Nigeria Becomes First Country To Ban Foreign Models in Advertisments
Nigeria's advertising regulator has announced a ban on using foreign models and voice-over artists in television commercials made in the country.
Canon Sets the World Record for the World’s Longest Digital Photo Print
Canon officially entered the Guinness Book of World Records this past weekend by setting the record for the world's longest digital photo print: a massive 309-foot (109 meter) long collage that was printed at the Oberstdorf Photo Summit in Germany.
How to Develop Film with Beer
Picture it: it's Saint Patrick's Day, you've run out of Black & White film developer, all the stores are closed down... the only thing you can find is beer. Nothing worse could happen, but don't worry! We have the solution to develop your roll of film.
The Man Who Owns a World Record 4,500 Cameras
"The Light Collector" is a new 3.5-minute short film about Dilish Parekh, the man who holds the Guinness World Record for "Largest Collection of Cameras" by amassing a collection of about 4,500 cameras.
The Game Boy Camera Was Once the World’s Smallest Digital Camera
Here's a fun little piece of photography trivia: did you know that when it was released in 1998, the Game Boy Camera was the world's smallest digital camera?
Photographer Creates the World’s Largest Negative
After hearing that a hundred-year-old building was soon to be demolished in downtown Vancouver, artist Joel Nicholas Peterson had an idea: why not give the building one last hurrah by turning it into one of the world's largest "disposable" cameras?
Peterson did just that, drilling 1/8-inch holes in the four walls of the building facing north, south, east, and west. He used the resulting camera obscura to shoot photos on the world's largest film negatives for a project titled "Blueprints for Observation."
The Selfie Infiltrates the Guinness Book of World Records with Most Selfies in an Hour
It managed to make its way into the Oxford English Dictionary last November, gaining the honor of being 2013’s “word of the year,” but there’s one book the 'selfie' has remained absent from... until now.
With the help of two Indiana natives, Mark E. Miller and Ethan Hethcote, selfies have now infiltrated the Guinness Book of World Records as well, with Miller and Hethcote setting the record for “most selfies taken in an hour” at a whopping 355.
One Second in Every Country in the World: The Ultimate Selfie Collection
Looks like you’re going to have to up your selfie game once again, because you've got nothing on British filmmaker and adventurer Graham Hughes.
Last month, Hughes officially received the Guinness World Record for being the first person to ever travel to every country (at least the ones acknowledged by the UN) on Earth without flying... and to make matters more photographic, he took a one second “selfie video" in every single country on the way. The result is the nifty four-minute video you see above.
The Longest Photographic Negative in the World Measures 129 Feet
While we’re on the subject of world records in photography, did you know that …
Scientists Shoot World’s Fastest Film at a Quadrillion Frames Per Second
German scientists have been awarded a Guinness World Record for “fastest movie” after successfully capturing two images of an …
Casio Tryx Awarded World Record for “Most Adjustable Digital Camera”
Setting a new Guinness World Record might be a difficult task for us humans, but is apparently much easier …
World’s Largest Camera Big Enough to Hold an Airplane
What you see above is the inside of the world's largest pinhole camera measuring 45x160x80 feet. It's an abandoned airplane hangar in Irvine, California that was converted over the course of two months into a gigantic pinhole camera. 24,000 square feet of plastic, 1,300 gallons of foam filler, 1.52 miles of tape, and 40 cans of spray paint went into darkening the hangar.
Record Breaking Camera with 158 Lenses
Two days ago, Sankei News in Japan reported that a Nagoya Institute of Technology team led by Professor Yojiro Ishino was certified by Guinness World Records as having built the "Camera With The Most Lenses". The camera boasts a staggering 158 separate lenses.