Custom Polaroid Land Camera Delivers Instant Photos Over the Web
Max van Leeuwen built a Polaroid instant camera that can remotely "develop" its photos on a picture frame, no matter where in the world the camera and frame are.
Jeremy Gray is an award-winning landscape and nature photographer. Over the last decade, he has written extensively for many of the leading online publications in the photography industry. He has a passion for writing in-depth camera and lens reviews, educational content, and discussing the latest news from the photography world.
Max van Leeuwen built a Polaroid instant camera that can remotely "develop" its photos on a picture frame, no matter where in the world the camera and frame are.
The Voyageurs Wolf Project is a University of Minnesota research initiative designed to understand more about wolves within northern Minnesota's Greater Voyageurs ecosystem.
An upcoming video game, Neko Odyssey, celebrates one of the internet's favorite past times: taking photos of cats.
MagMod, makers of a diverse assortment of magnetic light modifiers for speedlights and strobes, has expanded its product range with the MagMod XL series designed for studio lights.
Australian photographer Forough Yavari has won the International Portrait Photographer of the Year 2023 competition, earning herself a share of the contest's $10,000 prize pool.
After launching a public beta of an all-new Adobe Express in June, Adobe has now released the superpowered, web-based platform to the general public.
Fine art portrait photographer David Teran traveled the world with his 1969 Hasselblad 500C/M camera to capture beautiful black and white portraits of some of the most talented and powerful ballerinas. Teran has launched a Kickstarter campaign to celebrate the multi-year project to release a special book, Hasselblad Ballet.
Digital photography offers people many benefits over analog photography. Perhaps chief among them is the ability to capture a near-infinite number of photos and keep them together in one location. However, with such great power comes the monumental task of organizing thousands upon thousands of files.
Photographer Arnt Inge Hodne has long been interested in photographic equipment. Using his experience as an engineer and his passion for photography, Hodne has teamed up with Ådne Espeland and Harald Knutsen to design, build, and market a new type of tripod head, the Quick Precision Tripod Head.
Ahead of today's announcement, I tried the Laowa 24mm T8 2x Pro2be lens alongside a Panasonic S1R full-frame camera. The unusual macro lens is challenging but rewarding to use.
Venus Optics has announced the Laowa 24mm T8 2x Pro2be lens set designed for distinct cinematic and photographic applications. It takes the weird look of tube lenses and goes even further into the unusual.
California-based drone maker Skydio has announced that it will "sunset" its consumer drone offerings.
After announcing its 50mm f/1.4 Tilt Lens for Canon RF, Fujifilm X, Leica L, Nikon Z, and Sony E mounts last year, TTArtisan has released its compact tilt lens for Micro Four Thirds cameras.
A week after reporting that Apple is testing M3-powered Macs, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman is back with fresh new details on Apple's M3 family of chips, including rumors about the M3 Pro, M3 Max, and M3 Ultra chips.
"It is a very common misconception amongst people that the night sky has been explored in its entirety by the great professional space observatories like James Webb, Hubble, NASA, and ESA. People think there is nothing left for the average person to go out and discover in space. But this couldn't be further from the truth," says astrophotographer Bray Falls.
Landscape photographer Christian Möhrle has turned the majestic beauty of the French Alps into a breathtaking 4K timelapse video.
The James Webb Space Telescope YouTube channel released a fascinating new video this week that explains how Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) science visuals developers Joe DePasquale and Alyssa Pagan transform Webb's black-and-white image data into full-color composites.
The winners of the 2023 Comedy Pet Photo Awards have been announced. Photographer Michel Zoghzoghi has taken home the top prize for his photo of his two rescue kittens, Max and Alex.
A years-long conflict has been brewing on the picturesque San Juan Island in northwestern Washington, and photographers are taking unwarranted and unreasonable heat for their alleged role in the tension.
ProMaster's new Chronicle Tripod aims to do it all. While it may look like a typical tripod at first glance, there is much more to the Chronicle than meets the eye. In seconds, it quickly converts to a tabletop tripod via its "Flexor center column", handheld stabilizer, or monopod. Plus, the ball head converts from an Arca-type quick-release camera mount to a phone clamp.
Northwestern University astrophysicist Jason Wang led a project to create the longest timelapse of an exoplanet ever assembled. The video compresses 17 years of real data of an exoplanet orbiting its star down to just 10 seconds -- and that 17 years was only enough for the planet to travel about 75% of a single 23.6-year orbit.
The James Webb Space Telescope recently photographed the Herbig-Haro 46/47, a pair of newly forming stars. The beautiful composite is vast and full of rich detail, including a cosmic question mark.
For photographers who cannot get enough of photography in the real world, there are plenty of ways to enjoy it in the virtual world.
India's Chandrayaan-3 rover reached lunar orbit on August 5 and has sent its first images of the Moon to Earth. Successfully entering lunar orbit is a critical step in the Indian Space Research Organization's (ISRO) historic mission to the Moon.
