Nearly everyone knows the Sony Walkman name. The brand has existed since 1979, when Sony launched the original Walkman, a portable cassette player. While portable music players have effectively gone the way of the dodo thanks to smartphones, the Walkman is still kicking. And these days, it's kicking in exorbitant style.
AstrHori has launched a new manual focus fisheye lens for medium-format mirrorless cameras. The AstrHori MF 8mm f/2.4 Fisheye for Fujifilm GFX/Hasselblad XCD is a new circular fisheye with a whopping 220-degree field of view.
Memory card prices have risen sharply over the past year, largely due to flash memory shortages driven by the AI boom. Photographers have paid the price, with new cards often costing much more now than they used to. However, the deals below still make it possible to get a new memory card without breaking the bank.
The iPhone Duo went up for preorder at 8 AM ET (5 AM PT) this morning, and delivery estimates immediately started slipping from Apple's October 23 launch date. As of one hour after orders opened, delivery estimates have slipped to the very end of January 2027, a three-month delay.
A cemetery in Denver has been left to clean up the mess left behind from a photo shoot that saw fake blood splattered on a family's mausoleum.
Adobe has announced that it is expanding its collaboration with NVIDIA by specifically optimizing its flagship software tools for RTX Spark, NVIDIA's new AI-focused Arm chipset designed for laptops and compact computers.
Panasonic kicked off its celebrations of Lumix's 25th anniversary in May with the launch of the Panasonic Lumix L10. The company is now gearing up to host a series of events across major global cities, including New York City.
Hipstamatic has announced a major reboot of its subscription service, Camera Club, alongside its Winter 26/27 app collection, which is included with it.
The winners of the Ournature Environmental Photo & Video Awards, a competition that places environmental storytelling at its heart, have revealed its winners for 2026.
French smart telephoto brand Vaonis has announced the Atlas. This new modular smart telescope promises the versatility of an interchangeable lens camera -- Vaonis says "DSLR" -- and the ease of use of the company's other smart telescopes.
Police arrested a 23-year-old Japanese man after a tree he cut down to get a better photo of a train landed on vital communication wires.
The Vivo X Fold6 has gone global, and its camera system is seriously impressive, especially for a foldable phone.
Cosina Voigtländer is celebrating the 100th anniversary of Voigtländer's "Skopar" series lenses with a commemorative model, the Color-Skopar 35mm f/2.5 100th Model.
Alibaba unveiled a new pair of smart glasses this week, with more impressive specs than Meta's.
OpenAI has referred a security incident to the FBI after discovering a concealed audio recording device in an executive conference room at its San Francisco headquarters.
Business cards are a big deal in Japan. Nikon, which certainly loves its cool, Japan-exclusive merch, is combining Japan's deep respect for business cards and Nikon's rich history. The result is an extremely cool business card holder that borrows its style from the classic Nikon F3 film SLR.
The winners of the AOP's 2026 Emerging Talent Awards have been announced, with the gold award going to photographer Austin Bradley.
The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) is hosting a very special event in Minneapolis on October 23 and 24 called MSP2. 75 photographers will have 24 hours to capture and edit a photo captured in their designated section of Minneapolis-St. Paul.
Actress Mia Goth -- who recently filed for divorce from Shia LaBeouf -- has slammed Instagram after the platform let an AI-image of her wearing a t-shirt that read "MY EX IS MY BIGGEST FAN" to go viral.
A U.S. worker has sued her employer after the company fired her for refusing to take a photo of herself on a webcam every three minutes.
A bride took to TikTok to complain that her wedding photographer had died before sending her the wedding photos.
James Warner, the photographer behind the YouTube channel snappiness, has gotten his hands on yet another bizarre piece of camera history. This time it's the EPixPro, or is it the Obsidian Imaging IC/100? Or maybe it's the NEC PC-DC401? Whatever it is, it's weird, it's wacky, and it's worth checking out. It's also maybe psychic?
Sony has announced the ECM-W5 wireless audio solution, which includes the ECM-W5T Wireless Microphone Transmitter, the ECM-W5R Wireless Audio Receiver, and a kit with the receiver, two transmitters, and a charging case.
Apple is preparing an extensive in-store demonstration campaign ahead of the October 23 launch of the iPhone Duo, its first foldable iPhone.
