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Huawei’s new P30 Pro smartphone has jaw-dropping low-light abilities and industry-leading image quality. The company has been touting its quad camera system as being co-engineered by Leica, but here’s an interesting ...

Episode 319 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. Download MP3 – Subscribe via iTunes, Google Play, email or RSS! Featured: Photographer, author, and educator, Nicole S. Young (aka Nicolesy) In This Episode If you subs...

Wistman's Wood is a remote, high-altitude forest plucked straight from a fantasy novel

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The reality remains that we're inundated with photos everyday. Virtually everyone now owns a smartphone, making it easy for billions of images to be uploaded every day. Only a fraction of these images are made with artis...

I am always looking for new and easy ways to light part of an object or create interesting light in an image, and I think I have found the perfect tool for just that and so much more! Pixapro’s Optical Snoot has opened...

Photographer Markus Hofstaetter just completed an ambitious project in which he spent 6 months working to shoot stereo 3D photos on large format wet plates. After seeing a 3D photo exhibition in Vienna and reading a book...

Drone company Parrot has announced Anafi Thermal, an updated version of the Anafi folding quadcopter it launched last year. The new Parrot Anafi Thermal features a 4K HDR camera with a 21MP Sony sensor alongside a FLIR L...

Self-taught programmer Martin Fitzpatrick of Two Bit Arcade has created the world’s first Etch A Sketch digital camera. It captures digital photos and then outputs them by drawing them onto the Pocket Etch A Sketch “...

Want to see how cameras automatically adjust shutter speed to compensate for changing light conditions? A simple experiment with a ruler can help you visualize it in an interesting and unusual way. Here’s a short GIF t...

Canon is looking into putting continuous LED lights into the pop-up flash of its cameras, according a recent patent application. Japanese patent application 2019-056787 (translated) details how Canon could put continuous...

News coming out of the European Union today is that 19 of the partnering nations have agreed to enact new copyright laws that will bring copyright issues into the 21st century. While the bill has been heavily opposed by ...

Canon is apparently looking into building continuous LED lights into the pop-up flashes on DSLR cameras, something that could come in handy for certain situations when shooting photo or video. Canon News first reported o...

Concert photography is one of the more exciting genres that we can participate in. Not many things are better than hearing the music of our favorite bands, and getting to take pictures at the same time. Having the right ...

[L-R] Toshi Terada and Shigemi Sugimoto, pictured at the CP+ 2019 show in Yokohama We spoke to Olympus at the CP+ trade show in Yokohama, Japan, shortly after the announcement of the OM-D E-M1X. We spoke to Shigemi Sugim...

The Huawei P30 lite is a new smartphone with an AI-enhanced triple camera, including an 8MP Ultra-Wide angle lens. The P30 lite is equipped with a high definition 48MP (f/1.8) Wide Angle lens, an 8MP Ultra-Wide Angle len...

In the past few years of shooting and traveling there hasn't been a single moment where I pick up my backpack with electronics and tell myself "Man, I wish this were heavier." To that end, I have thoroughly enjoyed my ye...

Ahead of our full review, here are some sample images taken with the new Panasonic TZ95 travel-zoom camera. The Panasonic Lumix TZ95 is a travel zoom compact camera with a 30x optical zoom and 20.3 megapixel sensor.

The concept of home can be different for every person and even groups of people, which is why it's always fascinating to see how photographers interpret it. Previously, we've seen Magnum photographers take on the challen...

Photographer.org is celebrating its official launch to the worldwide photography community with a month long giveaway, including a grand prize of a Sony a7 III camera.

For many years, a 35mm lens wasn't considered a viable option for shooting portraits--and depending on who you ask it still isn't a good option. It doesn't mean that it can't be done, it just means that it's much more di...

Samyang has released a new lens for Nikon F-mount systems and two new lenses for Nikon Z-mount systems: the AF 85mm F1.4 F, the MF 14mm F2.8 Z and the MF 85mm F1.4 Z. Samyang AF 85mm F1.4 F As the name suggests, the AF 8...