Sony is serious about this whole "catching up to Canon and Nikon" thing -- the company has announced four new large sensor cameras, and each one is a doozy. The cameras, which hit store shelves in a couple of months, include the NEX-7 and NEX-5N mirrorless cameras and the A77 and A65 SLT (AKA translucent mirror) cameras.
Nikon did launch a new Coolpix camera today -- eight of them, in fact -- but the rumored "Coolpix Pro" mirrorless camera was nowhere to be found. The bevy of compact cameras hits store shelves next month, and includes the P7100 -- a more polished successor to the P7000 announced around this time last year, and Nikon's answer to Canon's G-series line of prosumer compact cameras. The 10.1MP camera features a tilting 3-inch LCD screen on the back, manual controls, 720p video, and RAW capabilities. It'll be priced at $500.
Eran Amir created this “stop-motion within a stop-motion” using 1,500 separate photographs and …
Emotional Breakdown is a cool new web app that attempts to gauge the …
CineSkates are new patent-pending wheels that attach to JOBY's GorillaPod Focus tripod, allowing you to capture fluid, stabilized video with your DSLR without bulky or expensive equipment.
Ever wonder how and why copyright law came about? This interesting video will bring you up to speed. It’s …
Twitter, Google+, and Facebook are one step closer to becoming clones of each other (at least when it comes to photo sharing) -- Twitter has rolled out photo galleries that display the 100 most recent images Tweeted by users in chronological order.
The Long Beach Police Department's hunt for photos with "no apparent esthetic value" quickly became national news last week. Here's a news segment in which Alyona Minkovski of RT speaks out against the erosion of photographers' rights in the United States.
This comment posted (and deleted) by Reddit user WonkoTheLucid shows why photographers need …
There hasn't been much activity in the PetaPixel Store since we launched the Leica Look-Alike skins in September 2010, but today that changes -- we're pleased to announce the new Polaroid Picture Frame and Mirror! It's an awesome picture frame for your desk that looks just like Polaroid 600 instant film, and when there isn't a photo inside it doubles as a mirror.
Here’s an interesting video in which Jack White — singer and guitarist of …
University of Oregon student and photography-enthusiast Jeremy Blanchard shot this creative engagement photo for two of his long-time friends.
You've probably seen (and taken) forced perspective photos before, but South Korean artist June Bum Park goes one step further, using footage from cameras in high places to control cars, pedestrians, and other things in the scene as if playing with a miniature world.
Fujifilm’s retro-tastic X100 has been selling like hotcakes since hitting shelves earlier this …
When the sunlight is right, you can shoot a photograph of a couple holding hands while they form a …
Most cameras designed for young children have kid-friendly designs, but eye-numbingly bad image quality. On the other hand, a …
Here’s what a Leica M4 rangefinder camera looks like when taken apart. It’s crazy how …
Developer Boris Smus came up with this super minimalist way of sharing his …
A Pennsylvania photographer named Jennifer McKendrick has caused quite a stir by canceling senior portrait sessions with a group of high school girls after discovering evidence of bullying by the teens on Facebook.
Hayashi Natsumi’s levitation photos have received a lot of publicity as of late (check out her blog …
Have a bunch of film canisters lying around and not sure what to do with them? You could use them to geekify your Christmas lights by punching a hole in the caps and sticking the lights in.
Update on 12/18/21: This video has been removed by its creator.
CNN made this creative video highlighting the fact that there's still a remnant vibrant community of film shooters in New York City. It's seen from the perspective of someone typing in "analog photography" into a futuristic Qwiki-esque search engine.
You’ve probably photographed your own reflection in sunglasses before, but have you ever captured a reflection of yourself shooting …
A neat way to reuse film canisters is to poke holes in the lids and turn them into salt …
Photographer Mike Rosinski created this amazing image showing light trails from both fireflies and stars by stacking over 370 …
Update: This giveaway is now over. The winner was randomly selected and announced below. It’s been way too long …
Here’s a creative self-portrait by Dutch photographer Joeri Bosma. It’s neat how the …
Rather than being built from scratch with new designs, new camera lenses are designed by taking existing lens designs …
Dimitri Medvedev, the president of Russia, is a big photography enthusiast and a fan of Leica cameras, though from …
The record for world’s largest camera is currently held by an aircraft hangar camera, but back in …
Confused about what Google’s new Photovine photo sharing app is all about? Here’s …
Norwegian design studio Skrekkøgle -- the one that printed a photo with a cremated dog -- has a creative project called "Big Money" in which they made a giant 20:1 replica of a 50 cent Euro coin. They then placed the coin next to large objects and photographed them together, making the objects look like tiny toy replicas.
