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A videographer was robbed at gunpoint of $30,000 worth of camera and lighting gear during a shoot in a park.

Korin Design's new InstaPack is advertised as a versatile and "anti-theft" backpack for the traveling photographer. That second part relies on the fact it has an integrated TSA lock, which -- given the ease of finding a TSA key -- is putting a lot of stock in a known quantity.

Leica is celebrating 70 years of the Leica M with the release of a limited edition film camera -- the Leica M Edition 70.

Starting next week, Google Photos will show when a photo has been edited with Google AI in the app, a step in the right direction after the Pixel 9 series launched with powerful AI editing tools that seriously lacked transparency.

Stability AI has clapped back at its critics by announcing its latest AI image model Stable Diffusion 3.5 with a picture of a woman lying on grass.

Man v. Food star Adam Richman says he and his crew had their van full of filming equipment "completely cleaned out" at a gas station in London.

The AI video platform Runway has unveiled a remarkable new tool that transforms a person into a computer-generated character.

The Laowa Ranger 16-30mm T2.9 completes Laowa’s Ranger line of cine zooms alongside the 28-75mm and 75-180mm.

The Android 15 update is causing unexpected bricking of Google Pixel 6 devices -- leaving them unusable.

Grizzly 399, a famed grizzly bear beloved for decades by countless professional wildlife photographers, has been killed in a car accident.

Apple wants to keep smartphone photos true to reality and doesn't want to go as far as some of its competitors, such as Google's Magic Editor.

Since launching its store-builder in 2019, over 1 million photographers worldwide have joined Picfair. Their pitch is simple: Picfair is the quickest and easiest way to launch a professional quality photography website anywhere on the internet.

Paul Simon once sang about Eastman Kodak's color reversal film Kodachrome and Ed Sheeran wrote about preserving love in pictures in the song Photograph. But now AI can make a song about any image presented to it.

Google will soon restrict apps that request access to all the photos and videos on a user's smartphone.

A teenage chess grandmaster was arrested after assaulting a female videographer after losing a game at the U.S. Chess Championship.

A major search is underway for an Australian photographer who has been missing for more than one week in a national park where she often captures the wild horses living there.

The AI image generator Midjourney has begun rolling out a web tool that lets anyone upload images and make "powerful" edits.

Meta will use facial recognition technology to fight the rise of deepfake celebrity ads and help social media users recover their accounts.

Police in Iceland have fallen foul of the apparent universal unpopularity of AI images after one force vowed to stop using the computer-generated pictures.

After weeks of rumors, there are finally (mostly) complete details about Venus Optics’ new Laowa 55mm and 100mm f/2.8 tilt-shift macro lenses for full-frame cameras.

ON1 Photo RAW 2025 is finally available, promising a next-generation all-in-one photo editor full of powerful new artificial intelligence features and image editing improvements.

A black bear so large that he is described by a wildlife agency as a "thicc boi" has been caught on camera.

Software company Glass Imaging develops incredible technology that dramatically improves image quality, especially when dealing with small image sensors and lenses like those featured in smartphones. At this week's Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, Glass Imaging demonstrated in real-time what its GlassAI tech can achieve, and the results are remarkable.

An unfortunate woman who dropped her phone while taking photos had to be rescued by emergency services after she got stuck between two boulders while trying to retrieve the device.

Canva continues its torrid pace, announcing Dream Lab, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool, alongside significant upgrades to Canva's Visual Suite, content library, and solutions for small businesses and students.

Internal documents have revealed that TikTok knows its algorithm is harmful to kids and that the average user becomes "addicted" to the app in 35 minutes.

Two men have been arrested in connection with an attack on a television cameraman in Dayton, Ohio.

A veteran music photographer has sued the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame claiming that the museum illegally displayed his image of the band Van Halen.

The production company behind Blade Runner 2049 has filed a lawsuit against Tesla, Elon Musk, and Warner Bros. Discovery, for allegedly feeding stills from the movie into an AI image generator to create unauthorized promotional content.

A photographer plunged to his death after falling from Spain's tallest bridge while trying to film a video.

After showing off the 1TB CFexpress 4.0 Type B Diamond series memory card at NAB 2024 in April and IFA 2024 in Germany last month, the blazing-fast new memory card is finally available to order for $999.99.

At Adobe MAX last week, Adobe, Frame.io, and Leica announced new Camera to Cloud (C2C) capabilities for the Leica SL3 full-frame L-mount camera. Alongside this news, Leica announced that Camera to Cloud integration won't stop with the SL3 -- C2C is coming to additional Leica models.

Practical Magic and Innovation’s new SmokeNinja Pro updates the company's popular handheld fog machine system for photographers and videographers.

A new report from Japanese retail analysts BCN Retail (BCN+R) shows that DJI dominates Japan's video camera market.

Clever Supply, makers of bags and straps built for photographers, launched the Sidekick Pro on Kickstarter, promising photographers a portable sling for their camera gear or a safe way to store gear in a large backpack or bag.

DJI filed a lawsuit against the United States Department of Defense (DoD) concerning the department's declaring the Chinese drone company a "Chinese military company."

In an interview with French publication Phototrend, Franck Bernard, the director of the imaging division of Fujifilm France, shared a lot of interesting information about Fujifilm's market performance, latest cameras, and whether the company might make a new film camera in response to enthusiasm around analog photography.

Professional sports are almost always photographed with digital cameras these days, but this week one photographer decided to do something unusual: not only did he shoot an NFL football game on 35mm film, but he developed, scanned, and posted the photos before the game had even ended.

Muhammad Ali's personal photographer, Michael Gaffney, won a landmark copyright infringement lawsuit against Authentic Brands Group (ABG), securing damages totaling $1.65 million.

Aftershoot's annual Photography Industry Trends report offers critical insights into the photography industry, how it is changing, and delivers fascinating information about photographers themselves.

Private equity company Permira has purchased all available common stock for the website builder Squarespace, ending Squarespace's publicly traded era.

The black rhinoceroses (Diceros bicornis) of the Oregon Zoo in Portland, Oregon, have gotten into the Halloween spirit by smashing large pumpkins.

Sony announced a new BC-ZD1 dual-battery charger for its widely used NP-FZ100 batteries and a new DC-C1 DC coupler to provide power via USB to compatible cameras that use NP-FZ100 or NP-FW50 batteries.

Thypoch's new Simera-C cine lenses offer four focal lengths for Sony E-mount with all metal construction and optimized for high-resolution full frame cameras.

Earlier this week, DJI launched the Air 3S, its exciting new dual-camera drone with a larger image sensor and support for 10-bit video recording. However, as noted in PetaPixel's coverage, retail availability hasn't been announced yet, an unusual shift from DJI's typical product launch. DJI detailed why in a new blog post, explaining that a "customs-related misunderstanding" is to blame.

Former One Direction member Liam Payne died tragically yesterday, October 16th, at the age of 31, after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Shortly after the news of Payne's death broke, celebrity news website TMZ bristled many by posting a cropped photo of Payne's corpse on a wooden deck in the hotel's courtyard.