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Apple's upcoming iOS 5 will offer a number of welcome photography-related upgrades for iPhone shooters, but here's one that will surely cause a love/hate response: filters.

Film student Zach King and his sister made this creative mock commercial for the Macbook Air using a Canon 5D Mark II, some string and a lot of imagination.

The photo sharing feature on Twitter that we first reported on a couple months ago is now live for all users. This nudges the service a little more closer towards what Facebook and Google+ offer, allowing users to upload and share photos directly through Twitter. Third-party photo-sharing services geared towards Twitter users can't be too happy about this -- the founder of TwitPic turned down a $10 million offer back in 2009, only to have Twitter drink its milkshake a couple years later.

Poke around on Craigslist, and you'll find that it's filled with ads selling professional services at dirt-cheap prices, including photographers offering to shoot weddings for just a few hundred dollars. Does this spell doom for the wedding photography business? Probably not.

If you decide to watch the new indie film "Like Crazy" when it hits theaters on October 28th, keep this in mind: it was shot using a Canon 7D. The movie won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival this year, which led to Paramount snapping it up for a cool $4 million -- much better than $200,000 in profits using a Canon 5D, wouldn't you say?

Mother Jones reports that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is cracking down on glymes -- chemicals linked to health problems that can be found in many products we regularly come in contact with, including digital cameras: …

Did you know that Photoshop has built-in mechanisms that prevent you from editing photos of banknotes? After getting a payday, Reddit user tarballdotgz tried to Photoshop some of his hundred dollar bills, but ran into the above error in Photoshop. Even if you find a way to edit the images in Photoshop, there's a good chance your printer will give you a similar error if you try to print the image out! …

The Israeli army has a tactical intelligence device called the "Firefly" -- a wireless camera that's launched out of a grenade launcher, capturing eight seconds worth of imagery as it floats on a parachute from 500 feet in the air.

While we're on the topic of high-speed cameras (and slow motion videos), here's a beautiful slow-motion video of an eagle owl "attacking" a camera, shot at 1,000fps with a Photron FASTCAM SA2. The new Phantom v1610 camera announced today can record footage 1000 times slower than this.

Shooting 4.5 million frames per second of molecules using an x-ray flash is impressive, but can non-scientific cameras come anywhere close? The answer is yes: Vision Research has a new Phantom high speed camera called the v1610 that can capture footage at a whopping 1,000,000fps. Granted, the resolution needs to be a paltry 128x16 for that fps, but at a full 1280x800 it still shoots at 16,000fps. To give you an idea of what 1 million fps is like, consider this: 1 second of the footage will …

When Matthew Harrison (aka The Leica Guy) got married recently, he was given the awesome gift of a f/.95 Noctilux ring.

Here's a neat video that made its rounds on the Interwebs back in 2007, but maybe some of you haven't seen before. To capture Barry Bonds setting the all time home run record, USA Today shot with three Canon EOS-1D Mark III at the same time, triggering the cameras in sequence so their 10 frames per second effectively became 30 frames per second. You can check out the frames captured of the home run slam here.

Flickr user Céline Ramoni has a beautiful set of photographs shot from the Yurikamome rail line connecting the cities of Shimbashi and Toyosu in Japan. The exposure times aren't too long (they're all less than a second), but the speed of the train creates plenty of motion blur -- even in daytime.

One of huge benefits of shooting in RAW is that RAW files usually have considerably more dynamic range than a JPG. This means that details in the shadows and highlights of an image that would otherwise be lost if shooting JPG are stored in the RAW file, and able to be recovered if needed during post-processing.

Photographer Vincent Laforet recently attached a Canon 600mm f/4 lens with a 2X converter to a $58,000 RED Epic camera using a yet-to-be-released mount, capturing some great footage of a lake at more than 3400mm (in 35mm terms).

The Appcam is a new concept design for camera controls -- and supposedly a patent -- that aims to make handling DSLR and compact cameras more user friendly. Instead of having your camera settings hiding in different menus and changed using different controls (e.g. buttons, scroll wheels, dials), the Appcam turns them all into "apps" that sit conveniently on the LCD touchscreen. The apps/settings can be swapped in and out and reordered, and are adjusted using the physical scroll wheel next to it.

