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Ron Howard’s Richard Avedon Documentary to Premiere at Cannes Film Festival

12 May 2026 at 13:55

A man with glasses stands between two large black-and-white portrait artworks on the floor, looking up at the camera. The floor is wooden, and an orange cord is visible beside him.

Acclaimed director Ron Howard will premiere his documentary AVEDON about famed photographer Richard Avedon at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

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Vivo X300 Ultra Review: The Versatility Here Is Just Ridiculous

12 May 2026 at 13:45

A person holding and using a silver camera with both hands near a body of water. The image features the "PetaPixel Reviews" logo in the bottom left corner.

Vivo’s “Ultra” phones have always been the company’s best but this one is the first to venture outside the Chinese market. More like a phone in a camera than the other way around, it feels like a camera system built from the sum of its many parts.

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Influential Victorian Photographer Julia Margaret Cameron Honored With Blue Plaque at London Home

12 May 2026 at 11:40

A sepia portrait of a seated woman in Victorian attire is beside a blue English Heritage plaque reading: “Julia Margaret Cameron 1815–1879 Photographer lived here.”.

Julia Margaret Cameron -- one of the most significant photographers of Victorian Britain who helped transform photography into a serious artistic medium -- has been honored with a blue plaque at her former home in London.

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The Sony a7 V Topped a Major Sales Chart for a Fifth Straight Month

11 May 2026 at 19:42

A Sony Alpha 7 camera is centered in the image with its lens removed, revealing the sensor, while bright fireworks explode in the black night sky behind it.

It's starting to feel like a broken record, but the Sony a7 V has yet again topped the new digital camera sales charts at major Japanese photo retailer Map Camera.

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  • After Years of Waiting, a New Snapseed Finally Arrived on Android Jeremy Gray
    Mobile photographers could have been forgiven for thinking that the beloved Google-owned photo editor Snapseed was dead before it received its first major update in years last June, bringing the app to version 3.0. Good news for Snapseed fans, the wait for the next major update was much shorter, and Snapseed 4.0 has arrived on iOS and Android. [Read More]
     

After Years of Waiting, a New Snapseed Finally Arrived on Android

11 May 2026 at 19:19

A green leaf icon, representing the Snapseed app, is centered over a blurred background showing photo editing interfaces and tools on a smartphone screen.

Mobile photographers could have been forgiven for thinking that the beloved Google-owned photo editor Snapseed was dead before it received its first major update in years last June, bringing the app to version 3.0. Good news for Snapseed fans, the wait for the next major update was much shorter, and Snapseed 4.0 has arrived on iOS and Android.

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Anyone Could Have Been Watching Your Kids on Certain Baby Monitors

11 May 2026 at 18:35

A white baby monitor with a screen and a camera shaped like a cat, both labeled “MEARI,” are placed on a wooden surface next to some pinecones.

Another day, another Wi-Fi camera hack. "A million" network-connected baby monitors and security cameras were visible to hackers, exposing many households to extreme privacy violations and security concerns.

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China’s Biggest Photography Show Will Feature Many Lens Reveals

11 May 2026 at 17:32

Silhouettes of ten camera lenses and accessories are displayed in a row against a gold background with bold Chinese text above them.

The China International Photography Machinery and Imaging Equipment and Technology Expo, better known as China P&E, kicks off later this week in Beijing, and major camera equipment brands are gearing up.

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  • No, Those ‘New’ Apollo UAP Photos Don’t Show Evidence of Aliens Jeremy Gray
    Last week, President Donald Trump and the U.S. Department of War launched a new website to publish unsealed photos and videos related to unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). Of the 161 files released so far, the most attention-grabbing ones are from NASA's Apollo missions in the late 1960s and early 1970s. [Read More]
     

No, Those ‘New’ Apollo UAP Photos Don’t Show Evidence of Aliens

11 May 2026 at 17:05

Side-by-side lunar landscape photos show astronauts' shadows and terrain. Each image has a zoomed-in inset highlighting a small, faint blue dot in the sky, outlined by a yellow box and lines.

Last week, President Donald Trump and the U.S. Department of War launched a new website to publish unsealed photos and videos related to unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). Of the 161 files released so far, the most attention-grabbing ones are from NASA's Apollo missions in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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