This week, Getty Images and Shutterstock announced an intent to merge, bringing two of the top three largest stock photography companies together. It's just one more step down the road to rock bottom.
While imaging companies rarely use CES as a platform to launch new consumer cameras and lenses anymore, the major electronics tradeshow remains a great place for camera makers to show off interesting technology. Sony unveiled the mocopi Pro Kit this week in Las Vegas, a groundbreaking motion capture solution for creating animation, gaming, virtual reality... more (link is external)
Topaz Labs, the company behind powerful AI-based photo and video editing tools, has announced that it's moving beyond the desktop for the first time. Its image upscaler and image restoration program, Gigapixel AI (link is external), will... more (link is external)
The PetaPixel Podcast is back! This week, Chris Niccolls, Jordan Drake, and I discuss the return of point-and-shoot cameras, but with the first of their "revival" being the Panasonic Lumix ZS99, we have thoughts.
Relatively new Hong Kong-based lens maker Artra Lab, which launched a not-so-subtle Nikkor knockoff a few months ago, is back with another heavily-inspired lens, this time a 35mm f/1.4 M mount lens that looks an awful lot like a legendary Leica Summilux Steel Rim lens.
The New Orleans terrorist who killed 14 people on New Year's Day wore Meta Ray-Bans to surreptitiously record the city streets months before the attack.
The OnePlus 13 got its reveal, but perhaps even more revealing is how much the company is trying to make its flagship more accessible. To do it, its embracing MagSafe (albeit only with its phone cases) and including a software feature in OxygenOS to enable sharing with iPhone users. Even faster wired and wireless charging, plus a... more (link is external)
After Comet A3 made a once-in-a-lifetime appearance in October, Comet G3dubbed the "New Year" cometis currently falling toward the Sun, and if all goes well, it could outshine Venus in the night sky.
