With this week's reveal of the very impressive Sony a7 V, the mid-range full-frame camera market has never been hotter. The oldest competitor of the bunch, the Nikon Z6 III, has been out just a little over a year, while the Canon EOS R6 III and Sony a7 V are brand-new. All the major players have put their best foot forward, but which of them is actually the best when it comes to key specs and features?
After an X user posted his arresting portrait taken for his passport photo and declared that the "Chinese passport photo lady on Elizabeth" is the best portrait photographer in New York City, the tiny shop where he got the passport photo done has become a viral sensation.
The brand-new Sony a7 V ushers in many improvements, ranging from a new image sensor and a first-of-its-kind processor to better autofocus and faster continuous shooting. Let's take a closer look at the most significant changes between the a7 IV and the new a7 V.
The winners of the 12th International Landscape Photographer of the Year have been announced, and J. Fritz Rumpf of the United States has been named as the winner.
An FPV drone pilot flew a GoPro directly into a tornado to capture decidedly spellbinding footage of an atmospheric twister churning up the Oklahoma landscape.
It’s easy to imagine that anxiety over manipulated images began with Photoshop or AI, but photographers have been wrestling with the problem almost since the birth of the medium. More than a century ago (113 years back to be exact), the U.S. faced a scandal over doctored images of the president, and the outrage nearly led to a national ban on fake photos.
Finally the day has come: The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo, a film about who really took the famous Napalm Girl photo during the Vietnam War, has dropped on Netflix meaning anyone with a subscription can now see what the fuss is all about.
Apple has released its annual holiday film, A Critter Carol, that was shot entirely on its latest iPhone 17 Pro. Depicting a group of woodland critters who come together after a hiker drops his phone, the short film celebrates unexpected friendship.
Back in 2015, Scottish photographer Alan McFadyen spent six years and fired off 720,000 shots in his quest to capture the perfect kingfisher photograph -- an image that went on to become an internet sensation. A decade later, armed with modern camera technology, he recreated the same shot in just six minutes.
A stunning photograph of divers freeing an endangered humpback whale from an entangled chain has been announced as the Grand Prize winner of The Nature Conservancy’s 2025 Oceania Photo Contest.
A routine news shoot led to a life-changing medical opportunity for a cameraman who has quietly battled a condition that made even the simplest tasks at work and in daily life a challenge.
The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo, which lands on Netflix this week, opens with a line implying Nick Ut is a liar: "What you do know is what you didn’t take." But is that really true? I've always thought the inverse makes more sense.
Alfred Buckham was an aerial photographer who took to the skies at a time when pilots' lives were measured in weeks, not years. But he was also a master manipulator in the darkroom and paved the way for Adobe Photoshop and today's AI photo apps.
A filmmaker has launched a cinematic timelapse film series capturing the raw beauty and quiet resilience of America’s national parks in the hope that his work might support the NPS.
Award-winning photographer Stephen Wilkes has two photos in this year's National Geographic Pictures of the Year, a celebration of 25 of the best and most important photos featured in this year's issues of National Geographic. The photos, Wilkes' famous Day to Night images, add a new layer -- time -- to beautiful wildlife scenes.
2011's Drive was one of the last Hollywood movies shot on the streets of L.A. before the iconic orange-yellow sodium vapor lights were replaced by the more clinical white LEDs -- much to the chagrin of photographers and filmmakers.
"The older I get, the closer I get," says street photographer Bruce Gilden. Now in his seventies, Gilden's latest book examines photographs he made in the U.K. across the 1970s and 2000s -- when he was very, very close to his subjects.
A Magnum photographer has released new work that focuses on young people living in the peripheries of Spain -- reflecting the alienation and uncertainty of the present era.
In National Geographic's new documentary, Chris Hemsworth: A Road Trip to Remember, filmmakers follow the world-famous actor as he connects with his father, who has Alzheimer's, on a therapeutic "road trip back in time."
Colonel Robert L. Stirm, the subject of a famous Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph, has died at the age of 92. His return after five years as a POW in North Vietnam was immortalized by Associated Press photographer Slava 'Sal' Veder.
On July 23, 1926, silent film star Buster Keaton crashed a full-sized locomotive into an Oregon river, setting the record for the most expensive shot in silent film history.
A photographer was on hand to document the dramatic birth of a killer whale calf, capturing what scientists say is the first verified imagery of an orca being born in the wild and of its first hour of life.
The "MP" in Leica MP stands for "Mechanical Perfection." That’s a big claim that I decided to put to the test with a roll of Leica’s brand new Monopan 50 and a trip to the English Cotswolds.
