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After almost freezing my hands during an Iceland photo trip, I began a long search for proper winter gloves that would be both warm and ergonomic for operating a camera. For many years, most of my photo career was based ...

In 2017, GoPro announced a Trade-Up promo to boost the sales of its HERO5 Black — send in an older HERO camera and you got up to $100 off a new GoPro camera. This year, GoPro has just launched a new and improved Trade-...

Canon has just announced IVY, a new compact photo printer that lets you create tiny prints on the go without any cables involved in the process. The IVY itself measures just 4.7×3.2×0.7 inches (11.9×8.1×1.8 cm) and w...

Have you ever been at a beautiful location and wondered what a photo might look like if you had a model and some lighting equipment on hand? Well, you no longer need to wonder. Los Angeles-baased visual effects studio Su...

OPPO, one of China's largest mobile phone manufacturers, has signed a strategic licensing agreement with Corephotonics, a developer of dual-camera technologies based in Israel. Under the agreement, the two companies will...

If you've ever wondered if those massive 8x10 large format cameras will ever have digital counterparts, the answer now is yes. Say hello to the LargeSense LS911, which lays claim to the title "world's first 8x10 digital ...

Last year, during my last months in Melbourne, I got a text from one of my closest and oldest friends from Italy. "We need to talk, I have some important news for you. Skype?" Minutes later, we were online. I see him sho...

Here’s a helpful 6-minute tutorial by photographer Dustin Dolby on how you can photograph group product photos using only a single speedlight. Dolby places a number of shampoo and conditioner bottles on a sheet of acry...

Credit: Canon Canon has just released its smallest and lightest printer yet. The IVY Mini Photo Printer is a rechargeable battery-powered portable printer that uses ZINK Zero-Ink technology to create 2x3 prints and stick...

Well-known Danish photographer Thorsten Overgaard has stopped offering luxury elephant skin camera bags for sale after word of the bags got some photographers up in arms. The 53-year-old Overgaard, known for his photogra...

My name is Patrick Keenan, and I’m a photojournalist in Australia. I have been using Ektachrome 100ASA underwater in my Nikonos cameras and SB-105 flash since the 1970s and was disappointed to see production end in 201...

Episode 272 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. Download MP3 – Subscribe via iTunes, Google Play, email or RSS! Featured: Photographer and author, Rick Smolan In This Episode If you subscribe to the PetaPixel Photogr...

Credit: Rylo The popular Rylo 360° camera--a camera we called the "360 degree camera done right" in our review--is receiving a major update today. The update adds two new features for both iOS and Android users of the R...

Learn more about Edoardo Tresoldi's breathtaking "Etherea"

Phase One has launched the first major update to Capture One Pro 11, the company's Raw conversion and photo editing software. Capture One 11.1 brings along a few important new features, including improved import performa...

We recently got a hold of Samsung's latest and greatest smartphone, the Galaxy S9+. Like the Note 8, the S9+ has dual cameras (one wide, one telephoto,) but this time one of them can switch between F1.5 and F2.4 automati...

It is the way of the world these days; a new camera is released and it can take weeks, sometimes months before the popular RAW processors are updated in order to support them. It's one of the biggest drawbacks to being a...

Best practices for flying your drone at weddings It's spring, and that means wedding season is upon us!* If you're one of the many photographers planning wedding shoots this year, it's also a great time to think about in...

I'm going to preface this post by saying once again, no this isn't an ad of some sort. Our policies on sponsored content are very clear and they're also clearly labelled. But instead, this is more of an insight into the ...

Candid photography has become more and more popular as the masses become more and more tone deaf to the look of cliché posed portraits. It's a less perfect form of portraiture, but a truer to life one as well - in many ...

Sony has released the first firmware update for the Sony a7 III--version 1.01--and it was specifically released to solve a "blinking pixel" issue that showed up when recording video footage while using certain settings. ...