Huge Week of Camera News PLUS Our Favorite Tripods of 2025! | The PetaPixel Podcast

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With a PetaPixel Membership, not only can you support original PetaPixel reporting and in-depth reviews, but you can also remove ads from the website and gain access to some seriously great perks, too. Members get $15 off the Moment Store, 5% off certified pre-owned gear from KEH, 25% off the PetaPixel Merch Store, and now can download full-resolution RAW files and JPEGs from the latest cameras and lenses. It costs just $3 per month or $30 per year. Join today: https://petapixel.com/members/ -- This week on The PetaPixel Podcast, the team is back to go over a ton of news from Sony, Nikon, Fujifilm, Lumix, and more as well as discuss their favorite tripods of 2025 (and one they didn't like as much). Tripods we discussed: Leofoto Mr. Q: https://leofotousa.com/collections/lq-series Falcam Treeroot: https://www.ulanzi.com/products/treeroot-quick-lock-travel-tripod-t00a4301 Ulanzi GlideGo: https://www.ulanzi.com/products/jj06-glidego-video-tripod Heipi 3-In-1 Travel Tripod: https://heipivision.com/products/heipi-3-in-1-travel-tripod-w28s SmallRig Tribex: https://www.smallrig.com/PotatoJet-Tribex-Hydraulic-Carbon-Fiber-Tripod-Kit-4259.html -- Check out PetaPixel Merch: http://store.petapixel.com/ We use Riverside to record The PetaPixel Podcast in our online recording studio: https://creators.riverside.fm/Petapixel 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: https://www.speakpipe.com/petapixel -- In This Episode: 00:00 - Intro (our traumatic tripod stories) 14:24 - Sony has a new 100mm f/2.8 Macro: https://petapixel.com/2025/09/30/sonys-new-100mm-f-2-8-macro-gm-is-its-best-macro-lens-ever/ 17:23 - You can trick the iPhone 17 Pro into recording open gate RAW internally: https://petapixel.com/2025/09/26/you-can-actually-record-prores-raw-open-gate-internally-on-iphone-17-pro/ 20:34 - Sony's new global shutter sensor shoots 105MP at 100FPS: https://petapixel.com/2025/09/29/sonys-new-global-shutter-sensor-captures-105-megapixels-at-100fps/ 24:00 - The Analogue aF-1 is a brand-new autofocus film camera: https://petapixel.com/2025/09/30/the-analogue-af-1-is-a-new-point-and-shoot-film-camera-with-autofocus/ 27:25 - CreativeLive is shutting down: https://petapixel.com/2025/09/29/creativelive-is-shutting-down/ 30:11 - Nikon says the ZR can record for over 2 hours without overheating: https://petapixel.com/2025/09/30/the-nikon-zr-can-record-6k-59-94p-for-more-than-2-hours-despite-no-active-cooling/ 34:36 - Zeiss Loxia lenses are officially discontinued: https://petapixel.com/2025/09/25/zeiss-loxia-lenses-are-discontinued-as-kenko-tokina-ceases-production/ 37:18 - Fujifilm is going to make more cinema cameras: https://petapixel.com/2025/09/24/the-gfx-eterna-55-is-just-the-first-camera-in-fujifilms-grander-cinema-ambitions/ 39:35 - Lumix 100-500mm is the system's first ultra tele zoom: https://petapixel.com/2025/09/24/the-lumix-s-100-500mm-f-5-7-1-is-panasonics-first-full-frame-ultra-tele-zoom/ 45:23 - Chris and Jaron are going to Brisbane for GR Space! https://petapixel.com/2025/09/17/brisbane-australia-to-open-the-first-gr-space-photo-hub-outside-of-asia/ 46:40 - Kodacolor 100 and 200 just launched today: https://petapixel.com/2025/09/30/kodacolor-100-is-a-new-film-from-eastman-kodak-arriving-this-week/ 51:45 - Sony cameras and lenses got another price hike in the US: https://petapixel.com/2025/09/23/sony-cameras-and-lenses-get-another-price-hike-in-the-us/ 53:05 - Our favorite tripods in 2025 (and one not so favorite) 1:12:52 - What have you been up to? 1:19:18 - About the compact camera video... and how we're going to do another one 1:20:30 - Tech support 1:30:34 - Feel goody story of the week: A brand-new camera company is making the spiritual successor to the Lumix GM5: https://petapixel.com/2025/09/25/a-brand-new-camera-company-is-making-a-spiritual-successor-to-the-lumix-gm5/