NASA's Juno spacecraft has performed nearly 60 flybys of Jupiter and documented close encounters with three of the planet's four largest moons. Over the weekend, Juno made its closest flyby to the Jovian moon, Io, and it was the closest any spacecraft has come to the Jovian satellite in more than two decades.
As photographers flip their calendars over to 2024, waving goodbye to a year of great gear and hopefully even better photos, it is time for shutterbugs to usher in the New Year with top-notch -- and totally realistic -- New Year's resolutions.
Map Camera, one of the largest photography retailers in Japan, has published its list of the 10 best-selling lenses of 2023 and the results are somewhat surprising.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has wrapped up its first full year of scientific operations, and beyond "breaking" cosmology, the telescope has also delivered some of the most spectacular photos of deep space ever seen.
This year included some fantastic new cameras, lenses, and accessories. From the Nikon Z8 and the Sony a7CR to the Canon RF 100-300mm f/2.8 and Sigma 14mm f/1.4 DG DN Art, nearly every camera maker brought something amazing to the table. However, some of them also announced products that slipped through the cracks by virtue of being dreadfully boring, if not outright bad.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is putting a cap on 2023 with a pair of new GIFs that show the Martian landscape over 12 hours from sunrise to sunset.
Popular and excellent open-source photo editing app darktable has been updated to version 4.6.0, adding numerous critical features to the app.
Micro Four Thirds remains an excellent system for photo and video applications. Despite the relatively small image sensor size, Micro Four Thirds cameras like 2022's OM System OM-1 and Panasonic GH6 show that great things come in small packages. However, what about 2023? What new Micro Four Thirds cameras and lenses arrived this year?
Japanese YouTube channel Process X has delivered a great Christmas present to camera enthusiasts everywhere -- a nearly 12-minute long video showing how Sigma makes its fp cameras, the world's smallest and lightest full-frame interchangeable lens camera.
It has been a great year for the L-Mount Alliance. The alliance welcomed new members Samyang and Astrodesign in July, and Blackmagic Design joined in September.
Russian photographer and filmmaker Vadim Sherbakov has published a new personal project highlighting the beautiful architecture of Moscow's metro stations.
Canon's EOS R system finished 2022 with a bang, with Canon introducing the excellent EOS R6 Mark II camera and RF 135mm f/1.8 L IS USM lens. The momentum carried into early 2023, with two new cameras and a pair of new lenses. After that, Canon slowed down, although some late-year announcements set the stage for a strong return to form in 2024.
British multidisciplinary artist Paul Robinson, known professionally as LUAP, combines art across many mediums, including oil paintings, sculptures, and photography. Central to his artistic work is "The Pink Bear," which is, as it sounds, a pink bear.
Just over a year after launching the Maven Magnetic Filter System, Michael the Maven has returned with a new wave of filters, adding much-requested filter variants to the color-coded magnetic filter family.
Photography and cinematography equipment company Tilta teamed up with Oscar-winning Director of Photography Claudio Miranda, ASC, to create The X Gift, a holiday-themed short film shot entirely on iPhone 15 Pro.
Tamron Americas revealed that John Calvin and Chandler Weber won the lensmaker's Tamron User Photo/Video Contest 2023.
Like Sony, Nikon released a very impressive 10 new products in 2023. The composition of the releases is different, with Sony splitting its debuts evenly between cameras and lenses and Nikon going heavy on glass.
A few months ago, the esteemed German photo printing company WhiteWall introduced new black-and-white specific products into its expansive catalog. I recently tried some of the products with my images and am extremely impressed by the company's craftsmanship.
When Asus launched the updated ProArt Station PD5 earlier this fall, it looked poised to deliver a powerful, accessible machine to creative professionals. Unfortunately, despite lofty and worthwhile goals, the ProArt Station PD5 is not quite the impressive machine I had hoped for.
In 2023, Fujifilm's X Series saw little love, with a single new camera and lens being added to the mix. The medium-format GFX System grew by one camera and three lenses this year.
It was a busy year for new cameras and lenses, and few companies were anywhere near as prolific as Sony.
As we wrap up 2023, a year that featured a ton of incredible photography gear that will undoubtedly feature in many a photographer's kits for years to come, we began to wonder, "What popular photography gear from years past is much less common now?"
NASA has created an incredible timelapse movie that condenses 14 years of data acquired by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope into six minutes of colorful cosmic rays.
Midjourney v6 is now available, and the upgraded model promises improved realism, the ability to create convincing text on an image, more specificity in prompts, and more.
Samsung unveiled two new Isocell Vizion image sensors for robotics and extended reality (XR) applications.
As Gordon Laing of Camera Labs continues to work on his excellent "Retro Review" series, he took a break to look at an older camera that doesn't quite reach retro status, the Nikon D80, calling it the "best camera under $100."
Hubble is celebrating the holidays in style. The Hubble Space Telescope team is shedding light on Christmas-themed celestial objects, including the "Christmas Tree Cluster" and an ornament-shaped galaxy.
Adobe and Figma started the week by halting their $20 billion merger. Adobe had to pay Figma $1 billion for the acquisition termination.
Last year, PetaPixel called the EOS R7 "one of the best cameras Canon makes," and that sentiment still rings true. In a new video, Canon details the R7's look and feel, including interesting insights from Canon engineers.
Lighting company Aputure, which recently acquired film and television LED lighting maker Prolycht, has launched the Spotlight Max, a Bowens mount projection lens for high-output LEDs.