A US District Court of California has granted a temporary restraining order against the City of Los Angeles, and therefore the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), barring law enforcement from blocking, assaulting, citing, or detaining a journalist from documenting a march, protest, rally, or demonstration.
This year has been my busiest for travel in some time. As camera and smartphone companies are launching new products all over the world, I've found myself on multiple continents living out of a suitcase. Through it all, I've found myself with a new appreciation for high-quality plugs and battery banks.
Insta360 has released a statement in response to a US Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) of the International Trade Commission (ITC), clarifying its stance on the issue and confirming that the current state of affairs has no bearing on the availability of its products in the US.
Today, a United States Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) of the International Trade Commission issued an "Initial Determination" that found Insta360 violated federal law by importing and selling products in the US that infringed on GoPro's intellectual property.
Multiple city police departments across California will be issuing fines in the mail over the coming days, thanks to a new initiative that sees the use of drones to identify the illegal use of fireworks on July 4.
The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) held a special board meeting this week where it addressed the organization's underperforming fiscal position and elected a new president.
Canon is adding a new password protection option to 10 of its mirrorless EOS R series cameras via a firmware update. While the update is only available in Japan at the time of publication, it should roll out to other regions in short order.
Sony is finally updating its newest CFexpress Type A memory cards with CFexpress 4.0 compatibility, increasing their maximum speeds from 800MB/s to 1,800 MB/s.
Gura Gear announced a brand-new, $180 sling bag at the Bild Expo last month called the Kiboko City Sling 6L, and from what the company tells me, the idea was so popular that it sold 1,500 of them in just those two days. There is something about this bag that caught people's eyes, so I decided I needed to see what that was.
Some of the hottest cameras on the market today haven't been made in years, so this week The PetaPixel Podcast team goes back in time to go fixed-lens camera shopping!
PetaPixel has been hard at work adding to its library of sample galleries, and now there are nearly 30 cameras and lenses available, with more being added every week. A huge batch of galleries just dropped, including the OM-5 Mark II, the Sigma 17-40mm f/1.8 Art, the Light Lens Lab 50mm f/1.5, and many more.
The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) announced that, based on income and revenue predictions, it was forced to lay off three members of its staff, effective this week. Additionally, it asked its two lawyers to work pro bono while the Board of Directors seeks to "stabilize revenue."
The Fujifilm X-Pro3 was released in 2019 and is the most recent version of the beloved rangefinder-style camera. While it has been six years, somehow an incredible and heartwarming Easter egg in the camera was only discovered this past week: after 100,000 photos, the camera will roll credits, just like after beating a video game or at the end of a movie.
In what is quickly becoming a bi-annual tradition, the PetaPixel Podcast team welcomes Camera Labs' Gordon Laing back onto the pod to play proctor! It's time for the midterms: how is every camera maker doing so far in 2025? Well, that is, if they decided to show up and take the test.
OM System wants to be the go-to camera brand for travel and adventure, but at the same time recognizes that many of its core users are dedicated bird and wildlife enthusiasts. Given the relatively low resolution of its cameras versus the competition, OM System recognizes there is room to, quite literally, grow.
Over the last couple of years, the number of computers, headphones, cameras, and portable batteries that charge with USB-C that I've acquired has ballooned substantially. I've resorted to using batches of individual USB-C plugs cobbled together in my aging infrastructure, but it's an inelegant solution. That's where the UGreen Nexode came in.
The W. Eugene Smith Fund announced it is now accepting applications for its 46th annual Grant in Humanistic Photography which will provide more than $67,000 in total grants, with the top honor receiving $30,000.
CineStill has announced CS Negative+ Convert Tools, a free set of tools that integrate into Adobe Creative Cloud apps that promise to deliver true-to-film color with fast results, straight out of camera.
Thypoch has been pumping out new lenses for Leica M-mount regularly for the past year, and while there are certainly digital cameras that they work great on, I think the company knows its biggest market is probably going to be analog fans.
Tamron has announced the 16-30mm f/2.8 Di III VXD G2 zoom lens for both Sony E-mount and Nikon Z-mount, completing its second generation trinity -- the "Daisangen" as Tamron calls it -- as the new lens joins the 28-75mm f/2.8 G2 and 70-180mm f/2.8 G2 telephoto zooms.
Panasonic is taking a page out of Apple and Adobe's playbook with a strong push into education support: it's called Lumix EDU. Announced earlier this week, the company has detailed to PetaPixel its particularly impressive set of offerings meant to support newcomers to the creative field and, of course, get them using Lumix cameras.
Kono Manufaktur, a film manufacturer based in Germany, announced a new color negative film stock called Kono Color 200. It is available in both 36 exposure rolls packed inside refurbished cartridges or as 30.5-meter bulk rolls for photographers who prefer to load their own film.
Sony today announced the beta release of what it calls "Camera Verify," a new feature of its Camera Authenticity Solution that allows newsrooms to share the authenticity of a photo via a dedicated URL so that third parties can view those results directly and remotely.
This week on The PetaPixel Podcast, the team chats about the state of the "midrange" camera and how it might not be in the place it was just a few short years ago. Come to think of it, what even is every brand's "midrange" option right now? The team debates!
Saramonic announced the Air, a new dual-channel, 2.4 GHz wireless microphone system designed for content creators. They feature "intelligent" noise cancellation, real-time monitoring, and adjustable EQ tuning inside a compact, easy-to-use package.
A new image sensor has been developed that uses a new crystalline material that is very similar to silicon. It's called perovskite and unlike traditional sensors which dedicate separate pixels for red, green, and blue color recognition, perovskite sensors can ditch color filters entirely, which allows them to triple resolution and light-gathering capabilities.
Last week, B&H hosted its second Bild Expo at the Javits Center in New York City. After years of attending the Photo Plus expo and seeing its rapid decline, I had questions about the viability of a show in New York City. Whatever expectations I might have had, they were absolutely shattered by what I saw there.
Thypoch, a relatively new lens maker that is a subsidiary of DZOfilm, announced a new addition to its growing line of Simera lenses for Leica M-mount: the 21mm f/1.4 ASPH. It joins the 28mm, 35mm, 50mm, and 75mm lenses that all share a similar design aesthetic and the same f/1.4 wide-open aperture.
Last year, PetaPixel visited the SLAC Laboratories in Stanford to go hands-on with the LSST camera module, the highest-resolution and largest camera ever constructed. Last month, the team took the long journey to the summit of Cerro Pachón in Chile to go hands-on with the finished Vera C. Rubin Observatory and see its first 5 gigapixel photo.
The very first photos captured by the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera at the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory have been released, with more to come later today.