Photography News

Lenovo has launched the latest model of its Moto sub-brand at the Mobile World Congress. The Moto G5 Plus is the successor to last year's Moto G4 Plus and, like its predecessor, an upper mid-range device that puts a lot of emphasis on camera performance. For the new model's camera resolution has been reduced from 16MP to 12MP and, with a 1.4m pixel size, on-sensor phase detection and very fast F1.7... more

LG has today announced its latest flagship smartphone, the LG G6 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. For the new model LG has abandoned the G5's modular concept and focused on usability and durability instead. The G6 comes with an elegant looking metal frame with chamfered edges and a brushed metal back plate. The body is now also water and dust proof. On the front you'll find a 5.7... more

Things we found at CP+ 2017 which had been cut in half

We'll be honest - the past year has been pretty rough. It's hard to find much good news out there, and it seems like the world is more divided than ever. With so much uncertainty in so many areas of our lives, it's important to hold on firmly to the important things. Friends, family, lifebelts, and amusing-... more

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When a nagging desire to unleash his creative juices wouldn't leave him alone, Edin Chavez left a successful self-made painting business to pursue photography. He's now a Miami-based commercial... more

We're in Yokohama Japan, where we've just added 25 images to our gallery of samples from Fujifilm's new GFX 50S mirrorless medium-format 50MP camera. We'll be adding to this gallery over the next few days.

See our Fujifilm GFX 50S sample gallery

Episode 154 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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We tossed Nikon's new 70-20mm F2.8 workhorse on a D5 and sat on the sidelines for a University of Washington vs Arizona State NCAA basketball game. It proved to be an impressive combo, to say the least. Have a look through our updated sample gallery and see for yourself. All basketball images were processed in Adobe Lightroom CC with adjustments made to exposure and tone only.

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The art of photography lost one of its most influential and controversial voices today. Ren Hang, a renowned and oft-censored Chinese photographer whose work has been displayed around the world, died this week. He was... more

Hot on the heels of Sony’s “world’s fastest SD card” announcement, the SD Card Association has announced a new, much faster standard for SD and microSD memory cards: UHS-III.

UHS-III doubles the already “ultra high speed” transfer capabilities of UHS-II, raising the bar from 312MB/sthe maximum theoretical... more

For as long as Ive been photographing, Ive always had a soft spot for gear and the technical side of photography. In the beginning, I was obsessed with getting the best camera I could afford, which, ironically, was a refurbished entry-level Nikon DSLRnot exactly the pinnacle of camera technology at the time.

For the years following, I shot with Nikon DSLRs and these cameras are the ones with which I first started my photography career. At the time my needs for a camera were... more

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