Photographer Jim Skelton is well known for his expansive collection of Polaroid cameras, dating back to the very first Polaroid Land cameras in 1963. Skelton aims to help photographers revive these automatic Polaroid pack film cameras to use manual shutter speeds and different film formats. [Read More]
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Polaroid's new Reclaimed Blue 600 film is the result of original chemistry discovered through what it calls "accidental experimentation" that took place at the only Polaroid film factory in the world. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2023-04-04 14:59
Photographer Andy Warhol and his love of Polaroid film is no real secret if you pay attention to history, and this recent find on eBay is a major treasure for any fan of Polaroid, Instant film, or even Warhol himself. thephoblographer.com »
2018-10-23 10:00
Remember those intriguing teasers Polaroid was scrolling through on its main website last week. Well, yesterday night was when that countdown ended, and it ended with a huge announcement that has the photo industry buzzing. dpreview.com »
2017-09-14 17:42
Visitors to Polaroid. com are being greeted with a pop-up that teases a big announcement scheduled for September 13th. Though the company hasn't revealed what exactly it has planned, the various teaser messages heavily hint that the announcement will involve film. dpreview.com »
2017-09-07 21:55
Polaroid for many years now has been created a poor excuse for Instant Film in the form of Zink paper and prints with options borders, but a recent update from the company is teasing the return to their roots as an analog instant film based company. thephoblographer.com »
2017-09-07 16:00
It took a while for me to wrap my head around the Polaroid Snap Touch--and it's not because I'm not accepting to what they're doing. It's more because of the fact that they're finding a way to appeal to the Snapchat generation in the form of a camera. thephoblographer.com »
2017-08-08 07:00
Love photography? Love horror films? Maybe this one is for you: Polaroid is a new film — the kind you watch, not the kind you load into a camera — coming out this year that combines voodoo, demons, and photography into one terrifying movie. petapixel.com »
2017-06-30 20:26
Over on R/Polaroid, U/Grandberries posted a pretty comprehensive list of every Polaroid film camera ever made and breaks it down into further categories. The list includes a whole lot of cameras and has been improved and added to by the community who typically shoots lots of Instant film of all types that actually involve chemical thephoblographer.com »
2017-06-19 19:00
For his project “The Spirit of Iron Man,” photographer Dan Votjech visited the world’s hardest triathlon, the Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii, and shot portraits of the competitors using a large format Polaroid camera. petapixel.com »
2016-11-11 22:55
The Canon EOS R1 is scheduled to become available in November for $6299 USD, and the camera is already in production at a supposed rate of 3700 units a month. The EOS R1 was first used professionally Formula 1 races and the Paris games this past July, but it has continued to be professionally tested [...] Source
We're told that the next Canon EOS R5 Mark II firmware update will come with new features along with the usual bug fixes. The new firmware is already in testing with various pros and will add new video and photography features updates.
The RF 200-500mm f/4L IS USM has been rumored for quite some time, and with each passing month we get very little new information on the lens. The last time we reported on the lens, we mentioned that it could finally be announced in November, and with multiple people actively testing the lens, that timeline [...] Source
Yesterday, Canon released firmware v.1.0.1 for the Canon EOS R5 Mark II, which brough a whole bunch of bug fixes for the camera. There are still some reported bugs out there that haven't been addressed, but we don't like to dive too much into those in case they are more user error than actual issues [...] Source
Today seems to be firmware release day for the entire EOS R lineup. A lot of the updates are bug fixes and a few cameras received support for the LP-E6P. You can download firmware updates through the Camera Connect app or directly from a Canon web site.
Canon has released firmware v1. 0. 1, which addresses some of the bugs that currently present in the camera. Though not all of the bugs we have read about are addressed with this release. At the time of this post, the firmware update is available at Canon India.
We reported earlier this month that the data from Techno Systems Research was released, and now all the market data is published for all to see. DCW reports that according to Techno Systems Research, Canon has a commanding 46.