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As someone who spent over a decade in the stock photography and creative … 19 hours ago Jan 12, 2025 Matt Growcoot Surreal Filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos Releases Photo Book Shot on Film Influential director Yorgos Lanthimos has released a book of film photographs all taken on the set of his recent film Kinds of Kindness. Jan 11, 2025 Chris Niccolls The State of Canon, Nikon, and Sony’s ‘Holy Trinity’ Zoom Lenses in 2025 The majority of professional photographers pray at the Church of the Holy Trinity. That is to say that they make their daily bread with an ultra-wide f/2.8 zoom, a general-purpose 24-70mm f/2.8, and a 70-200mm f/2.8 telephoto. This is a tradition that has held true for decades from the time of the autofocusing film SLR to the modern mirrorless cameras of today. Good things come in threes so today we look at the best three lenses from the three biggest companies. Jan 10, 2025 Jeremy Gray Nikon’s ‘Sporting the Unexpected’ Series Puts Athletes In Striking and Strange Situations The Nikon Z6 III is a very powerful new camera and a popular one, too, as PetaPixel readers can attest. To showcase the device’s prowess, Nikon Europe enlisted the help of four talented professional sports photographers. Jan 10, 2025 Jan 10, 2025 Jeremy Gray The Custom Nikon Z9 and Thermal Blanket Headed to the Moon Nikon and NASA have a rich history of collaboration dating back more than 50 years when Nikon supplied specialized analog cameras for Apollo missions. Nikon cameras are headed back to the Moon, and Nikon showed off some of the new lunar-bound technology this week at CES. Jan 10, 2025 Jeremy Gray Lawsuit Alleges Mark Zuckerberg Gave Permission for Meta to Train AI on Stolen Content An amended lawsuit against Meta alleges that the company’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, approved training Meta’s Llama AI models using copyrighted content. Jan 10, 2025 Jan 10, 2025 B.A. Van Sise The Happiest Place: Memories and Reality at an American Amusement Park My good friend, the oldfangled film photographer Elizabeth Nahum-Albright, was recently tasked with a common problem: the disposition of her newly dead father. His most urgent demands were clear: he was to be cremated and placed, like all of his cats, into a cookie jar. Jan 10, 2025 Featured Reviews Panasonic DC-ZS99 Review: A Disappointing Trend Chaser Viltrox LAB 135mm f/1.8 Review: This Portrait Lens is a Heavy Hitter Samyang 35mm f/1.4 P Review: Fantastic Value for a Fast Prime More Reviews > Jan 10, 2025 Jaron Schneider International Artists Organization Condemns Texas Seizure of Sally Mann Photos The Artists at Risk Connection (ARC) says it condemns the seizure of the Sally Mann photographers included in the Diaries of Home exhibition in Fort Worth, Texas and calling it a "brazen act of censorship" by Texas authorities. Jan 10, 2025 Jan 10, 2025 Jaron Schneider U.S. Supreme Court Appears Likely to Uphold TikTok Ban The Supreme Court heard arguments today after which it will determine the fate of TikTok, which stands to be banned in the United States on January 19. The company has already said it would rather be banned than sell. Jan 10, 2025 Jan 10, 2025 Jaron Schneider Civilian Drone Collides With Firefighting Aircraft Over Palisades Fire On Thursday, a civilian-operated drone collided with a firefighting "Super Scooper" airplane while it was operating above the Palisades Fire, the FAA reports. The plane was able to land safely but the incident is still under investigation. Jan 10, 2025 Jan 10, 2025 Jeremy Gray Canon Considering Outsourcing Camera Manufacturing to Cut Costs Canon chairman and CEO Fujio Mitarai says the company may reorganize its manufacturing efforts, potentially moving additional camera production outside Japan. Jan 10, 2025 Jan 09, 2025 Jeremy Gray The Three Best Photos From BepiColombo’s Historic Mercury Flyby The joint European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) BepiColombo mission performed its sixth flyby of Mercury yesterday, January 8, 2025. This historic maneuver enabled the spacecraft to capture incredible new photos of the planet’s surface from just 295 kilometers (183 miles) away. Jan 09, 2025 Jan 09, 2025 Jeremy Gray 0.03-Megapixel Pixless Camera Captures Charming Pixel Art Photos The Pixless camera on Kickstarter channels the lo-fi spirit of the iconic Nintendo Game Boy Camera. With similarly low image quality, the Pixless promises to capture pixel art-like digital photos with just 0.03 megapixels of resolution. Jan 09, 2025 Jan 09, 2025 Jaron Schneider Adobe’s Generative AI Jumps The Shark, Adds Bitcoin to Bird Photo Last year, Adobe updated its Firefly generative AI platform multiple times, the most recent coming in September. Over that time, the Lightroom and Photoshop tools that rely on the technology have gotten steadily worse and the system’s choice to add a Bitcoin logo to a photo of a seagull is a perfect distillation of the problem. Featured Editorials Before You Use an SD Card as an External Drive for iPhone, Know the Limitations Manufacturers Were Unprepared for the Point And Shoot Camera Revival DaVinci Resolve Is Now So Good It’s Impossible for Competitors to Ignore Jan 09, 2025 Jeremy Gray How the Fantastical Blockbuster Movie ‘Wicked’ Was Lit When it was