Stars in the new images from the James Webb Space Telescope look sharper than they did before. And I’m not just talking about the image quality, which is astounding. I’m talking about the fact that many of the bright stars in the images have very distinct Christmas-ornament-looking spikes or, as one of my colleagues put it, “It looks like a J.J. Abrams promo poster, and I love it.”
But…
The supermoon lit up the skies this week, peaking on Wednesday when it appeared 30% bigger and brighter than usual.
Also known as the Buck Moon, July’s full Moon gets its name from early Native Americans because male deer shed and regrow their antlers around…
Godox has announced the Lux Senior on-camera flash, a retro-inspired strobe for Fujifilm, Nikon, Olympus, and Sony Cameras.
Hot on the heels of its last vintage release, the $69 Lux Junior, Godox has released an even more overtly retro-inspired strobe in the Lux…
News photographer, Christy Bowe, has covered five consecutive administrations at the White House and her lens has captured icons from the last 30 years — from Lady Diana to Muhammad Ali.
Bowe has released a new book, Eyes That Speak, a remarkable photographic document that covers spiritual figures such as Mother Teresa, musical stars like Bruce Springsteen, and all the big beast…
Instagram revealed that creators will be able to lock their photos and Reels behind a paywall for subscribers using the “subscriptions” feature.
Instagram head Adam Mosseri tweeted a video announcing the update yesterday. In the clip, Mosseri says that the new…
Co-editors Steven Friendman and Olaf Sztaba created Elements, an online publication for the finest timeless landscape photography shot by amateurs and seasoned professionals alike.PetaPixel has featured several articles from Elements in the past and decided to tell the story…
Cosina has announced the Voigtlander Macro APO-Ultron 35mm f/2 designed exclusively for Fujifilm X-mount. While fully manual, the lens supports a full electronic connection with a Fujifilm camera.
The 35mm f/2 is described as a standard macro lens with a large aperture. It is constructed of nine elements in six groups and includes three “abnormally dispersed glasses.” The apochromat…
TTArtisan has announced a new 50mm f/2 full-frame manual focus lens. Though not the fastest “nifty fifty” in the company arsenal, the standard focal length lens has a natural viewing angle and the company says it has a fast enough aperture to provide high performance in…
Cosina has announced the Voigtländer MACRO APO-ULTRON 35mm F2 lens for Fujifilm X-mount cameras. The lens is manual, but is chipped with electronic contacts so it can transfer lens data to the camera for embedded metadata and better support for features like image…
Very few Android phones stay close to AOSP these days, and while the Nothing Phone (1) won’t come to the US, it’s an interesting first entry for Carl Pei’s startup. Sold as clean and lightweight, just what is different in Nothing OS? Here’s everything you need to know.
While there are similarities, Nothing OS contains a few key tweaks to take advantage of the unique design and hardware…
