Photographer Turns Trash Into Pinhole Cameras and so Can You

Pioneering photographer Ian Ruhter, known for creating cameras out of surprising objects, is turning trash into cameras.

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2025-5-28 20:33

The SD Card Turns 25 Years Old

The SD Association (SDA) is getting out the candles and celebrating the SD card's 25th birthday. Calling it "the world's favorite memory card," the SD is now old enough to rent a car in the United States. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2025-5-21 18:27

Photographer Turns Trash Into Cyanotype Treasure to Save the Oceans

Award-winning British photographer Mandy Barker literally turns trash into treasure with her historically inspired fine art cyanotype images comparing marine algae to clothing waste. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2025-4-23 22:46

This Powerful Drone Light Turns Night Into Day

A new drone light fitted with a 3,333-watt light is about to go on sale and while powerful enough to light up any nighttime scene -- it has a hefty price tag of $60,000. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2025-4-15 20:38

The Groundbreaking Leica I 35mm Camera Turns 100 Years Old

The Leica I was unveiled 100 years ago today, on March 1, 1925. The Leica I, the first mass-produced 35mm Leica camera, is widely celebrated for its influence on photography. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2025-3-1 12:00

The Australian Open Turns Tennis Players Into Nintendo Wii Characters

The Australian Open tennis tournament finished up last night, and viewers of 2025's first Grand Slam tournament may have noticed something strange on the tournament's YouTube channel: the players were represented as Nintendo Wii-like characters. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2025-1-28 18:52

CineMon App Turns Your iPad or Mac Into a Pro Camera Monitor

Filmmakers may never look at their iPad or Mac the same way again after using CineMon.

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2024-12-31 22:00

Image of ‘Amelia Earhart’s Plane’ Turns Out to be a Big Rock

Last January, a crew trying to find Amelia Earhart's plane wreckage captured an intriguing image that, they speculated, could show the 1937 crash site. It turns out they were wrong. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-11-26 16:07

The Rigid.Pro Cinerig Base Turns Mirrorless Cameras Into Versatile Video Beasts

The Rigid.Pro Cinerig Base turns a mirrorless camera into a box-style cinema camera.

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2024-11-13 00:36

Photographer Takes 35,000 Photos of Japan and Turns Them into Stunning Timelapse

A photographer employed a technique usually reserved for star trails to make a spellbinding timelapse of Japan.

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2024-11-6 17:58

This App Turns Your Photos Into Studio Ghibli-Style Scenes

An AI-infused camera app for iOS that turns photos into different universe styles, such as Ghibli, Lego, and Minecraft, has been released. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-10-31 17:39

Adobe Firefly Turns Text or Images Into Realistic AI-Generated Video

Adobe previewed its generative video tools earlier this year, but details were relatively scarce. Today, Adobe shared much more information, including actual videos created in its Adobe Firefly Video Model. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-9-12 20:16

Privacy-Conscious Surveillance Camera Turns You Into a Stick Figure

A strange new surveillance camera aims to stop companies from collecting identifiable photos and videos of people by turning them into stick figures. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-7-17 16:11

SwitchLens is Basically Alice Camera, Turns Your Phone Into an M43 Camera

One Micro Four Thirds camera and smartphone combo product is unusual, but two in as many weeks? It's downright wild. A new product on Kickstarter, SwitchLens, promises to turn any smartphone into a pro-grade camera. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-6-27 22:34

This AI-Powered ‘Poetry Camera’ Turns Photos into Poems

This AI-powered device may look like an ordinary Polaroid camera. But instead of capturing images, it uses machine learning to transform photos into poems. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-4-23 18:12

Atomos Ninja Phone Turns Your iPhone into a Monitor and ProRes Recorder

This week, Atomos announced the Ninja Phone, a 10-bit video co-processor that allows filmmakers to monitor and record footage from professional HDMI-equipped cameras on their iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max smartphones. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-4-19 19:28

MagSafe Telescope Adapter Turns iPhone into Accessible Astro Camera

American company Turing has announced the world's first digiscoping iPhone adapter with MagSafe, enabling users to line up their iPhone camera, including the main or telephoto cameras, with a telescope or spotting scope. petapixel.com »

