year to $500. Today, Canva rolled back one aspect of its unpopular price hikes as part of what it calls a "Pricing Promise" moving forward.
Intel announced its new Intel Core Ultra 200S series processor family that promises to improve efficiency and power while ushering in a new generation of AI-powered desktop PCs.
Leica is honoring renowned German photographer Herlinde Koelbl with the Leica Hall of Fame Award for her lifetime of photographic achievements. One of Koelbl's photos has also been named the Leica Picture of the Year 2024, and the limited-edition print will be available exclusively at Leica Galleries.
In a move that is lowering the creative barrier, Meta is giving advertisers the ability to make a moving image from a still one with new AI tools.