KEH is one of the largest pre-owned camera sales operations in the world, and the headquarters can be found in the Peach State. KEH is also the biggest and longest-standing supporter of the PetaPixel YouTube show, so we were excited to finally had an opportunity to visit the warehouse and see the operation for ourselves.
Earlier this week, I published a "review" of sorts of the Nikon S3 rangefinder, which I believe to be one of the most beautiful cameras ever made. Through that experience, though, I was reminded of Nikon's vintage glass, and once again baffled by how the company hasn't remade them.
If you were to ask us what the perfect color film is, we’d tell you it is Kodak Portra. Exactly which speed of Portra matters only a little as the whole family of films is pretty amazing.
Slovenian photographer and founder of Ondu, Elvis Halilović, has unveiled the Ondu Eikan 8x10", a new lightweight, handmade large-format field camera.
Lomography's latest release, a pair of new colorways for its popular Sprocket Rocket 35mm panoramic film camera, is a real Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde situation. One of the new colorways is beautiful and understated, while the other is super ugly. The fun part is that some readers may not know which of the two colorways is the ugly one.
Japan-based analog photographer D.Daniel has delivered arguably the most comprehensive, efficient, and useful comparisons of color and black-and-white photographic film stocks ever.
f8 Develop is a new film negative inversion app made specifically for macOS and is meant to support photographers who scan with a mirrorless or DSLR camera at home.
The website for Christopher Nolan's upcoming The Odyssey lets viewers watch the movie trailer in all the film's different formats, from IMAX 70mm to Dolby Vision.
With this Film Friday Review we are shining a light on a new color film that seems to love traveling the world under a multitude of aliases. While we first met this film as Optik Oldschool OptiColour, you might have crossed paths with it under the ORWO Wolfen NC200 or KONO Color 200 monikers.
Demand for IMAX 70mm screenings of Christopher Nolan’s upcoming The Odyssey has been so high that ticket buyers reportedly faced hour-long waits online -- while opening weekend seats for large-format screenings are being listed on eBay for as much as $1,500.
The question over who took a photograph of President John F. Kennedy on the day he was assassinated has been at the center of a legal case.
Polaroid has announced its smallest instant analog camera ever, the Go Generation 3. The company takes that one step further, describing its brand-new instant camera as "the best Polaroid Go yet."
China Lucky Film's highly anticipated all-new color emulsion, Lucky Color 200, is finally available in the United States.
Marilyn Monroe would have been 100 years old today, and to honor the occasion, a Long Island beach has erected a plaque marking a famous photo shoot that took place there in 1949.
TMax 400 came into the world in 1986, at the same time as its slower speed brother. You can think of them as near identical twins, in fact. Since its introduction, TMax 400 has helped define a whole new generation of black and white films with its tabular grain structure, high resolution, and sharp image details.
A photographer believed to have taken the very first portrait of the British Royal Family has been honored with a blue plaque in the English city of Brighton.
Polaroid's newest limited-edition 600 Film promises to be "completely new to instant film" and to deliver photographers something utterly unique and psychedelic. It's purple, very purple.
Cinephiles in Southern California are in for a treat this weekend when the Palm Springs 70mm Film Festival gets underway.
A unique camera made for war and developed by the German Luftwaffe is expected to sell for somewhere around $160,000 at auction next month.
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has announced that it has received a major gift of nearly 2,000 photographs, including important works by Nadar, Alfred Stieglitz, and Cindy Sherman.
Harman Technology, among the world's largest makers of analog photo films, darkroom papers, and photo chemicals, has announced new limited-edition, football- (or soccer-) themed packaging for two of its most popular 35mm films, just in time for the World Cup, which kicks off in just a few weeks.
Over the weekend, posts on Japanese social media (SNS, as they refer to it) indicated that Fujifilm would be ending support for black and white film development services, which many took to mean as dropping support for paper and chemicals.
The last known photograph of literary icon Oscar Wilde was taken on his death bed in a Paris hotel room using a borrowed camera and a volatile early flash, mere hours after he passed away.
A photography student sent a 5x4 color negative into space on April 19 and exposed it to cosmic radiation, capturing a beautiful, abstract portrait of space unlike anything done before.
IMAX is reportedly in talks with buyers over a potential sale of the large-format cinema company, The Wall Street Journal reports.
The Odyssey is the first-ever movie to be shot entirely on IMAX 70mm film. The format is so large that it can only be shot continuously for roughly two and a half minutes, as that is the maximum length the IMAX camera can hold.
