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Heres episode 99 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. You can also download the MP3... more

Samyang Optics has completed its launch of five new lenses over the summer with the announcement that its full-frame 14mm F2.8 autofocus lens for Sony E-mount is ready to hit stores.

The Samyang AF 14/2.8 FE, as it is known, includes 14 elements in 10 groups, 3 of which being aspherical and two extra-low dispersion. The lens has nearly a 114 field-of-view when mounted to a full-frame body and about 90 on a crop body. The 14mm has a minimum focus ... more

Tripod manufacturers Manfrotto and Benro have settled their patent dispute after Mamiya America Corporation (MAC Group) agreed not to market its GoClassic and GoTravel series of tripods in the USA. The battle between the two brands began when Benro began selling tripods that allow the center column to be lifted out of the collar and held at... more

It’s happened. Safari did it in June, Firefox will do it by 2017, and now Chrome has officially announced they will do it, too: they’re blocking... more

Daniel Norton, the same photographer who showed you how to capture three distinct looks simultaneously when you’re pressed for time on a shoot, is back for another useful quick tip. This time, he’s showing you how to capture four distinct portrait looks with a single umbrella.

As Norton says at the beginning, an umbrella is a great lighting tool... more

After 70 years of providing aspiring photographers with a formal education, Brooks Institute announced this month that it... more

Corel has launched PaintShop Pro X9, the latest version of its photo editing software. With the X9 version, PaintShop Pro adds seven new features, as well as two enhancements to existing features, including new Interactive Gradients, expanded RAW camera profile support, and new... more

To hear photographer Nathan Wirth tell it, the wonder of old movies, TV shows, and comic books was that they were so obviously unrealistic. These old fantasies sparked the creative fire inside... more

“The Light Collector” is a new 3.5-minute short film about Dilish Parekh, the man who holds the Guinness World Record for... more

Dear photography community, I am writing this blog post to warn you from an experience I had in getting my camera stolen from a car, and then finding that my insurance refused to cover it.

We live in a modern age with crazy technology — our cameras are proof of that. And so is the technology the common thief uses. On a recent trip to Lithuania, I parked my rented car (with full insurance coverage) and went for lunch with my girlfriend, her mom, and two... more

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