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Today — 7 November 2025Main stream

Samsung Reportedly Making Camera System That Captures 320MP Photos

7 November 2025 at 20:50

A close-up view of an electronic circuit board featuring various components and a central square chip with a colorful gradient surface, surrounded by capacitors, resistors, and intricate wiring.

Samsung is reportedly developing a new image signal processing pipeline, dubbed "Exynos 2600," that could support a single 320-megapixel camera or up to three 108-megapixel image sensors simultaneously.

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Nikon Sold a Lot of Cameras and Lenses But Still Lost Money

7 November 2025 at 19:40

Large, white "Nikon" sign stands amid greenery outside a modern building, near concrete steps and surrounded by trees and bushes.

Nikon lost nearly 5 billion yen ($31.3 million) from April to September 2025, primarily because of U.S. tariff policy. It is the company's first operating loss in the first half of a fiscal year in five years. However, the company's imaging division remains strong.

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Pocket Dispo Pro Lens Repurposes Disposable Film Camera Optics

7 November 2025 at 18:39

Split image: Left side shows a close-up of a round, textured camera lens cap against a dark background. Right side shows a close-up of a person’s face in sunlight, wearing a woven hat and looking upwards.

Pocket Dispo has released a new "Pro" version of its popular pinhole lens. The latest version may look similar to the original Pocket Dispo at first glance, but it has been rebuilt from the ground up, introducing some key improvements, including a new adjustable focus ring.

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Canon R6 Mark II vs R6 Mark III: The Difference Between RAW Burst Mode and Pre-Continuous Shooting

7 November 2025 at 02:34

A close-up of a person's hand holding a black game controller, with their thumb resting on one of the buttons.

Canon unveiled the EOS R6 Mark III this morning, and there is some confusion about whether one of the R6 III's new features, pre-continuous shooting, is actually new at all. It is, and here's why it matters.

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Matt Draper Held His Breath to Capture These Exceptional Underwater Photos

7 November 2025 at 01:19

A black and white split image: on the left, a shark with deep claw marks on its side; on the right, a small whale seen from above, swimming in dark water.

Acclaimed photographer and industrial designer Matt Draper's latest solo exhibition, Within One Breath, opens today at the Leica Gallery New York. The photos featured in the show were all captured on a single breath while freediving with Leica rangefinders and using only natural light, ensuring that the beautiful underwater environment was disturbed as little as possible.

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Photographer Builds 3,200MP Camera Using CCD Scanner Sensor

6 November 2025 at 23:54

Close-up of a custom-built digital camera with a large Super-Multi-Coated Takumar lens attached, mounted on a tripod, with visible screws and USB ports on the camera body.

German computer engineer and builder Yannick Richter, who goes by Gigawipf online, built a new 3,200-megapixel 3D-printed medium-format camera that relies on a linear CCD scanner. As Gigawipf describes it, the camera, Project Gigapixel, is much more than just a scanner in a box, though.

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Yesterday — 6 November 2025Main stream

‘An Aurora Photographer’s Dream’ Expected to Start Tonight

6 November 2025 at 20:57

Northern lights could be arriving on December 1, 2023

Aurora-hunting photographers should be on the lookout over the next couple of nights, as a trio of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) is headed toward Earth, and at least two look destined to make direct impact with Earth's atmosphere. CMEs hitting Earth are a primary cause of geomagnetic storms, which can give rise to beautiful auroras.

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Blackmagic Camera 3.2 Brings Professional Live Streaming to iPhone

6 November 2025 at 19:49

A smartphone screen displays a camera app interface capturing a skier in mid-action on a snowy mountain slope, with camera settings and recording details visible around the image.

Blackmagic Camera for iOS 3.2 has arrived, adding, among other new features, support for live streaming from the iPhone app directly to leading streaming platforms, including YouTube and Twitch.

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The Nubia Z80 Ultra Smartphone Looks Like a Vintage Camera

6 November 2025 at 18:48

A person holds a vintage-style camera up to their face, preparing to take a photo. The camera’s lens is circled in red, drawing attention to it. The background is blurred, focusing on the person and camera.

