Photography News

Last week, PetaPixel reported that Cara, an anti-AI photo app, had all of its content scraped into a dataset despite the platform explicitly not consenting to the practice. It turns out the story has a happy ending. [Rea...

SmallRig has announced the Potato Jet Tribex Pro Monopod, which takes the single-handle clutch mechanism that was introduced in the Tribex Tripod and applies it to a photo or video monopod. [Read More]

Help us celebrate the human photographer over AI in our new festival: it's called the 5 Boro Foto Fest. We've been working on something very big here at the Phoblographer for a long time now. The state of photogr...

At CP+ 2026 in February, Brightin Star announced a new APO 35mm f/1.7 ASPH. lens for Leica M-Mount cameras. The stylish new lens is finally available to order, and unlike Brightin Star's typical lenses, it is launchi...

This week on The PetaPixel Podcast, the Sony FX5 is officially delayed, Kodak has been profitable for a year straight, and a former Sony executive shares that back before it took over mirrorless with the E-mount, another...

Chinese third-party lenses are seeing some fantastic growth. Over the past five years, many have earned the respect and the adoration of young photographers, and even today, they continue to do so. An example is TTArtisa...

Thanks to the Camera and Imaging Products Association (CIPA), photographers get a lot of interesting data each month about how many cameras and lenses the Japanese manufacturers are shipping globally. However, for those ...

The annual 2026 BMC Ecology and Evolution and BMC Zoology photography competition offers researchers out in the field a chance to celebrate the intersection of art and science, showcasing their projects in a visually bea...

"Always refreshingly cool inside," reads a board outside the movie theater. The photo, taken around 1940, is a clue to how the summer blockbuster got started. [Read More]

TTArtisan has announced the AF 85mm f/1.8 Neo, a new extremely affordable full-frame portrait prime lens for Sony and Nikon mirrorless cameras. The 85mm f/1.8 prime costs just $99. [Read More]

Insta360 has announced the Luna Pro, a slimmed-down, single-camera version of the Luna Ultra it launched earlier this summer. It maintains the Ultra's biggest selling point (the detachable screen) while aiming down-m...

The Leica M6 is a very legendary camera. It's been almost a decade since I bought mine, and it's still something that I continue to use often. Can you say that about your camera? And more importantly, would the m...

A permanent mural is being planned in tribute to the late photographer Martin Parr at the iconic location where he created his acclaimed series The Last Resort. [Read More]

A New York Times reporter flew out to Los Angeles to meet the people running the VHS Dates Instagram account, which supposedly digitizes VHS tapes from an "old dating service," only to find the whole thing was st...

The Formula 1 circus is heading to the Netherlands this weekend, the home race of driving sensation Max Verstappen. But keen photographers should know before they go: the event has a very restrictive camera policy. [Read...

The latest World Population report reveals that about 11.5 million people are in penal institutions around the world, with the prison population being on the rise since the pandemic. In Europe, this surge has led to over...