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Here we see the hand of 6-year-old gorilla, Anaka, who is known for her unique pink pigmentation on her fingers

Did you know that you can make your own ground glass focusing screen? In his latest video, wet plate photographer Markus Hofstätter shows you exactly how by making a ground glass screen for one of his large format camer...

Photography community 500px recently updated its Terms of Service, adding its Contributor Agreement into the TOS to provide a single destination for both. As tends to be the case any time a social network or other servic...

Christmas wrenches!

Apple’s Made-for-iPhone (MFi) licensing program may soon allow third parties to create dedicated strobes for current and future iPhones. According to sources who spoke with 9to5Mac, MFi partners were briefed on “new ...

Not all heroes wear capes

In an entertaining holiday-themed video that’s part educational and part “bah humbug,” YouTuber Azriel Knight explains how Kodak managed to ruin Christmas for two decades of photographers. It’s a fascinating stor...

Photographers, beware: if you’re ever contacted by a big brand on Instagram or any other social network with a request to “share your photo,” make sure you read the fine print of any terms you’re shown. If you do...

Stock photography used to be an incredibly lucrative way for photographers and creatives to make good money. The rise of smartphones and everyone having a camera turned the industry sour, though as the market became floo...

Last month, we reached out to Razer to see if they would lend us a Razer Blade 15 Studio Edition for testing. With the 16-inch MacBook Pro just announced and on its way in as well, it seemed like the perfect time to see ...

Canon has announced that a fix for the RF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM lens‘ focusing issues will be released “in the beginning of January 2020.” The announcement comes one week after Canon confirmed to PetaPixel that th...

We compared sunstars from eight ultra-wide full frame lenses, including both DSLR and mirrorless lenses, from Canon, Nikon, Panasonic, Sigma, Sony and Tamron, including: Canon EF 16-35mm F2.8 III Canon RF 15-35mm F2.8 IS...

Sony's Xperia 1 and Xperia 5 smartphones offer powerful photo and video features, including advanced face and eye-detection autofocus technologies inherited from Sony's Apha-series mirrorless cameras. Sony's Eye-AF works...

Negative space can be a powerful tool for visual storytelling just as the focus on form or a subject. It works just as well as patterns and leading lines in drawing our eyes around the frame. Nathan Wirth makes an intere...

The Tamron 35-150mm f2.8-4 Di VC OSD is a lens that I truthfully took some getting used. This happened even before I even touched it. I mean, why these choices of focal lengths? I know lots of folks adore the 35mm focal ...

We hear pro photographers say all the time that it's best to shoot in RAW because it gives us more room for editing in post later. We can easily apply the edits we want because, unlike JPEG, this format comes with all th...

Photographers start out typically loving and adoring bokeh that fast aperture lenses give them. But that wears away very quickly when you're trying to become a better photographer. And after a while, it comes back again....

We've been taking you all on a walk down photography memory lane for a while now, and we can't keep at it without sharing a vintage ad most fitting for the holiday season. This Kodak ad from the six decades past will get...