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PetaPixelReviewsPhoto Exhibition Imagines What Emmett Till’s Life Could Have Been A photo exhibition imagines the life Emmett Till might have lived if he had not been murdered more than 70 years ago. [

PetaPixelReviewsAs Insta360 Sells Its 10 Millionth Camera, It Opens First Flagship Store In the US Insta360 officially opened its first flagship retail store outside Asia today, September 19, 2026, and PetaPixel was on the ground in New York City's famed Times Square for the grand opening.…

PetaPixelReviewsBefore and After Photos Show Data Centers Furiously Popping Up Across America These fascinating satellite photos show enormous data centers being built over the last couple of years. [

PetaPixelReviewsApple Explains Why the iPhone 18 Pro Has a Variable Aperture The Apple iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max have arrived, and their familiar outward appearance belies a major change to the main camera.

PetaPixelReviewsSee How Nikon Made Its Lenses 60 Years Ago Lens makers these days rely heavily on computers, advanced digital simulations, and extremely sophisticated glass-making and molding techniques.

PetaPixelReviewsWomen and Younger Photographers Are Behind Fujifilm’s Meteoric Rise Much has been made of Fujifilm cracking the top three digital camera makers in terms of overall shipments, even if the situation is a bit more complicated.

PetaPixelReviewsPhotographer Captured Crowds in the 1980s and 1990s Before Society Changed Forever A photographer’s fascinating images of crowds in the 1980s and 1990s offer a vivid look at a society in transition -- revealing the relationships, tensions, and shared experiences unfolding within…

PetaPixelReviewsKodak Ektar 100 Brings Fine Grain and Vivid Color Saturation Welcome back to Film Friday. We’re featuring one of our heavy hitters this week with Kodak’s Ektar 100.

PetaPixelReviewsNASA Photos Show Before and After of Massive Asteroid Impact on the Moon NASA scientists have published before-and-after photos of a newly formed crater on the Moon that provides an unusually detailed view of what happens when a large object strikes the lunar surface.…

PetaPixelReviewsPhotographers Outraged After Heavily AI-Edited Image Wins State Fair Photo Competition An image that was heavily edited with AI has controversially won a state fair photography competition, prompting organizers to change the rules for next year.…

PetaPixelReviewsSave Hundreds on These 15 Mirrorless Cameras Autumn is a great time of year for photography, which also makes it a great time to buy a new camera.

PetaPixelReviewsPhotographer Hides Behind Rock as Herd of 400 Wild Reindeer Comes Charging at Him A nature photographer filmed the extraordinary moment he had to hide behind a rock when a huge herd of 400 wild reindeer came charging toward him. [

PetaPixelReviewsPhotographer Accidentally Double-Exposes Wedding Photos With Pictures of Her Dog and Cat Anyone who's ever tried out film photography knows that it can be a minefield -- easy to get wrong or receive unexpected results. [

PetaPixelReviewsBritish Museum Bans Photography of Historic ‘Bayeux Tapestry’ Days After Blockbuster Exhibition Opens The British Museum has reversed its policy on allowing photography of the Bayeux Tapestry, banning visitors from taking photos of the nearly 1,000-year-old work less than a week after it went on…

PetaPixelReviewsThis Fascinating Documentary Gets Under the Skin of Street Photography A new feature-length documentary looking at street photography in London has been released today. [

PetaPixelReviews‘Lunch Atop a Skyscraper’ Photograph Immortalized in Bobblehead Form The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum has unveiled a limited edition “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” bobblehead. [

PetaPixelReviewsOpenAI Reportedly Buys Photo Processing Company Glass Imaging for $300 Million OpenAI has purchased Glass Imaging for $300 million, The Wall Street Journal reports. [

PetaPixelReviewsAdorable Photos of the First New Cat Species Discovered in Over a Century 10 years ago, National Geographic Explorer and biologist Paola Nogales-Ascarrunz was working in Bolivia when she got a call from a local wildlife sanctuary that had received "a weird cat.

PetaPixelReviewsThe 31 Out-of-this-World Winners of Astronomy Photographer of the Year Photographer Ali Alobaidly won this year's Royal Observatory Greenwich ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 18 competition.

PetaPixelReviewsMeta’s Oversight Board Orders the Company to Remove Deepfake Videos From Facebook Meta’s Oversight Board has ordered the company to remove two AI-generated videos from Facebook and called for stronger measures to address the spread of deepfake content.…

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The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo