A tripod head is one of the most important pieces of equipment a photographer can own. Most photographers start with cheap, shoddily built tripods with integrated heads, sometimes bought as part of a kit. While they don’t know it, these tripods aren’t worth their weight in plastic, which is a fancy way of saying they’re worthless.
The viral "one in a million" photo of a bride standing in front of two mirrors with different reflections has been apparently solved by an iPhone expert.
A photographer used a panoramic film camera designed in the 1890s to capture a stunning shot of a hot air balloon festival in the U.K. last weekend.
David Imel of MKBHD has taken a close look at the design and functionality of an exciting 3D-printed medium-format film camera on MKBHD's spinoff channel, The Studio.
Skylum has announced its latest extension for the Luminar Neo app called Panorama Stitching, a tool that allows photographers to create wide sweeping panoramic images by merging multiple single frames together.
EarthCam, makers of rugged and wireless enclosures for the purposes of outdoor streaming video or timelapse, has announced the X1 system that is capable of capturing 4K video and creating five billion pixel panoramic images.
Chroma Cameras has released a new-and-improved version of its CubePan 135-format panoramic camera. The 2023 version includes the same features as last year's original, although it now includes better usability based on feedback from photographers.
Now in its sixth year, the tenth data release from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys now covers half the sky and totals a petabyte of data combined from three separate telescopes.
A new panoramic image captured by the Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey (DECaPS2) has revealed a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects, which is arguably the largest such catalog released so far.
The winners of the 2022 Epson International Pano Awards have been announced and photographer Jinyi He took top honors with a set of images that capture some of the lesser-known landscapes of China.
Negative Supply has announced the successor to the Film Carrier MK1, the Pro Film Carrier 35. It is billed as an affordable and professional tool capable of scanning all 35-millimeter film formats (including half frame, full frame, and panoramic sizes) in a single capture while maximizing film flatness.
Photographer Jeffrey Martin has been creating massive gigapixel photos for the better part of a decade. His latest is an enormous 45-gigapixel photo of Barcelona that provides incredible detail of one of Europe's most beautiful cities.
It is rare that one brand of camera becomes seriously associated with a single celebrity as Academy Award-winning actor Jeff Bridges is with his Widelux panoramic camera.
EarthCam, which recently made waves when it took the largest photo ever captured of New York City, has launched two additional high-resolution timelapse camera rigs that use a Sony Alpha 7R Mark IV at their core.
While NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover has been grabbing headlines lately, its Curiosity rover has been on the Red Planet since 2012 and just sent back a gigantic 318-megapixel selfie that depicts it in front of Mont Mercou, a rock outcropping on the surface of Mars.
The Horizon 202 is an analog panoramic camera from a company out of Russia, and for those who couldn't afford a Hasselblad XPan or Fujifilm GX617, it was the next best thing. Photographer Jay P. Morgan decided to take the camera out to enjoy it today, nearly 50 years after it originally debuted.
Surf photographer Ben DeCamp has captured a beautifully moody series of black-and-white photos of waves using a waterproofed Hasselblad XPan film camera, considered by some to be a "holy grail" camera that DeCamp leveraged for his enthralling panorama-style images.
China's Chang'e 5 probe landed on the surface of the moon on December 1, 2020. Less than a day later, it has sent back a short video of its descent along with an extremely high-resolution panoramic image of the surface of the moon.
The Linhof 617 S III Technorama is a panoramic film camera that captures four giant 6x17cm panoramas per roll of 120 film (hence the name 617). Camera West TV made this 4-minute video that offers a look at this special camera and the results it can produce.
The folks over at ElderFox Documentaries have put together a "world's first." Using ultra-high resolution photo mosaics captured by NASA's various Mars Rovers over the years, they've created a 4K UHD 'tour' of the Martian landscape.
Dora Goodman—maker of gorgeous hand-crafted custom cameras like these—is back with another 3D-printed, open-source camera that you can make at home. It's called the SCURA, and it's a curved pinhole camera that shoots 60x25mm panoramic images on regular 35mm film.
NASA's Curiosity Rover has just sent back the highest-resolution panorama its ever captured of the Martian surface. Made up of nearly 1,200 individual images stitched together, the 360° panorama weighs in at a whopping 1.8 billion pixels, AKA 1.8 gigapixels.
The Hasselblad XPan is a legendary one-of-a-kind 35mm panoramic rangefinder worthy of its cult camera status, but at over $3,000, is it worthy of your money?
As Eastman Kodak Company transforms its legendary manufacturing complex, once devoted exclusively to the production of photographic equipment and materials, the management of the Eastman Business Park reached out to me (Professor Frank Cost at RIT) to involve students in learning opportunities centered in a new customer-education and workforce development center planned for the Park.
Facebook has updated its mobile app for both iOS and Android with support for capturing and sharing 360° photos without any extra hardware required.
The Library Book is a lavish creation of sweeping 360° panoramic photography of U.S. libraries by Thomas R. Schiff and published by Aperture. The book beautifully captures the shifting architectural styles through 120 images from the very earliest American libraries to modernist masterpieces.
A quick trip to Morocco turned into another example of why panoramic travel photography is special. Using his Hasselblad Xpan for most of the shots, and cropping a few Canon shots for the rest, photographer Tom Kluyver created a mesmerizing short tour through Morocco and the Sahara desert.
At CES 2017 in Las Vegas this week, Razer showed off Project Valerie, the world's first triple display laptops. Instead of a single screen, you can feast your eyes on three separate 17.3-inch 4K screens arranged panorama-style.
The first rule for any photographers, portrait, landscape, or weddings: always, always check your gear, count it twice, because the last thing you don’t want to happen is not having the right gear for what you want to shoot.
Shooting a panoramic timelapse sounds simple enough: just sync two cameras and start shooting, right? Not quite. In fact, the photographer who shot this amazing 10K by 4K panoramic timelapse of LA calls it the most challenging project he's ever worked on.