Irix has reformatted two of its older DSLR lenses to be compatible with Sony E-mount cameras. The company promises these new versions maintain excellent image quality but bring improved design such as a new aperture ring and housing.
A new gun-shaped camera cage called Stockcam is designed for photographers who love shooting of all kinds.
According to a new report, Zeiss appears poised to fully exit the photography industry this year and will cease production of cameras and lenses.
Photographers use their monitors even more than their cameras, probably by a large margin. Even the best monitors should be calibrated to ensure that the colors users see are accurate. However, calibration can be expensive and tedious. TruHu aims to make the calibration process very easy and much more affordable.
Drobo, once a darling of the photography world, is officially no more. Following a filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last year, the company was unable to emerge from that situation and is now in liquidation.
Nextorage, a company that to this point is best known for its memory cards, is branching out into portable drives with the launch of the NX-P2SE series, super-small SSDs that promise blazing fast transfer speeds.
Ever since Apple released its own silicon, creators have salivated at the thought of what kinds of performance could be expected from the company's highest-end machine, the Mac Pro. Today we found out, and it wasn't necessarily the expected answer.
Alongside a move to Apple silicon and a big performance bump, Apple's new Mac Pro has also undergone a dramatic price reduction, at least when comparing the top-end configurations.
Apple has announced the Vision Pro, a groundbreaking mixed-reality headset that combines virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR).
Danish designer Bjørn Karmann has built a prototype of a camera powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that is making people furious. The conceptual camera bends the idea of photography and what it means to capture a photo.
Popular photography backpack company Shimoda has announced its latest generation of adventure bags in the Action X V2 series.
My first experience with an almost full production Nikon Z8 took me to stunning Yellowstone National Park. In the week or so that I had to play with it I found it to be a most enjoyable camera, and I was able to review most of the major aspects of the cameras handling and capabilities. However, there were still some features that I needed to test, and for that I would need to wait for a final firmware Z8.
The Google Pixel 7a is a rarity. It's a mid-range phone that performs above that spec in many areas, making it hard to pass especially when the price starts at $499.
Broncolor has announced the new Satos power packs that use a unique dual-power system that can be equipped with conventional power supplies for studio use or with high-performance batteries for on-location use -- or a combination of both.
A camera producing an error when photographers use unofficial third-party batteries isn't anything new. However, reports of possible digital rights management (DRM) being used in Nikon batteries, at least with its new Z8 camera, is worth taking a closer look at.
Sony has reclaimed the title of the largest CFexpress Type A card with its new 1,920GB capacity monster. That's a ton of storage, but it comes with a similarly high asking price.
A group of Epson's popular SureColor P-series photo printers must be updated with new firmware or new ink cartridges that use a new design won't work.
Photographic printing was once a widespread and vital art form in itself. While there were (and are) various techniques for producing prints from film, the most common in the film era was the use of light-sensitive paper and an enlarger -- the paper would be exposed to a film negative or positive transparency (slide film) via the enlarger in a darkroom, or a digital exposure unit such a minilab machine, which you used to find in just about every drugstore.
Hasselblad has released firmware update 2.0.0 for the X2D medium format mirrorless camera that adds a ton of new features and usability enhancements that significantly upgrade its capabilities.
Razer wants you to take your webcam seriously enough that you would spend $300 to get the quality the Kiyo Pro Ultra can deliver.
Panasonic has announced PanaTrack, a new bendable camera slider system that allows users to quickly convert a linear track to a curved one. The PanaTrack system can be changed into a curved slider with a user-controlled radius in seconds.
It might come as a surprise to many readers, seeing my byline on an industry-interview article here on PetaPixel, not to mention one from the CP+ 2023 show in Yokohama, Japan. It’s now been no less than three months since that, but I’m only just now getting this and several other articles posted.
7Artisans has announced a new 24mm f/1.4 wide-angle prime lens for six APS-C camera mounts that is extremely cheap, but it doesn't have autofocus.
Godox has announced the P600Bi Hard KNOWLED LED Light Panel, a bi-color light panel designed with videographers in mind that offers 650-watt output in a wide range of color temperatures.
The DJI Inspire 3 is a drone that I had actually given up hope on ever seeing. The Inspire 2 was released way back in 2016 (the hot camera that year was the Nikon D500, to give you some perspective), and progress with UAVs has been incredibly rapid since then.
Nikon has announced the Nikkor DX 24mm f/1.7 lens, a fast aperture, compact prime for its Z-mount APS-C cameras that promises to bring bokeh to the DX format for $280.
Jollylook, a Ukrainian team of instant photography enthusiasts, has announced a Kickstarter campaign for its Jollylook Square Pinhole camera, an instant film camera do-it-yourself (DIY) kit.
Anton/Bauer has announced the Salt-E Dog mobile battery, a 9kWh power supply that uses salt-based power cells instead of lithium -- the first of its kind for motion picture and television production.
Following up on its 28mm f/13 macro probe lens from 2022, AstrHori has announced a new 18mm f/8 2x Macro Probe Lens designed for APS-C cameras and available in Sony E, Nikon Z, Fujifilm X, Canon RF, Canon EF, and Micro Four Thirds.
What is perfect? I don’t think there is a camera in existence that is perfect for everyone. But there are certainly cameras that, over the years, have demonstrated outstanding industrial and user interface design.