Tamron’s New 12-20mm f/2.8 Is Excellent, but Its Filter Design Won’t Suit Everyone I’ve been playing with Tamron’s new ultra-wide 12-20mm zoom for a couple of months now. When I first peeled away the plastic wrap and held it, I thought, “Wow, very compact and light.” My next thought was that the glossy finish looked surprisingly smudged straight out of the box. I... Published on 2026-10-08 As Seen On Fstoppers By Simon Burn Sony’s Omnidirectional Mic Captures Spatial Audio Into Your Smartphone Sony has announced the ECM-AX10, a spatial audio microphone designed for content creators that is the world's first to be certified by Eclipsa Audio. The mic uses omnidirectional capsules to capture sound that Sony says feels "more natural, immersive, and true to the moment." [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-08 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jaron Schneider No, I Don’t Want to Restyle My Photo With AI WhatsApp users may have recently noticed an annoying pop-up message when sharing photos: "Restyle with AI." [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-08 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot Why this macro photographer shoots carnivorous plants with a 50-year-old Pentax lens From delicate flowers to elaborate traps, this photographer reveals the unexpected beauty of carnivorous plants. He shares how a Panasonic S1R and vintage lenses help him balance scientific detail with imaginative close-ups. Florent Chouffot Meet Florent Chouffot Home base: Belfort, France Florent Chouffot, known in the community as Adynatoon, is... Published on 2026-10-08 As Seen On DP Review By Mathew Anderson What Adobe Just Added to Camera Raw and Lightroom Camera Raw now has a grid view with ratings, color labels, and a full filter bar, so you can cull and sort a folder of raw files without going near a Lightroom catalog. If you've stayed away from Lightroom because of imports and catalogs, the distance between the two apps... Published on 2026-10-08 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke The NEEWER Q120 Is a Cheap Strobe That Does Almost Everything The NEEWER Q120 is a new compact 120Ws battery-powered strobe that's packed with features, but the most impressive thing about it might be the price. It sells for $159.99 at B&H ($219.99 list), while its two direct competitors, the Godox AD100Pro II and the Profoto A2, cost $299 and $895. A... Published on 2026-10-08 As Seen On Fstoppers By Lee Morris OM System Has New Photography Gloves That Store Your Lens Cap Cameras, lenses, curry, ragù, and now... gloves. OM System feeds and clothes photographers. The company is one tent product launch away from hitting all the key survival requirements. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-08 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Here's How I Ditched Adobe for Good A few years ago, I cut the cord from all Adobe products and canceled my Creative Cloud subscription. In my latest YouTube video, I discuss why and also the software I now use instead. For a while now, photographers have asked me how I managed to free myself from using Adobe... Published on 2026-10-08 As Seen On Fstoppers By Pete Coco Into the Mist: Creating Atmosphere with Fog Photography Fog changes everything it touches. Familiar streets become mysterious, busy landscapes turn quiet, and cluttered backgrounds dissolve into soft grey. Fog photography is one of the most rewarding forms of weather photography because the conditions do so much of the compositional work for you, reducing a scene to shape, tone,... Published on 2026-10-08 As Seen On 500 Pixels By 500px Blog Throwback Thursday: Sigma APO 50-150mm F2.8 EX II Sigma’s new 50-120mm F2.8 prompts a look back at an oft-overlooked lens that should have been a classic Richard Butler Sometimes the future creeps up on you quicker than you expected. We’ve been thinking about re-starting our Throwback Thursday series for a while, but Sigma’s announcement of a 75-180mm equivalent... Published on 2026-10-08 As Seen On DP Review By Richard Butler Yashica’s New $170 Point-and-Shoot Has the Looks but Not All the Charm of the Cameras It Emulates Yashica is back with yet another compact point-and-shoot camera designed to capitalize on the trendiness of old-school digicams. This time it's the Yashica Crew, an ultra-lightweight compact camera with a 13-megapixel sensor and 6x optical zoom. