Olympus Corporation's chief executive Yasuo Takeuchi has revealed that the company chose to sell off its camera business to Japan Industrial Partners two years ago in a bid to get any value for it before it became obsolete.
A rare, one-of-a-kind Nikkor 58mm f/1.0 from the 1970s has set a new record for the highest price ever obtained for a Nikon lens at auction: 187,500 euros (about $182,117).
A photo of a police officer "embracing" a distraught mother was manipulated by a military dictatorship to whitewash their own image.
An experimental, prototype square-format Leica M model from 1954 that lacks a built-in viewfinder or rangefinder was surprisingly popular at the most recent Wetzlar Camera Auction, pulling in an astounding 687,500 euros hammer price.
Plates is a collaborative photo-sharing app where users create, join, or subscribe to themed "plates" that are essentially photo albums.
An ocean photographer unknowingly captured his close encounter with a great white shark on camera and only became aware of the incident when he reviewed his GoPro footage hours later.
Robert Blomfield, a British physician and street photographer who passed away in December 2020, left behind a legacy of numerous shoeboxes filled with outstanding photographic prints of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland.
1990 marked the release of one of my all-time favorite movies: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I was nine years old and that warm fuzzy feeling of nostalgia is burned deep within me whenever I re-watch it.
Episode 372 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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I've been using the Panasonic GH6 for a few months so we could provide a long-term review for what was once a hotly-anticipated successor to the very popular GH5.
The winners of the 2022 Ocean Photographer of the Year competition have been announced, with a picture of a surfer held down by one of the world's heaviest waves, taking the top prize.
Even though the James Webb Space Telescope tends to steal the space-themed headlines lately, the Hubble Space Telescope is still capturing incredible photos of the universe, including this galactic pair that are so close to one another that they are distorted by each other's gravity.
The BBC is currently screening the new Frozen Planet II series and released a video that shows the camera team spending a month trying to find the world’s most elusive big cat: a snow leopard.
The Africa Geographic 2019 winner "Tim in Amboseli National Park, Kenya is a great photo. It shows Tim the elephant majestically backlit against a dramatic sky. Except, it didn't win: it was later disqualified for excessive manipulation.
Photo restorer Adam "A.B." Cannon, who sometimes spends up to a month enhancing American Civil War portraits, says that AI programs that colorize black and white photos do not account for real history.
Area51 has announced a new lens and accessory holder called the Lens Capsule. It is designed to strap to a tripod leg to keep spare lenses or lens-sized tools easily at hand when in the field.
These fascinating portraits offer a rare glimpse into same-sex couples from the earliest days of photography.
Fujifilm released the 8K-capable X-H2 just last month and Tilta has new owners who are looking to build onto the camera covered thanks to a new camera cage.
A photo of monstrous waves battering a lighthouse has won the Royal Meteorological Society's Weather Photographer of the Year Competition 2022.
Imagen has come a long way in the months since PetaPixel initially reviewed the service with the improved workflows and further enhancement of Talent AI Profiles. These AI profiles have been created by industry-leading photographers with unique editing styles so that any user can instantly edit their own images to match them instantly.
Juno, NASA's space orbiter that recently completed a close flyby of Europa, has captured the highest-ever resolution close-up of a specific portion of the icy moon.
Watch out Instagram, TikTok is coming. The wildly popular short video app has announced a new Photo Mode that looks strikingly similar to what's on offer from Meta's photo-sharing app.
The Wedding and Portrait Photographers International (WPPI) organization is "pressing pause" on its Honors of Excellence photography competition until 2024 as it evaluates the program and how it can evolve in the current events landscape.
Photographer and photography instructor Micahel Andrew has launched a Kickstarter campaign to address what he sees as the common shortcomings of lens filter systems called the Maven Magnetic series.
Given Apple's annual release schedule, if you were to upgrade your iPhone every time you could, you probably have not been all that impressed from generation to generation in recent years. I think that changes with the iPhone 14 Pro, because the main camera is really something special.
Moment has announced three new bags that join the existing range of its Long Weekend series of carry products. The whole series aren't what are typically described as camera bags, but they do support a casual photographer.
Unseen photos of the Beatles performing at the Cavern Club in Liverpool have come to light, with a fresh-faced John Lennon and Paul McCartney singing on stage.
Google has created a program where the viewer can "fly into" a still photo using artificially intelligent (AI) 3D models.
The winners of the 2022 Epson International Pano Awards have been announced and photographer Jinyi He took top honors with a set of images that capture some of the lesser-known landscapes of China.
Google made it official today by launching its Pixel 7 lineup, sticking to familiar features, while also adding some extras to fill in gaps and improve image output.