April 2010

The Zero Angle Digital Camera is a conceptual design by Sun ho Sin and Jeong eun Park that protects …

A video released on WikiLeaks.org shows disturbing footage taken in 2007 from an …

Flickr recently changed how sets are displayed. Rather than displaying all the sets in an account on a single …

British newspaper The Guardian has teamed up with Canon on a new app …

Do you recognize this photograph? It’s the wallpaper for Apple’s new iPad tablet computer, which found its way into …

In an announcement on the Google Photos Blog today, Google …

Here's a nifty behind-the-scenes video by Nissan Canada for a car commercial shot using a 1/10 scale remote controlled car. In addition to using cranes and camera dollies, they mixed in a few Canon 5D Mark II DSLRs mounted on separate RC cars and a helicam.

Late last week we reported that Facebook had acquired the young photo sharing startup, …

Same Hill, Different Day is a series of project by Chicago-based photographer …

It’s pretty amazing how many free learning resources are available on the web for photographers. Recently, BBC Wildlife …

Suzieautomatic’s original Canon-style dial sticker was a bit hit in the blogosphere, but it left many non-Canonites …

Texas-based videographer, Eric AUSTIN put together his own radio-controlled mini helicopter to carry his Canon 7D for shooting low altitude aerial videos.

If you find yourself carrying around loose batteries all the time, here’s an …

In addition to Content Aware Fill, Puppet Warp is another powerful feature to be included in Adobe's upcoming Photoshop CS5.

4am Project is an ambitious project with a simple concept: have everyone take photographs at a particular time on a particular date, and pool them together on the Internet to share our unique perspectives on the world.

Former Vice President Al Gore’s company, Current TV is in a legal tussle with San Francisco photographer Ken Light over …

After nearly 5 years as the Community Manager at Flickr, Heather Champ has announced she is leaving to start an …

Divvyshot, a …

This video isn’t related to photography per se (though it is a time-lapse), but occasionally we like to show …

Israeli startup Dropico thinks there’s time to be …

Constant Motion is a breathtaking time-lapse video by Redding, California-based freelance photographer Aaron Patterson that takes HDR to a whole new level. On his blog, Patterson writes,

Google Groups hosts an archive of Usenet discussions from as far back as 1981. These discussions often provide an interesting glimpse at the state of the world and what was considered "state of the art".

For some April Fools fun, we here at PetaPixel went through the trouble of using a new …

This music video for the song "Doubtful Comforts" by Blue Roses is the first music video to employ wiggle stereoscopy to create a 3D effect that does not require special glasses to view.

In January 2010, NASA and the University of Arizona launched HiWish, a way …

This past month Canon Canada ran a promotion where each purchase over $200 CAD came with a …

Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse is a historical consultant in Amsterdam who loves making photographs in …

Kodak has just announced a breakthrough technology called Aromatography, which combines the sense of smell with the visual experience of photography. Recent breakthroughs in Neuro-Optic-Nasal-Sense Imaging (often referred to as NONSense) have enabled the technology, which is also being researched by other camera corporations.

Update: Thanks so much for all the feedback! What we heard about the new design was overwhelmingly positive, so that’s …