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• What to Expect From CP+ 2025, the World's Biggest Photo Expo, Feat. Ted Forbes

  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/We use Riverside to record The PetaPixel Podcast in our online recording studio.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 Episode00:00 - Intro11:03 - Apple's acquisition of Pixelmator is complete17:00 - Capture One shut down its community forum21:53 - Western Digital and SanDisk are divorcing26:33 - Harman Red 125 is a new redscale color negative film30:20 - Lucky Film is making a comeback and distributors are fighting over it33:14 - Content Credentials on Samsung's Galaxy S25 don't work on real photos, only AI36:02 - The Nikon block46:33 - PetaPixel members get access to full-resolution RAW and JPEGS from new cameras and lenses49:71 - What do you want to see from the CP+ Photography Exhibition in Japan?1:11:07 - Never read the comments1:16:55 - Tech support1:31:22 - Feel good story of the week

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• What Else MUST Micro Four Thirds Do in 2025?

  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.) 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. Check out PetaPixel Merch: store.petapixel.com/ We use Riverside to record The PetaPixel Podcast in our online recording studio. 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 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

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• Did Samsung Do Enough To Separate From Google?

  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/ We use Riverside to record The PetaPixel Podcast in our online recording studio. 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 06:36 - One-of-a-kind Nikon fisheye lens costs $250,000 09:27 - Pentax discontinues the K-3 III in Japan... but not in the US 13:08 - Tamron adds 120FPS support to 50-400mm on Sony E-Mount... with a caveat 16:23 - Sony adds content authenticity to a1, a1, and a9 III 19:39 - Fujifilm's new Instax Wide Evo 22:26 - Did Samsung do enough to stand apart from Google? 41:49 - What have you been up to? 46:15 - Tech support 1:14:30 - Feel good story of the week

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• Is L-Mount Worth Investing Into?

  Want to support Chris, Jordan, and the entire PetaPixel team directly? Sign up for a PetaPixel Membership and you can do just that as well as remove ads from your browsing experience here on PetaPixel.com. You also get 25% off orders from the PetaPixel Merch Store and a $15 coupon to use at the Moment store. Sign up today for just $3 per month or $30 per year. 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. Check out PetaPixel Merch: store.petapixel.com/ We use Riverside to record The PetaPixel Podcast in our online recording studio. 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 12:08 - DJI's new Flip looks like a nice balance between good quality and ease of use 20:08 - Nikon's custom Z9 and thermal blanket are headed to the Moon 21:53 - Canon warns that some SanDisk SD cards will corrupt with the R5 Mark II 26:02 - Canon may follow Nikon, move manufacturing out of Japan 29:41 - Adobe's generative AI in Lightroom and Photoshop is doing some weird stuff 37:40 - Leica announced the SL3-S 43:26 - Is L-Mount worth investing into in 2025? 59:43 - What have you been up to? 1:04:00 - Never read the comments / Tech support 1:32:27 - Feed good story of the week

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• This Isn't the Compact Camera Revival We Asked For

  Want to support Chris, Jordan, and the entire PetaPixel team directly? Sign up for a PetaPixel Membership and you can do just that as well as remove ads from your browsing experience here on PetaPixel.com. You also get 25% off orders from the PetaPixel Merch Store and a $15 coupon to use at the Moment store. Sign up today for just $3 per month or $30 per year. 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. Check out PetaPixel Merch: store.petapixel.com/ We use Riverside to record The PetaPixel Podcast in our online recording studio. 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 - We're back! Welcome to SEASON 4! 06:09 - Getty and Shutterstock are merging 08:05 - OM System promises new camera and lenses are coming "shortly" 10:34 - Fujifilm doesn't say "never" to a new film camera 18:39 - Yashica is getting in on the point-and-shoot craze 20:31 - This isn't the compact camera revival we asked for 42:55 - New gear we've picked up lately that we really like 28:20 - Never read the comments 1:02:19 - Tech support 1:29:19 - Feel good story of the week

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