Here’s a short and very interesting behind-the-scenes documentary with Scott Schuman, who has …
This crazy looking camera-gun is actually a Nikon D200 attached to a rifle stock. The Tactical Camera Long Range …
A couple days ago we featured a video showing how memory cards are made, and now here's an older video about an older medium. It's a short documentary created back in 1958 showing how Kodak creates its film. The narration is in Dutch, but there's English subtitles.
Sure Lexar just launched a 128GB SDXC card, but that only transfers at a meager 20MB/s. SanDisk’s …
We've featured a couple beautiful examples of fake slow-motion video created using Twixtor shot with the Canon 7D and 550D. If you don't want to shell out $300 just for Twixtor, you can do something somewhat similar using only Final Cut Studio. The above footage was shot at 60fps using a Canon 60D and created entirely with Final Cut Studio. Yes, yes, we know the wheels look strange, but it's still a neat effect and might produce interesting results with the right kind of footage.
The big camera corps are dumping a huge number of new compact cameras at CES 2011. While many are …
This is what lighting a match looks like up close and in super slow-mo at 2000 frames per second.
“Keep it simple, Stupid!.” That’s a principle exemplified by Apple’s industrial design, but …
The stories are often the same -- you spend some time saving up money for the perfect piece of gear that you've spent hours reading reviews about and comparing. You finally order it, and spend some days checking the tracking information every few minutes to see if your package is still traveling according to schedule.
Yesterday we got a sneak peek at a strange multi-dimensionally swiveling Casio TRYX camera, and today it was officially unveiled at CES 2011. The TRYX is a 12.1 megapixel camera that shoots 1080p HD video at 30fps or 240fps slow-motion video at 432 x 320. The unique thing about the camera is that the 3-inch touchscreen LCD can both bust out of its "frame" and also swivel, allowing the frame to be used as a stand and for the screen to point in all kinds of random directions.
It’s interesting (though some might say infuriating) to see how photographers are depicted in some police training videos. Lesson …
Kodachrome film officially died at the end of last year when the last developer — …
Here’s an interesting behind-the-scenes video showing how they make memory cards from start to finish. May the ingenuity and …
Lexar has announced two new SDXC memory cards ahead of CES 2011 that tip the scales at a whopping …
Reynaldo Dagsa, a local councilman in Manila, Philippines, was celebrating on New Year’s Eve with his family when he …
Back in 2010 we featured an interesting documentary about what the life of Pete Souza — President …
CES 2011 is still a couple days away, but camera gear announcements are …
James Mollison's project James & Other Apes features an interesting series of ape portraits shot in Cameroon.
"Man in a Blizzard" is a short film shot by Jamie Stuart during the recent NYC blizzard that film critic Roger Ebert believes to be deserving of an Oscar.
Photo-opoly is a Monopoly clone in which you use 22 of your own …
Time-lapses are usually created using intervalometers — devices that electronically trigger the shutter …
If you’re looking to get your kid hooked on photography from an early age, giving them this Voltron Star …
In 2007, 26-year-old real estate agent John Maloof purchased a box filled with 30,000 negatives from an estate sale for $400. After being stunned by the quality of the street photographs, Maloof began digging and discovered that they were created by a nanny and street photographer named Vivian Maier.
Welcome to PetaPixel in 2011! The past year went by extremely quickly, and quite a bit has happened on this blog since our last "state of the blog" address post. In this post we're going to share some statistics about this blog for those of you who are curious or interested in this kinda thing.
As 2010 comes to an end, here’s a look back at 10 of our most popular articles from the …
Update on 12/18/21: This video has been removed by its creator.
TIME Magazine's latest cover features a photograph of Nobel Peace Prize-winner Aung Sang Suu Kyi, with the feature story offering a glimpse into her life since being released from house arrest. The above is an interesting video in which Platon, the photographer behind the photo, tells the harrowing tale of what it took to make the photo. It's guaranteed to make most portrait assignments sound extremely boring.
