The New Generation of IMAX Cameras are More User Friendly
The second generation of IMAX cameras -- which are being built from scratch -- are expected this year with the end goal of making them more user friendly.
‘Deep Sky’ IMAX Film Celebrates the Passionate People Who Built Webb
Following the journey of the James Webb Space Telescope and the brilliant minds who made it possible, Deep Sky is a new IMAX film hitting theaters tomorrow, April 19. PetaPixel chatted with one of these brilliant minds, NASA's Matt Mountain, who has worked on the Webb team since 2002.
Cinematographer, Who Braved Everest With Specially Built IMAX Camera, Dies
Mountaineer and cinematographer David Breashears, a pioneer in high altitude filmmaking who summited Mount Everest with a huge specially-built IMAX camera, has died.
‘Oppenheimer’ Cinematographer Urges Filmmakers to Shoot on Analog in Oscars Speech
Oppenheimer cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema urged aspiring filmmakers to shoot with old-school film formats in his Oscars acceptance speech.
Live Out Your Imaginary Directorial Dreams With a LEGO IMAX Camera
There's a strong crossover between photography and camera enthusiasts and LEGO fans, as demonstrated by the LEGO Polaroid, the LEGO Retro Camera Creator Kit, and a popular LEGO Ideas project dedicated to landscape photography and Ansel Adams. Like the Polaroid and landscape kit, a new LEGO IMAX project is being born within the LEGO Ideas community.
Wide Lenses Were Created Especially to Film Close-Ups in ‘Oppenheimer’
Christopher Nolan's love affair with IMAX cameras is no secret and the director's enthusiasm for them caused new lenses to be created.
The IMAX Camera Used to Film ‘Oppenheimer’ Broke During a Sex Scene
With Oscar season well and truly upon us, actress Florence Pugh has revealed that during the filming of smash hit movie Oppenheimer the camera broke at a very unfortunate moment.
Mercury Works Offers Kodak IMAX Film to Photographers for First Time
Mercury Works has launched a campaign for Mercury 65mm motion picture film (IMAX) and specially modified film backs to accept the large-format film. Further, Mercury Works can develop the film via its specialized lab, M-Alchemy.
Kodak Specially Manufactured Black and White 70mm Film for Oppenheimer
As "Barbenheimer" sets records at the box office this weekend, Kodak has revealed it manufactured a special black and white film stock for use in Oppenheimer.
The Oppenheimer 70mm Film Reel Weighs 600 Pounds and is 11 Miles Long
Christopher Nolan's new Oppenheimer movie about the theoretical physicist who helped to make the nuclear bomb will be presented in select theaters on a film reel that weighs some 600 pounds and is 11 miles long.
IMAX Taps Christopher Nolan, Jordan Peele to Make New Film Cameras
IMAX is developing a new film camera and is tapping the likes of visionary directors Jordan Peele and Christopher Nolan to help design it.
Honor’s Magic3 Smartphone Has Four Cameras and an IMAX Partnership
Honor has announced the Magic3, Magic3 Pro, and Magic3 Pro+, its first internationally launched flagship smartphone line. The Pro packs four cameras into its giant camera array and adds the ability to shoot "cinema-like" videos thanks to its "IMAX Enhanced" capabilities.
Shooting Portraits Through a Giant Theater Lens with a Fujifilm GFX100
In January, photographer Jay P. Morgan shared a video where he took portraits with what at the time he called an IMAX lens on a Canon EOS R. In part two of that series, he takes it one step further and mounts the medium format GFX 100 to it.
Shooting Portraits with a Giant IMAX Lens on a Canon EOS R
In an endeavor that seems to be driven only by curiosity, Photographer Jay P. Morgan modded an old IMAX lens to allow it to work with his Canon EOS R. But just getting the lens to work wasn't enough, as Morgan decided to take the lens way out of its element: street portraiture.
In Saturn’s Rings: A 4K Film Made Entirely from Real NASA Photographs
The tagline for the 2014 IMAX movie In Saturn's Rings simply states: "This is Real." And it's a tagline that bears repeating to yourself over and over again as you watch the preview footage above.
A fly-through put together from over one million real photographs -- many taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft -- the movie promises to contain zero CGI. And above, we have the first teaser for the film, available in 4K as long as your monitor can handle it.