released in 1939, The Wizard of Oz broke new ground in movie production thanks largely to its remarkable lighting setup. The blockbuster prequel Wicked, based on the award-winning Broadway play of the same name, likewise captivates contemporary audiences thanks in large part to its visual aesthetic and incredible lighting. Jan 09, 2025 Jan 09, 2025 Zack Morrison LG’s Apple-Inspired 32-Inch Monitor Is the First 6K Display with Thunderbolt 5 LG’s new UltraFine 6K monitor is the first to support the new lightning-fast Thunderbolt 5 standard. Jan 09, 2025 Jan 09, 2025 Jeremy Gray The 570-Megapixel Dark Energy Camera’s Dazzling View of 230 Sparkling Galaxies The groundbreaking Dark Energy Camera (DECam) entered service in 2012 and served as the primary camera used for the Dark Energy Survey. The 570-megapixel camera, which features 74 total CCD image sensors, recently captured a dazzling photo of the Antlia Cluster (Abell S636), a group of at least 230 galaxies located about 130 million light-years from Earth. Jan 09, 2025 Jan 09, 2025 Matt Growcoot Have AI Companies Run Out of Training Data? Elon Musk Thinks So Elon Musk and former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever say that AI companies have run out of real-world data to train generative models on. Jan 09, 2025 Jan 09, 2025 Matt Growcoot Drone Footage Captures the Devastating Aftermath of LA Wildfires The L.A. wildfires are still burning but already drone footage has captured the devastating aftermath of the areas wrecked by the deadly blaze. Jan 09, 2025 Jan 09, 2025 Jaron Schneider SanDisk SD Cards Corrupt When Paired With the R5 Mark II, Canon Warns As if photographers needed another reason to avoid SanDisk, the company’s memory cards may record corrupted or unreadable still photo files when paired with the Canon R5 Mark II. At the time of publication, there is no fix for the problem other than to stop using the cards. Jan 09, 2025 Jan 09, 2025 Jeremy Gray The Tiny Hollyland Lark M2S Wireless Mic System Is Nearly Invisible The sixth-generation Hollyland Lark Series microphone, the Lark M2S, is exceptionally tiny, weighs just seven grams (0.25 ounces), and is logo-free, ensuring it is easy to conceal while still delivering high-quality wireless audio for videographers, content creators, vloggers, and streamers. Jan 09, 2025 Featured Spotlights Balthazar Korab’s Stunning Photos of the World Trade Center Photographer Captures First-Ever Image of Bird of Prey ‘Lost’ for 55 Years What It’s Like Being the Official Team USA Gymnastics Photographer Jan 09, 2025 Chris Niccolls Samyang 35mm f/1.4 P Review: Fantastic Value for a Fast Prime It’s well-known that I am not a fan of the 35mm focal length. It’s also well-known that I am in the extreme minority on this. Everyone loves a good 35mm lens which is a prime candidate for a faster f/1.4 aperture. Samyang has answered the call with its latest "Prima" series of lenses which promise to be optical standouts with sophisticated autofocusing. Jan 09, 2025 Matt Growcoot Google Street View Image Solves Mystery of Woman Who Vanished A Google Street View image led police to solve the mystery of a woman who wandered off from her home and couldn’t be found. Jan 09, 2025 Jan 09, 2025 Matt Growcoot Squid Game Cameraman Spotted in Epic Fight Scene Shooting an action sequence for a big television or movie production is fraught with logistical headaches as camera operators often have to hide in plain sight so directors can get the frames they want. Jan 09, 2025 Jan 09, 2025 Matty Graham Viral Olympic Surf Shot Tops World Sports Photography Awards Sports photography is a game of split-second timing and never-to-be-repeated moments, so to be at the top of your game takes no small amount of skill. The best of the best in this demanding genre has just been recognized with the winning frames from the World Sports Photography Awards. Jan 08, 2025 Jeremy Gray Upgraded Tilta Khronos System Is Built for Avid iPhone Filmmakers Tilta announced an improved version of its Khronos ecosystem for iPhone filmmakers. Designed for the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max, the revised system combines a protective case, modular design, and enhanced physical controls. Jan 08, 2025 Jan 08, 2025 Ken Klein Veteran Photographer in LA Says Wildfire is ‘Worst’ He’s Ever Seen “I’m in the midst of it right now,” said veteran fire photographer David Swanson Wednesday morning from the Eaton Fire in Altadena, California. Jan 08, 2025 Jan 08, 2025 Jaron Schneider The Getty-Shutterstock Merger is Yet Another Step in a Race to the Bottom This week, Getty Images and Shutterstock announced an intent to merge, bringing two of the top three largest stock photography companies together. It’s just one more step down the road to rock bottom. Jan 08, 2025 Matt Growcoot Instagram Has Started Showing AI-Generated Pictures of Users AI-generated pictures of people have started appearing in their Instagram feeds and it’s alarming folk. Jan 08, 2025 Jan 08, 2025 Alan Adler The Leica Q3: A Concise Review It’s 4:37 PM Friday at a long-range planning meeting in Leica offices in Wetzlar. Attendees want to get on with their weekend. Fritz is talking. Jan 08, 2025 Older Articles > Become a Member Become a PetaPixel Member and access our content ad-free. 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