A few weeks ago, PetaPixel reported on a series of Chinese smartphones with interesting photography-oriented kits and accessories, including the then-upcoming Nubia Z80 Ultra. That impressive new smartphone and its accompanying camera kit have been launched globally today, and the photo capabilities on offer are well worth a closer look.

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Canon EOS R6 III Review: Predictably Excellent

6 November 2025 at 10:01

A Canon EOS R6 Mark II camera without a lens is mounted on a tripod outdoors. The image features PetaPixel Reviews and Editors' Choice badges in the corners.

The Canon EOS R6 III is an excellent camera for nearly every type of photographer and is better than its impressive predecessor in many essential ways. But did Canon play it a bit too safe with its new enthusiast-oriented, photo-first camera?

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The Canon R6 III Is a ‘Hybrid Powerhouse’ With 32.5MP Sensor

6 November 2025 at 10:00

A black Canon EOS R6 Mark II mirrorless digital camera body, shown from the front with the lens removed, revealing the camera sensor.

After a pair of teasers, Canon has fully unveiled the highly anticipated EOS R6 Mark III full-frame mirrorless camera. It features a new sensor and promises improved performance for both photo and video applications.

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Canon RF 45mm f/1.2 Shows Fast Apertures Don’t Always Break the Bank

6 November 2025 at 10:00

A black Canon RF 50mm camera lens is shown angled slightly to the left on a plain white background. The lens features textured focus rings and a red alignment dot near the mounting end.

Canon has announced the $469.99 RF 45mm f/1.2 STM, a compact, lightweight, and affordable standard prime lens for full-frame mirrorless cameras.

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Lynsey Addario: ‘There Was Never a World in Which I Would Not Do This Work’

6 November 2025 at 04:48

A woman wearing a dark shirt and sunglasses on her head stands on a wide, sandy road holding a camera. The background is blurred with people and buildings visible in the distance.

Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Lynsey Addario has risked life and limb and been kidnapped multiple times to perform a photojournalist's most crucial and valuable mission: powerfully capturing and telling the world's most meaningful stories. Addario's incredible career, which spans more than two decades, is the focus of the brand-new National Geographic documentary, Love+War.

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Viltrox Brings Its $275 AF 85mm f/2 Evo Portrait Prime to Nikon Z

5 November 2025 at 17:43

A camera lens is displayed in front of large blue letters spelling "EVO" on a dark background, with a gradient effect at the bottom.

Viltrox's brand new AF 85mm f/2 Evo lens that was announced for Sony E-mount on October 20 is officially now available for Nikon Z-mount as well, giving Nikon photographers a fast full-frame prime lens option that costs just $275.

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Apple Is Reportedly Making a Chromebook Competitor That Will Cost ‘Well Under $1,000’

5 November 2025 at 01:26

A close-up of a laptop keyboard and touchpad on a wooden desk, with a brown mug of coffee and another electronic device visible in the background.

According to a consistently reliable Apple insider, Apple is preparing to compete in the highly competitive low-cost laptop market by leveraging its iPhone and iPad-oriented A-series chips in a compact notebook.

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Sony’s Redesigned Xperia 10 VII Smartphone Has Old-School Vibes

4 November 2025 at 23:17

Three Sony smartphones are shown from the back in white, black, and teal colors, each featuring a large horizontal camera module with two lenses near the top. The background is light gray.

Sony's newest Xperia smartphone, the Xperia 10 VII, features the first new design in the Xperia 10 series in years, but does little else to move the needle for mobile photographers.

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Eastman Kodak Rebrands More Photo Film as It Regains Distribution Control

4 November 2025 at 20:54

Two Kodak film boxes are shown: Kodak Gold 200 color negative film on the left (120 format) and Kodak Ultramax 400 color negative film on the right (35mm format), both with yellow, black, and red packaging.

When Kodak quietly and surprisingly announced Kodacolor 100 and 200 at the end of September, analog photographers were rightly excited. However, the most interesting part of the announcement was perhaps not the new film at all, but the dramatic shift in how Kodak is selling film. This change is continuing, as Eastman Kodak is now selling Kodak Gold 200 and Ultramax 400 directly to retailers, with new, retro-inspired packaging in tow.

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