New deals: Up tp 30% off on Ugreen, Up to 15% on Lenovo and other Back to school specials Here are some new deals: Up to 30% off on Ugreen gear at Ugreen store, Amazon, BHphoto. Back to school specials at BHphoto (Click here). Extra 15% off on Lenovo computers at BHphoto. $350 off on the Adobe Creative Cloud Pro 12 months subscription at BHphoto (Click here). $300 off... Published on 2026-08-14 As Seen On Sony Camera By SonyAlpha Admin Stop Accepting ‘Constructive Criticism’ on Your Photos Sharing photography online often follows a predictable pattern. A photographer posts an image to a group or forum, and then the comments start to roll in. Mixed in with the generic "great shot!" remarks, there are always a few that offer constructive criticism. Even in highly respectful photography communities, well-regarded... Published on 2026-08-14 As Seen On Fstoppers By Adam Matthews The ocean revealed: see the finalists for Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026 The Hidden Worlds category makes its debut this year, spotlighting the ocean’s smallest inhabitants. Andrea Michelutti The finalists for Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026 have been announced, featuring images that highlight the complexity and diversity of the world’s oceans. Presented by Oceanographic and Blancpain, the contest is now in... Published on 2026-08-14 As Seen On DP Review By Abby Ferguson Eastman Kodak ‘Goes Big’ and Shows Film Some More Love I'm a little late to the party, but when looking at Kodak's strong financial results yesterday, I realized that the company had released new large-format film and bulk roll products just a few months ago. They're worth looking at, even if they are no longer brand new. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-14 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray France’s Top Court Strikes Down Social Media Ban for Kids France must wait a bit longer to become the European Union's first member state to ban social media for children after its proposed law was struck down by France's constitutional council. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-14 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray DJI Osmo 360 II USA Availability Update DJI Osmo 360 II has been officially announced in China on August 13, 2026. This is the second generation of the 360 camera, which arrives with some major noticeable improvements, including replaceable lenses, that was one of the biggest demands of first-generation 360 users. The second thing is having... Published on 2026-08-14 As Seen On The New Camera By admin 31 Award-Winning Photos Celebrate the Beauty of the World’s Darkest Skies DarkSky International has announced the winners of its nighttime photography contest, Capture the Dark 2026. This year's contest, its sixth annual edition, drew a record number of entries from photographers in over 30 countries. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-14 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Share your landscape photos for World Photography Day We’re celebrating ahead of World Photography Day by capturing local landscape scenes. Join us and show off your area! Getty Images Attention photographers: Wednesday, August 19th, is World Photography Day! World Photography Day is a global celebration that honors Louis Daguerre‘s invention of the daguerreotype. In 1884, George Eastman of... Published on 2026-08-14 As Seen On DP Review By Mathew Anderson The Excellent Kodak Ultramax 400 Is an Unfortunate Victim of Bad Branding For this Film Friday review, we are featuring one of the sneakiest best and least expensive color films available to 35mm photographers: Kodak Ultramax 400. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-14 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Zeb Andrews Murder, Movies, and Horses: The Strange Life of the Man Who Made Photographs Move On June 19, 1878, a thoroughbred named Sallie Gardner ran down a track in Palo Alto and broke twelve threads stretched across her path with her chest. Each thread fired a camera. When the plates came out of the darkroom, they answered a question that painters, sculptors, and horsemen had... Published on 2026-08-14 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke A PBS Station Just Lost Access to 70 Years of Its Archive When a Cloud Vendor Vanished A St. Louis public television station has lost access to more than 50 terabytes of its own archive after the cloud vendor holding the files apparently went out of business. The material spans about 70 years of programming, and it is now sitting inside a Denver data center that so... Published on 2026-08-14 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Confirmed: Sony FX5 shipment start is now September 15 Finally we have a new shipment date for the Sony FX5. It’s September 15 according to Adorama (Click here). The original US shipment date was August 18. So 28 days later…like the zombie movie…let’s hope this one has better ending 🙂 Preorders: Sony FX5 at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama, Fotokoch, FotoErhardt,... Published on 2026-08-14 As Seen On Sony Camera By SonyAlpha Admin The Best Deals on Telephoto Lenses for (Nearly) Every Camera Mirrorless photographers are spoiled for choice when it comes to telephoto and super-telephoto lenses, no matter which camera system they use, and many of the best ones are on sale right now. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-14 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Multiple Sources Say Nikon’s 2026 Plans Are Facing Widespread Delays Nearly every camera and lens Nikon was expected to ship in 2026 is reportedly running late, according to a consensus drawn from several independent tipsters. Much of what was penciled in for this year may now be sliding toward 2027. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-14 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Apple Threat Notifcation Sent to Users in 110 Countries Apple has deployed an alarming threat notification to an unspecified number of users in 110 countries -- experts advise not to ignore it. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-14 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot More Than One in Five Walk Away From Their Camera in Public to Film Themselves More than one in five people set their phone or camera down in a public place and step away to photograph or film themselves. That is the headline finding of new consumer research from a UK insurer, and it lands at a moment when street theft of devices is a... Published on 2026-08-14 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Tech Bro Scrapes Anti-AI Photo App Cara, Then Gloats About It Cara, an image-focused social media app designed to be a safe space for photographers to share their work without fear of being scraped for generative AI, has reportedly had all of its content scraped by a bad actor. