NASA SPHEREx Telescope Launches Into Space to Map the Cosmos in 102 Wavelengths

After two scrubbed attempts on March 8 and 10, NASA and SpaceX finally launched NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope aboard a Falcon 9 rocket late on March 11.

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Tusk Cinema Series Is ‘World’s First’ Cinema-Grade Lens and Filter System for iPhone

Tusk and ShiftCam teamed up to create the Cinema Series: the world's first commercial-grade mobile lens and filter system.

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Fujifilm’s GFX Eterna Cinema Camera to Have 4K Open Gate Recording, Dual Base ISO

Fujifilm's upcoming GFX Eterna cinema camera remains mostly under wraps. First announced last November, very little has been shared about the camera since. However, speaking to PetaPixel at CP+ in February, the company confirmed two more features.

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18 Hilarious Unseen Photos From the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards

The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards 2025 competition is open to entries. To celebrate the 2025 contest's opening, the organizers shared a smattering of never-before-seen entries from the incredible 2024 contest, which photographer Milko Marchetti won with his hilarious photo of an adventurous squirrel temporarily stuck in a tree.

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Photographing the Unique Cowboy Poet Tradition of the American West

If photography is a custodian of collective memory, then Jessica Brandi Lifland has a high calling.

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That Time a Film Crew Let 250,000 Bouncy Balls Free Through San Francisco

In 2005, Sony Bravia filmed a striking ad for its televisions featuring a quarter of a million colorful bouncy balls hopping down the steep streets of San Francisco.

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Is Chris Wrong About the Sigma BF? Featuring David Imel | The PetaPixel Podcast

This week on The PetaPixel Podcast, the team is joined by David Imel to talk about the Sigma BF and why Chris Niccolls -- who laments the many things cut out to make it "radically simple" -- might be wrong.

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Fujifilm Doesn’t Want an X-Pro Series Successor to be ‘Boring’

Speaking to PetaPixel last week at the CP+ show in Japan, Fujifilm says it is aware of the demands for an X-Pro series successor but wants to make sure that what it produces isn't just a small, "boring" upgrade.

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28-Year-Old Canon PowerShot 350 Reflects Digital Photography’s Growing Pains

There has been a lot of new gear for Gordon Laing of Cameralabs to review the last few months, but with CP+ now squarely in the rear-view mirror, the time is nigh for Laing to take a trip down memory lane for another Retro Review. This time, Laing's target is the Canon PowerShot 350 from 1997, Canon's second conventional digital camera and a fascinating relic of digital photography's past.

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Canon and Ricoh Are Not Rushing to Make New Vintage-Inspired Cameras

Photographers have repeatedly asked camera manufacturers to lean into their heritage and produce modern cameras with vintage design and charm. While some companies, like OM System and Nikon, have done so, both Canon and Ricoh Pentax don't seem interested in following suit if design is the only reason.

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