A sports photographer had his Instagram account permanently disabled after Meta mistakenly claimed his content violated its rules against the “sexualization of children.”
Alongside its three new slab smartphones, the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, and Pixel 11 Pro XL, Google unveiled a new foldable, the Pixel 11 Pro Fold. It's sleek and stylish, but has serious camera compromises.
Over the course of two days, I had a few hours with the new Google Pixel 11 Pro, and I've narrowed it down to the four features aimed at photographers and videographers that I think deserve the most attention.
Google has unveiled its 11th-generation Pixel phones: the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, and Pixel 11 Pro XL. All three phones promise significant camera upgrades and the latest Google Gemini features.
Back in 2023, Harman Photo, the company behind Ilford-brand photo film, launched an all-new color film, Phoenix 200. Last year, the company followed it up with Phoenix II. Now there's yet another Phoenix on the block, this time arriving with a new speed: 125.
A 20-year-old tourist plunged to his death while trying to do a photo shoot at the top of a waterfall in a U.S. state park.
The latest Adobe Camera Raw update, version 18.5, added support for the Sigma 85mm f/1.2 DG Art lens for full-frame mirrorless cameras. The only thing is that Sigma hasn't actually released the lens or even said exactly when it is coming. Given that it's now supported in Adobe's photo editing software, though, it must be close.
Today, a total solar eclipse will sweep across Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, Spain, and a part of Portugal. For those who live elsewhere and cannot see the total solar eclipse with their own eyes, NASA is livestreaming the spectacle today, starting at 1:15 PM EDT. It should be a spectacular sight!
Right on cue, just as Google revealed the full details of the Google Pixel 11 series, Spigen announced a set of cases and MagFit accessories, including those for the Pixel 11 Fold, bands for the new Pixel Watch, and a wallet and O-Ring for the Pixel 11 phones.
Apple's latest iOS 27 beta mentions a new Reference Image feature that looks designed to offer image authentication. As 9to5Mac reports, Apple Reference Image sends an image with hard-coded sensor data and metadata to Private Cloud Compute to ensure that a photo taken with an iPhone can be authenticated. It sounds similar to how Content Credentials work on select interchangeable lens cameras and even some other smartphones, like last year's Google Pixel 10, the first smartphone to include built-in hardware-level C2PA Content Credentials. This will be an interesting feature to keep an eye on as iOS 27 nears its full public release.
Insta360 doesn't officially reveal the new X6 360-degree camera until tomorrow morning, but Best Buy didn't seem to get that memo. It has listed the new camera on its website, including a bunch of the specifications that are still under embargo. We can't publish them here, but we can't stop you from heading over to that listing to see for yourself.
Camp Snap is going even further into its retro vibes with a new translucent purple color for the Camp Snap 2 called Cosmic Grape. If you yearn for the days when all personal tech looked like the optional translucent colors of the Game Boy Color or the special edition Xbox that shipped with Halo CE, then this one is for you. It is priced the same as all the other Camp Snap 2 options: $75.
Insta360 is gearing up to announce the X6 tomorrow morning, August 12, at 9AM ET. The company has shared a series of teasers on its Instagram, including videos shot on X6 of motorsports, diving, and action sports. It has also teased major AI advancements to let users edit and share video without any manual work. An "AI Director" inside the X6 can "cut footage into a finished video at the end of the day while it charges," Insta360 says. "No subscription, no timeline, no skills needed."
The Insta360 X6 will be fully revealed at 9AM ET (6AM PT) on August 12.
YouTube has increased the requirements for new accounts that want to monetize their channels. Presently, it asks for 1,000 subscribers and either 4,000 watch hours in a year or 10 million Shorts views. Starting February 1, 2027, channels will need at least 1,000 subscribers and either 8,000 watch hours in a year or 20 million Shorts views.
YouTube says there are some benefits coming in addition to these changes, though, including better opportunities to earn through Premium Lite subscribers. Still, those baseline requirements are pretty high.
Pelican has partnered with Chris Burkard to create the brand’s first major TV campaign called "The Detour."
