Over the weekend Apple finally made the iPad Camera Connection Kit available for pre-order. The kit, which will ship "late April", includes two connectors: a USB connector and a SD Card reader. If you use some other memory card, you'll need to plug your existing card reader into the USB connector. So how much do these connectors cost? A mere $29 plus tax.
The Impossible Project has done it again -- in a new Polaroid product revamp, the company has released a brand new Polaroid 600 One model designed by Paul Giambarba.
Knitting is getting quite a bit of coverage on PetaPixel this week. Just a couple days ago we featured the surreal knitting photographs of Daniela Edburg. The above is an creative commercial for natural gas by TBWA Brussels and directed by Olivier Babinet. What's amazing is that all the stop-motion animation you see is done using wool and a team of super dedicated knitters. They've also released a behind the scenes video showing how the commercial was made.
SwankoLab is an image editing app for the iPhone and iPod that features a complete darkroom simulator with chemicals, timers, and the whole shebang.
Lens hoods are ridiculously expensive considering the fact that they're simply fancy plastic tubes. If you'd like to use a lens hood but don't feel like shelling out wads of cash, you can create your own cardboard lens hoods!
What would happen if you hired a wedding photographer to assist with forensics at a crime scene? British show School of Comedy explores this scenario in this charming little sketch.
This faux camera can't take pictures, but it sure can take shots.
You've probably seen in-video advertising, but how about ads placed in images? A company called Image Space Media wants to make sure you do.
Social recommendation engine Hunch has a new Twitter Followers Tool that can analyze a Twitter account's followers and make predictions to what they would answer for certain questions.
This video, created by California photographer Jesse Rosten, offers an interesting glimpse at what digital magazine covers might look like for the iPad. Rather than offer a static photograph of the beach as the print version of Sunset Magazine would, this cover is brought to life with both video and animation.
Hot on the heels of the latest Canon coffee mug craze, here's another fun item for you to drool over: a Canon mode dial vinyl decal for your laptop. What better way to show your love for photography and/or nerdiness by displaying a cryptic circle of symbols for the world to see? It's available for $15 + shipping from suzieautomatic's Etsy store.
In 1927, a young photographer bought a print at San Francisco's East West Galleries for $10 -- roughly $125 today. Bernice Lovett could not pay the full price of the image at once, so she paid for it in monthly 50 cent installments. Lovett's family held on to the photograph for over 80 years.
Here's a set of photographs by Daniela Edburg, who creates surreal scenes and landscapes around the theme of knitting.
My dad is an avid stamp collector. While he does have some US stamps in his collection, he mainly focuses on older stamps from China.
Francesco Capponi (Dippold on Flickr) has a fun printable template for creating your own nifty-looking 35mm pinhole camera.
Adobe is working on a new feature for Photoshop called "Content Aware Fill", and posted a mind-boggling demonstration of it on YouTube.
The San Francisco Chronicle has a neat story about Ruby Ellenby, a 3-year-old photographer who is celebrating her first photography exhibition. 22 of her photographs are mounted as 8x10 prints on the walls of Moshi Moshi restaurant in San Francisco.
I don't know about you, but I often find myself wiping off the LCD on my DSLR or point-and-shoot with my clothes. The unseemly but common practice of wiping gadgets with clothes is exactly what FIFT, a husband and wife design team in Japan, had in mind when they designed the 'Wipe Shirt'.
SnapKnot is a new service that aims to make it easy to search for and compare local wedding photographers.
Students at the University of Tromso in Norway have created an interactive display wall using 28 separate projectors, which creates a 7168x3072, or 22 megapixel, display. Interactive with the display simply involves placing your hands in front of it. Touching the display itself is not necessary, and multitouch is supported. What better way to demonstrate the capabilities of such a system than zooming through a gigapixel photograph?
The Impossible Project's new instant film for Polaroid cameras will go on sale later this week, but the British Journal of Photography has already gotten their hands on a pack of PX100. They were mailed a comprehensive press kit that included a box of the black and white film, and promptly exposed the film with a SX-70, publishing the results on their blog.
As online stock photography services and libraries have expanded in recent years, stock photography books have become more and more obsolete.
If you're like me, then you have a bazillion cables lying on and around your desk for various gadgets, including laptops, cameras, cell phones, Bluetooth headsets, and the like. Here's a tip for organizing all those cables to always have them neat and ready for action: use binder clips.
American vacationers John and Patti Muldowney took a snapshot during a snorkeling excursion off the coast of Aruba last fall, and turned up a photo that shows what appears to be human skeletal remains.
After a bit of confusion, Adobe has released and confirmed the Lightroom 3 Beta 2.
If you're yearning to take photos of the great outdoors, the BBC Wildlife Magazine website now offers free downloadable Masterclasses.
