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Film Friday: Optik OptiColour Is a New Color Film (That Goes By Many Names)

A box of Opti Colour 35mm film sits on a yellow paper, surrounded by other colorful Opti Colour film boxes on a blue background. The central box shows icons for weather conditions and "36 EXP ISO 200.

With this Film Friday Review we are shining a light on a new color film that seems to love traveling the world under a multitude of aliases. While we first met this film as Optik Oldschool OptiColour, you might have crossed paths with it under the ORWO Wolfen NC200 or KONO Color 200 monikers.

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Sony MDR-7506 Headphones: The Standard to Which All Others Are Measured

A pair of Sony headphones rests on a wooden surface. The image features "PetaPixel Reviews" text in the bottom left corner, partially overlapping the headphones.

PetaPixel is expanding its coverage into headphones, but specifically their use through the lens of how a videographer would use them. In the field, at their desk, and while traveling, every videographer and editor has them, and the standard by which they all should be judged is the Sony MDR-7506.

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The Partnership: How Vince Gilligan And Rhea Seehorn Rekindled Their β€˜Better Call Saul’ Magic For β€˜Pluribus’ & A Season 2 Update

Vince Gilligan and Rhea Seehorn, the creator and star of Apple TV drama series Pluribus, have the kind of easy camaraderie that comes from logging over a decade of prestige television together. Their rapport first sparked back in 2015, with the follow-up to Gilligan’s Breaking Bad β€” Β the crime series Better Call Saul, which he […]

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Twenty Years, One City: What Tokyo Taught Me About Patience and Glass

Black and white photo split in two: left side shows a man in a sunlit street holding a can, looking at the camera; right side shows an older man indoors hanging up a backpack, viewed in profile.

Most photographers I know are in constant motion. New cities, new continents, new visual problems to solve. There's truth in it. Unfamiliarity forces you to look. Familiarity gives you permission to stop. But there's another, less-discussed school of practice that works in the opposite direction: stay. Return. Go back to the same streets until the strangeness burns away and something else appears in its place.

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β€˜The Muppet Show’ At 50: From Rudolf Nureyev To Dale Evans & Roy Rogers – The Top 10 Guest Stars

The original incarnation of The Muppet Show lasted five seasons and 120 episodes, from 1976 to 1981, and in that time some of the biggest names in show-business lined up to take the stage alongside Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear. A notable exception was the late Elizabeth Taylor, who, perhaps realizing her […]

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β€˜Euphoria’ Creator Sam Levinson On Using Tried-And-True Formula To Inject New Blood Into His Cast: β€œA Lot Of It’s Instinctual”

When Euphoria premiered in 2019, Zendaya was still a burgeoning Disney Channel star; Sydney Sweeney was still searching for her stepping stone from guest and recurring actor to leading lady; Jacob Elordi was known as the heartthrob from The Kissing Booth; Hunter Schafer had never acted professionally; Alexa Demie was flying under the radar on […]

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