Shot on location at Great Sand Dunes National Park, The Detour captures what happens when travel plans fall apart. The film follows Burkard through an unexpected backcountry saga as he navigates truck breakdowns, sandstorms, horseback rides across dunes, and ultralight aircraft flights – all with Pelican’s Aegis Series positioned as the ultimate companion when travel plans go awry.
The all-new 35mm f/2 Apochromatic lens Light Lens Lab unveiled last week is now available to preorder, including the limited edition Titanium Gray version. The M-Mount lens is the first in a brand-new series for Light Lens Lab, its High Performance Series. The lens starts at $2,099, a signal of its premium design.
Insta360 has announced its new flagship 360-degree camera system: the X6. It's smaller than the X5 and still promises significantly better image quality thanks to its bigger sensor and therefore its better light-gathering capability.
The first feature film ever to be shot entirely on IMAX cameras, The Odyssey, has surpassed $1 billion at the box office -- a remarkable achievement for an R-rated movie.
Two female photographers, including a prominent photojournalist and an 18-year-old artist, have been sentenced to a combined 24 years in prison in Iran.
Pioneering San Francisco photo gallery SF Camerawork -- which has exhibited work by influential photographers such as Sally Mann and Robert Mapplethorpe -- is closing after 52 years.
Nearly 49 years after it launched into space aboard a Titan III rocket, NASA's Voyager 2 space probe received yet another software update, this time reaching the speeding probe from nearly 13.3 billion miles (almost 21.4 billion kilometers) away.
Toem 2's developers, Swedish independent studio Something We Made, describes its new video game as a "wholesome adventure about taking photos." In the striking-looking black-and-white game, players grab their camera and set off into the world, tasked with making friends, exploring, and, of course, taking photos.
Scientists have used a pair of NSF NOIRLab telescopes for 13 years to create the new DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys map. It is the largest 2D map ever of the Universe and covers three-quarters of the sky. The catalog has nearly four billion objects.
Leica has removed one of the 12 shortlisted finalists for the 2026 Leica Oskar Barnack Award (LOBA), one of the most prestigious photography prizes in the world, PetaPixel can exclusively reveal.
In January, Insta360's refreshingly candid founder and CEO, Jingkang "JK" Liu appeared to tease what looks like an Insta360 mirrorless camera. Liu has started talking about Insta360's new camera project, promising a camera shaped like no other before.
A trail camera has captured a striking image of a rare Eurasian lynx moving across the high-altitude Himalayas - marking the first confirmed photographic record of the species in Sikkim, India.
Legendary surf photographer Hank Foto, one of the most recognizable lensman to work for Surfing Magazine, has died.
Amateur astronomers and astrophotographers may need to exercise great caution when enormous reflecting satellites start appearing in the night sky -- as experts say they have the potential to blind them.
Police are searching for a suspect after camera gear was stolen from a TV crew filming on a popular beach in the U.K.
VSCO, a photo and video editing app, is offering photographers in every state the opportunity to have their work exhibited on a billboard.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured beautiful new photos of the Lion Nebula, NGC 2392, demonstrating its imaging prowess compared to the venerable Hubble Space Telescope.
GoPro has announced its second-quarter financial results and some of the core numbers are dire.
Sharge is just a few days away from wrapping up its crowdfunding campaign for the follow-up to the Sharge Disk Pro with a few nice upgrades, including a way to toggle off its obnoxiously loud fan.
Sony Group and chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) are planning to begin mass production of next-generation image sensors in southwestern Japan as soon as 2029, per Nikkei Asia.
While PetaPixel already covered the big-picture information from Fujifilm's latest financial results, including that the company's Imaging business is a huge moneymaker, there is another part of the company's results well worth discussing: the impact of increased memory prices on expected operational costs and what Fujifilm plans to do about it.
Apple seemed to leak an unannounced Nikon camera over the weekend on a ProRes support page. It's a very strange way for a camera to be leaked.
Nearly three years after it launched, Blackmagic has added phase detect autofocus (PDAF) and a set of object detection tracking modes to the Cinema Camera 6K, which significantly ups the value of the video camera.
