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Netflix’s Trailer for ‘The Stringer’ Doesn’t Pull Any Punches

A black and white photo shows a group of people outdoors. Two individuals in focus are looking at cameras, while another person walks away in the background. The scene appears to be candid, with a blurred landscape behind them.

Netflix has published a new trailer for the explosive documentary, The Stringer, that challenges the long-standing claim that Nick Ut took the famous "Terror of War" photo, often referred to as "Napalm Girl."

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This Is the Stupidest Fake Photo of Something Interesting That Actually Happened

A large bird of prey soars against a clear blue sky, clutching a slice of pepperoni pizza in its talons.

An international news website, Chronik.fr, claimed today that a photographer captured an incredible photo of an eagle carrying a slice of pizza in a "shocking urban encounter." The lead image is obviously fake, but the story is not. In fact, it's a great story, which is why we covered it when it happened in March 2023.

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Pocket Dispo Pro Lens Repurposes Disposable Film Camera Optics

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

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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

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

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

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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The Nubia Z80 Ultra Smartphone Looks Like a Vintage Camera

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

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

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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Eastman Kodak Rebrands More Photo Film as It Regains Distribution Control

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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