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Yashica Brings Beloved Characters to the Cheap Keychain Camera Segment
58+ min ago (437+ words) Yashica has announced the Funtastic, a tiny camera that bears much more than a passing resemblance to last year's smash hit Kodak Charmera and even more so the knockoffs that inevitably followed. Yashica is no stranger to capitalizing on stylish…...
Fujifilm Has Over 40 New Lens Ideas: 'It's Difficult to Convey How Much We Care About Our Lenses"
2+ hour, 9+ min ago (537+ words) This week on the Peta Pixel Podcast, we sat down with Yuji Igarashi, General Manager of Professional Imaging Products in Fujifilm's Imaging Solutions Division. Echoing Fujifilm's successful Focus on Glass event in early March, we mostly chatted about glass, including…...
Why So Many Watch Enthusiasts Love One Specific Camera
3+ hour, 41+ min ago (404+ words) Among the watch enthusiast community, one camera seemingly proves inordinately popular. Horophiles, or those who love timekeeping devices, gravitate toward the Ricoh GR IIIx. Why? As GQ's watch editor, Cam Wolf, wrote today, watch collectors have more in common than their…...
Thypoch's Stylish Ksana 35mm f/2 Prime Promises 1980s-Inspired Flare
4+ hour, 51+ min ago (356+ words) Hot on the heels of its new, ultra-stylish Ksana 21mm f/3. 5 lens, Thypoch has launched the Ksana 35mm f/2, a new standard prime Leica M-Mount lens. While a native M lens, this manual focus prime is extremely easy to adapt to full-frame…...
What Does It Look to Take a Photo With Half a Lens?
7+ hour, 10+ min ago (206+ words) The caption accompanying the post simply reads, "POV: When I take half an AF 35mm F1. 2 LAB FE N lens out to shoot," leaning fully into the absurdity of the concept. The demonstration also unintentionally highlights how modern lenses project an image…...
Laowa's Insanely Wide Fisheye Zoom Lens is Muffin-Sized
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (230+ words) Venus Optics has announced the Laowa 4. 5-10mm f/2. 8 CF fisheye zoom lens designed for APS-C or Micro Four Thirds cameras that has an incredible 180-degree field of view at the shortest end. The Laowa 4. 5-10mm is compatible with Sony E, Fujifilm X,…...
Canon RF 20-50mm f/4 L IS USM PZ Hands-On: Surprisingly Good for Photos
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (844+ words) Chris Niccolls is the host of the Peta Pixel You Tube show and co-host of the Peta Pixel Podcast. He has worked with his creative partner Jordan Drake now for over fifteen years, starting with their first You Tube show,…...
The Pilot 88 Is a Limited Edition Wotancraft Messenger Designed by Chris Niccolls
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (305+ words) Niccolls, host of the Peta Pixel You Tube Channel and lead reviewer for the publication, has been a fan of the Wotancraft Pilot bag since he first used it in 2021. Over many years with it in its various size configurations…...
You've Probably Never Seen a Full-Spectrum Color Photo
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (55+ words) Peta Pixel "The maxima of this pattern activate the silver halides in the emulsion. When developed, the silver in the emulsion reconstructs this pattern when exposed to white light, giving us a color image," Hilty continues. Become a Peta Pixel…...
Cooke Brings its Anamorphic Lens Legacy to Mirrorless Cameras
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (477+ words) Cooke, a legendary name in cinema lenses, has announced the AP3 FF lenses, a new series of 1. 5x anamorphic lenses designed specifically for full-frame mirrorless cameras. Cooke has kicked off its new AP3 FF cinema lens series with a trio of primes, all…...