I love what the Internet has done for the sharing of photography. Social websites such as Flickr make it so easy to get our work in front of the faces of people on the other side of the Earth so easily that it boggles my mind sometimes. This incredible ability of technology has one horrible side effect however. I'm talking about title fields.
The 684th triple play in the history of baseball happened yesterday in a …
Ever wonder why certain people always seem to engage in meaningless Canon vs Nikon vs et al. camera brand debates at every opportunity? A recent study conducted at the University of Illinois has found that the more knowledge and experience you have with a particular brand, the stronger your self-esteem is tied to it.
Google’s new Photovine mobile photo sharing app for iOS is now out of …
There's all kinds of things people do to remember their beloved pets after they pass away, but here's a pretty creepy one: a dog owner in Norway had a photo of their Gordon Setter named Susie printed with her ashes. Norwegian design studio Skrekkøgle figured out a way to rebuild a printer to accept dog ashes as "ink", allowing them to print a vintage-looking black-and-white photograph of Susie.
Here's a mind-bending video in which someone created the famous checker shadow illusion in real life. The optical illusion takes advantage of the way our brains process lighting and shadows.
As with many so-called illusions, this effect really demonstrates the success rather than the failure of the visual system. The visual system is not very good at being a physical light meter, but that is not its purpose. The important task is to break the image information down into meaningful components, and thereby perceive the nature of the objects in view. [#]
Interesting huh? Our eyes aren't very good as a light meters, since they're easily deceived by context.
Talk about a Kodak acquisition seems to be heating up as giant tech companies — including Google, Microsoft, and …
The Daily Mail is no stranger to copyright infringement accusations, but this time they've taken it even further -- publishing a photo after the owner denied them permission to do so.
"Genetic Portraits" is a series by Canadian photographer Ulric Collette in which he blends the portraits of two members of the same family into a single face. It's interesting to see the similarities and differences among people who share DNA -- especially when there's identical twins.
National Geographic recently gave expedition photographer Jimmy Chin the assignment of shooting a …
Last week it came to light to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos had filed …
Freelance videographer Dave Wallace made this creative stop-motion video for …
Inkodye sells a line of light sensitive textile dyes that you can use …
Ryan McGinnis is a photographer and storm chaser. You can visit his website here.
PetaPixel: Can you tell us a little about yourself and your background?
Ryan McGinnis: I am a storm chaser and photographer who lives in Nebraska; I have no formal training in photography outside of all the books I've read and the thousands of rolls of film I've blown through (and terabytes of drives I've filled up) over the years. I've had a life-long love affair with the weather; from as young as I can remember, I've been fascinated with storms and for most of my childhood I dreamed of one day chasing tornadoes. Living in this part of the country makes storm chasing less of a chore than if I had to drive here from, say, Virginia, but storm chasing here still requires lots of driving -- on average around 600 miles per chase. These days I tend to storm chase around 15,000 miles a year, mostly in May and June. In 2008 and 2009 I was fortunate enough to get to tag along with and photographically document Project Vortex 2, a $12M science mission to learn how tornadoes tick, which was probably one of the best freelance investments of time and money I've ever made.
When I'm not shooting storms, my favorite subjects are candids and urban panoramas.
Reddit user rocketchef strapped a GoPro video camera to a bike helmet and had their two-year-old daughter wear it during a trip to the playground. The resulting footage is a fun look at what the world looks like to a two-year-old.
You probably know that, like computers, digital cameras depreciate pretty rapidly — especially when a replacement model is announced …
Check out this fictional Nikon DSLR spotted in the British science fiction TV show Torchwood. It looks strangely familiar.
Wanna know how to capture a wide-eyed and wide-mouthed photo of your dog? It's easy! First, set up your camera on a tripod and point it at your dog. Then, simply throw it some tasty treats with one hand while snapping photographs with the other. There are all kind of expressions you might capture using this technique, but this one by Andrea Sillem is pretty priceless.