After an X user posted his arresting portrait taken for his passport photo and declared that the "Chinese passport photo lady on Elizabeth" is the best portrait photographer in New York City, the tiny shop where he got the passport photo done has become a viral sensation.
You might know funny man Seth Rogen from his hit comedy movies from the 2000s or from Apple TV's new series The Studio. But the Canadian actor recently revealed that he is also an enthusiastic photographer -- specifically panoramic film photography.
When the Fujifilm X half was announced earlier this year it caused a stir for the digital camera's salute to analog photography. But that wasn't all -- the price raised eyebrows, too.
The only known photographs of the deportation of the Jewish population in the German city of Hamburg have been discovered in a German police officer's secret photo album.
Legendary war photographer Al Rockoff -- who was immortalized in the classic movie The Killing Fields -- has claimed that his historic negatives were taken from him against his will in a bitter dispute.
It’s easy to imagine that anxiety over manipulated images began with Photoshop or AI, but photographers have been wrestling with the problem almost since the birth of the medium. More than a century ago (113 years back to be exact), the U.S. faced a scandal over doctored images of the president, and the outrage nearly led to a national ban on fake photos.
The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo, which lands on Netflix this week, opens with a line implying Nick Ut is a liar: "What you do know is what you didn’t take." But is that really true? I've always thought the inverse makes more sense.
Alfred Buckham was an aerial photographer who took to the skies at a time when pilots' lives were measured in weeks, not years. But he was also a master manipulator in the darkroom and paved the way for Adobe Photoshop and today's AI photo apps.
The Kodak Snapic A1 is a new $99 point-and-shoot film camera from Reto, the company that released the incredibly popular blind box Charmera camera earlier this year. The Snapic A1 isn't just going for vibes like that keychain camera does, though, as it is a real 35mm film camera with some advanced features.
"The older I get, the closer I get," says street photographer Bruce Gilden. Now in his seventies, Gilden's latest book examines photographs he made in the U.K. across the 1970s and 2000s -- when he was very, very close to his subjects.
Negative Supply has launched the Pro Film Carrier 4×5, an all-new sheet-film holder designed to deliver higher precision, improved workflow, and broader format compatibility for photographers digitizing large-format negatives.
The Imago camera -- the world's largest, walk-in, 4x7 meter, 1:1 large format camera -- is for sale. Since the passing of Susanna Kraus, the caretaker and visionary behind the giant camera's revitalization in 2005, the camera has been closed and is now looking for a new home.
On July 23, 1926, silent film star Buster Keaton crashed a full-sized locomotive into an Oregon river, setting the record for the most expensive shot in silent film history.
The "MP" in Leica MP stands for "Mechanical Perfection." That’s a big claim that I decided to put to the test with a roll of Leica’s brand new Monopan 50 and a trip to the English Cotswolds.
Christopher Nolan used more than two million feet of film for his upcoming movie The Odyssey, which will be released in IMAX theaters in July 2026.
Film photography is popular for many reasons, but chief among them are color and grain: in short, the "vibe." Photographer Pablo Maraver spent the last year and a half focusing on the former, extensively using and testing 14 different 35mm film stocks to build a comprehensive guide to their color science.
A long-lost and unrecorded photograph of one of America’s most influential thinkers Ralph Waldo Emerson has been discovered.
Last week marked 107 years since the end of World War I. In the United States, the day is observed as Veterans Day, while in Britain it is known as Remembrance Day.
A photo restorer has breathed new life into the only universally accepted portrait of Billy the Kid, giving viewers a clearer image of the Wild West's most infamous outlaw.
At the end of his life, English author George Orwell sought refuge on a remote Scottish island to finish his final and most famous book: 1984.
We recently reported that the new WideluxX camera revival project has reached its prototype stage. Now, just a few weeks later, a video that the WideluxX's creators promised is available online, shedding more light on the upcoming camera.
Arri, one of the biggest brands in all of digital cinema, launched a new tool that aims to make digital video look more analog. Arri Film Lab is an OpenFX plugin that integrates into industry-standard color grading workflows and gives filmmakers and editors creative tools to make their digital videos, regardless of what camera they used, look like they were shot on film.
Light Lens Lab's latest lens, the 35mm f/1.4 Aspherical "11873" for M-Mount, is now available for preorder. The lens is a modern recreation of the legendary Leica Summilux 35mm f/1.4 double-sided aspherical lens from the late 1980s, which can sell for nearly $18,000 in good condition. Light Lens Lab's new prime lenses start at $1,399.
Mint has announced a new Rollei 35AF filter kit that successfully addresses one of the last remaining complaints from the original run of the brand-new camera from last year.
It's very strange to watch a movie in 3:2 or 4:3 aspect ratios. As photographers, those are kind of our aspect ratios, while Hollywood's have traditionally been the ultra-wide 2.39:1. But rules are made to be broken.
Photographer Nick LoPresti loves film. As his YouTube channel shows, his adoration for the medium often manifests in "silly" videos centered on wild, ambitious projects. LoPresti's latest video demonstrates the intersection of his passion for analog photography and his willingness to embrace any challenge. LoPresti, perhaps against his better judgment, shot on 82-year-old film.