Earlier today, several sources, citing a press release on DPReview, reported that the Adobe was going to release an updated Lightroom 3 Beta, which included a video feature, tethered shooting capabilities, and several other improved features.
Time to dust off your old Polaroid cameras. The Impossible Project has just unveiled its new PX100 and PX600 instant films for Polaroid cameras, after a three year effort to save Polaroid photography from extinction. The $21 packs, available starting Thursday, will each provide 8 black and white images. Color film packs are also expected to be released sometime this summer.
If you need a way to protect your camera gear while on the move, then this giveaway is for you.
Burger King recently partnered up with marketing agency Ogilvy for a unique "Have It Your Way" campaign. In order to convey how personalized the orders are, they used a hidden camera and printer to slap a candid photograph of the customer's face right on the burger wrapper. A separate hidden camera was used to document the reactions of the customers after seeing themselves on their food.
InVisage, a California-based start up company, has announced a new image sensor technology that it claims is up to four times more sensitive than traditional sensor technologies.
Lady Gaga's most recent music video for "Telephone", featuring Beyonce, is like most modern music videos: rife with product placement. But among the most prominent products was Gaga's own employer, Polaroid, which gets a 10-second spot.
According to the Canon Japan website, the company is experiencing a shortage of the EF 70-200 f/2.8 L IS II USM lens. The company says demand for the lens, which was announced in January and released recently in the US, was much higher than expected.
Photographer Jon Beard has a terrific set of photos called "Burning Bulbs" in which he breaks lightbulbs and photographs them with the filaments exposed.
Our recent post showing vinyl records at 1000x magnification was pretty popular, and many of you had ideas for things you'd like seen under a scanning electron microscope.
Here's the latest innovation from Pentax: a puppet body for your lens cap! The "Cameraman" is a handmade puppet body that comes with a 52mm lens cap showing a smiley face. It costs ¥2,914, or about $32, and is only available for a limited amount of time.
Well, that was fast. Just a day after removing Version 2.0.3 of the 5D Mark II firmware due to a bug, Canon has released firmware Version 2.0.4, which simply fixes the bug in Version 2.0.3.
Fashion label LeSportsac will be joining with Canon in its release of a case designed exclusively for the PowerShot camera, the companies announced today.
Danish-Norwegian artist Nina Maria Kleivan has come under fire for a series of photographs in which she dresses up her year-old daughter Faustina as some of history's most evil figures. The series, titled "Potency", has been shown in exhibitions around Europe, and is meant to explore the nature of evil.
Just days after releasing a firmware update that brought 24 fps video to the 5D Mark II, Canon has pulled the update due to a malfunction that occurred.
Ever wonder what a vinyl record looks like under an electron microscope? Okay, probably not. Luckily, there's people who do, including Chris Supranowitz, who created a number of electron microscope images for a course at the University of Rochester.
This past week we ran a poll asking our readers what operating system they mainly use. Here are the results: …
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will soon be accepting applications for new generic top level domains (gTLD) to be created, potentially ushering in a new Internet land rush.
We reported last month that the New York auction house, Sotheby's will be facilitating the sale of more than 1,200 photos from the Polaroid company's collection this June. The photos include images captured by legendary photographers and artists such as Ansel Adams and Andy Warhol. Sotheby's estimates that the collection will raise some $7.5 million to $11.5 million, which will go towards paying for Polaroid's Minnesota bankruptcy court.
It might be hard to believe, but each of the following "paintings" is actually a photograph by artist Alexa Meade.
When Canon released the 5D Mark II, many who wanted to utilize the HD-video recording capabilities were disappointed that it only offered 30 frames per second (fps) and not 24.
contacts who've faved is a web application that allows you to quickly browse through photographs that your contacts recently marked as a favorite. Simply give the application read permissions by logging into it via Flickr, and it will display a grid of thumbnails for you to enjoy. The service was created by Aaron Straup Cope, a senior engineer on the Flickr team.
The Paparazzi Bots are a series of robots invented by Ken Rinaldo, a faculty member in the Department of Art at Ohio State University. Each bot is autonomous, and moves about on a wheeled platform, using infrared sensors to move towards humans. It's goal is to take single photographs of people, and it makes decisions on whether or not to capture the photograph based on facial expressions of the subject. If you happen to be smiling, the bot is more likely to photograph you.
Fifty years ago, Cuban photographer Alberto Díaz "Korda" Gutiérrez took a picture of Ernesto "Che" Guevara at a funeral with a 90mm lens on a Leica camera.
Photo Magician is a free and lightweight (less than 1MB) program for Windows that allows you to batch convert a directory of photographs. It's similar in functionality to Photoshop's "Image Processor" feature, with one difference being you can't select the output quality like you can using Photoshop.