There are several things you can and should do to get the most out of the images from your point-and-shoot camera. If you use it correctly, people won't know with what camera the shot was taken.Check out the photograph above and guess which camera it was taken with. I'll reveal the answer at the end of the post.

Pre-med student Ryan Killackey and his wife spent nearly two years shooting 10,000 photographs in California using a Canon Rebel XS with a "nifty fifty" 50mm, 18-55mm kit lens, and 50-250mm. They then combined the stills into a short time-lapse video -- adding a fake tilt-shift look to some of the footage using After Effects -- creating a beautiful and creative portrait of California.

New York-based design consultancy Mélangerie helps customers make custom View-Master wedding invitations that display photos in full-color Kodachrome. All they need are 7 high-res photos and a short snippet of text for each one. They're pretty pricey though: 100 invites will set you back $3450.

Last week we published a post asking whether anyone had made a "print" on their skin by placing a negative on their skin under the sun. After seeing the post, videographer Jeremiah Warren decided to conduct the experiment for the benefit of all mankind. Taping four slides onto his forearm (he didn't have any suitable negative film), Warren exposed his skin for four hours in 100-degree heat (consuming a gallon of water in the process).

PetaPixel doesn't have an official profile on Google+ yet because we're waiting for the non-individual accounts to become available, but in the mean time, you can add my personal account to your circles if you want to connect. You can find my profile here -- I look forward to sharing with you!

Wedding photographer Kirk Mastin hired Shep Films to create this stunning promo that really conveys his passion for the art. It's pretty inspirational, even if shooting weddings isn't your thing. How can you pass up hiring the guy after watching this?

What if every photograph included a short video showing the few seconds that led up to the shutter being pressed? That's the idea behind a new free iPhone app called GLMPS (pronounced "glimpse"). It's a camera app that stores a few seconds of video with each shot, letting users share the background behind each picture (try clicking the photo above). Unlike normal iPhone photos, displaying a GLMPS photo/video requires a special embed code, make it somewhat inconvenient to share. Wouldn't it be …

When his friend Tom Offer-Westort decided to shave off his hair and massive beard, Peter Simon suggested that they take advantage of the opportunity and do it in style. This stop-motion video is what resulted.

We've shared a lens cap and hood hybrid here before, but this one is much nicer. "Flower", dreamt up by designers Rhie Hyi Joong and Lee Sang Hwa, is a concept lens cap that blooms into a hood by simply turning a ring.

Rather than use ordinary film to capture 2D images, photographer ShiKai Tseng shoots using 3D objects as film. After painting the objects with Liquid Light to make them light-sensitive, he uses a specially designed pinhole camera to expose them to light from all directions. It's a pretty neat way to decorate things like vases (which he demonstrates in the above video), though scanning the pictures for the web might be a bit tricky...

Some Leica M9 owners are discovering that their camera will suddenly stop functioning and render their SD card unreadable on any device.

If you've been dying to turn your Android phone into a remote for your Canon DSLR, today's your lucky day. A developer who goes by "chainfire" has released a new app called "DSLR Controller". It gives you live view and access to a whole host of camera functions through your phone, which connects to the camera through a USB host cable. Check out the demo above to see it in action. The beta version currently costs $8.56 over in the Android Market.

San Francisco resident Travis Curtis spent 15 minutes shooting this unique photograph of Yosemite Falls, receiving a lot of strange looks from the other tourists around him.

Here's a fun blast from the not-so-distant past: the video above is a short clip from the TV show "Call For Help" that originally aired back in September 2003. In it, tech broadcaster Leo Laporte chats with digital photography pioneer Mikkel Aaland -- who, by the way, was introduced to digital cameras by Ansel Adams -- about the evolution of digital cameras up to that point. It's an interesting glimpse into a time when the Nikon D100 was the state of the art.

Japanese electronics giant Pioneer is dipping its toes in the digital camera industry. It has partnered with camera maker Asia Optical to make Pioneer branded cameras in Brazil to sell in the Chinese market. The company aims to have sales of half a million units by 2015. Up to this point, the company had focused on things like car audio systems, television, and DVD players. It'll be interesting to see if Pioneer can find a foothold and steal some market share from the big players.

Here's really random/strange/stupid idea inspired by a comment left yesterday, but have you heard of anyone "printing" a photograph onto their skin using a negative under sunlight? Seems like it would produce a correct positive image of a negative.