2024-3-7 01:08

Adobe’s New Generative AI Turns Text Prompts into Music

Adobe Research revealed a new generative AI music and audio prototype, Project Music GenAI Control, that promises to give anyone the power to create music, no matter their experience or skill. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-2-29 20:43

App That Turns Your Phone into an ‘Old-School Camera’ Raises $30M

Lapse, a camera app that mimics the days of waiting for film to develop before showing snapshots to friends, raised an additional $30 million in funding, fueling the trend of stripped-down social media platforms. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-2-29 20:39

WuvDay App Turns Smartphone Users Into Verified and Paid Journalists

Italy-based WuvDay aims to fight against fake news and deepfake content by utilizing the smartphones average people hold in their hands through an onboard verification platform. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-2-27 18:03

OpenAI’s Sora Turns Short Text Prompts into Photo-Realistic Video

OpenAI announced Sora, a new text-to-video AI program that can turn short prompts into photo-realistic video. It still doesn't really know what to do with hands yet, though. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-2-16 23:25

Flickr Turns 20 Years Old Today

Flickr is celebrating its 20th anniversary. From the early days of the internet through to today, the photo-sharing site that is now home to everyone from amateur photographers through NASA has certainly come a long way. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-2-11 17:30

Photographer Turns the Lens on Amateur Astronomers Who Contribute to Science

A photographer spent five years traveling the world to turn the lens on amateur astronomers who have contributed to science. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-2-9 23:06

Belkin’s Auto-Tracking Stand Pro Turns Your iPhone into a Pan/Tilt Camera

Belkin's Auto-Tracking Stand Pro with DockKit turns a user's iPhone into a pan/tilt video camera.

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2024-1-11 20:01

The Free Orion App Turns Your iPad into an HDMI Display

Lux, the company behind the pro camera app Halide, has just released a new app that turns iPads into external HDMI displays. Called Orion, the app is free and works with any camera, video game console, or even VHS. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-9-21 18:59

Sony App Turns Your Smartphone into a Wireless Video Monitor

Sony has announced a new mobile app, Monitor and Control, that enables visual creators to monitor exposure wirelessly, control focus, adjust color settings, and more on connected cinema cameras. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-9-15 22:15

Photographer Turns a Paris Apartment into a Giant Camera

French photographer Mathieu Stern is no stranger to taking photos with unusual cameras. However, his latest camera is perhaps his oddest as he turned Paris apartment into a giant camera obscura and captured a beautiful photo of one of the world's most famous sights, the Eiffel Tower. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-8-19 19:46

Huge Nikon Z9 Update Turns it Into an Intelligent Camera Trap

Nikon's flagship mirrorless camera, the Nikon Z9, has been continuously improved via free firmware updates since its launch in December 2021. About 18 months after its release, firmware version 4. petapixel.com »

2023-6-13 07:01

Apple’s New API Turns Your iPhone Into Pet-Tracking 360-Degree Camera

As more people return to the office, there's an uptick in demand for people to monitor their pets remotely. Per documentation on Apple's website, developers can take advantage of pet-tracking features and motorized iPhone stands to help users watch their furry friends from afar. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-6-9 19:02

The Polycam App Turns iPhones into 360-Degree Cameras

Polycam, an iPhone app originally designed for 3D scanning, has launched a new feature that turns an iPhone into a 360-degree camera without any external hardware. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-6-3 21:12

NVIDIA’s Neuralangelo AI Turns iPhone Video into Detailed 3D Structures

Neuralangelo is the latest artificial intelligence (AI) from NVIDIA Research that is capable of turning simple 2D iPhone video clips into detailed 3D structures, fully replicating buildings, sculptures, or other real world objects or spaces virtually. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-6-2 15:59

Photojournalist Controversially Turns to AI to Illustrate ‘Inaccessible’ Stories

A distinguished photojournalist has sparked controversy after releasing a "post-photography" series entitled 90 Miles that is entirely generated by AI. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-5-16 01:40

AI-Powered iOS App Turns iPhone Video into Anything You Can Imagine

Artificial intelligence (AI) company Runway has added support for 15-second videos generated by AI into an iOS app, allowing users to transform videos shot on iPhone into anything they can imagine. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-4-29 20:52

Man Turns GoPro into Tennis Ball to Capture POV Shot of his Dog

A man successfully turned his GoPro camera into a tennis ball to capture a POV shot of his dog Ollie catching it.

