Building Our Very Own Frankencameras | The PetaPixel Podcast This week on the PetaPixel Podcast, the team is joined by PetaPixel's Tech Editor Jeremy Gray to build their own parts bin Frankencameras. They have to build a complete camera from a limited selection of parts, showcasing what the most important features of a camera are to each of them.... Published on 2026-10-20 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jaron Schneider Canon EOS R8 Mark II First Impressions: Worth the $1,899 Price Tag? The Canon EOS R8 Mark II is finally shipping after a long lead time from the September 15, 2026 announcement. Stock levels for the camera are good in every country that we have looked at. We think this camera is going to be a slow burn sales wise with its... Published on 2026-10-20 As Seen On Canon Rumours By Craig Blair Awe-Inspiring Architecture Celebrated in International Photo Competition Exterior, interiors, facades, and friezes are all on display after the Architecture Photography MasterPrize (APMP) revealed its 2026 winners. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-20 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot Fujifilm Invests Another $19 Million To Expand Instax Production Fujifilm has announced a 3 billion yen investment in its Instax production facilities, equivalent to nearly $19 million at current exchange rates. It follows an even greater Instax investment the company announced nearly a year ago. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-20 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Canon Releases New Firmware for EOS C50, C80, and C400 Canon has released new firmware for the EOS C50, EOS C80 and EOS C400. The update fixes some bugs in the cameras. We generally recommend waiting on firmware updates, check out usergroups for these cameras and see if there is discussion about issues that may have arisen.We hate saying it,... Published on 2026-10-20 As Seen On Canon Rumours By Craig Blair Flashback’s New Analog-Inspired Half-Frame Digicam Is All Grown Up Flashback has announced the One75, a new reusable digital camera that promises to bring the spirit and vibes of a classic half-frame film camera. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-20 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray The Most Important Camera Setting You're Not Using Any modern digital camera has thousands of settings and more features than most individual photographers will ever use. But there are some settings that photographers of all genres can benefit from using. One of the most overused terms in photography is "game-changing." It seems like every time a new piece of... Published on 2026-10-20 As Seen On Fstoppers By Pete Coco Leica Competitor Pixii Is Facing Financial Collapse French camera maker Pixii has reportedly entered judicial liquidation, France's formal insolvency procedure. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-20 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray DXO ViewPoint 6 Offers Image Correction Without Crops DxO has been busy lately, updating its collection of apps, giving them new capabilities and gently using AI to keep the photographer in control while making editing easier. Today, DxO is announcing ViewPoint 6, the latest version of its software for correcting geometry, perspective, and distortion. Version 6 brings AI masks... Published on 2026-10-20 As Seen On Fstoppers By Mel Martin Sirui’s New Tripod Head Doesn’t Make You Choose Between a Ball or Fluid Head Sirui has announced the BH-60, an integrated Ball and Fluid Head designed for photographers, content creators, and hybrid users. It promises to combine a ball head's photography-friendly versatility with a fluid head's smooth, video-friendly control in a single system. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-20 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray DxO ViewPoint 6 adds direct Raw support and more precise local corrections Once limited to processed files, ViewPoint 6 can now handle Raw images directly, with smarter subject selection and a more granular mesh for local distortion correction. DxO DxO has announced ViewPoint 6, the latest version of its software for correcting perspective, lens distortion and stretched subjects in photographs. The update... Published on 2026-10-20 As Seen On DP Review By Abby Ferguson Insta360 is making its Antigravity A1 drone way cheaper – with a catch The Follow Me bundle promises to make it easier than ever to record 360 video of yourself from the air, but comes with a battery that puts it over the weight limit. Last year, Insta360 announced that it was entering the drone market with its Antigravity brand and A1 drone,... Published on 2026-10-20 As Seen On DP Review By Mitchell Clark How the Canon EOS R6 Mark III Holds Up After a Year of Paid Work The Canon EOS R6 Mark III sits in the middle of Canon's mirrorless lineup, yet its feature list now overlaps with both the higher-resolution R5 Mark II and Canon's Cinema EOS bodies. If you shoot stills and video for a living, that overlap decides how many bodies you buy, carry,... Published on 2026-10-20 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Should Your Next Filmmaking Camera Be a Lumix? Picking a camera system for video locks you into a mount, a lens lineup, and a manufacturer's release schedule for years, and the features a brand ships early tend to shape how you work long after the purchase. Panasonic's Lumix bodies rarely dominate filmmaking gear talk, even though several capabilities... Published on 2026-10-20 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke 10 Winners From the Epson International Pano Awards The 17th Epson International Pano Awards have announced its 2026 winners, with Spanish photographer Daniel Viñé Garcia named Open Photographer of the Year. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-20 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot World Press Photo Adds Nature and Sports Awards for 2027 Contest World Press Photo has added three awards to its 2027 contest that will recognize nature and sports photography from around the world. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-20 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot Is Panasonic's $400 Lumix S 40mm f/2 Worth It? At $400, the Panasonic Lumix S 40mm f/2 is one of the least expensive ways to put an official autofocus prime on an L-mount body. A 40mm sits between the standard 35mm and 50mm choices, and a lens this small and cheap has a good chance of becoming the one... Published on 2026-10-20 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Viltrox teases the launch of a new 35mm f/1.4 prime lens Viltrox say a new f/1.4 PRO Full Frame lens is coming soon. It will complement the existing Viltrox 50mm f/1.4 PRO and Viltrox 85mm f/1.4 PRO. We already saw some 35mm f/1.4 prototype versions in the past so this is the lens we will get. The post Viltrox teases the... Published on 2026-10-20 As Seen On Sony Camera By SonyAlpha Admin Adobe adds easy AI eye generation to Lightroom Mobile The feature will detect if someone has their eyes closed in a photo and create a new pair for them. Adobe If you’ve spent any time taking pictures of people, you’ll probably know the pain of photographing someone with an almost-perfect expression… only to realize that their eyes are closed.... Published on 2026-10-19 As Seen On DP Review By Mitchell Clark Flashback’s One75 is a more premium toy camera emulating the film experience With brass controls, aluminum plates and film-camera rituals, the $179 One75 puts a more premium spin on the nostalgic digicam. Flashback Flashback, the company behind the disposable-inspired One35 digital camera, has announced its next offering, the One75. The new digicam takes on the half-frame format and brings a more premium aesthetic.... Published on 2026-10-19 As Seen On DP Review By Abby Ferguson Connecticut Wrote Six Rules for Photoshopped Evidence in 2004 and Kept an Innocent Man in Prison Anyway A judge in Hartford wanted to know how the computer had made a set of plaster teeth semi-transparent so they could be laid over an autopsy photograph of a murdered woman's breast. "Judge, you got me," the state's forensic odontologist answered. "I don't know how they do it, but they... Published on 2026-10-19 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke One of the Last Masters of the Platinum Photo Printing Process While Cleveland and Ohio are having a moment in the baseball playoffs, a documentary is circulating about hometown photographer Herb Ascherman, whose voluminous archive includes images of nighttime fireworks after a Guardians’ victory. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-19 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Ken Klein Micro Four Thirds issues an interesting warning about unlicensed companies It doesn’t guarantee compatibility between devices made by non-member companies. The Micro Four Thirds standards group recently posted a warning on its site saying that it can’t guarantee that products made by companies not in the group will work as expected. The message, a link to which is prominently displayed... Published on 2026-10-19 As Seen On DP Review By Mitchell Clark Elgato Convertible Wave Go Is a Clip-On and Handheld Mic in One Elgato, a big name in content creation and streaming, has announced the Wave Go, which it describes as a "convertible wireless mic." [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-19 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray This Absurd, Adorable $38 1MP Digital Camera Can Be Worn Like Jewelry While Kenko Tokina continues work on a lens "like no other," the company's first new lens in years, it also continues churning out compact cameras in Japan, like the adorable new $38 Pieni III. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-19 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Insta360 Teases New Mic Series Model for October 22 Insta360 has officially confirmed that a new Mic Series model is arriving on October 22, 2026, at 9 am EDT. We just received confirmation from Insta360’s official Twitter account; they posted the teaser today. With the line, “More room to create 🎙️”, and asked followers to guess the features. The... Published on 2026-10-19 As Seen On The New Camera By admin The Astrophotography Prize winners reveal a sky worth staying up for From a unanimously perfect-scoring nebula shot to a backyard capture that stunned the panel, this year’s entries pushed the boundaries of what amateur and professional astrophotographers can achieve. Evan McKay, Jason Perry, Marzena Rogozińska and Alpha Zhang The Astrophotography Prize has announced the winners of its 2026 edition of the... Published on 2026-10-19 As Seen On DP Review By Abby Ferguson That Satellite Photo of ‘Amelia Earhart’s Plane’ Turned Out to Be a Tree Pictures can be deceiving. A group of researchers discovered this firsthand after making a long journey to a remote Pacific island in search of Amelia Earhart’s lost airplane. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-19 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot Most Photographers Probably Overlook the Importance of This Lens There’s a special role that affordable lenses play in the grand scheme of things, especially those that don’t compromise too much on optics. This new lens, while smaller than most of its kind, is sure to open many doors. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-19 As Seen On Fstoppers By Nicco Valenzuela Okay, the Sony FX5 Really Is Going to Launch This Time This is not a drill. The Sony FX5 really is coming this time. Adorama says the highly anticipated cinema camera is truly launching in November. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-19 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Is the Sony 20-70mm f/4 G the Do-Everything Zoom for the Mountains? The Sony FE 24-50mm f/2.8 G and FE 20-70mm f/4 G both promise a smaller standard zoom, and each one asks you to give up something different to get there. If you carry a camera into the mountains for hours at a time, the choice between extra width, extra reach,... Published on 2026-10-19 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke 60-Year-Old Found Footage Proves Famous Bigfoot Footage Is a Hoax On October 20, 1967, Roger Patterson and Robert "Bob" Gimlin captured just under a minute of shaky, grainy 16mm film footage of Bigfoot. Allegedly. Nearly 60 years later, the new documentary Capturing Bigfoot finally puts the issue to rest: it was a hoax. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-19 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray I Tried a Starlapse (and Learned a Lot) Ever since capturing my solar eclipse timelapse, I’ve wanted to explore and refine the technique. There were quite a few takeaways from that previous project in terms of settings and best practices, so I’m carrying those lessons into this next one. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-19 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Dmitry Koshutin Sigma Says the Possibilities for New Lenses Are ‘Limitless’ Sigma CEO Kazuto Yamaki chatted with Lensvid at IBC 2026, discussing Sigma's rapidly expanding lens lineup, its latest innovations, and, most interestingly, how Sigma feels about the future of optical design. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-19 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Landscape Photography Beliefs Worth Questioning, From Gear to Fame Most people start landscape photography already believing a few things: you need a wide angle lens, a tripod goes everywhere with you, and a strong portfolio might eventually pay for itself. Those beliefs decide what you buy, where you travel, and how you judge your own progress, and several of... 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