Tamron has announced a new 16-50mm f/2.8 A (Model B091) zoom lens for APS-C mirrorless cameras, promising a compact, versatile, fast option for Sony, Canon, Nikon, and Fujifilm APS-C camera owners.
Fujifilm has announced the Instax Square 2 instant camera, the latest addition to the company's popular, iconic Instax Square family of products.
A photographer who captured a heartbreaking image of an elephant carrying a deceased calf has won the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 competition.
Kids love Bluey, enjoy games, and sometimes really like photography. Now it's possible to combine all three of these things in a single experience: the Bluey Happy Snaps video game for Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC.
Nearly a year ago, Arri, one of the biggest names in cinema, launched Film Lab. It's an OpenFX plugin for industry-standard video editing and color grading workflows that promises to bring a filmic, analog look to digital video. Film Lab 1.5 has arrived, bringing even more analog looks to digital cinema workflows.
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has officially set a new record for the most distance driven by any vehicle on another world's surface.
At its "Welcome Home" event today, Apple announced its new "Apple Home Collection," including smart door locks, thermostats, temperature sensors, and cameras.
TTArtisan has announced a new ultra-compact pancake prime lens, the AF 24mm f/3.8 Mini, for full-frame Sony E-mount cameras.
After the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) put out a request this summer asking for sightings of gray foxes, it was surprised when it received a photo of an ultra-rare variation.
GoPro has announced a free update for the entire Mission 1 Series of cameras that boosts the system's photography capabilities, promising zero-lag shutter response and continuous 50-megapixel burst capture.
A man in the U.K. has been reunited with his parents' wedding album from 1957 after it was found abandoned outside a city centre cafe and traced to his late parents by a local historian.
The OM System PEN is expected to begin shipping to customers this week, but per OM Digital Solutions (OMDS) in Japan, not everyone will be able to get their hands on it at launch.
A woman in Los Angeles has accused a camera repair store of stealing or tampering with her grandmother's Rolleiflex camera.
OnePlus may be dead in most of the world, including the United States and Europe, but that doesn't mean the company is done making interesting smartphones. In fact, quite the contrary: the OnePlus 16, just unveiled in China, looks pretty great.
Getty has announced that it has secured the necessary financing to take the company private. This comes after the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) suspended trading in its shares and started the process of delisting the company on September 29.
In May 2023, PetaPixel reported on the growing ALERTCalifornia web of connected cameras established to detect wildfires and give firefighters a chance to contain them before they grew and became deadly. Over three years later, the network continues to grow, and California is even using space-based cameras to detect wildfires as quickly as possible.
Nicolas Cage says he is unwilling to allow artificial intelligence to be used in his performances, revealing that he declined to sign an AI waiver while working on the Prime Video series Spider-Noir.
A Leica 0-Series camera from 1923 sold at auction over the weekend for a staggering €4,250,000, or about $4.75 million at current exchange rates.
Brandon Thomas, the experienced software engineer behind the AI-assisted reverse engineering effort to rebuild open-source versions of Adobe's Creative Suite applications, including Photoshop, Premiere, and Lightroom, is setting his sights on another oft-maligned set of software: Microsoft Office.
A photographer is pleading with thieves to return the wedding photos he shot after all of his camera gear was stolen in Oakland, California.
Major League Baseball (MLB) playoffs are well underway. The on-field action has been great so far. Sophisticated camera technology, often going unnoticed, enriches the spectator experience, including telling viewers at home just how far that monstrous walk-off home run went.
Godox has announced the Litemons SR20R, a new full-color LED light panel designed for mobile content creators, including those using smartphones and gimbal cameras like the DJI Osmo Pocket and Insta360 Luna series.
The winner of the Nikon Small World in Motion competition has been disqualified after Nikon determined that the winning video broke its rules regarding artificial intelligence.
A sports photographer has beaten a YouTuber's defamation lawsuit over comments she allegedly made about "suggestive" videos of youth wrestlers.
Meta is reportedly testing a change that would make Facebook and Instagram open directly to full-screen vertical video feeds before anything else, as the tech giant continues to chase TikTok’s success.
Photographer, educator, and cofounder of Helium Design Lab, Hugh Brownstone, has teamed up with luxury bag company Oberwerth to create "The Street Bag -- Hugh Brownstone." Two years in the making, the bag combines the best of a backpack and a sling into a single, agile design.