Street photographer Bruce Gilden has a pretty distinct style of getting into strangers' faces and firing off a flash held in his other hand. Eric Kim -- who recently started doing street photography full-time -- created this behind-the-scenes video showing himself employing Gilden's trademark style, though instead of a Leica he uses a Canon 5D. The lens he's using is a Canon 24mm f/2.8, and the flash is a YN-560.

It took Steven Silton two hours and 150 tries to capture this amazing photograph of a water drop showing an MC Escher painting.

Most people balked at the $100 price tag of LockCircle's professional body cap when it was announced last month, but one thing is certain: manufacturing them is a lot more complicated than injecting some plastic into a mould. This behind-the-scenes video shows how the cap is crafted out of solid billett aluminum in 79 different steps. Ordinary plastic body caps should suffice for more DSLR owners, but perhaps the company will find customers among hardcore shooters who need the extra sealing for …

Facial recognition features are appearing in everything from cameras to photo-sharing sites, but have you thought about the different security and privacy concerns it introduces? Fast Company has published a piece on how mobile apps in the future may be able to quickly look up your identity, your personal information, and perhaps even your social security number! …

What happens when 3 guys spend 44 days flying 38,000 miles on 18 flights to 11 different countries, capturing moments of footage at each location with two cameras? Check out this epic short film based on the concept of "movement" and you'll see!

Thom Hogan has some news from reliable sources regarding Nikon's upcoming mirrorless announcement: …

Flickr user Rachel Carrier captured this photo of her awesome Polaroid tattoo on Polaroid 690 film. It's one of the coolest photo tattoos I've seen.

Freelance news photographer Phil Datz was recording the conclusion of a police chase from the opposite sidewalk last Friday when he was confronted by a police officer and commanded to "go away". Though he politely obeyed and moved a block further from the scene, the officer decided to arrest him for "obstruction of governmental administration". The latest news is that the department is planning to drop the charges and put its officers through "media relations training".

Ever wonder how George Eastman chose the name "Kodak" for the company he founded? …

Not satisfied with creating a stop-motion animation of microscopic proportions, Nokia has gone in the opposite direction, this time turning a beach into what Guinness deemed the "world's largest stop motion animation set." The 12-megapixel stills were shot over five days using a Nokia N8 cell phone strapped to a 40 meter high cherry picker, and the largest scene spans a whopping 11,000 square feet!

We reported yesterday that Kodak has taken defensive measures to prevent a hostile takeover for its extensive collection of digital imaging patents. One of these patents is an image previewing invention that has earned Kodak nearly $1 billion from Samsung and LG, and that's at the center of an ongoing legal battle with Apple. With the income generated by patent lawsuits dwindling, the company is now considering the sale of 1,100 patents (about 10% of its portfolio), including the valuable image …

With the rise of sites like YouTube, the Internet is teeming with digital videos (two days worth are uploaded to YouTube every minute), but when was the last time you stopped to think about how video works? Here's a fascinating video in which Michael from vsauce explains everything from beta movement to frame rates.

What does it look like when every inch of a room's walls and ceiling are covered with photographs? German art students Joern Roeder and Jonathan Pirnay decided to find out through their project titled "fbFaces". Using a crawler that traverses the Facebook social graph, they harvested 100,000 profile pictures and used them to print out an intense wallpaper for the entire room.

Here's yet another example of the crazy visual effects found on today's TV shows -- this time it's from HBO's series "Game of Thrones". Just making composites this realistic using still images would be difficult enough, but for video? Wow.

If you look at the price of Kodak's stock, you'll see that the company is currently worth about $600 million -- a figure that may be significantly lower than what its digital imaging patents could sell for. With the risk looming that a buyer might try to acquire the patents by simply taking over the company, Kodak is taking evasive maneuvers.

As far as camera cookies go, these colorful cookies by sweets shop manjar are top notch.

If you had any doubts that Leica's new M9-P is simply the M9 given a cosmetic makeover, get this: Leica is offering to upgrade any customer's M9 camera into an M9-P. For the low Leica-esque price of $1,995, the company will give your camera "sapphire glass" for your LCD screen and a new top cover without the famous Leica red dot. If only upgrading to the latest DSLR were this easy!

Alexa's traffic reports seem to show that photo sharing service 500px is growing like a weed. The site has received quite a bit of coverage as of late.