While browsing online shopping, I have often come across unusual and unheard-of 35mm film stocks. My curiosity won out because black and white photography is artistic alchemy, and the film plays a big role in how the final images turn out. So, was this Temu film any good?
Nestled between a boxing club and a Korean restaurant on Bleecker Street in New York's NoHo district sits a studio townhouse once occupied by legendary photographer Robert Frank and his sculptor wife, June Leaf. The historic building has just hit the market for $6.5 million.
The NFL season ended last month, but the NFL Draft is now only weeks away. To mark the event that's being hosted in Pittsburgh, legendary sports and rock and roll photographer Michael Zagaris is putting on an exhibit in The Steel City.
An argument over what to do with a building at the center of a famous Robert Capa photograph has broken out between authorities in Madrid and the International Center of Photography.
British motion picture lab On8mil is bringing Super 8 film to the 21st century with a new daylight-loading, reusable Super 8 cartridge system called Re8mil, a first of its kind that promises to make Super 8 filmmaking much less wasteful.
An innovative cube camera could provide a fallback option for photographers shooting film.
It has been a long time coming, but the new WideluxX (stylized Widelux•X) panoramic analog camera continues getting closer to release. Hollywood star Jeff Bridges and his wife, photographer Susan Bridges (née Geston), unboxed not only the prototype the company unveiled last fall, but a much more complete camera that looks very nearly production-ready. Jeff Bridges may be an Oscar-winning actor, but his happiness when opening the new WideluxX camera is the real deal.
Two New Jersey photographers have paid homage to their hometown by going to great lengths to recreate a historic photo using the same rotating panoramic camera the original photographers used all the way back in 1910.
When I was sent a new 35mm film to try out called Harman Switch Azure, my brain went: 'It's a blue film, so I'm going to shoot my local soccer team, whose nickname is Blues.' Makes perfect sense? Maybe not.
Harman has announced a funky new film called Switch Azure where the colors swap around -- rendering blues as oranges, yellows as blue, and reds as purple.
Lomography has released a new Simple Use Reloadable Film Camera that comes pre-loaded with LomoChrome Classicolor film, an ISO 200 color film Lomography launched last October.
Yorgos Lanthimos, one of Hollywood's most compelling directors, says he's stepping back from making movies to focus on photography, "for now, at least".
You can make a pinhole camera out of just about anything -- as an Italian photographer recently proved by building one from pasta. Continuing that playful nod to culinary heritage via the medium of photography, Martin Cheung has been creating images with a Chinese roast duck as his camera.
Lawyers representing photojournalist Nick Ut have filed a criminal defamation lawsuit in France against Netflix and the VII Foundation over claims made in The Stringer documentary, PetaPixel can reveal.
It's a remarkable photo that frequently goes viral online: Polaroid engineer Howard G. Rogers and his team of engineers standing proudly beside an astonishing amount of chemical bottles that had been used in their attempt to crack an instant photography enigma: how to create an instant color photograph.
Valoi has announced the easy35 v2, the next generation of the company's most popular compact film scanning system. The original easy35 launched via a successful crowdfunding campaign back in early 2023, and the new version offers a complete redesign that promises even better performance and usability.
Lomography has introduced the Fisheye No. 2 Rodeo Denim, a 35mm film camera that embraces distortion, spontaneity, and bold styling in equal measure. Wrapped in a denim exterior with orange accents, the camera pairs playful design with an unmistakable 170° circular fisheye perspective, turning everyday scenes into curved, immersive compositions.
While the IndyCar Grand Prix of Long Beach is at the heart of motorsport in L.A., there was once a racetrack in Paramount Ranch in the Santa Monica Mountains that photographer Allen Kuhn used to shoot.
After a film lab technician developed a 70-year-old roll of film showing a group of skiers in post-war Switzerland, he was contacted by a man who had an even older roll of undeveloped film.
Lots of photographers might dismiss the Flashback One35 V2 as a gimmick; a digital non-disposable camera aimed at image-conscious Gen Z users more interested in aesthetics than artistry. That characterization, however, misses the mark.
For his new show, The Last Dyes, William Eggleston and his team used up the last remaining dye-transfer materials to make new prints of the iconic photographer's work from the 1970s.
The extremely clever and customizable Mania MFZ pinhole camera system PetaPixel reported on in late 2024 has entered full series production following a Kickstarter campaign and is available to all photographers. Each camera is hand-built in Germany.
There are so many different 35mm films on the market that it can be very tricky to keep track of them all. A relatively recent player in the market, Candido Collective, has three 35mm films, and they're all worth taking a closer look at.
I love panoramic photography. There is just something special about a super-wide aspect ratio that flexes my creative muscles. I'm far from the only one. Photographer Jace LeRoy, who goes by analog_astronaut on social media, has also been bitten by the panorama bug. He recently showed off a camera he built, the Infidex 176, which uses 35mm film to capture 72 x 24 millimeter frames, and it's awesome.
