PetaPixel Writers Pick Their Favorite Stories of 2024
As we enjoy the final hours of 2024, it's the perfect time to reflect on an exciting year of photography and reminisce about our favorite stories. [Read More]
As we enjoy the final hours of 2024, it's the perfect time to reflect on an exciting year of photography and reminisce about our favorite stories. [Read More]
Alongside PetaPixel's recaps for major camera manufacturers, including Sony, Fujifilm, Nikon, and Canon, we also recapped the year for the L-Mount Alliance and the Micro Four Thirds mount.
This year included some fantastic new cameras, lenses, and accessories. From the Nikon Z8 and the Sony a7CR to the Canon RF 100-300mm f/2. 8 and Sigma 14mm f/1. 4 DG DN Art, nearly every camera maker brought something amazing to the table.
This year has been a fascinating one in the world of photography, and like every year, it was full of incredible highs, devastating lows, and everything in between. [Read More]
For Canon, Nikon and Panasonic, 2018-2019 was the first year where they all truly “went for it” when it comes to mirrorless. All three released full-frame mirrorless cameras, and all three seemed to have different priorities with those releases.
Today nearly everyone has a camera in their pocket. Photography is one of the most democratic forms of expression. It can be precious, but need not be. It can be shared instantaneously with a dozen friends or followers.
Like Sony, Nikon released a very impressive 10 new products in 2023. The composition of the releases is different, with Sony splitting its debuts evenly between cameras and lenses and Nikon going heavy on glass. [Read More]
In 2023, Fujifilm's X Series saw little love, with a single new camera and lens being added to the mix. The medium-format GFX System grew by one camera and three lenses this year. [Read More]
It was a busy year for new cameras and lenses, and few companies were anywhere near as prolific as Sony.
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It’s been ten years since Instagram launched and not long after, the selfie. It has taken the same amount of time for visual recognition to understand how to read our faces. If anything, 2019 has been the year where faces have taken center stage of visual tech, for good and bad… All Your Faces Are […]
2017 is coming to a close. As we close out the year, here’s a look back at the top 10 posts that received the most attention on PetaPixel. #10. TSA Requires a Separate Screening of Cameras in Airports Now The TSA announced that under its new guidelines, cameras and all other electronics larger than a […]
The rise of smartphone photography just hit another milestone: for the first time in Flickr’s history, half of all photos being uploaded to the photo-sharing service were shot with a smartphone in 2017.
Another year has come to a close. As we wrap up 2016, here’s a look back at the 10 most popular posts published on PetaPixel over the past 365 days. #10: Brides Magazine: Don’t Feed Your Photographers Brides magazine angered a lot of wedding photographers by telling brides they shouldn’t feed their photographers. #9: Phil […]
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has wrapped up its first full year of scientific operations, and beyond "breaking" cosmology, the telescope has also delivered some of the most spectacular photos of deep space ever seen. [Read More]
Micro Four Thirds remains an excellent system for photo and video applications. Despite the relatively small image sensor size, Micro Four Thirds cameras like 2022's OM System OM-1 and Panasonic GH6 show that great things come in small packages.
It has been a great year for the L-Mount Alliance. The alliance welcomed new members Samyang and Astrodesign in July, and Blackmagic Design joined in September. [Read More]
Canon's EOS R system finished 2022 with a bang, with Canon introducing the excellent EOS R6 Mark II camera and RF 135mm f/1. 8 L IS USM lens. The momentum carried into early 2023, with two new cameras and a pair of new lenses.
This was the best year of our lives. It’s easy to be negative about a year in which all our flowers grew thorns, but in reality much more has occurred, some of it good: for starters, everything went wrong, completely wrong.
As we wrap up 2019, LensRentals has once again released its list of the most popular photo and video gear rentals of the year, giving us an excuse to analyze the results to death and draw sweeping conclusions about the state of the photo industry.