You’ve probably seen the special keyboard covers for Mac keyboards that show you the Photoshop shortcut each key is …
Forget throwing water balloons at people’s faces — if you ever get your hands on a super …
Yesterday the last certified Kodachrome processing facility — Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kansas …
For the BBC documentary “Polar Bear: Spy on the Ice”, special hidden cameras were designed with unobtrusiveness …
Earlier this year photographer Daniel Morel was shocked when a photograph he captured during the devastating earthquake in Haiti and posted to TwitPic was distributed by Agency France Presse (AFP) and published on the front page of newspapers around the world -- all without his permission.
To add insult to injury, he was then sued by AFP when he sent cease and desist letters in response to the copyright infringement. The dispute has turned into a legal battle over whether images uploaded to TwitPic and shared on Twitter can be freely republished by third parties. In what might be an indication of things to come, a federal court has denied AFP's pre-trial request to have the case thrown out.
After Kodak announced the end of Kodachrome’s production in June of 2009, the number of photo labs that developed …
4K video recording may soon be available to Canon T2i/550D users willing to load a firmware hack onto their cameras. Apparently a guy known as Earz62801 on YouTube will be releasing a firmware hack on 1/1/11 that will give the T2i/550D 4K, 3K, and 2K recording capabilities and bit rates between 45MB/s and 175MB/s. He claims that 91 seconds of footage can be recorded at 2K and 175MB/s, though the time drops down to 6 seconds for 4K.
Wow. People are taking chicken head camera stabilization pretty seriously after the fact that chickens have image stabilized heads went viral recently. Research is ongoing, and people are reporting their interesting experimental findings on YouTube.
If PetaPixel’s very own Leica skin for the iPhone isn’t enough photo geekery for you, there’s also …
Pinhole cameras are usually very low-tech and dumbed-down in their operation, but how would one go about making it fancier like a digital camera? Basil Shikin decided to build his own custom pinhole camera using Lego Mindstorms, adding all sorts of awesome features to an ordinarily simple kind of camera. Features include automatic shutter speed calculation using a sensor, automatic film rewind, and the tracking of how much film remains.
Samsung has announced the NX11, a mirrorless camera nearly identical to the NX10 (released earlier this year) except for …
Pardon the obnoxious watermarks, but Gadget4all is selling this funky USB speaker that …
There's a number of notable iPhone apps out there that add a vintage look to your photographs (e.g. Hipstamatic and Instagram), but what if you want to shoot vintage-looking video? 8mm Vintage Camera is an app that does just that, allowing you to choose between a number of films and lenses. You can also turn on "jitter", adding an extra measure of realism to the look.
When Fujifilm unveiled the upcoming FinePix X100 back in September, the sleek retro design was enough to cause many photo-enthusiasts to start drooling and saving up money. Now, more details about the technological advances incorporated into the camera are becoming available, undoubtedly causing more camera lust. One of the big features offered by the camera is a novel hybrid viewfinder that can toggle between optical and electronic modes with a single touch, which overlays even the optical view with a sweet "heads up display".
The winter hasn’t been friendly this year to certain areas of the US, with flash floods hitting Southern California …
If you love the fact that IKEA furniture is cheap and easy to put together, but hate the fact …
The size and video quality of GoPro cameras opens the door to all …
For Christmas, Kyle‘s girlfriend Sarah wanted to give him something photography related, so …
When photographers Larissa and Trevor over at Ambient Studios needed to come up …
With a huge arsenal of camera gear at their disposal, the folks over at BorrowLenses can do a lot of fun and random experiments that us ordinary folk can only dream about. After first stacking lens filters and then teleconverters, they've gone to the next level by stacking $150,000 worth of camera gear into a Christmas tree.
While some photo-enthusiasts are content with carrying a camera around with them around the clock, others go a step further and show off their love for the art by having a camera tattooed to their body.
iPhoneography (i.e. iPhone photography) is exploding in popularity, and undoubtedly many people jumping into the craze will want to …
Watch out GoPro -- you've got competition headed your way. The Poco Pro is an upcoming camera by Iain Sinclair Design that claims to be the world's smallest 14 megapixel camera and thinnest 1080p HD camcorder, perfect for action photography and helmet cams.
A couple days ago Flickr published a blog post featuring a handful of member photographs of the December 2010 lunar eclipse. The first image in the post was "The 2010 Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse over Jersey City, NJ" (shown above) by photographer Steve Kelly.