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This diagram of the light path through Canon's newly-patented 400mm catadioptric lens shows how the mirrors help to 'fold' the light path and decrease the size of the lens. A new Canon lens patent out of Japan has been r...

There's a surprising link between railings and the capital's wartime past

DxO recently announced that it has acquired the Nik Collection suite of popular photo tools after Google abandoned development in May. The Collection is still available as a free download and can be run as standalone pro...

Episode 237 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. Download MP3 – Subscribe via iTunes, Google Play, email or RSS! Featured: Photographer and educator, Joe Edelman In This Episode If you subscribe to the PetaPixel Photo...

Earlier this week, a major entertainment industry merger was announced: Disney is planning to buy 21st Century Fox for a whopping $52.4 billion. But while this might seem unrelated to the world of photography at first bl...

To Adobe or not to Adobe. That is the question many photographers are asking with the spate of new image processing programs vying to "kill Photoshop." I tested more than ten contenders as alternatives to Adobe's image p...

Photographer Pete McBride has traveled around the world with his camera for over 20 years, but one of his most incredible achievements has been hiking the entire Colorado River, including through the Grand Canyon. Here�...

National Geographic photographers will likely soon find themselves under the same parent company as Disneyland photographers. Disney is set to take ownership of the famous yellow-bordered magazine as part of its $52 bill...

Leica has released a series of 100 limited edition Leica M bodies with red anodized top and base plates. The company says the red hue of the cameras makes a bold statement, though some might argue the nearly-$7,000 price...

What camera and lens combination on the market delivers the “ultimate in image quality”? Photographer Matt Granger has been trying out the $8,000 Hasselblad X1D with the $4,500 Zeiss Otus 85mm — both of which are c...

NASA’s Juno space probe has been orbiting Jupiter and dazzling us with photos of the giant gas planet for over a year now. In recent days, Juno has captured a number of gorgeous close-up photos that look strangely like...

When Apple’s new iMac Pro arrived on the scene yesterday, there was one crazy detail that jumped out at a lot of people: if you choose to include all the optional upgrades, the computer will cost a staggering $13,199. ...

Ahead of our full review, here are some sample JPEG and Raw images taken with the new Panasonic Leica 200mm F2.8 lens, mounted on the Panasonic G9 mirrorless camera, with the DMW-TC14 1.4x teleconverter fitted. The 1.4x ...

After publishing my recent 2017 Gear of the Year article, in which I highlighted a lens I used for shooting the aurora borealis, numerous people reached out to ask if I would write a follow-up article on how to photograp...

Ahead of our full review, here are some sample JPEG and Raw images taken with the new Panasonic Leica 200mm F2.8 lens, mounted on the Panasonic G9 mirrorless camera, with the DMW-TC20 2x teleconverter fitted. This turns ...

The year 2017 was great for prime lens shooters. Based on reader interest and preferences, we've got a whopping twenty lenses for this category of our year-end reader polls. Vote now for your favorite!

Apple today released iMac Pro, an entirely new product line designed for pro users who love the all-in-one-design of iMac and require workstation-class performance. With Xeon processors up to 18 cores, up to 22 Teraflops...

The Synology FlashStation FS1018 is a powerful and compact 12-bay, low-latency, all-SSD desktop NAS. FS1018 is a blazing fast and compact 12-bay, low-latency, all-SSD desktop NAS. It is powered by an Intel Pentium® D150...

The Leica M (Typ 262) 'red anodized finish' camera takes the classic styling of the Leica M and couples it with the bold statement of a bright red hue. This special edition is limited to just 100 cameras worldwide, each ...

AKVIS MakeUp 5.0 is easy-to-use portrait enhancement software. Version 5.0 offers the brand new portrait retouching algorithm with significantly improved results. Also, it provides the updated list of ready-to-use preset...

The Phoblographer tests loads of cameras, lenses, software, bags, and accessories each and every year. Here are our Editor's Choice picks from 2017.

When Zeiss announced their Zeiss 25mm f1.4 Milvus lens, I was surely excited. But at the same time, a part of me considers this a focal length that I'm not too sure about. It's not a 24mm, it's not a 28mm, and it isn't t...