A film photographer has relived the tale of his creation: the 'little stupid camera' -- a custom 35mm SLR that could shoot 180 frames per roll.
HP has introduced the HP FilmScan 7" Touch Screen Film Scanner, a user-friendly digitizer designed to convert old negatives and slides into high-resolution digital files without requiring a computer during scanning. Featuring a large touchscreen interface, built-in editing tools, and HDMI output, the FilmScan aims to make preserving film archives simple and accessible.
After the success of the Kodak Charmera, it's no surprise to see yet more keychain cameras: step forward the OPT100 Neo Film, a miniature camera made to look like a roll of 35mm film.
Back in late 2022, PetaPixel wrote about photographer Tom Schucker's Pieca camera, a 3D-printed Raspberry Pi-powered camera with a Leica M-mount. Schucker is back with yet another awesome photography creation, but this time it's a photo editing app built around advanced film simulation effects.
Newgrain, a photo-sharing platform aimed at film shooters, recently launched a web version -- and it looks fantastic.
Kodak has announced that it has taken over direct distribution of Ektachrome slide film, which joins Kodacolor, Kodak Gold, Ultramax 400, Tri-X 400, and Ektar.
Some of VSCO's beloved Adobe Lightroom presets have returned nearly seven years after they were discontinued, albeit only for a limited time and only for VSCO Pro subscribers.
A new analog photography app allows film shooters to determine the effective speed of any given film roll, as the number on the box can sometimes be inaccurate.
Photographer and tinkerer Robin Beerman is bringing analog panoramic photography to a wider audience with the BeerPAN, a fully mechanical 35mm panoramic SLR designed to be accessible, repairable, and eventually open-sourced.
Photographer Zachary Hou shoots film, so he decided to build an iPhone app to help him out. The new app, FilmMeter, combines multiple useful features into a single, entirely free application, and it looks as pretty as it is useful.
Berlin-based Italian photographer Paride Ambrogi recently combined two of his loves, photography and pasta, in a brilliant, possibly tasty way. Ambrogi made the Ravihole Camera, a working pinhole camera made entirely from fresh pasta dough.
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos teamed up yet again with famous actor Emma Stone for what is very likely to be the only Super Bowl commercial this year shot on 35mm Kodak 2302 black and white film stock with Panavision lenses.
With Super Bowl LX fast-approaching, a videographer has begun sharing details on his job digitizing old NFL film reels.
Albert Watson is one of photography’s great image-makers. For more than five decades, his work has moved effortlessly between portraiture, fashion, fine art, and landscape. His work has now been brought together in a definitive monograph titled Albert Watson. Kaos.
The cinematographer behind One Battle After Another revealed how he filmed the movie's breathtaking car chase scene and how he pushed the VistaVision format to its limits.
From 1979 to 1984, famed fashion photographer Richard Avedon traveled to 21 states with an 8 x 10 large format Deardorff camera and a white backdrop to capture the portraits of working-class America.
Fujifilm Superia Premium is so difficult to find that many have, for some time, believed it to be discontinued. Evidence of that stacked up this year when Yodobashi Camera, Bic Camera, and other Japanese camera stores listed it as discontinued, but Fujifilm says that label is inaccurate.
A photographer was stunned to discover that a vintage camera he bought at a charity shop still contained undeveloped film holding photographs taken in post-war Switzerland.
Two photographers who met by chance under trying circumstances on the streets of New York City put their initial pugnacious attitude toward each other aside to become firm friends.
PPP Cameras in the U.K. has come up with a stunning timepiece that is perfect for the Leica enthusiast who wants to make it to photo shoots on time.
Kodak continues to assume control of its film distribution, which it calls "direct-from-Kodak" films, after starting last year with Kodacolor. Two classics now join the line and new distribution arrangement: Kodak Tri-X Black & White Negative Film and Kodak Ektar Color Negative Film, both available in 135 and 120 format rolls.
A photographer in Japan has found viral success by handing out disposable cameras to strangers and making videos out of the photos they take.
While film has experienced a renaissance in recent years -- largely driven by younger photographers who appreciate its retro charm -- it is an expensive endeavor.
In 2010, Vampire Weekend released their second studio album Contra -- one of the band's most influential and critically acclaimed records. But the striking polaroid photograph on its cover and the tangled story behind it are almost as famous as the record itself.
While most film shooters have to wait days, weeks, and sometimes even months to get their film back from the lab, Miles Myerscough-Harris of Expired Film Club recently shot an NFL game and posted the photos on Instagram before the game ended.
Photographer and YouTube creator Mathieu Stern loves vintage lenses. He also loves vintage analog photo booths. So Stern set out to find out exactly which lenses are used in old-school film photo booths so he could recreate the exact look at home. It was much harder than one might think.