Motorola is expected to soon launch a new Moto Edge flagship smartphone device as soon as the next month that will use Samsung's 200-megapixel ISOCELL HP1 sensor. Ahead of the launch, the company has shared a photo taken with it on social media in China. [Read More]
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Sony has released the first photo captured by its new Star Sphere satellite, which aims to allow ordinary people to have access to a camera in Earth orbit and shoot their own space photos. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2023-02-28 21:29
United States President Joe Biden has shared the first full-color photo taken by the James Webb Space Telescope as a preview of the full set of five images that will be shared publicly on July 12. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-07-12 01:26
A book has suggested that a lost Vest Pocket Camera that may contain pictures of mountaineers on top of Mount Everest, 30 years before the first official ascent, could have been discovered by Chinese authorities and hidden. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-05-16 19:29
The James Webb Space Telescope has reached another major milestone in its mirror alignment process as the team has successfully worked through the second and third phases of the process and completed Segment Alignment. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-02-28 18:24
In an effort to combat online misinformation, the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) has released the first-ever technical specification designed to certify the source and history of digital media. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-01-26 20:28
Fashion photography is one of the most lucrative but also one of the hardest genres to pursue on a professional level. Good fashion work can’t be done with a one-man band. Eventually, every fashion photographer learns the importance of such things the hard way. petapixel.com »
2021-09-25 17:00
A photo archive that documents the 78 days between the U. S. election and inauguration is the first to be verified by the standards set by Adobe’s Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI), illustrating how newsrooms can address the problem of false or misleading information. petapixel.com »
2021-02-11 22:54
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO VLT) has captured a world’s first: the first ever image of two giant exoplanets orbiting a young ‘Sun-like’ star 300 light years away from our own. petapixel.com »
2020-07-27 21:26
If photography is your chosen career path or even just a hobby, at some point, someone is going to ask you to take some photographs in exchange for a paycheck. The first time you get asked to take photographs for money is both amazing and extremely stressful. Up until your first paying job, the only […] petapixel.com »
2019-12-05 21:03
One of the great things about our jobs as photographers is that we get asked to do so many diverse things. To me, new and different assignments keep me fresh. Sometimes we get asked to do things that push our limits or are even beyond the bounds of anything we have done before. This is […] petapixel.com »
2019-10-05 18:43
This is the first photo ever captured of a black hole. It was revealed today after years of international collaboration between over 200 international astronomers. At a coordinated press conference across the globe, researchers at the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) announced that their efforts in using a planet-scale array of eight ground-based telescopes succeeded in […] petapixel.com »
2019-04-10 16:33
One of my photography New Year’s resolutions was to start to push my work to galleries and public photography showcases. In my mind, having my work in-print and in-public are some of the most significant steps in advancing my career as a fine art street photographer. petapixel.com »
2019-01-08 22:51
China just became the first country to achieve a soft-landing on the far side of the moon after its Chang’e-4 probe landed at 2:30 AM Universal Time today. And shortly after landing, the probe sent back this first photo ever shot from the surface of the “dark side of the moon.” The photo shows the […] petapixel.com »
2019-01-03 21:56
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is on a mission to explore the Sun’s corona (basically its atmosphere), and the robotic spacecraft recently made the closest-ever approach to a star. NASA just shared a remarkable photo share by Parker: the first photo ever shot from inside the Sun’s corona. petapixel.com »
2018-12-13 20:56
NASA’s newest planet-hunting satellite has captured its first photograph — a dazzling one that shows over 200,000 stars. NASA writes that the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) just completed a flyby of the moon on May 17th, passing at about 5,000 miles away for a “gravity assist” toward its final orbit. And to test out […] petapixel.com »
2018-05-21 17:10
Say hello to the world’s first terapixel macro photo. The photo is of a food mosaic, and it was made by stitching together 629,370 separate photos. The final image has dimensions of 6,571,152×160,256 pixels, weighing in at a staggering 1053. petapixel.com »
2018-05-09 21:24
The world’s first major photography exhibition was held back in 1839 when British scientist and photography pioneer William Henry Fox Talbot held a show to unveil his photo prints to the public. petapixel.com »
2018-03-06 21:57
This is a guest post from “Y. ”: – The first Playmemories APP that Sony should bring back, and the potential of in-camera photo stacking Author: SonyAlphaComplain Most of Sony’s Playmemories APPs won’t be missed by me too much because I can easily find a workaround. sonyalpharumors.com »
2017-12-02 14:53
The Insta360 ONE is a new 360-degree camera that can record 4K video (3840 x 1920) at 30 frames per second and capture 24MP spherical still images. Our friends at Photo Gear News have had access to a pre-production unit, and they've prepared a hands-on walkthrough showing what it can do (and what it can't). dpreview.com »
2017-08-30 15:59
Dr. Hersh Chadha is a photographer whose work is literally out of this world. Thanks to a collaboration with printing house Duggal Visual Solutions, Chadha’s work is now whizzing around the Earth on the International Space Station in a permanent photography exhibition. petapixel.com »
2017-07-11 20:04
The new Photo RAW software is now available for purchase at www.on1.com/products/photo-raw/. And Fstoppers already tested it: In short, my first impression of ON1 Photo RAW 2017 is that it is by far the best software I have ever used that has come from ON1 and is the first time I am actually considering bringing […] The post ON1 Photo RAW got released appeared first on sonyalpharumors. sonyalpharumors.com »
2016-12-31 14:20
This historic photograph was captured in 1861, on a day when the United States teetered on the brink of Civil War and Abraham Lincoln was being sworn in as the country’s 16th president. And yesterday, one of the few prints of the photo in existence sold for a whopping $27,500. The inauguration where this photograph […] petapixel.com »
2016-10-08 00:50
Back in April 2016, ON1 announced Photo RAW, the first all-new RAW photo processor to emerge in a decade and one that uses crowd-sourcing for innovation. To give the world a taste of what’s coming, ON1 just put out the 3. petapixel.com »
2016-09-27 17:45
Nikon China has published a set of photos to the Chinese social media site Weibo advertising an upcoming event. One of the photos is 67-megapixels, a resolution higher than any camera currently in its lineup is able to produce. [Read More]
With the power of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 processor opening up the mobile world to usable 8K video, larger image sensors are on the horizon, and Motorola is teasing its plans to create a mobile device with a huge 200-megapixel image sensor. [Read More]
A photo of a woman holding a Dior bag by notable Chinese photographer Chen Man has sparked controversy in China, with netizens and multiple local publications claiming it furthers stereotypes common in the West.
A shocking video has surfaced online that shows just how far some parents will go to get a “unique” photo of their kid. The clip, originally posted to Chinese social media site Weibo, reportedly shows a man dangling his young son off a cliff as a relative takes photos. The incident allegedly took place yesterday […]
Leica has been making the rounds again as of late, not for a specific camera but for a promotional video that got it banned in China. Titled The Hunt, the video features a cinematic depiction of conflict scenes around the world, including the iconic "Tank Man" from the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
Leica has sparked a huge backlash in China over a short film released by its ad agency in Brazil. The video (warning: strong language) depicts a news photographer covering the Chinese government’s crackdown during pro-democracy protests in Beijing in 1989.