Tamron's financial results are always interesting thanks to the company's candor in breaking down its own-brand versus OEM lens production and sales data. However, Tamron's latest results are made even more compelling by the fact Sony is actively trying to acquire the lens maker, a very interesting move with huge potential implications.
I've been thinking lately that it had been a while since I filmed a short form project. As in, actually directed the story, actors, and visuals. Right on cue, my buddy and amazing musician, Sam Plecker, reached out and said he wanted to film a music video for his upcoming track.
The winners of the Pure Street Photography Awards 2026 have been announced -- a competition created to celebrate photographs defined by honesty, observation, and humanity.
The first photos of the impact crater left on the Moon after an out-of-control SpaceX spacecraft crashed into its surface last week have emerged.
A New Mexico court has ordered Meta to pay $567 million over harms to young people linked to its platforms -- in what is the largest fine against Instagram and Facebook’s parent company over child safety.
Chinese-made surveillance drones used by the U.K.'s elite special forces were found to have cameras that secretly sent data to China.
Several establishments across the U.K. are announcing bans on Meta smart glasses, citing concerns that the devices could be used to record customers and staff secretly.
Pentax is in a challenging spot. Its parent company, Ricoh, remains committed to the Pentax brand, and Pentax wants to continue to make DSLR cameras. The problem is nobody wants new DSLR cameras.
A new exhibition examines how more than 80 years of documentary photography has captured the darker, more unsettling side of life in Britain and Ireland.
In a town close to the French/German language split in Switzerland lies a piece of photographic history that is worth taking a look at. In Marly, Switzerland, lies Machine E, a multilayer photographic coating machine that has been used to bring many world-beating photographic products to the market.
I have a real dislike for most of what I call e-waste cameras on the market, which are those that are capturing the world through the lens of a literal dashcam. They tend to be cheaply built, take poor photos, and are littered with many frustrating compromises. I am instantly skeptical anytime a new cheap $45 point-and-shoot comes across my radar.
I recently added a camera that shoots 6x6 to my shelf. Square negatives, twelve per roll. I expected to enjoy the lens, the build, the ritual of loading film backs. What I didn’t expect was how much the shape of the frame would mess with the rest of my photography vision.
An extraordinary picture collection spanning 100 works by photographers including Diane Arbus, Dorothea Lange, Richard Avedon, Nan Goldin, and Edward Steichen will be on view at museums across the United States.
Continuing the slate of financial result releases, Fujifilm shared its latest earnings for the first quarter of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2027. Revenues are up, but operating income is down.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering expanding its already existing ban on new DJI drones to include drones that already exist in the marketplace, claiming it wants to “secure the drone supply chain” by preventing the sale of drones equipped with military technology.
Keeping track of photo and video files across multiple hard drives, memory cards, and cloud services can become difficult as projects accumulate. A new Mac application called Tusk is designed to give photographers and video creators a way to track those files while also handling parts of the backup and offload process.
The newest NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month delivers a spectacularly colorful look at a cosmic "Treasure Chest," a neat feature of the nearby Carina Nebula, located just 7,500 light-years away.
Toward the end of the summer of 2024, Lomography struck again, bringing a new (sort of) addition to its Lomochrome line of experimental films. The company introduced Lomochrome Color ‘92 Sun-Kissed, a color negative film meant for experimentation and indulging in nostalgia.
Zhong Yi Optics has announced the Pittura 30mm f/2.4, a manual focus prime lens designed to give Hasselblad XCD and Fujifilm GFX photographers an unusual combination of both fast aperture and a wide-angle.
Want to live in Hong Kong while getting paid to create photography and video content?
Late last year, Adobe introduced integrations for Photoshop, Express, and Acrobat inside OpenAI's conversational AI platform, ChatGPT. Now Adobe has upped the ante and announced the Adobe plugin in ChatGPT, which brings every Adobe app inside ChatGPT.
DJI has released a second teaser for its upcoming Osmo 360 II, this time showing footage captured with the new 360-degree camera. The company says the camera will officially launch later today.
