This week on The PetaPixel Podcast, Chris Niccolls, Jordan Drake, and I are joined by PetaPixel's mobile and computing contributing writer Ted Kritsonis to talk about the very good smartphone camera systems that North Americans might not know about or have outright disregarded.

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In This Episode:

• 00:00 - Intro
• 08:50 - GoPro's Anamorphic lens mod is finally available
• 12:15 - Tamron will make more prime lenses if that's what photographers want
• 15:18 - Canon is developing 3D dual photo tech powered by Dual Pixel
• 20:15 - Sirui is the ninth member of the L Mount Alliance
• 23:06 - Sony and Canon tease new video cameras
• 27:54 - The very good smartphone cameras you aren't considering
• 1:05:20 - What have you been up to?
• 1:14:59 - We are going to Las Vegas
• 1:15:41 - Never read the comments
• 1:20:29 - Tech support
• 1:31:51 - Feel good story of the week

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This week on The PetaPixel Podcast, Chris Niccolls and Jaron Schneider sit down with Fujifilm's Justin Stailey to talk about the design philosophy of the new GFX100RF and why the company made some of the decisions it did. Curious why the camera has no IBIS and is only f/4? Stailey provides some answers.

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In This Episode:

• 00:00 - Intro... from Prague!
• 08:34 - Fujifilm is finally getting closer to fulfilling X100VI orders
• 11:28 - Insta360 and Leica extend their strategic partnership and promise new co-engineered products
• 14:05 - Historic auction of Leica cameras in China was manipulated
• 16:41 - The LSST camera has been assembled in Chile and is ready to take its first photos of the universe.
• 20:32 - Canon commits to continuing in-house sensor development
• 24:10 - Magnum, Fujifilm, and MPP teamed up for a massive digitization effort
• 25:18 - The GF100RF Design Philosophy with Fujifilm's Justin Stailey
• 58:23 - Our GF100RF thoughts that didn't make it into the hands-on video
• 1:13:54 - What have you been up to?
• 1:16:34 - Tech support
• 1:29:30 - Feel good story of the week

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This week on The PetaPixel Podcast, the team is joined by Waveform Podcast co-host David Imel to talk about the Sigma BF and why Chris Niccolls -- who laments the many things cut out to make it "radically simple" -- might be wrong.

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In This Episode

• 00:00 - Intro
• 07:30 - Apple's new computers are really good, but the M4 Max is all photographers need right now
• 13:40 - Canon won't do the alternate versions of the 1 series, won't do a high resolution version of the R1
• 16:54 - Canon is cautiously ramping compact camera production back up
• 20:03 - Viltrox made six pro-level AF lenses for the DJI Ronin 4DThypoch is moving away from its infinity lock switches: https://petapixel.com/2025/03/06/thypoch-is-moving-away-from-its-polarizing-focus-lock-switch/
• 29:11 - Is Chris wrong about the Sigma BF?
• 1:04:02 - What have you been up to?
• 1:09:38 - Never read the comments
• 1:18:12 - Tech support
• 1:27:30 - Using anamorphic lenses for still photography
• 1:29:43 - Feel good story of the week

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This week on The PetaPixel Podcast, the team is joined by Emily Lowry, the face and brains behind the YouTube channel Micro Four Nerds. Given that Panasonic hasn't supported photographers specifically in many years, there is a lot to discuss about the new camera specifically for taking photos.

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In This Episode

• 00:00 - Intro: Say hello to Emily, from Micro Four Nerds!
• 10:01 - Rejoice: Nikon fixes the Z6 III N-log flickering issue
• 12:02 - TTArtisan's debut camera is a retro folding Instax
• 16:20 - Technicolor shuts down abruptly, leaving 10,000 workers in the lurch
• 18:50 - Xiaomi wants to make modular magnetic smartphone lenses
• 23:26 - Chris reviews the Peak Design Carry-On Roller
• 27:23 - Sigma wants to make a "serious" camera
• 34:24 - A new 35mm f/1.2 Art is coming?
• 37:54 - Sigma can make just nine BF cameras per day
• 43:35 - Did Panasonic Finally Give Photographers a Camera?
• 1:01:46 - What have you been up to? (Join Emily's mailing list)
• 1:18:28 - Never read the comments
• 1:24:46 - Tech support
• 1:33:50 - Feel good story of the week

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This week on the PetaPixel Podcast, Sigma's CEO Kazuto Yamaki sits down with Chris Niccolls to talk about the newly-announced lenses, the Sigma BF camera, and -- of course -- the state of the full-frame Foveon sensor.
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In This Episode

• 00:00 - Intro from Japan!
• 07:38 - OM System has a new lens roadmap
• 08:00 - Chris derails us
• 10:25 - Chris brings us back
• 12:47 - Leica has a new 50mm f/1.4
• 13:53 - Canon announced the PowerShot V1
• 17:24 - Thypoch Simera 75mm f/1.4
• 20:22 - Sigma's big week
• 34:58 - One-on-one with Sigma CEO Kazuto Yamaki
• 54:39 - What have you been up to?
• 56:27 - Tech support
• 1:08:25 - Feel good story of the week: https://youtu.be/V5MwWcixA6I

Do you ever get tired of manually organizing, searching for, tagging, and culling your images? We do, too - and that’s where Excire can help!

Excire’s photo-management software harnesses AI to make tedious tasks 10x faster, easier, and more fun. Thanks to Excire, you can easily get your images organized, stay on top of culling, and instantly find any photo in your catalog—so you can spend less time managing your images and more time doing what you love! Best of all, Excire can be integrated seamlessly into your current workflow, either using the standalone image organizer, Excire Foto 2025, or the Lightroom Classic plugin, Excire Search 2024.

