PetaPixel is Moving Down the Block
When we launched back in 2009, I decided to host PetaPixel on the same hosting plan as my personal …
Do People Recognize Great Photography?
In 2007, Washington Post writer Gene Weingarten conducted a social experiment in which he recruited one of the world's great violinists, Joshua Bell, to play in a Washington D.C. subway station. Just two days prior to the experiment, Bell had played in a sold-out Boston theater in which ordinary tickets sold for $100 apiece.
Olympus Micro Four Thirds Camera Leaked
Last week Olympus began running a teaser …
Stop-Motion Music Video Nominated for Grammy, Prints for Sale
Israeli singer-songwriter Oren Lavie teamed up with photographer Eyal Landesman to create an imaginative music video for "Her Morning Elegance", which was recently nominated for the Best Short Form Music Video Grammy award.
Obama “Hope” Artist Faces Criminal Investigation Over Use of Photo
A judge announced this past Tuesday that artist Shepard Fairey is under criminal …
Trailer for the 5D Mark II Short Film “Betrayed”
Above is a trailer for Betrayed, a new short film shot entirely with the Canon 5D Mark II. It's co-written and directed by Joshua Grossberg, and the cinematography was done by NYC-based photographer Robert Caplin.
SpiderPic Offers Comparison Shopping for Stock Photos
Launched less than a week ago, SpiderPic is …
iPad Offers Little for Photographers
Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple iPad today, igniting tech news with excitement, skepticism, and prolific ragging on its name.
Articulating Screens on New Canon DSLRs
Canon doesn’t seem to want Nikon to have all the fun with articulating LCD screens. After Nikon included such a …
World’s Oldest Camera Up for Auction
In 1836 Louis Jacques Daguerre, a French artist and chemist, invented the first practical camera, the …
Giving Away a Tamron Superzoom
Update: This giveaway is now over. We’ve randomly selected a winner and posted the announcement here. Thanks for …
Freeze Your Camera for Less Noise
Last Friday an anonymous poster on the photography board of 4chan sparked a discussion that rippled into the blogosphere after freezing their camera to see whether ISO performance improves at lower temperatures.
Camouflage Your Thermostat with Photos
Have an ugly thermostat in your home that you wish you could hide when not in use? Hanging photographs …
Chicken Video Wins Nikon Festival Prize
Nikon just announced the winners of the Nikon Festival short film (140 seconds or less) contest a few hours ago, with the grand prize winner going to Marko Slavnic for his Chicken VS Penguin film embedded above. The win comes with a cool $100,000 and a Nikon D5000 DSLR kit.
Strange Worlds by Matthew Albanese
Our jaws dropped when we came across Matthew Albanese’s work. He uses everyday materials to create astonishingly detailed small-scale miniatures …
Canon Working on In-Viewfinder LCD and Sensor-based Stabilization
Based on patents recently filed with the United States Patent Office, Canon seems to be working on technologies that could …
Photographers Protest UK Terror Laws
This past Saturday, over 2,000 professional and amateur photographers gathered at Trafalgar Square …
“Racist” Camera Phenomenon Explained — Almost
Asian American blogger Joz Wang, of jozjozjoz.com wrote a post titled "Racist Camera! No, I did not blink... I'm just Asian!" last year when she discovered a user-unfriendly feature on her Nikon Coolpix S630.
Tamron Launches YouTube Series for Newbies
This past Monday, Japanese lens corp Tamron launched a new 12 week video series on their YouTube channel geared towards helping beginners understand their equipment. Each video is 1 minute long, and will cover topics such as white balance, RAW vs. JPEG, and more. Once this introductory series is complete, they plan on posting intermediate and advanced videos as well.
Instant Prints with Your Digital Camera
Can’t wait for Polaroid to make its grand comeback this year? You can use your current camera like a …
First Snowflake Photographs for Sale
On January 15, 1885, a Vermont farmer named Wilson A. Bentley combined a bellows camera and a microscope and …
Sony Incorporates TransferJet Tech into the Memory Stick
In early 2008 Sony unveiled a new technology called TransferJet that allows wireless data …
Multimedia Poetry
Here's a novel idea: using an audiovisual slideshow as a medium for poetry. Journalists at the Knight Digital Media Center created a project for the Oakland School for the Arts, featuring a student's poem, The Eternal Sea. Check it out here.
Magically Create 3D Photographs
3D technology was featured somewhat prominently this year at CES, with companies unveiling televisions …
Photographer Stripped of Prestigious Wildlife Award for Cheating
About a month ago we reported that José Luis Rodriguez had come under fire after winning the …
Communicating a Love for Photography
German film director and photographer Wim Wenders created this short film for Leica …
New Samsung Cameras Boast Fog-Killing Mode
Samsung recently announced five new digital cameras due for release sometime in February. Two of these cameras, the ST60 and …
Hasselblad Has Something Up Their Sleeve
Hasselblad has had a cryptic countdown displayed on their promotions page for a couple weeks now, and we’re about …
Find Modern Day Ruins with Abandoned
Abandoned is an iPhone application by design group …
Monstrous 570 Megapixel Digital Camera
Remember the days when a 5 megapixel digital camera was considered top-of-the-line? I do. Remember the days when 570 megapixel digital cameras were the size of cars? That's a question people might ask years from now, when the most basic pocket cameras boast hundreds of megapixels, and when we have petabyte external hard drives.