PetaPixel Turns Two Years Old
PetaPixel turns two today. I won’t bore you with statistics like I did last year, since those are shared at the end of each calendar year, but our readership continues to grow at a pretty healthy clip. This marks the end of my first year of publishing PetaPixel as my full time job — I...
Photography and the American Dream
Photographer Laurence Kim wrote an interesting article titled “The Photography Business and the American Dream” in which he takes a look at the economics of doing photography as a career, coming to the conclusion that it’s one of the worst things you can do from a wealth creation standpoint. I actually can’t think of a...
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
"There is simply no real separation line,only an intellectual one,between the object and its time-environment. They are completely interlocking: nothing can exist in the world independent of all the other things in the world."- Robert IrwinArtist (1928...
Cameras are getting smaller – and the footage is getting more amazing
I keep finding myself working with smaller and smaller cameras (see RED EPIC )- and I continue to be amazed. Not only is it impressive to see manufacturers make smaller and smaller form factors these days (5k resolution in the EPIC or 1080p inside the tiny GoPro HD!), but it is absolutely amazing what kind...
Flickr Stats Confirm It: No One Uses the iPad 2 as a Camera
When the iPad 2 was announced a couple months ago, it was called “the first ‘camera’ to have a sensor resolution lower than the display resolution.” Commenters were quick to point out that Apple never intended for the device to be used as a camera like the iPhone is, and therefore was probably able to...
Chaos in Harmony by Kevin Anderson, Rental Manager at Hurlbut Visuals
Being the gatekeeper of the Hurlbut inventory, I see all types of gear come and go every week.
End of Term at the White House News Photographers Association
After two terms as President of the White House News Photographers Association, my term ends with our 90th Anniversary Gala, May 14th, 2011. It has been my pleasure to serve the members during our meetings and discussions with the White House over access issues,...Blog retrospective… Part 1: Piccadilly Furs
When I talk about my old work I am only really talking the stuff I made for my website. Not my true old work as I have been shooting for 21 years now and my blog has only been around for 3 and half years. I like to sometimes go back and look at some...
Cross Section Views of Leica Lenses
If colleges offered camera equipment anatomy classes, this Leica lens cutaway might be one of the things you’d be examining in the lab. It’s a Leica Tri-Elmar-M 28-35-50mm sliced cleanly down the middle, revealing all the glass and pieces inside that go into making the lens. These were actually made by Leica students as a...
Nikon S4100 and S6100 still available says Nikon US
Nikon USA has announced that its Coolpix S4100 and S6100 models will continue to be available to American customers. This follows a statement from Nikon Japan that the recently-introduced S4100 was being withdrawn as a result of component shortages fol...
Another Street Photographer Discovered, Captured Life in 1950s NYC
Frank Oscar Larson was an auditor living in Queens back in the 1950s who had a passion for street photography. Every weekend he would travel around the city armed with his Rolleiflex camera, photographing the things that caught his eye. After Larson died of a stroke at the age of 68 in 1964, his photographs...