Science educator Steve Mould's newest video sheds fascinating light on an oft-forgotten color photography process. Mould's video has the grabby title, "You've Never Seen a Real Photo," which is closer to the truth than it sounds.
Analogue Wonderland, a photographic film store based in the U.K., has released a beginner-friendly analog camera called Pure35.
The MUUS Collection has acquired the Todd Webb archive, an American photographer whose images of postwar city life in New York City and Paris serve as visual time capsules to bygone eras. MUUS preserves, researches, and reveals works from the archives in its care.
Dora Goodman Cameras has announced that it is shutting down its store, citing a rapidly changing market and rising costs.
The camera used to shoot Christopher Nolan's upcoming epic The Odyssey -- the first movie ever to be shot entirely on IMAX cameras -- has gone on public display in Los Angeles.
As I've delved deeply into the old and the niche of film photography, I've found myself loving cameras that either have no light meter, no viewfinder, or... neither. In those cases, I have found the L.D. Meter from Chinotechs to be the near-perfect solution.
An extremely rare collection of signed photographs of American historical figures including President Abraham Lincoln and even his assassin John Wilkes Booth were sold at auction for over $100,000 each.
Late last year, a friend of mine shared a link to a small creator on Instagram who was making something that combined two of my hobbies: cameras and Gundam. I was immediately on board.
Harman has announced that it is bringing its ISO 50 Ilford Pan F Plus film to both 4x5 and 8x10 sheet film, giving large format photographers access to this film for the first time.
A husband-and-wife team is producing their own 1920s-era film, similar to the one Oskar Barnack used, in the "world's smallest film factory", which they intend to shoot using a 100-year-old Leica camera.
In 2001, Jake Shivery opened Blue Moon Camera and Machine in Portland's St. John's neighborhood. At the time, there were 11 other camera stores across the city, but Shivery decided to open a shop anyway. On December 1, he opened the doors -- and no one came.
Large format photographers have a new option on the table as OptiColour 200 makes its debut in 4×5, 5×7, and 8×10 sheet film. Built on the Wolfen NC200 emulsion, the film brings a familiar look to a format that continues to attract fine art, portrait, and landscape photographers seeking maximum image quality and tonal control.
Singer Sabrina Carpenter wore a dress made from strips upon strips of photographic film to the Met Gala last night.
A rare Leica MP owned by Tazio Secchiaroli, credited as being one of Italy's first paparazzi, will go on sale at the Leitz Photographica Auction next month.
A life-sized statue of the official photographer for the Manhattan Project has been unveiled in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Funleader has announced that its Contax G35 Leica M Conversion Helicoid V2 is now available in an updated Black Edition, introducing a refined take on its non-destructive conversion system for adapting Contax G lenses to Leica M cameras. The new version focuses on improved materials and handling, while maintaining the core philosophy of preserving the original optical design.
Upstart British photography company Alfie Cameras is launching its next camera, the Alfie Boxx, in just a few weeks. The upcoming camera is an all-in-one analog camera experience, enabling photographers to capture and develop photos right in the camera itself.
Every so often, Hasselblad takes to its YouTube channel to showcase a legendary product from its distant past. The latest classic camera to get the modern video treatment is an absolute beauty, the Hasselblad 500 EL/M "20 Years in Space" edition. Released way back in 1982, it is arguably Hasselblad's coolest camera ever.
Second View is a newly-developed app that turns an iPhone into an all-in-one assistant device for analog photographers. Not only does it include mainstay functions like a light meter and exposure timers, but it also includes a LiDAR distance scale, parallax correction, and film stock reciprocity correction.
An incredible photo archive showing the sad decline of a long-forgotten town shot by Dorothea Lange and Pirkle Jones has been digitized and uploaded by the University of California (UC).
The year is 1969, legendary rock and roll band The Velvet Underground is playing at a Vietnam War protest in Texas. It sounds like an iconic moment. The only problem? Back then, people didn't care all that much about The Velvet Underground.
Just a week after SilverBridges shared that photographers were using WideluxX F10 prototypes out in the field, the exciting new 35mm panoramic analog camera is now available to preorder.
The I'm Back Roll APS-C launched on Kickstarter earlier this month to significant attention and support. With over two weeks left in the campaign, the I'm Back Roll APS-C has shattered its $44,603 goal, garnering nearly $850,000 in pledged support at the time of writing. But what exactly are people actually backing: an ambitious project or a wild dream?
Chinese lens company Mandler's debut lens, a faithfully recreated Leica Summicron 35mm f/2 prime, sold out almost instantly when the first shipment arrived in February. The company restocked its lenses over the weekend, and a few variants remain in stock at the time of writing.