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-08 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Can the Lumix L10 Become Your Everyday Camera? A dedicated compact camera now has to justify itself against a phone that already lives in your pocket and shoots surprisingly good telephoto images. The Lumix L10 makes its case with a retro body, an eye-level viewfinder, and a Micro Four Thirds sensor, and whether that combination earns a place... Published on 2026-10-08 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Google’s SynthID AI Detector is Now Freely Available to Everyone Google has made its SynthID Detector publicly available, allowing users to check whether images, videos, and audio clips contain watermarks associated with generative AI. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-08 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot Sigma FP II would like to compete with the Sony FX5 for half the price While we might finally get our new Sony FX5 bu November 16, Sigma has prepared a surprise. They will announced a direct FX5 competitor in November: Sigma Fp II specs: 24MP sensor (unclear if it’s this cameras sensor). L-mount (obviously) Open gate Internal RAW UPDATE: has an optional EVF slightly bigger... Published on 2026-10-08 As Seen On Sony Camera By SonyAlpha Admin NASA Releases Artemis II Crew’s Handwritten Notes of Moon Meteors NASA has released an image of the dark side of the Moon complete with handwritten annotations made by the Artemis II crew who were observing it at the time. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-08 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot A Year of Weddings and Family Trips With the Sony RX1R III Sony's RX1R III puts a 61-megapixel full frame sensor and a fixed 35mm f/2 lens into a body small enough to carry everywhere, and it costs more than most professional mirrorless cameras. A few weeks of testing can tell you how a camera like that performs, but only a year... Published on 2026-10-08 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Annie Leibovitz Channels German Romanticism for Portrait of Sam Altman OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been photographed by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair's New Establishment edition. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-08 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot Canon C50 or R6 V: Which One Fits the Way You Work? Canon now sells two compact full frame video cameras built around the same 32.5-megapixel 7K sensor, and $1,200 to $1,400 separates them, depending on whether the C50 is on sale. When the image coming off that sensor is nearly identical, your decision rests on heat, audio, stabilization, and how each... Published on 2026-10-08 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Sigma Officially Announces the RF 50-120mm f/2.8 DC OS Contemporary For as long as we can remember, APS-C shooters have wanted a 70-200mm f/2.8 equivalent lens. Making one for crop sensors reduces the size in a big way over a full-frame version and obviously brings cost down a lot. Sigma has brought us an RF 50-120mm f/2.8 DC OS Contemporary... Published on 2026-10-08 As Seen On Canon Rumours By Craig Blair Just announced: New Sigma 50-120mm f/2.8 APS-C E-mount lens You can now preorder the Sigma 50-120mm at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama, Fotokoch, FotoErhardt, Calumet, Clifton, WexUK The post Just announced: New Sigma 50-120mm f/2.8 APS-C E-mount lens first appeared on sonyalpharumors.... Published on 2026-10-08 As Seen On Sony Camera By SonyAlpha Admin Sigma 50-120mm f/2.8 Contemporary Review: You’ll Want to Take This Lens Everywhere The classic 70-200mm f/2.8 lens is such a useful staple in the professional photography world. Full-frame users have long lusted after these pro telephotos to handle everything from sports and events to studio portraits. Traditionally, these lenses are very expensive and very large, but on an APS-C platform, they could... Published on 2026-10-08 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Chris Niccolls The Sigma 50-120mm f/2.8 Completes Its Ultra-Compact APS-C Trinity Sigma has announced the 50-120mm f/2.8 DC OS Contemporary, the final piece of the company's compact "holy trinity" of zooms for APS-C cameras. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-08 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jaron Schneider Z-mount is getting its first Sigma zoom lens: a 16-300mm for APS-C Slowly but surely, Nikon shooters are getting more options. Sigma Sigma has announced that it’s bringing its 16-300mm F3.5-6.7 DC OS (24-450mm equiv.) APS-C lens to Z-mount. While it may not be the most exciting addition to the lineup – Nikon APS-C shooters have already had access to a very... Published on 2026-10-08 As Seen On DP Review By Mitchell Clark Sigma’s 50-120mm F2.8 OS DC is an APS-C legend in the making, for just $799 Fast 75-180mm equiv lens is coming to most of the popular lens mounts and is smaller than you can believe Richard Butler Sigma has announced the 50-120mm F2.8 OS DC | Contemporary, a fast telezoom for APS-C mirrorless cameras. The lens delivers a 75-180mm equivalent range for Fujifilm X or... Published on 2026-10-08 As Seen On DP Review By Richard Butler Sony FX5 is finally going to ship out on November 16 The German store Fotoerhardt got a confirmation from Sony that the FX5 will finally start to ship out on November 16. Here is the google translated text: Hello, We are pleased to inform you that Sony has provided us with a new estimated availability date for the Sony FX5. As... Published on 2026-10-08 As Seen On Sony Camera By SonyAlpha Admin Tamron Brings Its 20-40mm f/2.8 Zoom to Nikon Z Mount for $729 Tamron has announced a Nikon Z mount version of its 20-40mm f/2.8 Di III VXD, a compact fast-aperture standard zoom for full frame mirrorless cameras that weighs 13.4 oz (380 g) and goes on sale October 22 for $729. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-08 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Tamron Offers Nikon Z Owners a One-of-a-Kind Wide-Angle Zoom Lens Tamron has announced that its compact, fast-aperture 20-40mm f/2.8 Di III VXD standard zoom lens is coming soon to Nikon Z-mount mirrorless cameras. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-08 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Tamron is bringing its fast 20-40mm zoom to Z-mount Nikon users are getting another option Tamron Tamron has announced that it will be bringing its full-frame 20-40mm F2.8 Di III VXD lens to Z-mount. The lens originally launched in 2022 for E-mount, but now it’ll be available for Nikon shooters. Optically, the lens is unchanged, featuring a 12-element, 11-group... Published on 2026-10-08 As Seen On DP Review By Mitchell Clark Tamron Brings Its Compact 20-40mm F/2.8 Zoom to Nikon Z Tamron is expanding its Nikon Z-mount lineup with the 20-40mm F/2.8 Di III VXD (Model A062), a fast-aperture standard zoom designed for full-frame mirrorless cameras. Announced October 8, 2026, the lens is scheduled to go on sale October 22 at $729 USD / $999 CAD. Tamron describes the new zoom... Published on 2026-10-07 As Seen On Shutterbug By Shutterbug Staff Five Legendary Lost Photography Archives, and What Became of Each One Some of the most important photographic archives ever assembled are gone, and a small number of historians have spent their careers trying to get them back. One of those hunts had a storybook ending. In December 2007, three weathered cardboard boxes reached New York's International Center of Photography, carrying roughly... Published on 2026-10-07 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke If you’ve been searching for a hard-to-get Ricoh GR IV, you may have a chance B&H has restocked the camera after months of it being sold out Richard Butler If you’re in the US and have been waiting for your chance to buy a Ricoh GR IV, this may be the moment. B&H Photo and Adorama currently have the three different versions in stock for... Published on 2026-10-07 As Seen On DP Review By Mitchell Clark Someone Rebuilt Free, Open-Source Versions of Photoshop, Premiere, and Lightroom Using AI Software engineer Brandon Thomas has built and released an open-source, free alternative to Adobe's Creative Cloud suite, including versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom (not Classic), Acrobat, After Effects, and InDesign. The apps live under the ArtCraft banner and are available for macOS, Windows, and Linux. [Read More]... Published on 2026-10-07 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray DJI NEO 3 Unboxing Video Finally, we have the unboxing video of the DJI Neo 3. At the very same time, this particular combo also very clearly shows the original remote control that we are getting with DJI. So now there is no issue installing the DJI app from the Play Store or syncing the... Published on 2026-10-07 As Seen On The New Camera By admin Why New Digicams Fail to Capture the Magic of the Originals | The PetaPixel Podcast This week on the PetaPixel Podast, Chris Niccolls and Jaron Schneider are joined by Gordon Laing and Sarah Teng for a discussion on the explosive popularity of digicams and why no matter how hard they might try, modern companies can't fully recapture the magic of the point-and-shoot cameras from 10+... 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