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2023-2-14 16:25

Disney Turns Photographers’ Diverse Princess Portraits into Dolls

Disney has partnered with CreativeSoul Photography, a black-owned business, to release a special edition artist series collection of dolls across the African diaspora that are inspired by Disney Princesses. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-2-1 20:45

Cancer Survivor Turns His CT Scans into Powerful Music Video

A cancer survivor turned his CT scans into a powerful and haunting music video.

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2022-12-22 21:11

BeReal Turns Photos into 2022 Recap Video, But Feature Has Waiting List

BeReal has surprised users with a new feature that turns all their photos from the last year into a 2022 recap video -- but it has a huge waiting list. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-12-21 15:24

RealityScan App That Turns Photos into 3D Models is Now Available on iOS

The Epic Games RealityScan App is now available to download on iOS. The app launched into a closed beta earlier this year and allows users to turn iPhone photos into 3D models quickly and easily. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-12-6 21:09

Photographer Turns Slide Projector Into a Arduino-Powered Digitizer

For those with family members who grew up in the 1980s (or earlier), a slide projector was a pretty common way to share and show images before the internet was a thing. petapixel.com »

2022-11-22 19:15

Photographer Turns Barge into a Giant, Floating, Working Camera

Photographer Brendan Barry transformed the Electric Barge into a giant floating camera obscura that not only captures photos but also works as a processing facility thanks to its built-in darkroom. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-11-8 22:10

AI Processing Turns Blurry 360-Degree Image into a Tack-Sharp Photo

360 and Virtual Tour photographer Ben Claremont recently demonstrated the incredible power of AI-photo editing by transforming a 360 image from 2015. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-10-29 19:22

The Later Cam App Turns Your Smartphone into a Disposable Camera

Later Cam is a new app that is designed to bring the idea of retro analog photography to the smartphone by featuring a disposable camera interface that lets users take 27 pictures and then delivers prints of those one-take photos back to them. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-9-7 20:17

NASA Turns James Webb Telescope’s First Photos Into Music

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) team has translated some of the telescope's first photos into music. Called sonification, the goal is to make the JWST's image and data understandable through sound to help listeners create their own mental images. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-9-2 20:07

DIY-er Turns a Smartphone into a Multispectral Camera for Art Analysis

DIY-er Sean Billups has transformed his old Google Pixel 3A into a multispectral camera that can view in Ultraviolet (UV) and Infrared (IR) wavelengths that are not normally visible to the human eye. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-6-30 20:42

Photographer Ashley Zhang Turns Her Lens to Queer Love

"It is nonviable to prohibit a feeling," states photographer Ashley Zhang firmly, about the fallacy many people have regarding the inhibition of taboo relationships. Seeing something unique in the relationships of people she knew, she decided to document their romantic moments on film. thephoblographer.com »

2022-6-26 13:00

Moment’s New Adapter Turns Any Lens into an Anamorphic Lens

Moment has announced the 1.33x Anamorphic Lens Adapter, which it says can change any optic -- vintage or modern -- into an anamorphic lens. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-6-21 17:59

‘Napalm Girl’ Turns 50: The Generation-Defining Image Capturing the Futility of the Vietnam War

How does an image become an icon? It is estimated that we now produce more images in two minutes than we did in the entire 19th century. How, then, can one image be so powerful it can symbolize the horror of war and help mobilize anti-war sentiment? [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-6-8 18:00

Google AI Turns Text into Images with ‘Unprecedented Realism’

Google Research has developed an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) system that can turn any phrase into a strikingly realistic photo. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-5-25 18:54

Photographer Turns Smartphone into a Film Camera

A photographer has repurposed an old and broken Sony Ericsson smartphone lens into a camera that shoots film and integrated it into his Samsung Galaxy S2. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-5-24 19:56

A Wildlife Photographer Turns His Lens on Cheetah Conservation

Wildlife photographer Donal Boyd transposes the beauty of African animals into fine art. But his short videos help tell a more complete story behind the conservation work he supports. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-5-6 17:56