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-14 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot 7artisans teases the launch of a new 18mm f/2.0 APS-C E-mount pancake lens 7Artisans is set to release its new AF 18mm F2.0 pancake lens. Weighing just 108 grams, it combines a lightweight design with a metal body and offers a full-frame-equivalent focal length of approximately 27mm. It will be available for Sony E, Nikon Z, and Fujifilm X mounts. The post 7artisans... Published on 2026-08-14 As Seen On Sony Camera By SonyAlpha Admin Listen to This Bird Perfectly Imitate a Polaroid Camera A visitor to Adelaide Zoo heard the sound of an instant camera taking a photo, but when she turned around to look for who had taken it, a bird was standing there. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-14 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot DJI Mini 4k & Neo 2 Price Hike Confirmed in USA America’s consumers are mostly dependent on foreign drones, which the USA administration believes, and that’s why, even after completely banning new DJI drones back in December 2025, they are not stopping there. New rules have been updated for military drones, and now, according to the new rules, many DJI... Published on 2026-08-14 As Seen On The New Camera By admin Kodak Posts Its Fourth Straight Quarter of Growth, and Film Is Carrying the Load Kodak returned to a profit in the second quarter of 2026, with revenue of $311 million and net income of $17 million, up from a $26 million loss a year earlier. The company's film and specialty-chemicals unit grew 40 percent, faster than any other part of the business. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-14 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Trump Places 100% Tariffs on Heavy Drones, 25% on Smaller Ones The Trump administration has imposed sweeping new tariffs on drones, slapping a huge 100 percent ad valorem tariff on imports of drones weighing over 25 kilograms (55 pounds). The new rules affect small consumer drones too, with sub-25-kilogram drones subject to a 25 percent tariff. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-14 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot New 25% tariffs on foreign drones make a bad situation worse for US buyers New models were already effectively banned, but the ones that are still available will be more expensive DJI Tariffs are back in the US, and this time they’re targeted at drones. According to a statement posted by The White House on Thursday, there will be a 25% tariff on drones... Published on 2026-08-14 As Seen On DP Review By Mitchell Clark Which Lens to Take on a Wildlife Photography Trip? Take Them All! If you know my work, you have probably noticed that I shoot most of my photographs with a single prime lens, a 500mm f/4. And while this limitation is partly a deliberate artistic choice, a significant reason for my minimalist approach to lenses is the simple fact that the dimensions... Published on 2026-08-14 As Seen On Photography Life By Libor Vaicenbacher Inside Red Bull’s High-Flying Eclipse Photo, Nine Months in the Making In an exclusive interview with PetaPixel, photographer Noah Wetzel details how he and Red Bull Air Force athlete Mike Brewer spent nine months preparing to photograph a wingsuit flight through a total solar eclipse. The final image was captured in Spain during just 84 seconds of totality, with Wetzel working... Published on 2026-08-13 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Kate Garibaldi See the 2026 Total Solar Eclipse From Space Satellites captured the August 12, 2026 total solar eclipse in spectacular fashion. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-13 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray The Ten Rarest Weather Phenomena Ever Photographed On July 6, 1989, physicists at the University of Minnesota aimed a low-light video camera at a distant thunderstorm to test the equipment and accidentally caught the first image of what is now called a red sprite, a burst of lightning firing upward toward space. That first frame was black... Published on 2026-08-13 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke How NASA Shot a Landscape on Mars: The Photography Behind Curiosity’s Miraflores Image When Curiosity looked across Gale Crater and captured a portrait of "Miraflores," it wasn't simply documenting another rock on Mars. It was photographing a landscape shaped by erosion—a roughly 20-foot sand-capped butte that survived while the surrounding rock slowly disappeared. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-13 As Seen On Fstoppers By Steven Van Worth These photographers understood the assignment at Spain’s total solar eclipse Our community has been posting incredible eclipse pictures, from Spain and elsewhere. TheDispossessed In the lead-up to the total solar eclipse on August 12th, we asked our community members who would be in its path to share the best photos they took of it. It ended up being a very... Published on 2026-08-13 As Seen On DP Review By Mitchell Clark VSCO Clarifies Photographers’ Pay for ‘The Fifty’ Billboard Project Earlier this week, VSCO announced "The Fifty," a coast-to-coast project that would put a different photographer's photo on 50 billboards in every U.S. state. Today, it clarified some questions regarding pay and legality. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-13 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jaron Schneider One of These Four Portrait Photographers Will Win Over $20,000 The National Portrait Gallery in the United Kingdom has unveiled the four finalists for its Winston Taylor Photo Portrait Prize 2026. One of the four photographers will win the grand prize, taking home £15,000, or just over $20,200. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-13 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray The Sony FX5 Is Delayed The highly-anticipated Sony FX5, which was originally slated to start shipping in "mid August," has been delayed at least a month. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-13 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jaron Schneider Becoming the Gray Man: Using the Thypoch Eureka 28mm Lens There's an advantage to a small camera that doesn't call attention to itself: you can become the gray man. Not invisible or undercover; not some photographic ninja. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-13 As Seen On Fstoppers By CS Muncy Amaran Makes its Audio Debut With Wireless Desktop Mic Amaran, stylized "amaran," has announced its first foray into audio with the new Amaran Mic. It's a $99 wireless desktop microphone designed for live streaming, podcasting, and video content creation. [Read More]... Published on 2026-08-13 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Is There Anything Special About Google’s Pixel 11 Series? | The PetaPixel Podcast This week on the PetaPixel Podcast, Nikon's future plans may have been leaked by the most unlikely of sources: Apple. Plus, Fujifilm shares that the camera industry is finally feeling the pinch from the memory crisis, and it will likely result in both significant price increases as well as manufacturing... 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