Despite IMAX having perhaps its most important year ever last year -- mostly thanks to Oppenheimer -- only one movie in 2025 is currently slated to be shot with the analog cameras.
At the end of each day, North Korean officials would review all of the photographs taken by Tariq Zaidi -- deleting the ones they didn't approve of. But then Zaidi was lucky to be capturing any images at all from inside the hermit state.
Civil War by A24 is perhaps the biggest movie about photojournalism ever and not only did the actors learn how to use the camera properly but they actually took some of the photos seen in the movie.
Very little is known about American Civil War photographer Timothy O'Sullivan -- the man who took the haunting A Harvest of Death photograph in the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg -- but a new book attempts to shine a light on him.
Before the fall of Kabul in 2021, photographer Fatimah Hossaini captured Afghan women to tell their stories and spotlight their beauty. But after the Taliban returned to power, she had to leave.
An astrophotographer was left to sweat on the weather after traveling some 5,000 miles from Portugal to Texas in a bid to capture a spectacular HDR image of the eclipse. But fortunately, it paid off.
For 30 years, a secret nuclear bunker designed to house all 535 members of Congress in the event of nuclear war lay hidden beneath the luxurious Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia. Photographer Alastair Philip Wiper tells PetaPixel he "had to go there."
Fans of the original Star Wars movies are hunting down film reels that were never returned by theaters so they can restore the movies themselves without any of George Lucas' controversial alterations.
Although Nikon was founded nearly 107 years ago and has been ubiquitous in the photography space for much of that time, the company is not far removed from financial troubles that threatened to reduce the company to ruin. Through shrewd decisions and great new Nikon Z cameras and lenses, Nikon has safely moved from the brink.
After a giant sunspot launched a series of solar storms toward Earth, photographers and general onlookers alike were greeted by supercharged aurora lights on Friday night.
A photographer was filmed bursting into tears of joy after learning that his lost camera bag, with over $21,850 worth of gear and memory cards full of images, had been found.
A photographer and content creator has set the world record for the fastest drone flight after his custom-made aircraft achieved a staggering 298.47 miles per hour (480.2 kilometers per hour).
For me, the most enjoyable part of wildlife photography is not the photos themselves; it's being in nature. However, it is essential to do so safely, especially regarding the safety of wildlife.
The truth, as they say, is out there. And one app is hellbent on getting to the bottom of UFOs by allowing users to upload their photos of unexplained aircraft.
After shooting the recent total eclipse on 35mm film, analog photographer Sven White decided that instead of just developing them and having photos that look "like all the others" he would double expose the film instead.
Introduced at the beginning of the 20th century, autochromes were the very first form of color photography until it was comprehensively replaced by film in the mid-1900s. In 2024, just one man perseveres with the autochrome process.
Memorable photographs make time pass more slowly, that's according to a research paper that examined people's temporal fluctuations as they looked at different images.
I've always been fascinated by the latest and greatest technology, and that obsession has carried over to photography ever since I picked up my first camera. However, as cameras have improved, I've begun prioritizing how a camera makes me feel rather than what the camera offers regarding specs and features. Given the most popular cameras these days, I'm not alone in seeking joy over performance.
In many ways, Hannah Lee Bratz's journey as a photographer is defined by second chances.
We always want our YouTube videos to both educate and entertain but sometimes, we also want to push ourselves beyond standard reviews and try something different. For our latest photo challenge, we wanted to see just how minimal we could go with our gear and still be able to pull off professional-grade images.
When American tourist Paul Cole was visiting London in 1969, he'd grown tired of visiting museums so he decided to have a wander around Abbey Road while waiting for his wife.
Rabbit's CEO was 30 minutes late to his session with the media because he had to finish his synth DJ set.
Everyone is a photographer, and that includes celebrities. But, some celebrities are seriously into their photography.
For nearly as long as I've been taking pictures, I've loved photographing loons. They have offered countless hours of joy behind the lens, taught me lessons about photography and ecology, and helped me find weaknesses in the cameras I've spent my career evaluating.
