When the Mars Rover Opportunity landed on our planetary neighbor on January 25th, 2004 it was undertaking a three-month mission. Well, it's a full decade later and the little guy is still alive and kickin' (in a robotic kind of way).
And what better way to celebrate that achievement then by taking a good ol' fashioned, 2014-like selfie?
Corinne Vionnet is a visual artist based in Switzerland. Her work has been exhibited at Jenisch Museum, Vevey, Switzerland; Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; Les Rencontres d'Arles; Fotomuseum, Antwerp; La Maison Européenne de la photographie, Paris; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; Art Museum, Sion, Switzerland; Chelsea Art Museum, New York and the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne.
Corinne Vionnet's series Photo Opportunities explores our fascination with famous landmarks throughout the world. Through the process of combining hundreds of snapshots of popular tourist destinations, she is able to create a collective impression of how these places are represented, and how we imagine them in our own minds.
These images are made by not one single point of view, but many, and they have the ability to open conversation about how images connect us; and about the ways in which we share thoughts and experiences about common subjects.
If you've been wishing and hoping for Lytro-like 'take now, focus later" technology to appear in smartphones, it looks like a couple of different companies are planning on making that wish come true. Not only did Toshiba announce its own refocusing module just a couple of weeks ago, it seems OPPO will be putting similar tech into their future camera phones too.
Back in July, Chinese electronics company OPPO confirmed that it was working on an "N-Lens" line of camera-centric devices that would be the "most important flagship series for OPPO going forward."
Well, the first of these devices has officially arrived, and although it is still more of a smartphone with a camera than a camera that can make calls, the phone packs some interesting features, including (according to OPPO) the world's first rotating smartphone camera.
It looks like Sony isn't the only company interested in attaching some external camera hardware to your smartphone. According to a recent announcement, Chinese electronics company OPPO is making its own attachable lens cameras.
While smartphones have, especially of late, taken to blurring the lines between camera and phone, "smartcameras" like Samsung's Galaxy Camera flipped the idea on its head by putting a phone's operating system on a camera rather than the other way around.
Since then, Samsung has announced a few other options in the same milieu, (e.g. the Galaxy NX interchangeable lens camera and the 10x optical zoom Galaxy S4 Zoom) with fairly little in way of competition on that front. But Chinese electronics manufacturer OPPO is looking to move in on Samsung's territory.
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OM System issued a warning to users with Apple computers, saying that due to security enhancements associated with macOS, it is possible that updating cameras through a Mac computer may not work correctly.
Those in the wedding industry know that the busy season is coming if it's not here already. Wedding photographers are gearing up for a summer of packed weekends, ensuring their kits are fully stocked and ready to go.
Fujifilm launched its promised raffle that will allow photographers the ability to purchase a Limited Edition X100VI today, but perhaps more interesting is how many are available: 200.
Spectacular footage of Mount Etna in Italy puffing out smoke rings has amazed onlookers with circular smoke appearing in the skies over Sicily for over a week.
The 1994 James Cameron film True Lies starring Arnold Schwarzenegger was recently re-released in Ultra HD 4K disc format giving viewers the opportunity to watch these classic films in unprecedented detail.
Even though the historic flood plains of the once mighty Rio Grande have long been tamed by human dams and irrigation canals, birds keep returning annually to spend winter in the relatively mild climate of New Mexico.
Nikon confirmed that it began considering acquiring RED due to the lawsuit the cinema company filed against Nikon back in 2022.
The world's first fully AI-generated movie has been announced with the trailer for Next Stop Paris predictably containing one too many fingers.
Oscar-nominated Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund, seen above, delivered some thought-provoking quotes in a new interview for The Guardian, raising interesting questions about the nature of cameras and visual storytelling.
In one of her most famous quotes, the photographer Dorothea Lange said that "the camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera."
Nikon announced on March 7 that it had entered an agreement to purchase RED. Now, Nikon's huge acquisition is officially complete, just in time for Nikon's NAB 2024 appearance.
It used to be that if your digital image was too small for a particular application, you had no real options. You were stuck at the original resolution, or at least something close to it. Upscaling technology has changed the game, but not all apps are made equal.
A photographer has documented the sport of Muay Thai for 10 years, traveling to the sport's home in Thailand to capture impoverished youngsters quite literally fighting for a better life.
Photographs are made by cameras. But what if an image can be made from the memory of a human being? A research and design studio is using AI to do just that.
Photoshop can feel infinite. It’s a lot like a high-tech espresso machine or a sports car: you don’t have to use all of its features for it to be functional, but when you can, it’s a powerful tool.
This week, Chris, Jordan, and Jaron are joined by filmmaker Levi Holwell to discuss documentary filmmaking and all of the details that go into a successful production.
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute's Danuri lunar orbiter crossed paths recently, and the former managed to snap a photo of the latter zipping past it at the relative velocity of 7,200 miles per hour.
It's the morning of April 8, 2024. My camera equipment is packed in their bags, and vital Sun rotation information and eclipse timing information are scratched in a notepad. Somehow, despite years of notice about this historic total solar eclipse, the first to hit my home state of Maine since 1963 and the last until 2079, I'm committing the cardinal sin of photography: I'm trying to photograph a once-in-a-lifetime event with nebulous plans and no scouting.
Total solar eclipses in North America are exceedingly rare and for those lucky enough to be in the path of totality for yesterday's eclipse it may be the only one they ever see in their lifetime.
Since the earliest cave drawings, artists have interpreted the world around them in ways that best communicate what they want the viewers to understand.
This 3D-printed prototype camera uses artificial intelligence to undress a person it takes a photo of.
I don’t know about you, but even though I’ve been photographing for almost fifteen years now, sometimes I feel stuck when deciding which editing direction to take with some of my images.
National Geographic photographer, Canon Explorer of Light, and friend of PetaPixel Keith Ladzinski is preparing for the total solar eclipse on April 8th and has plenty of tips to help other photographers capture great shots next Monday.
The recently released $329 Godox V1 Pro is a round-head design speedlight that brings some subtle, and not-so-subtle updates to the already popular V1 system. The new flash adds features like an improved battery and charging system, the ability to take up to 100 continuous shots at full power, and it also has a detachable sub-flash for fill light use that effectively makes the system two lights in one.
The Mobile Photography Awards (MPA) announced the winners of its 13th annual competition Wednesday, giving out thousands of dollars in cash prizes.
Astrophotography is hard enough as it is -- but one photographer makes it even tougher by capturing celestial events on 35mm film.
For those who may have somehow missed it, a historic total solar eclipse will be visible across much of North America on April 8. Photographing an eclipse can be tricky, but fret not. You'll surely capture some great photos next week with these helpful tips.
After more than two decades and a few delays, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera is finally built and ready to be sent to the Rubin Observatory in Chile, where it will capture 3,200-megapixel photos of deep space and help scientists unravel the mysteries of the Universe.
World Press Photo has announced the regional winners of its prestigious annual photo competition, highlighting the best photojournalism and documentary photography of 2024.
A photographer risked it all leaving his camera in the path of a gigantic herd of elephants -- with incredible results.
Spring is a popular time to do some deep cleaning. While we typically think of spring cleaning in terms of our homes, our camera kits could also benefit from some decluttering from time to time.
If you've ever taken photographs with a vintage Barnack Leica, you know that this precursor to modern cameras is considerably more difficult to load film into than pretty much everything that came after it.