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more about #digitalphotography more comments → Gary_7vn: People only watch these videos for the crashes. #nikond300shanggliding more » Grendel: 7D FTW. Nice try... Nikkor HAHA! so cute... Maybe Google will send some of their peeps over there and donate some better video tech. #nikond300shang... more » TheCrudMan: Great looking footage...shutter priority? That's ballsy. #nikond300shanggliding more » billwilljr: "I have no idea why those bad boys aren't illegal" - Sounds like a liberal to me. The old, if I'm scared of it and know very little about it, lets ou... more » psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you!: I suppose this is where the NASA engineers got the idea of shooting the moon, just to get a cloud of shit to fly out. more » Strongmad86: hollowpoints (or at least some kind of expanding round- soft points, plastic tipped rounds, and cast lead all meet that requirement) are actually requ... more » dparkermartin: Actually, a person is arguably more likely to die from a non-hollow point, full metal jacket, bullet due to the fact that the bullet pierces straight ... more » earthsaver: I think 1 million frames per second would be extremely fast and impossible to see without slowing down. Are you sure you didn't mean some fraction of ... more » gunluva is prepared to drop.: Watched the whole thing with The Beatles album "A Hard Day's Night" in the background. It fits, oddly enough. more » BlowfishAvenger: I'm not sure the bullet seen at 7:30 is a hollow point. more » Korgoths: In the US hollow point bullets are not illegal. I bought 100 rounds two weekends ago. I even have 400 rounds of black talons which they no longer impo... more » van_line: i don't think hollow point bullets are illegal, but what do i know. more » Bertone77: What was going on at about 2min? It looked like they actually shot a steel pellet AT the bullet while it was in flight!? Holy Crap! Oh and last I che... more » nikedabomb: awesome , now lets see someone shoot a rocket at the moon, oh wait ..... more » Skid-Vicious: Next photoshop contest should be: Paste the squirrel into calssic images. more » -
#photography
Video: Extreme Hang Gliding with the Nikon D300s
This isn't the first time Nikon has teamed up with sports photographers to showcase the D300s' new 720p video capabilities, but this footage of the world's top hang glider surfing Australia's mysterious "Morning Glory" wave-cloud phenomenon, is just as spectacular. More » -
#slowmotion
Watch Ten Minutes of Glorious Bullet Impacts at 1,000,000 FPS
I'm no warmonger, but I can think of no finer way to waste Friday afternoon than spending 10 minutes of the company's time watching bullets striking various objects at one million frames per second. The footage is just totally unbelievable. More » -
#digitalphotography
The Story of the Hilarious Photo Crasher Squirrel
No matter how many times I see this photo—of a squirrel crashing Melissa and Jackson Brandts' photo opportunity at Lake Minnewanka, in Canada's Banff National Park—it always makes me laugh. The fact that it's 100% real definitely helps: More » -
#software
DSLR Remote Controls Canons Wirelessly, With Live View
Taking DSLR shots through a USB-connected laptop is a popular way of monitoring a photo shoot realtime. Now OnOne has released the extension of this idea through an iPhone app. More » -
#digitalphotography
Lumopro Hot Shoe Lets Any Flash Do It with Any Camera
The LumoPro Hot Shoe Universal Translator is an adapter that lets you link any flash with any camera—except Sony's. And anything that makes artificially-incompatible things mix and match is a winner for us. More » -
#imagecache
Spying On Lions with Elephant Poop
Sometimes, nature's best images are not taken with the best cameras and the largest objectives. Sometimes all it takes is a load of elephant dung. The results are cute, frightening, majestic, and always stunningly beautiful. More » -
#stories
US Soldier Explains Why He Uses a Rifle Stock to Shoot Photographs
When we recently posted a Vietnam-era Bolex camera with a rifle stock attached, we thought the concept was a little nuts. Then Army Reserve Staff Sgt. and wartime photographer Jeffrey Duran set us straight. More » -
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#howisitdonespectacularaerialphotography
Spectacular Night Photography of London Causes Awe, Vertigo
Jason Hawkes has a very difficult, expensive, and spectacular kind of work: he takes pictures from the sky. And while it may not sound very difficult, obtaining these crystal-clear shots while hanging out of the door of a twin-engine helicopter, everything vibrating like in an earthquake because of the rotor blades, and shouting orders at your pilot over, it's a very challenging job that requires the best technology you can get your hands on. We talked with Jason about how is it done in this new Gizmodo section that we like to call "How Is It Done." More »
