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DJI today announced the Zenmuse Z3, the company’s first aerial zoom camera and one that’s geared toward still photography. The 262-gram camera can achieve a total 7x zoom thanks to a combination of 3.5x optical zoom ...

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"I bought my first film camera and things took a different turn then." says Bimal Ramdoyal; one of the photographers who embraces the analogue world of picture taking. "I fell in love with film." Bimal started out with h...

For several years now, Camranger has been pretty much the only choice if you want to tether your Nikon, Sony or Canon DSLR wirelessly to your phone or tablet. While the Camranger is a worthy device that allows you access...

If you are serious enough about photography to know that you will outgrow out of a low level Nikon D3xxx or D5xxx series body, then this is a kit for you.

Faroe Islands is an island country halfway between Norway and Iceland. It features some of the world’s most beautiful roads, but those routes haven’t been traversed by Google’s Street View camera cars. So, the coun...

“We love your style! So we’re going to hire you to do something completely different!” If that sentence makes you laugh, then the 30 statements in this post are going to hit home. Ah the industry is a fun one! On o...

Drone maker DJI has today announced its first aerial zoom camera, the Zenmuse Z3. The new model is optimized for still photography and combines a 3.5x optical zoom with 2x digital magnification, resulting in a 7x overall...

Want a taste of the future? There’s a new web app that uses advanced “deep learning” research to magically auto-colorize black-and-white photos. The app uses the Colorful Image Colorization algorithm that’s being...

I covered Tim Duncan during countless games, including their three NBA Finals titles in 1999, 2003, and 2005. I probably took thousands of photos of him, but on the occasion of his quiet retirement, I picked a few out ju...

Photographer Matt Taylor was shooting with the 4K photo mode on his Panasonic Lumix G7 on a recent evening when a bolt of lightning flashed across the sky off camera. Taylor’s resulting photos show how much the bright ...

Cleaning your camera lenses are an important part of ensuring that they keep working flawlessly and that your picture taking devices are always delivering the best images that they can. Just like a car, computer, televis...

I remember when I was sitting in my cubicle at work, dreaming and lusting after a digital Leica M9. I imagined that after buying it, all of my life's problems would be solved. I imagined that the camera would inspire me ...

“Wake Up” is an inspiring 2-minute short film by landscape photographer Thomas Heaton about how his craft is so much more than just going into the great outdoors and taking pictures. “Ever since owning my first cam...

Inside the Fukushima exclusion zone An abandoned supermarket in Fukushima. Photo by Keow Wee Loong Much of the area around Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station has been closed to the public following the disa...

Here's episode 89 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. You can also download the MP3 directly and subscribe via iTunes or RSS! Leave a comment in this post, or use our voicemail widget for feedback/questions for the sho...

With all the excitement about the Hasselblad X1D, we all know that despite it's very good price, many of us won't be able to afford it. But for those of us who have been shooting it for a while are well aware of how awes...

"The reason I began photographing these expanses at night came from a curiosity to see if I could capture that sense of lost time that occurs during these sprawling drives." says South Dakota photographer Seth Harwood ab...