Annie Leibovitz has shed more light on that controversial Timothée Chalamet Vogue shoot which received considerable backlash online.
Apple TV viewers may have begun noticing a new mnemonic playing before a show streams. While it's easy to assume it is a computer-generated animation, it was in fact handmade by human creatives.
A big cat conservation group has captured footage of an extremely rare mountain cat that is native to the high Andes.
Last week marked 107 years since the end of World War I. In the United States, the day is observed as Veterans Day, while in Britain it is known as Remembrance Day.
A wildlife photographer in South Africa captured a rare encounter between two of the most unlikely creatures: a dung beetle and a leopard.
A viral TikTok trend that has gained popularity over the last month has shocked many viewers, who call it bullying at the expense of the person being recorded.
A photo restorer has breathed new life into the only universally accepted portrait of Billy the Kid, giving viewers a clearer image of the Wild West's most infamous outlaw.
At the end of his life, English author George Orwell sought refuge on a remote Scottish island to finish his final and most famous book: 1984.
As photographers using macOS know all too well, native macOS-level support for RAW image formats can be hit-or-miss, and new support can take months or years to arrive, sometimes never arriving at all. This means that photographers must rely on third-party software to process many RAW photos, and that support in Apple's own apps, like Photos, is spotty. However, not all is lost, as very talented engineers are working hard to overcome macOS's own RAW limitations.
Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has captured a stupendous shot of a skydiver falling in front of the Sun. It was incredibly difficult -- requiring precise planning and coordination -- but the pair ultimately pulled it off on the sixth attempt.
Aerial footage showing the aftermath of the First World War's Western Front in Flanders, Belgium, has been given new life after being remastered in HD and colorized.
An Insta360 webcam is helping a man with ALS, a fatal degenerative condition that causes a person's muscles to atrophy, to live a better life and see his children.
One Saturday morning in the North of England, amateur photographer Chris Bennett got caught in the rain -- typical for the area. He took refuge in an unloved phone booth and began shooting pictures from inside.
A cute and hilarious video of two cats has stumped the internet as it can't make up its mind whether it's real or AI-generated.
Inspired by great artists before her, Russian-American Anastasia Samoylova took a photographic journey along the historic U.S. Route 1 -- beginning in her home state of Florida and ending in Maine.
The documentary Steve Schapiro: Being Everywhere has revealed that the famous American photographer was having difficulty keeping his left eye open toward the end of his life because of how many photos he had taken.
Annie Leibovitz has once again been attracting plenty of criticism this week after her photos of actor Timothée Chalamet graced the pages of Vogue magazine's December edition. But is any of it justified? PetaPixel writers have their say.
For her latest Vogue shoot with star actor Timothée Chalamet, Annie Leibovitz collaborated with NASA by superimposing him on a nebula -- but not everyone thinks the cover is out of this world.
Nazi concentration camps have long been documented in all forms of media, but stepping through the gates of one on foot makes for a very different experience. Dachau was where it all began, setting off an industrialized machine of death and depravity that would later consume all of Europe during World War II.
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Lynsey Addario has risked life and limb and been kidnapped multiple times to perform a photojournalist's most crucial and valuable mission: powerfully capturing and telling the world's most meaningful stories. Addario's incredible career, which spans more than two decades, is the focus of the brand-new National Geographic documentary, Love+War.
From 2006 to 2023, photographer Claire Beckett embedded herself on military bases in the United States to capture elaborate training camps that simulated war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In Japan, it is illegal for companies to use misleading photos on product packaging that make the product look different from what’s actually inside.
Looking at paintings of historical figures, it can be difficult to know whether that's what they really looked like, or whether the painter was being interpretive -- perhaps pressured by the subject.
On my recent trip to French Polynesia, I decided to do something new that I’ve been wanting to try for a long time: I brought along the Nikonos V, Nikon’s legendary amphibious 35mm camera from the 1980s. That meant no live preview, no autofocus, and no confirmation that anything I was shooting would actually turn out; just 36 frames of film, a light meter, and the quiet peace that comes with freediving and taking photos.
In 1979, photographer Merrick Morton (@merrickmortonphoto) received a California state grant to document the Volunteer Program at a psychiatric hospital in Los Angeles, a project that led him to return again and again over the next year and a half.
The shortlist for Close-up Photographer of the Year 7 (2025) has been revealed after the 22 judges assessed 12,557 photographs across 11 categories during 20 hours of Zoom calls.
Sh! The Octopus may not be remembered as a great film of the 1930s like King Kong or The Awful Truth, in fact it was named as one of the greatest bad movies of all time. But there is one scene, involving some very clever camera work, that continues to get talked about today.