A photographer waited three years to capture these epic shots of the northern lights above an erupting volcano.
While it would prefer that filmmakers remember the advantages of RF-mount, speaking exclusively to PetaPixel, Canon is looking on the bright side of Nikon's acquisition of RED Cinema,
A bizarre AI video trend has seen scores of AI-generated trailers for movies and TV shows uploaded to YouTube and Instagram in a "Super Panavision 70" style.
When Machi Yoshida visited an aquarium and saw orcas when she was a five-year-old child, the Japanese photographer instantly knew what she wanted to do with her life.
A photographer's new project reinvents 1940s and 1950s New York City via a series of fantastical AI-generated images that depict an alternative history.
A photographer has become an online hit for her striking, fun, and quirky portraits of dogs.
Apple Vision Pro, remember that? Apple is reportedly struggling to sell its existing stock of the headset and is cutting production because of low demand.
Civil War eschews the typical trappings of a combat action movie by turning the lens not toward the soldiers but to the photographers capturing them. And while it excels in some aspects of its portrayal, it falters when it comes to the big stuff.
Google has an elaborate photo set so it can test its Google Pixel camera in situations akin to the real world.
Last Saturday marked 4/20, an international celebration of all things weed, and to mark it Dmitri Tcherbadji of Analog Cafe processed a roll of photo film using cannabis flower in a developer he calls Sativa Cannanol.
Canadian nature photographer Liron Gertsman captured one of the best total solar eclipse photos PetaPixel has ever seen. Gertsman's remarkable wildlife photo, The Frigatebird and the Diamond Ring, was years in the making and the culmination of research, hard work, practice, scouting, and a pinch of luck. After all, while you can control a lot, you can't control the weather.
In the early 1990s, a group of scientists had a dream: a new type of telescope that would push astronomy, astrophysics, and imaging technology further than ever before. It would be a device that could see giant swaths of the sky and help unravel the mystery of dark matter. 30 years later, that dream is a reality.
Beaverlab Technology, the maker of the Excope DT1 camera currently on Kickstarter, has a response to PetaPixel's exposé, and it is mainly one of contrition.
YouTuber Andrew Levitt painstakingly recreated all 46 individual shots in the trailer for the Grand Theft Auto VI video game.
NASA has revealed its best photos of 2023 showing spectacular space technology as well as the people behind it.
Chinese tech company Beaverlab Technology Co., Ltd has taken Kickstarter by storm with its Excope DT1 camera. However, the camera is suspicious at best and an outright lie at worst.
A photographer was given special access to a cryogenics facility in Scottsdale, Arizona that preserves over 200 human bodies and heads.
Spectacular footage of Mount Etna in Italy puffing out smoke rings has amazed onlookers with circular smoke appearing in the skies over Sicily for over a week.
SmallRig announced a slew of new products this week and each is designed to make some aspect of photography and filmmaking just a little bit easier.
The 1994 James Cameron film True Lies starring Arnold Schwarzenegger was recently re-released in Ultra HD 4K disc format giving viewers the opportunity to watch these classic films in unprecedented detail.
A wildlife photographer lost $11,000 worth of camera equipment and very nearly his life after falling into a river while shooting wildlife photos.
The ink is still wet on Nikon's acquisition of RED Cinema, but the two teams are already meeting and working on integrating their technologies.
A street photographer has won a legion of fans for his impromptu portraits of cops, firefighters, medics, and anyone in uniform who "works for the public good."
Oscar-winning movies are associated with huge crews and intense sets but that is definitely not the case with The Zone of Interest.
In Christopher Nolan's blockbuster movie Oppenheimer, the director famously refused special effects for the filming of a nuclear explosion instead opting to do it in-camera. Inspired by this, a video artist made a macro version of the Trinity nuclear test.
A photographer has revealed how he captured the only shot that exists of O.J. Simpson celebrating his "Not Guilty" verdict at his infamous murder trial.