Leica has announced a new instant camera, the Sofort 2. Arriving just over seven years after the original Sofort, Leica's first instant camera, the Leica Sofort 2 is a hybrid instant camera, meaning that alongside shooting on instant film, it now offers photographers the option to save digital images permanently.
The AGO Film Processor aims to be an analog photographer's "gateway to effortless film development for B&W, C-41, and E-6 films."
In case life isn't hard enough for photographers who shoot film, when traveling through an airport they have to worry about the X-ray scanners ruining their unprocessed film.
Analog photography remains extremely compelling to many shooters, carving out a relatively small but passionate niche in the photo space. Alongside the resurgence in film photography in recent years, digital platforms have become increasingly crucial for photographers at large.
I write about a lot of things here at PetaPixel -- reviews, guides, technical articles, opinion pieces -- but one of my favorite topics to write about is the history of photography. As an avid user and collector of vintage cameras and lenses, I have passionately absorbed as much knowledge about their history as possible over many years. Like studying world history, there is much value in understanding where we came from and what got to us where we are now.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based Retrospekt is back with another customized camera set, this time featuring a Polaroid 600 and a 35mm film camera that both feature the artwork of artist Evan Weselmann.
Retrospekt, a Milwaukee-based company that refurbishes retro products including cameras, released three new versions of its FC-11 35mm film cameras that are emblazoned with the trippy artwork of Santa Cruz brand Killer Acid.
1970s New York is a unique time in the city's history; blackouts, crime, financial problems -- the Big Apple was at a relatively low ebb. But for photographers, it was a rich resource.
A photographer with a passion for film photography has been turning his cameras on live sports -- a subject ill-suited to analog.
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.
Keks Camera, which launched the KM02 OLED light meter this past April, has announced an even smaller option. Called the KM-Q, the company says it is so small it is comparable to the size of a sugar cube.
Retrospekt restores vintage Polaroid cameras and occasionally releases special edition versions like the new SX-70 Sonar Autofocus "24K Gold Edition" instant camera.
This past weekend saw the first screening of photographer Lee Miller's biopic featuring Kate Winslet as the eponymous character.
Polaroid has announced a new high-end instant photography camera, the Polaroid I-2. Promising to blend a traditional analog experience with modern camera technology, the I-2 is designed to be a premium product.
Fujifilm is investing 4.5 billion yen (about $30 million) into its Ashigara Site at the Kanagawa Factory in Japan in order to boost its Instax film production capacity by 20%.
Passionate film photographer Don Goodman-Wilson has long been seeking a digital companion app to help him keep track of all the variables that, while making film photography such a fantastic way to make photos, can clutter a photographer's mind. So, Goodman-Wilson decided to build the app he needed.
A Type 1 photo taken of Michael Jordan on his NBA debut has sold for $175,000 at auction -- the most expensive photo of the basketball star ever sold.
Ben Krasnow of the YouTube channel Applied Science shows how to make images on living plant leaves in his latest video.
Ilford has announced a new half-frame single-use disposable camera, the Ilfocolor Rapid Half Frame.
Develop and Fix, the developer of the FilmLab series of film digitizing software, has announced the latest generation of the platform: FilmLab 3. The company says that it introduces new versions of the scanning algorithms and is up to four times faster.
A collection of 3,600 aerial photographs taken by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) is being shown publically for the first time.
A study has found that 15 billion AI images have been produced in one year, it took 150 years for as many photographs to be taken.
Amazon has been accused of improperly storing its film by Coastal Film Lab, a film developer in Tampa, Florida, as well as through multiple anecdotal complaints in online groups.
A photographer used a panoramic film camera designed in the 1890s to capture a stunning shot of a hot air balloon festival in the U.K. last weekend.
Fine art portrait photographer David Teran traveled the world with his 1969 Hasselblad 500C/M camera to capture beautiful black and white portraits of some of the most talented and powerful ballerinas. Teran has launched a Kickstarter campaign to celebrate the multi-year project to release a special book, Hasselblad Ballet.
Eastman Kodak will continue to manufacture film as long as there is demand for it, the company's executive chairman said on a conference call to shareholders this week.
Casablanca Paris, a luxury fashion brand known mainly for its colorful silk shirts, released a recolored Contax G2 for $8,500. It promptly sold out.
A viral TikTok video shows huge lines snaking out of a camera store in Brooklyn, New York because of a sale on film cameras.
Camera company MiNT has launched a revised version of its popular SLR670-S instant camera that uses Polaroid i-Type film. Alongside i-Type film, the SLR670 (Type i) works with SX-70 and 600 films.
Hong Kong-based Nons is best known for its cameras that use Instax film, including the SL660 and SL645 models that include a Canon EF mount. The upcoming Nons Instant Back allows photographers to use Instax film on existing Hasselblad medium format film cameras.
David Imel of MKBHD has taken a close look at the design and functionality of an exciting 3D-printed medium-format film camera on MKBHD's spinoff channel, The Studio.
The first photo of the Chernobyl disaster taken 14 hours after the nuclear catastrophe went viral yesterday along with the fascinating story behind it.
An iconic photo of primatologist Jane Goodall opposite a tiny chimpanzee with an outstretched hand changed the course of science.
Many older film cameras lack a built-in light meter, but there are numerous solutions to this problem, including handheld and hotshoe-mountable light meters. Reflx Lab has announced a compact, affordable light meter in the latter style, the Reflx Lab Light Meter.
A recent video shared by Red Bull tells the story of the Sony VX1000 and how it became the iconic camera of skateboarding.
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.
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.
Negative Supply has announced the Basic Film Carrier 35 MK2, a significant upgrade over the company's original Basic Film Carrier 35.
Lomography's new LomoChrome Color '92 ISO 400 film harkens back to the company's early days and brings the "unforgettable energy" of the 1990s into a new film emulsion that promises accurate colors and "powerful" film grain.
Twenty years after Beyoncé's iconic Dangerously in Love album, the photographer who shot the cover has revealed that the songstress is actually wearing his jeans in the iconic cover photo.
TTArtisan has announced the Light Meter II, a second-generation attempt at its shoe-mount meter that improves on the original that was released in 2021.
The Mercury Stereo 12 is a medium format stereoscopic camera designed to give professional photographers the ability to shoot high-quality 3D photos.
The Ondu Eikan is a large format camera system designed to "grow" with photographers thanks to its modular design.
The custom-made 65mm VFX matte camera used to shoot Blade Runner (1982), Batman Returns, Species, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind is being offered for sale, letting fans of motion pictures own a major piece of cinema history.
Analogue Wonderland, one of the leading shops and manufacturers of film photography in the United Kingdom, has acquired SilverPan Film Lab, a processing lab in Bristol.
Photographer Markus Hofstaetter's wet-plate work often features big, ultra-fast lenses. However, Hofstaetter recently acquired a very tiny lens that has caused him some massive problems.
Jollylook, a Ukrainian team of instant photography enthusiasts, has announced a Kickstarter campaign for its Jollylook Square Pinhole camera, an instant film camera do-it-yourself (DIY) kit.
The CameraFrame is a handcrafted piece of home decor that blends camera components into a hangable piece of wall art for photographers.
Prominent large format wilderness photographer Ben Horne has enchanted viewers with incredible landscape and nature photography, primarily of the American West, for over a decade.
United Kingdom-based film photography shop Analogue Wonderland is celebrating its fifth anniversary and has announced WonderPan 400, a limited edition black-and-white 35mm film to mark the occasion.