This week on The PetaPixel Podcast, the team catches up on a huge pile of news and dives into a discussion on what Micro Four Thirds still needs to do in 2025 even with the release of the new OM System OM-3.
The Blue Ghost spacecraft that is soon to land on the Moon continues to capture jaw-dropping imagery from its position orbiting Earth, this time in the form of a spell-binding video.
A real estate photographer is suing two major brokerages, claiming agents used his listing photos without permission or payment.
Viltrox is bringing its (almost) impossibly tiny 28mm f/4.4 "Chip" lens to Fujifilm X Series cameras.
Last June, Leica announced Leica Lux, an iPhone camera app with a Leica-inspired user interface, carefully crafted Leica lens simulations, and unique Leica Looks photo styles. Today, Leica unveiled the Leica Lux Grip, a magnetic camera grip for iPhone that gives photographers Leica-inspired physical controls for their mobile photography.
Digital camera sales reached a nadir a few years ago but recent trends have proven there's still life in the old dog yet.
"Stranded" NASA astronaut Sunita Williams captured a stunning selfie as she made history during her ninth spacewalk.
Scientists have discovered and photographed cave-dwelling "zombie" spiders that have been infected by parasitic fungi.
Disney and Marvel have denied using artificial intelligence on their movie poster for The Fantastic Four: First Steps despite evidence to the contrary.
I have gone on the record with two stances for a while now: manufacturers need to cash in on their classic heritage and someone needs to make a compact Micro Four Thirds body. OM System just announced the new $2,000 OM-3 camera and while it certainly covers the first request, it kind of misses on the second one.
As promised and teased, OM Digital Solutions announced a brand-new camera, the OM System OM-3.
OM Digital Solutions announced revised versions of its M.Zuiko Digital 17mm f/1.8 and 25mm f/1.8 prime lenses, compact companions ideal for use alongside the stylish new OM System OM-3 camera.
The OM System M.Zuiko Digital ED 100-400mm f/5-6.3 IS II lens is an upgraded version of the same lens released in 2020 alongside the Olympus E-M10 Mark IV. The new version offers better image stabilization and more robust weather sealing but is otherwise the same lens.
With the debut of the beautiful and pricey Nikon Z 35mm f/1.2 S, Nikon has released the last remaining unreleased lens featured on its final Nikkor Z lens roadmap. Nikon photographers are now heading into the future without a map -- all future Nikon lenses are slated to be surprises.
Watch the short talking head video below. Granted, it is in French, and close inspection of it may raise suspicions but perhaps caught unaware it could well fool people into believing it is a real video and not AI-generated.
Earlier this week, Keith Cooper from Northlight Images in the UK published a YouTube video where he claimed a source told him that Epson's V850 and 1300XL film scanners had reached "end of life" and would no longer be actively produced. Epson denies this.
British singer Ed Sheeran says he has ditched his iPad and swapped it for a compact camera “like it’s 1997."
Seoul-based artists Shin Seung Back, who is also an engineer, and Kim Yong Hun are back with another photography and AI-related project, Analytic Portrait.
Nikon has created a compelling lineup of prime lenses that feature fast apertures and premium optics. The 135mm f/1.8 Plena anchors the telephoto end and the 85mm and 50mm f/1.2 lenses bring incredibly bright apertures to the normal ranges. It makes sense that the logical foray into the wide-angle is going to start with the new Nikkor 35mm f/1.2 S.
Nikon announced the Coolpix P1100, the latest member of its series of super-zoom bridge cameras. It features a massive 125x optical zoom lens that the company describes as the "gold standard" of its class.
Nikon announced the Nikkor Z 35mm f/1.2 S, an optic that has been on the company's roadmap for some time and is, as the company says, "highly anticipated." It promises to deliver a combination of outstanding optical performance and smooth, beautiful bokeh.
A serendipitous photograph of a badger looking up at a graffiti of a gun-toting badger has won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award 2024.
As Leica celebrates the 100th anniversary of the legendary Leica I 35mm camera, the company has been busy doing many collaborations. The latest is not for teddy bears or jewelry, but instead for a very nice, albeit pricey, Shackleton field jacket.