To purchase an Excire lifetime license or to download a 14-day free trial, visit www.excire.com/en/shop! (PetaPixel viewers can receive 15% off their purchase with the special discount code PETAPIXEL.)

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We hope you enjoy the podcast and we look forward to hearing what you think. If you like what you hear, please support us by subscribing, liking, commenting, and reviewing! Every week, the trio go over comments on YouTube and here on PetaPixel, but if you’d like to send a message for them to hear, you can do so through SpeakPipe.

In This Episode

• 00:00 - Intro
• 11:03 - Apple's acquisition of Pixelmator is complete
• 17:00 - Capture One shut down its community forum
• 21:53 - Western Digital and SanDisk are divorcing
• 26:33 - Harman Red 125 is a new redscale color negative film
• 30:20 - Lucky Film is making a comeback and distributors are fighting over it
• 33:14 - Content Credentials on Samsung's Galaxy S25 don't work on real photos, only AI
• 36:02 - The Nikon block
• 46:33 - PetaPixel members get access to full-resolution RAW and JPEGS from new cameras and lenses
• 49:71 - What do you want to see from the CP+ Photography Exhibition in Japan?
• 1:11:07 - Never read the comments
• 1:16:55 - Tech support
• 1:31:22 - Feel good story of the week

Excire’s photo-management software harnesses AI to make tedious tasks 10x faster, easier, and more fun. Thanks to Excire, you can easily get your images organized, stay on top of culling, and instantly find any photo in your catalog—so you can spend less time managing your images and more time doing what you love! Best of all, Excire can be integrated seamlessly into your current workflow, either using the standalone image organizer, Excire Foto 2025, or the Lightroom Classic plugin, Excire Search 2024.

To purchase an Excire lifetime license or to download a 14-day free trial, visit www.excire.com/en/shop! (PetaPixel viewers can receive 15% off their purchase with the special discount code PETAPIXEL.)

This week on The PetaPixel Podcast, the team catches up on a huge pile of news and dives into a discussion on what Micro Four Thirds still needs to do in 2025 even with the release of the new OM System OM-3.

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In This Episode

00:00 - Intro

09:45 - The PPA is having a crisis of leadership (Update)

14:14 - Yashica's new point-and-shoot cameras have confusing specs

19:51 - Treyarch co-founder is the one who hit a 'Super Scooper' firefighting plane with a drone

23:38 - Aperture Priority keycaps are sweet

27:29 - Kodak is "cracking down" on dishonest motion picture respoolers

31:26 - Canon claims sweeping victory

33:52 - Despite strong camera sales, Canon missed profits projections

37:57 - Canon recommits to compacts, will scale production to meet demand

40:40 - What ELSE does Micro Four Thirds NEED in 2025?

58:57 - What have you been up to?

1:05:01 - Tech support

1:26:02 - Feel good story of the week

While many of the creator-focused additions to the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra are direct responses to what Apple is doing with the iPhone (digital aperture adjustment and log video are prime examples), it is perhaps Google that Samsung should be most wary of. Because it relies so much on what Google develops when it comes to AI enhancements, it might be harder for Samsung to meaningfully stand out to Android users. The PetaPixel Podcast team discusses!

Do you ever get tired of manually organizing, searching for, tagging, and culling your images? We do, too - and that’s where Excire can help!

Excire’s photo-management software harnesses AI to make tedious tasks 10x faster, easier, and more fun. Thanks to Excire, you can easily get your images organized, stay on top of culling, and instantly find any photo in your catalog—so you can spend less time managing your images and more time doing what you love!

Best of all, Excire can be integrated seamlessly into your current workflow, either using the standalone image organizer, Excire Foto 2025, or the Lightroom Classic plugin, Excire Search 2024.

To purchase an Excire lifetime license or to download a 14-day free trial, visit www.excire.com/en/shop!

(PetaPixel viewers can receive 15% off their purchase with the special discount code PETAPIXEL.)

Check out PetaPixel Merch: store.petapixel.com/

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We hope you enjoy the podcast and we look forward to hearing what you think. If you like what you hear, please support us by subscribing, liking, commenting, and reviewing! Every week, the trio go over comments on YouTube and here on PetaPixel, but if you’d like to send a message for them to hear, you can do so through SpeakPipe.

In This Episode

The Leica L-mount was created in 2014. The L-mount Alliance was formed in 2018. While there has been a steady release of cameras for this mount since then, considering the number of companies involved, it is a bit thin – especially for still photographers.

With the recent announcement of the Leica SL3-S -- which feels like it's not the best value for the dollar in ways that go beyond even typical expectations of Leica cameras in the past-- we found ourselves asking: if you were coming in fresh to mirrorless and were thinking of investing in a system, is L-mount worth it over the alternatives? If not, why? What is missing? Chris Niccolls, Jordan Drake, and I dig into it.

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In This Episode

With smartphone cameras coming to a plateau on quality -- especially on zoom lenses -- there is a distinct spot for point-and-shoots. Compact cameras certainly have value and the team thinks there is definitely a place for them in the market today, but also thinks there is a "right" and "wrong" way for manufacturers to jump in on this popular trend. Sure, these kinds of cameras need to be affordable but it's often not quite enough to just slap a USB-C charging port on a compact camera design from 8 years ago and call it good.

That said, there are a few compact cameras that the team thinks would be okay to just re-release with minor upgrades to start serving the market right away.

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In This Episode