Long-time film photographer Timothy Gilbert was frustrated with existing options for processing 4x5 large format sheet film at home, so, as an engineer, he decided to create an easy-to-use and affordable system himself.
After several prototypes and extensive testing, what he came up with is the SP-445 processing system, an extremely compact and simple tank that requires minimal chemicals and effort.
Flickr recently gathered up photo and camera data to review the past year, and now the company is doing some number crunching to reveal major trends in the cameras used by the photographer community.
The graph above shows how the popularity of major camera brands have changed over the past half decade.
Here's a short behind-the-scenes video showing how fashion photographer Yu Tsai recently photographed tennis superstar Serena Williams for Sports Illustrated magazine. Williams was featured in the cover story after being selected as the publication's Sportsperson of the Year, the first time an individual woman has taken the award in over 3 decades.
When the first Nikon D5 photos leaked out earlier this week, sharp-eyed commenters noticed that the viewfinder appears to have little release buttons on the side, suggesting that the camera will have a larger interchangeable viewfinder piece.
Those observations were spot on: newly leaked photos show that the upcoming Nikon D5 does have a large eyepiece that can be easily removed by pushing the buttons in and sliding the piece off.
Photographer Karl Taylor just released this humorous …
Sony just launched a new PlayMemories app called Sky HDR. It's designed to replace the graduated neutral density filters in Sony photographers' camera bags by making it easy to capture correct exposures for a bright sky in the background and a darker landscape in the foreground, all in one shot.
Some photographs have the power to burn themselves into our memories for a long time, while others are easily forgettable after they're seen. Scientists are MIT have been researching the science behind memorable images, and now they've created a web app called LaMem that can analyze any photo and assign it a memorability score.
Photographer Steve Mandel just returned from Antarctica, where he made photos of icebergs using an underwater camera, a surface camera, and a drone.
For his underwater shots, Mandel shot each photo so that it's a split view in a single frame: half of it shows the iceberg above water, and half shows what's below.
German drone manufacturer Ascending Technologies is celebrating Christmas season this year by doing some light painting photography. Each of the photos they've made was painted by an automated drone that was programmed to follow waypoints in the sky.
The company believes this is the first drone light painting project of this kind.
Louisiana-based photographer Hannah Hawkes is taking heat this week over a family portrait she shot and shared on her Facebook page. The Christmas photo shows the father holding a sign that reads "Peace on Earth" while the mother and two daughters are gagged with green tape and bound with Christmas lights.
The photo soon went viral in a negative way for Hawkes, as commenters around the Web condemned the photo as "sexist," "degrading," and promoting violence toward women.
This delightful photo of a hamster by Austrian photographer Julian Rad was recently selected and announced as this year's winner of the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards, which honors hilarious animal pictures captured by wildlife photographers around the world.
Canon's Japanese store recently began offering a miniature 5DS replica camera with two L lens flash drives. This is an official Canon product, unlike some DSLR flash drives we've seen. We shared earlier this month that Canon appears to have made a 1D X version as well.
Back in July 2013, we shared how major filmmakers had banded together to rescue Kodak by committing to purchasing film from the company. One of the big names was J.J. Abrams, the director of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which opens this week.
The new Star Wars was shot on Kodak film, and thanks to a number of other major productions using Kodak as well, Kodak says it may be profitable starting next year.
Ever wonder what you look like while you're taking pictures? Orlando, Florida-based photographer Rich Johnson wants to show you. For his latest project "Behind the Mask," Johnson had photographers pose for two pictures, one with their camera, and one without.
For the past 2 years, photographer Che Chorley has been working has been working on a seascape project. Each shot is captured with the surface of the sea at about eye level, and each mainly shows the ocean, horizon, and sky.
But different weather and times of day cause the photos to have drastically different appearances. Chorley has put together a set of 25 seascape photos showing 25 different "moods" the ocean showed him.
Ever wonder what happens to a camera if you accidentally drop it into a volcano's molten lava? Well, wonder no more, because some poor photographer found out the hard way.
Photographer Amanda Stevens was working at Samy's Camera in Pasadena, California, this past weekend when she came across this Sony Alpha mirrorless camera that had been destroyed by lava damage.
Adobe today announced Lightroom for mobile version 2.1. The update adds a number of new features for photographers who edit on their iPhone or iPad on the go.
Photographer Clay Cook recently traveled to Havana, Cuba, and worked directly with the Cuban government to bring a fashion editorial to an American publication in print.
Sigma today announced the Ceramic Protector, a new and novel lens filter that's the first to use a clear glass ceramic material that helps to protect lenses more than traditional filters.
For his recent project, titled "Scenic Silhouettes," photographer Miles Holden captured mountain biker Connor Macfarlane's silhouette against epic landscapes in New Zealand.
Once a year, photographer Andy Reynolds takes his camera and lighting gear to …
A man in Houston, Texas, is being heavily criticized this week after causing traffic on a major freeway to come to a standstill while he proposed to his girlfriend -- all for "priceless" photos and a video that were shared on Instagram and Facebook.
Camera sales haven't been doing too well in recent years, but that hasn't kept picture taking from exploding. While the dedicated camera industry has seen year-on-year declines, smartphone photography has turned everyone into a casual photographer: there are now 8 times as many picture takers worldwide than there were 10 years ago.