It has been a tough year at Western Digital Corporation's San Jose, California headquarters. The well-known storage company, which also operates the SanDisk brand, has been mired by one issue after another. Adding to it, now people are losing their data, the cardinal sin of storage devices.
Camera company MiNT has launched a revised version of its popular SLR670-S instant camera that uses Polaroid i-Type film. Alongside i-Type film, the SLR670 (Type i) works with SX-70 and 600 films.
Zhong Yi Optics (ZY Optics) has announced the Mitakon Speedmaster 20mm/35mm/50mm Super 35 T1 Cine Lens Set. The trio of cinema lenses offers APS-C users three very-fast prime lenses with T1.0 transmission.
A new study by Internews shows that Meta's Trusted Partner program is coming up woefully short in its mission to protect people.
Hong Kong-based Nons is best known for its cameras that use Instax film, including the SL660 and SL645 models that include a Canon EF mount. The upcoming Nons Instant Back allows photographers to use Instax film on existing Hasselblad medium format film cameras.
Apple is testing computers with a yet-to-be-announced M3 chip according to a new report. The upcoming processor could debut in a new Mac as soon as October.
The latest vintage digital camera to get Gordon Laing's fantastic "Retro Review" treatment is 2001's Sony Cyber-shot F707 camera. The L-shaped 5-megapixel camera was sold as a premium all-in-one compact.
Light Lens Lab is developing a new 75mm f/2 Speed Panchro II lens for M-mount, following the company's popular 50mm f/2 Speed Panchro II prime lens.
Photographers wanting to capture beautiful Milky Way photos need the right plans, the appropriate gear, and some basic knowledge of optimal camera settings.
Young people seemingly love avatars and headshots generated by artificial intelligence (AI). It is no surprise that companies are jumping into the AI fray, including New York City-based photo booth agency OutSnapped. The company has announced the launch of its patent-pending AI photo booth technology, the first of its kind.
Expert wildlife photographer Steve Perry of Backcountry Gallery showcases the power of camera height in a new educational video. One of the most powerful and effective ways to change a wildlife photo's story is by shooting from different heights relative to the subject.
A Google Street View vehicle crashed in Indiana earlier this week following a high-speed police chase.
David Imel of MKBHD has taken a close look at the design and functionality of an exciting 3D-printed medium-format film camera on MKBHD's spinoff channel, The Studio.
While dedicated retail centers and shopping malls may be on the decline throughout much of the United States, China is experiencing a shopping mall boom, per the South China Morning Post. Nikon is capitalizing on the surge with three beautiful flagship retail stores in Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Chengdu.
Respected Apple industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reports that Apple's iPhone 16 series smartphones expected to release next year will feature a stacked rear camera sensor design.
Webb's new infrared image of the galaxy cluster "El Gordo" ("the Fat One") showcases hundreds of galaxies, some of which have never been seen before in such detail. Using its Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), Webb has used the gravitational lensing created by El Gordo to see distant background galaxies more clearly, offering scientists a unique look at the distant universe.
IBM and NASA have teamed up to develop an open-source, geospatial foundational model that will enable researchers and scientists to utilize artificial intelligence (AI) to track the effects of climate change, monitor deforestation, predict crop yields, and analyze greenhouse gas emissions.
Ricoh Imaging has announced that there is an issue with the latest firmware updates for the popular Ricoh GR III and Ricoh GR IIIx compact cameras. Although the latest updates are still listed on Ricoh's support website, photographers can no longer download them.
It seems like a scratched lens would produce poor images, but as Markus Hofstaetter shows, it can be hard to tell when looking at the photos themselves. Scratched lenses are typically relatively cheap to purchase second-hand, and they can represent a fantastic bargain.
Picking out the perfect lens is very challenging. As landscape photographer Michael Shainblum explains in a new blog post, "Purchasing new lenses can prove to be overwhelming and stressful." Shainblum breaks down the four crucial factors in selecting a new lens and offers landscape photographers options regardless of their budget.
The North Atlantic right whale is among the most endangered whale species in the world. Per the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), fewer than 340 North Atlantic right whales are left. Given the relatively expansive range of North Atlantic right whales, researchers must utilize many different technologies to find and monitor whales, including thermal cameras.
A surprising number of eventual U.S. presidents have been photographed with other presidents long before reaching office.
Camera technology has evolved dramatically since the advent of photography and as a result, being a professional photographer has significantly changed too. A vintage video created by Vocational Guidance Films, Inc. in 1946 shows what being a professional photographer used to be like.
As Meta continues to work on its generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, including an AI image generator that Meta claims is unrivaled, Meta appears to have ramped up development on numerous generative AI features for its apps, including labels that will allow creators to mark images as "generated by Meta AI."
Benro's new CyanBird Carbon Fiber Tripod aims to compete against the Peak Design Travel Tripod at a fraction of the price.
Nearly a month after launching from Cape Canaveral, the European Space Agency's new space probe, Euclid, has sent its first test images to Earth, and they are spectacular.