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Germany is known to have some of the strictest privacy laws in Europe, and sometimes the policies trump photography rights and copyright. The country’s highest court just ruled that a photographer must delete “intimate” photos of his ex-lover — pictures that were consented to when they were created and which the man had no intention of sharing.

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If you have a lens of one mount and a camera with another, there’s a good chance that there’s an adapter out there that can help you pair the two. This is called shooting with an adapted lens (versus shooting with a native one). Photographer Mark Ryan Sallee of ... more

You may not recognize the name, face, and photos of Douglas Miller, but many people living in Laguna Beach, California, do. He’s a street photographer who has been shooting a roll of film per day for 44 years, creating a remarkable photo archive of 350,000+ spontaneous snapshots that tell the story of his town.

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The Galaxy Note 5 is the latest model in Samsung's line of Note large-format smartphones. In terms of camera specifications the Note 5 offers very similar hardware to what we've seen on the Galaxy S6, S6 Edge and S6 Edge+. A 1/2.6-inch 16MP CMOS sensor is combined with a fast F1.9 aperture and an optical image stabilization system. DxOMark has just completed its Mobile report on the Note 5's camera, and we've published the findings over at... more

DxOMark has completed its full mobile report into the Samsung Galaxy S6 smartphone's camera. With a DxOMark Mobile score of 87 the Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+ just snatches the smartphone camera crown from the Sony Xperia Z5 and places itself on top of the DxOMark smartphone rankings.

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Adapted Lens Talk

With the ever-growing popularity of using mirrorless cameras with lens adapters, we are pleased to announce the opening of a new forum: Adapted Lens Talk. Thanks to the proposal and volunteer work of its moderator, Tom Caldwell, the forum has taken off dramatically and is full of vintage lens deliciousness.

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Heres episode 33 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. You can also download the MP3 directly and... more

Here’s a sweet and simple photo organization tip for those of you using iPhones and iPads: in the Photos app in iOS, you can create a new folder by long pressing the plus button (+). Albums can help you group collections of photos, but folders can help you group sets of albums for increased organization.

Unfortunately, there doesn’t appear to be a way at this time to move top-level folders into new albums, but perhaps Apple will add that functionality into an... more

Every year, millions of tourists flock to Banff National Park in Canada to see and photograph the gorgeous landscapes. Photographer Meghan Krauss was fascinated by the crowds of tourists shooting selfies and other photos in these pristine locations, so in 2013, she began to shoot panoramic photos... more

44-year-old South Korean photographer Ahn Se Hong has won his lawsuit against Nikon over the cancellation of his ‘comfort women’ exhibition. The Tokyo District Court ruled last Friday that Nikon must pay Ahn 1.1 million (~$9,150) in damages.

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