This article is dedicated to a very helpful yet often-overlooked photographic accessory. After scouring the Web, I have only been able to find few brief entries dedicated to those devices, so I hope my writing will be found helpful by inquisitive minds interested in the history of photo equipment. From 1872 book ‘Ferrotypes And How […]
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Throughout the history of photography, few names have endured for as long and few have left as significant of an impact on the medium as Olympus. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2023-09-15 22:39
As soon as photography was invented, there was a very obvious subject for photographers to turn their cameras toward -- the brightest object in the night sky -- the Moon. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2023-06-14 22:54
Kodak was once the 800-pound gorilla in the world of photography. But after a century of dominance, Kodak’s business crumbled and it was forced to declare bankruptcy in 2012. If you’d like to better understand what happened to the iconic brand, watch this great 12-minute video by the popular YouTube channel Company Man. “The name […] petapixel.com »
2018-06-14 21:16
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, chemists Robert Bunsen and Henry Roscoe and showed that burning magnesium produces artificial light that’s similar to daylight. A man named Edward Sonstadt then brought the technology into the world of photography, and thus the idea for the photographic flash was born. The Atlantic made this 2-minute video […] petapixel.com »
2018-05-26 19:01