In 1998, San Francisco installed the latest cutting-edge technology to run the train network: floppy disks. A quarter of a century later and the city's transportation agency is still using the same system. [Read More]
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Joe Rosenthal, the photographer who captured the iconic war image Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, has had a block in downtown San Francisco named after him. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2024-12-13 17:06
San Francisco will be posting more police in the Marina district in response to the high-profile armed robbery of a photographer at the Palace of Fine Arts last week. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-11-23 20:33
Thanks to new legislation, the San Francisco Police Department can now, without a warrant, gain access to live video feeds from privately owned security cameras in the city under certain circumstances. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-09-27 20:38
What do you get when you combine apocalyptic, real-life drone footage of the red skies over San Francisco with the score from the movie Blade Runner: 2049? You get a viral sensation that somehow perfectly encompasses the current feeling on the west coast of the United States. The video above was posted by San Francisco […] petapixel.com »
2020-09-11 17:35
Filmmaker Dan Denegre of Space Race Studio recently shot a short, poignant bit of footage documenting the eerie stillness of San Francisco’s once-bustling streets amid the coronavirus pandemic. petapixel.com »
2020-03-26 20:37
My name is James D. Lee, and I’m a photographer based in Oakland. I recently got around to posting four years worth of selected photos shot in and around the San Francisco Bay area strictly on tilt-shift lenses. petapixel.com »
2017-12-09 21:19
Photographer Burton Rast has just completed a new project titled, The Shapes of San Francisco. He spent 100 days exploring SF and shooting one photo per day of the city’s most popular and photographed sights, but “in a unique way. petapixel.com »
2017-07-12 18:39
My father like other New Mexico natives is very superstitious. Whenever the family was going on a road trip to Grandma’s house, my father would always tell us supernatural stories while we drove through the vast desert landscape. boredpanda.com »
2017-05-06 04:09
Most of the world’s art is locked away and will never be seen. This isn’t due to any nefarious reason, simply the ravages of time -- historical paintings are degraded and can require months, years, or even a decade of sluggish, painstaking restoration.
In this, the second in a series of articles about autofocus, we will look at different focusing modes and their practical applications. [Read More]
Hasselblad is one of the most storied names in photography. The company was founded in Sweden in 1841 as a trading business, but by the early 1900s, Victor Hasselblad began producing cameras that defined the brand and set a new standard for precision and design. [Read More]
There’s a lot more to focusing than many novice photographers realize. When they delve into it, it can seem complex. However, it is easy to master once you have found your way around your camera. [Read More]
DJI has entered yet another new product category by launching Romo, a robot vacuum cleaner. And like DJI's other recent new products, including its first 360° camera, the Osmo 360 action camera, its advanced Power-series battery system, and even its e-bikes, everything always comes back to DJI's most famous product segment: drones. [Read More]
Canon's 410-megapixel full-frame image sensor made its first public appearance at the Shanghai International Photographic Equipment and Digital Imaging Exhibition (P&I) in China last week. [Read More]
Apple has announced a major corporate shakeup, with chief operating officer (COO) Jeff Williams leaving his post later this month. Once Williams fully retires late this year, Apple's chief executive officer (CEO), Tim Cook, will take over Apple's design team, a significant shift for the Cupertino-based tech company. [Read More]