Introducing the Instant Photo Pendant Necklace!
Say hello to the latest item in the PetaPixel Store: the Instant Photo Pendant Necklace! This beautiful pendant is designed to look exactly like a 1-inch tall Polaroid picture. Insert your favorite 0.8-inch square photos through a slot in the side, and keep it safe and snug with a clear plastic square (included). The copper...
Canon Unveils the G1X: A Large Sensor Compact Answer to the Mirrorless Craze
Unlike Nikon, which jumped headfirst into the interchangeable lens mirrorless game last year, Canon appears to be content with simply upping the sensor size in its existing compact cameras. Today the company announces the G1X, a new camera into the G-series line that offers a sensor large enough to compete with existing mirrorless camera systems....
Nikon Unveils the New Speedlight SB-910, a $550 Top-of-the-Line Flash Unit
Nikon has announced the new SB-910, a top-of-the-line flash unit to succeed the SB-900. Instead of increased power — the guide number and zoom range haven’t changed — Nikon has chosen to focus on usability. The new flash features a new MENU button and improved LCD user interface that are designed to make operating it...
Panasonic Unveils the Lumix GX1 for Serious Shooters and GF1 Lovers
After photos of the camera were leaked a week ago, Panasonic has officially announced the Lumix GX1. The camera should satisfy GF1 shooters who loved the camera but were unhappy about the consumer-oriented GF2 and GF3 followup cameras. The 16MP Micro Four Thirds camera features a max ISO of 12,800, a solid build, .09 second...
LomoKino: The First Hand-Cranked Movie Camera that Uses Ordinary 35mm Film
Lomography has launched the LomoKino, the world’s first consumer 35mm movie camera. It’s an old-school hand-cranked camera that uses standard rolls of 35mm film (yeah, the kind you use in film cameras). The camera captures 144 individual frames onto each roll of film, producing a video that lasts 50-60 seconds. Once you have your film...
500px Launches Slick New iPad App, Seeing Incredible Growth
500px, quickly becoming known as the “Flickr for artsy photographers”, has released a new iPad app designed to deliver a beautiful photo viewing experience. In just a few days the app has already risen into the top 5 free photo apps in the app store, and now serves half of all traffic seen by 500px....
Canon and Nikon May Both Announce New DSLRs by Month’s End
The rumblings in the rumor mill are getting stronger, and it seems like there’s a good chance that we’ll be seeing new DSLRs announced by both Canon and Nikon by the end of the month. Craig Blair over at Canon Rumors says that he knows with near certainty that Canon will be announcing a new...
Sony Hits a Grand Slam, Launches New Mirrorless and SLT Cameras
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...
Sony announces new HDSLR A77 – Nikon announces more CoolPix
In the “youNeverKnowForSure” category, Sony came thru this morning with their announcement of the new HDSLR – the A77 – and Nikon’s ‘big’ announcement turned out to be more CoolPix point and shoot cameras (tho NikonRumors says another PR is coming) – oh well! So let’s dive into the new Sony A77 (pre-order on amazon)...
Twitter Launches User Photo Galleries
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 images included in user galleries can come from Twitter, yFrog, TwitPic, Instagram...
Is this the week of great new HDSLRs? Nikon and Sony poised to release new cameras
We’ve been keeping our ears to the rails and it looks like things are really going to be hopping in the HDSLR world this week with new HDSLR cameras coming from not only Nikon (as we told you about last week) but Sony seems to be on the brink of not only one, but maybe...
Pentax Q is the World’s First “Point-and-Shoot” with Interchangeable Lenses
Pentax has just announced the Q, the world’s smallest interchangeable lens camera (ILC). Unlike existing ILC cameras, which have large sensors despite their tiny bodies, the Q has a tiny 1/2.3-inch sensor that’s more comparable to the sensors in point-and-shoot cameras. Thus, the Pentax Q can be considered the world’s first interchangeable lens point-and-shoot camera,...