Sony updated its Creators' Cloud platform and accompanying Creators' App to streamline content management for photographers and videographers. The new update enables direct upload from certain Sony cameras to Google Drive or Adobe Lightroom.
The Professional Photographers of America (PPA) is facing a leadership crisis. Based on a recap of the organization's annual meeting yesterday, February 3, at Imaging USA, the situation has worsened, at least for some members.
A new app called Unpro Camera says it strips away all of the processing typically applied by an iPhone to produce unprocessed-looking photos that the developer says look "astonishingly natural."
The Photo Brussels festival has embraced AI images by showcasing artists who use the controversial medium to tell stories in much the same way real photographers do.
Fashion brand Balenciaga has used paparazzi images from the early 2000s and digitally altered the images for its latest campaign.
Just a couple of weeks after showcasing the 21 young photographers aiming to win the Student and Youth competitions in the acclaimed Sony World Photography Awards, the World Photography Organisation today unveiled the contest's National and Regional Award winners, showcasing the best work from 56 different countries and regions.
This week, Reflx Lab announced that it would soon no longer be able to offer some of its respooled 35mm motion picture stock because Kodak is more strictly "crack[ing] down" on respoolers. So, why is Kodak forfeiting the extra money made by selling to brands like Reflx Lab?
A tourist plunged almost 2,000 feet to his death while taking photos of the surrounding landscape with a group at a ski resort.
Donald Trump has created a U.S. sovereign wealth fund via an executive order and suggested it could be used to purchase TikTok.
Roll Cam Ai is the world's first robotic AI-powered camera operator. Designed for solo shooters, the Roll Cam Ai aims to replace the need for certain users to hire camera operators.
Photographers who love customizable mechanical keyboards are in luck, as Akuko Labs' latest keyboard caps honor photography in style.
Have you ever wondered what the university environment in Paris is like? In which places steeped in history do the students live and work?
Three significant figures in the history of digital image sensor development collaborated on a new research paper that reviews nearly six decades of sensor evolution, detailing pivotal moments and technologies along the way, while also looking ahead to the future of camera tech.
A new photography award established by iconic photographer Annie Leibovitz and philanthropist Lisa Saltzman has a hefty total prize fund of $20,000.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, says the company was slow in recognizing TikTok's massive growth because it wasn't seen as a true social media platform.
Cloudflare, the leading connectivity cloud company behind which 20% of the Internet’s traffic sits, launched a one-click Content Credentials system to track image authenticity across the internet and preserve accurate creator attribution.
A recent documentary about AI-generated pornography may have broken the law when it featured deepfaked footage of actress Scarlett Johansson in lingerie.
The co-founder of an influential video game company has pled guilty to flying his drone into a firefighting aircraft operating above the Los Angeles wildfires last month.
The U.K. will become the first country in the world to make it illegal to use AI tools that create child sexual abuse images.
Apple has reportedly scrapped plans to develop augmented reality (AR) glasses powered by its Mac computers.
A Ring doorbell camera captured the moment a medical airplane crashed into a residential neighborhood in Philadelphia on Friday night.
The Vivo X200 Pro sets the benchmark for what a telephoto lens can do on a smartphone.
2025 has so far proved to be the year of comebacks. Point-and-shoot compacts are flying off shelves faster than camera stores can restock them. But there could be another resurgence set to occur, and this one has flown well under the radar: camcorders.
The photographic world tends to flow into a state of normality, order, and conformity. Certain lenses just work for most situations, and the popular choices of the professionals quickly become the traditional tools of the masses. It seems everyone starts with a general-purpose lens that covers a rough full-frame range of 28mm to 70mm or so, and then eventually, you end up with something wider and something longer.
The megaphone-shaped SPHEREx space observatory may launch into space next month, ushering in a new era of cosmic exploration. These are the key things to know about SPHEREx and how it works.
Boris FX released a new version of its popular Optics plugin for Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom Classic that add new AI-driven masking for still images.
More than 60 years ago, in the far northern reaches of Greenland, the United States Army built an underground scientific research base, Camp Century. Carved into the ice and snow, the nuclear-powered base operated from 1959 until 1967 and comprised 21 tunnels, totaling three kilometers in length.