Canon's latest billboard ad campaign in New York City does more than promote the camera brand: they can actually help you shoot better photos. Each of the fixed and mobile truck billboards is updated in real time with useful photo tips you can use on the spot.
Adobe announced its quarterly results last Thursday, and investors are happy: the company beat market expectations by doubling profits from a year ago thanks to a huge growth in Creative Cloud subscribers. It seems that the shift from boxed software to digital subscription plans is paying off big time for the San Jose, California-based company.
Here’s a new inspiring and thought-provoking video from Canon Australia’s The Lab project, which aims to “shift …
Here's a 1-minute stop-motion commercial Karen X. Cheng recently produced and directed for Totspot, a resale shopping app for kids clothes. Cheng also documented the production process in order to show "how painstakingly laborious" stop motion photography is.
Street photographers Chuck Jines and Keenan Hastings both uploaded videos this week showing confrontations they had while shooting on the street -- Jines in New Orleans and Hastings in Detroit. They both came across strangers who didn't appreciate their photo being made, but Jines and Hastings had two very different ways of dealing with the situation.
For their official Christmas card this year, the Norwegian photography store Stavanger Foto …
After exploring the science of digital camera sensors, Filmmaker IQ just …
If you're a fan of both photography and science fiction, here's a movie you can add to your queue of things to watch: "Time Lapse." Released earlier this year, the film is about a mysterious camera device that shoots Polaroid pictures that show the future.
"Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24hrs into the future," the movie's synopsis reads. "They conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop..." You can watch the 2-minute trailer above.
Photographer Jay Philbrick takes his subjects where most photographers wouldn't dare to go themselves: onto the face of a cliff, 350 feet above the ground.
The FAA announced its drone registration process today, a couple of months after announcing the registry: if you operate a drone that weighs over 0.55 pounds and less than 55 pounds, you'll need to register it by February 19, 2016. There's also going to be a $5 fee.
This past weekend, we got our first look at the Nikon D5 thanks to a couple of photos that leaked onto the Web. New photos have since leaked, giving us a much better idea of what the camera will look like from all sides.
Want to see how the look of portraits have evolved with major camera developments throughout history? Photographer Leo Rosas Morin of COOPH shot 11 portraits of 1 model, and using Photoshop, he recreated the aesthetics of 11 key moments in photography history.
Polaroid is teaming up with professional photographers to launch Polaroid University, an online photography education program that provides a crash course in digital picture making.
PBS NewsHour recently aired this 6-minute feature of the life and work of Scott Schuman, the photographer behind …
For its holiday campaign this year, the Yorkdale shopping mall in Toronto, Canada, created Fashion Santa. Instead of wearing his traditional red hat, coat, trousers, and boots, Santa posed for a photo shoot wearing festive outfits representing the latest trends in male fashion.
This past weekend was the 10th anniversary of the infamous Cronulla Riots in Sydney, Australia, race riots that resulted in 26 injuries and 104 arrests. "Party for Freedom" leader Nick Folkes decided to hold a "patriotic barbecue" to mark the occasion, but attracted less than 50 supporters. The event was attended by a throng of anti-riot police, journalists, and a counter-protest from a much larger crowd.
Photographer Dillon Mak was covering the event, and he used a GoPro to document things from his point of view. In the 9-minute video above, things start getting heated at about 3 minutes in.
We're starting to get a better idea of what Nikon's next flagship DSLR will offer for professional photographers thanks to newly leaked photos and specs of the upcoming Nikon D5.
Hồ Anh Đức of Vietnam created this humorous video that shows the "truth" behind those picture perfect photos you see shared all over Instagram and Facebook. You don't need Photoshop to stretch the truth in photos.
Google's ongoing Project Ara effort features a modular smartphone with interchangeable camera add-ons. It looks like Samsung is thinking about taking modular smartphone photography a step further: a new patent shows a smartphone with a modular lens mount that can be added to support interchangeable lenses.
Researchers at the University of Washington have figure out how to create 3D time-lapse video sequences of landmarks by using a collection of still photos found on the Internet. The 7-minute video above is a short presentation that shows the technology in action.
GoPro has released a new update to its iOS app that turns the Apple Watch into a remote control for GoPro action cameras.
Back in May, Google unveiled its new Photos service, which offers free and unlimited photo storage for preserving life's memories. Now the company is going a step further by making the experience social: a new shared albums feature allows you to build photo collections together with friends and family.
Photographer Jonny Armstrong's portfolio is filled with some of the most remarkable wildlife photos you'll ever see: many of the portraits have a studio-like quality to them, and they're often taken from just a few feet away.
The secret to Armstrong's work is that he's a master of camera trap photography, using remote cameras and triggers to catch creatures off guard when they're going about their business.
It's no secret that Ricoh has a full frame Pentax DSLR up its sleeve. The camera is set to debut in the Spring of 2016, and a 24-70mm lens has already been announced for the body.
If you're looking forward to this camera, this may whet your appetite even more: the first sample photos captured using the camera have been published.
Tokyo's police force has come up with a clever solution for dealing with rogue drones: they're going to catch them using larger drones and giant nets.
Apollo 15 was the 4th NASA mission to land astronauts on the moon. On the way home in early …
Tumblr has just announced that it's introducing support for Live Photos, a feature Apple released earlier this year with the introduction of the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus. Live Photos lets you watch a few moments of video that are recorded immediately before and after your snapshot.