Nikon has just been awarded the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest human camera. To celebrate its upcoming 100th anniversary on July 25th, 2017, Nikon released a load of collectible lenses, cameras, and other items.
But their latest stunt in the celebration was to stand around in the courtyard of a rather beautiful Italian building […]. petapixel.com
Nikon has announced the winners of its 47th annual Small World Photomicrography Competition. This year’s first-place prize was awarded to Jason Kirk for his striking image of a southern live oak leaf’s trichomes, stomata, and vessels. petapixel.com »
2021-09-14 17:56
Nikon Small World 2016 Finalists Mouse retinal ganglion cells. Photo by Dr. Keunyoung Kim Nikon's Small World Microphotography competition continues to celebrate all things tiny, fanged and gross. dpreview.com »
2016-10-15 14:00
The Fuji X-T2 have been showing some amazing preliminary results from people testing it in the real world, but can it stack up against Nikon’s flagship D5? Portrait photographer Taylor Jackson wanted to find out. petapixel.com »
2016-09-16 23:29
Photographer Steven Haining was granted the record for the deepest underwater photo shoot with a model back in July and now, just a few short months later, he has set a new milestone by going five times deeper than before. [Read More]
Experts believe a rare Edward Steichen image could break the record for the most expensive photograph sold at auction.
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Man Ray's Le Violon d’Ingres, an iconic photo of a nude woman, has sold for $12.4 million, making it the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction. [Read More]
An iconic photo of a nude woman by artist and photographer Man Ray is poised to become the most expensive photo in the world. It will be auctioned by Christie's with an asking price of at least $5 million, a new recording asking price in the history of photo auctions. [Read More]
Jonathan is a giant tortoise that lives on the remote island of St. Helena. He turns 190 years old this year, making him the world's oldest tortoise to ever live.
In 2018, Cornell researchers built a high-powered detector that set a world record for the highest resolution state of the art electron microscope which, at the time, tripled the previous resolution it could capture.
A 1923 Leica 0 series camera was just sold for €2,400,000 (~$2,957,304) at auction, setting the new record for world’s most expensive camera. The historic purchase was done at the 32nd Westlicht camera auction in Vienna, Austria, on March 10th, where the camera (serial number 122) had a starting price of €400,000 (~$492,672). The price […]