Pocket Dispo has released a new "Pro" version of its popular pinhole lens. The latest version may look similar to the original Pocket Dispo at first glance, but it has been rebuilt from the ground up, introducing some key improvements, including a new adjustable focus ring.
From 2006 to 2023, photographer Claire Beckett embedded herself on military bases in the United States to capture elaborate training camps that simulated war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.
When Kodak quietly and surprisingly announced Kodacolor 100 and 200 at the end of September, analog photographers were rightly excited. However, the most interesting part of the announcement was perhaps not the new film at all, but the dramatic shift in how Kodak is selling film. This change is continuing, as Eastman Kodak is now selling Kodak Gold 200 and Ultramax 400 directly to retailers, with new, retro-inspired packaging in tow.
Looking at paintings of historical figures, it can be difficult to know whether that's what they really looked like, or whether the painter was being interpretive -- perhaps pressured by the subject.
On my recent trip to French Polynesia, I decided to do something new that I’ve been wanting to try for a long time: I brought along the Nikonos V, Nikon’s legendary amphibious 35mm camera from the 1980s. That meant no live preview, no autofocus, and no confirmation that anything I was shooting would actually turn out; just 36 frames of film, a light meter, and the quiet peace that comes with freediving and taking photos.
In 1979, photographer Merrick Morton (@merrickmortonphoto) received a California state grant to document the Volunteer Program at a psychiatric hospital in Los Angeles, a project that led him to return again and again over the next year and a half.
Sh! The Octopus may not be remembered as a great film of the 1930s like King Kong or The Awful Truth, in fact it was named as one of the greatest bad movies of all time. But there is one scene, involving some very clever camera work, that continues to get talked about today.
It is becoming more common to see celebrities and pop stars using classic cameras as the vintage aesthetic continues to burn white hot. However, most tend to stick with digital -- Taylor Swift and Selina Gomez both really like the Olympus EM-10 Mark IV, for example. Sabrina Carpenter is going even further back in time though as she has been spotted sporting a beautiful Contax G2.
Atlanta Film Company has a very limited quantity of 250D 65mm motion picture film that has been hand respooled to fit 120 format for stills photography. Due to a change in motion picture film availability, this is a very limited run that probably won't be back once it's gone.
Award-winning photographer Joe Vitti remembers the night he encountered Bruce Springsteen in a small-town campus bar in 1976, ultimately capturing just one single shot. But what a shot it was of the rock star known as "The Boss."
Reddit user dontcountonmee was recently out taking photos of an abandoned house when he found a film camera that still had a roll of film inside. He took the film home and developed it to see what was on the roll.
After the Soviet Union launched the first satellite into orbit and followed it up by sending the first person into space, the U.S government responded by forming NASA, and later President John F. Kennedy declared, "We choose to go to the Moon." The Apollo missions are famous, but they were preceded by Mercury and Gemini.
Just over a year ago, Oscar-winning actor and talented photographer Jeff Bridges announced that he had co-founded a new camera company, SilverBridges, to bring back his beloved Widelux film camera as the WideluxX. SilverBridges has now unveiled the first prototype: WideluxX Prototype 0001.
War photographer Don McCullin is best known for his images of shell-shocked U.S. Marines or harrowing pictures of famine victims. His new book represents a change of pace.
Lomography has announced the Lomo MC-A, a brand-new 35mm film camera with a built-in 32mm f/2.8 autofocus-equipped prime lens.
A federal judge has dismissed two claims made by a relative of photographer Mike Disfarmer against the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, which holds Disfarmer's negatives.
Photographer Markus Hofstätter, whose creative analog photography projects have been featured on PetaPixel many times, recently tried his hand at manual retouching using an antique retouching desk from the 19th century.
War photojournalist Jonathan Alpeyrie has revealed what he packs in his camera bag before going to cover conflicts like Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, and Gaza.
Actress Diane Keaton passed away over the weekend, and although she was best known for appearing in The Godfather and Woody Allen movies, she also had a keen eye for photography.
Fujifilm has unveiled the new Instax mini LiPlay+, a hybrid instant camera that introduces many new features, including dual cameras, enhanced sound capabilities, and a refined design.
A fascinating archive video from the BBC about Gandolfi -- a camera company that handmade traditional large format analog cameras well into the 20th century -- was recently uploaded to YouTube.
Filmmaker and cinematographer Tom Kucy, who runs the YouTube channel Manual Not Found, took apart a classic 1950s era Sankyo 8-R film camera and gave it a new, surreal digital life.
Light Lens Lab's old-school, Oskar Barnack-inspired rangefinder film project is back in the limelight after appearing on numerous photography websites in the past week. The project looks incredible, but although it has popped up again, it is not a current focus for Light Lens Lab, the company confirmed to PetaPixel.
Flashback, the company that makes "non-disposable digital disposable cameras", has today released its second model called the ONE35 V2.
