Cameras

How to Take Better Photos Using Your Camera’s Mode Dial

Switching your camera out of Auto mode can be daunting, but it’s the only path toward taking control of how your photos look. Of course, it helps to know what things like f-stop and shutter speed do, but just as important are the various modes that appear on almost every camera’s dial. We made this…

Tech News Michael Hession May 29

Here’s What Sharks Do When You Give Them Cameras

Fisheries biologist John Shepherd once said that “counting fish is like counting trees—except you can’t see them and they move.” This can make animal behavior research extremely difficult. And while increasingly advanced electronic telemetry tags can tell us a lot, there’s just no substitute for seeing a behavior on video. Knowing how animals behave in…

Tech News David Shiffman May 20

Panasonic G7: The GH4’s New Kid Brother Can Still Shoot 4K Video

While Fujilm announced a shrunk-down version of its top-end mirrorless camera today, Panasonic is doing the exact same thing. The G7 has many of the features that enthusiasts love about last year’s GH4, including the power of 4K video recording. While previous models in Panasonic’s G line have been rather bland, the G7 has updated…

Tech News Michael Hession May 18

Fujifilm X-T10: A Smaller and Simpler Version of the Lauded X-T1

Fujifilm has a reputation for making solid retro styled mirrorless cameras, and the latest, the X-T10, takes one of its most popular and high-performance bodies, the X-T1, and scales it down in size and price. The X-T10 will appeal to people looking for the look and feel of a pro mirrorless camera, but slightly pared…

Tech News Michael Hession May 18

The Lily Is Your Latest Reminder That Flying Cameras Are The Future

You visit incredible places. You go on adventures. You want someone or something to capture them—and you—for posterity. But instead of reaching out with a selfie stick, you reach into a backpack… and toss a drone up into the air to film it all for you. It’s the dream, and a startup called Lily is…

Tech News Sean Hollister May 12

We Took Some 50 Megapixel Shots With the Canon 5DS For You to Gawk At

Canon’s new high res DSLR, the 5DS, shoots giant 50 megapixel images. That’s a crapload of resolution you probably don’t need. But it’s fun to look at anyways! We had the privilege of toying around with a pre-production beta sample of the camera. Here are the results. So, who would want 50 megapixels? People printing…

Tech News Michael Hession May 12

Nokia vs Nokia: Holy Crap Smartphone Cameras Have Come A Long Way

You probably take your smartphone for granted: it’s your portal to the internet, an instant messaging machine, a video recorder, music player and, of course, a phone. It’s probably also your primary camera. Be grateful for it: smartphone cameras have come a long way. See that split-screen snapshot up there? That’s almost a decade of…

Tech News Sean Buckley May 11

Here’s How the LG G4 Camera Stacks Up To the iPhone 6 and Galaxy S6

Every flagship smartphone hypes its camera with a spicy mix of marketing-speak. Laser Focus. Ultra Pixels. Often it’s just bullshit, but I’ve been using the camera on the new LG G4 and it it really does live up to the hype. Mostly. The camera on the G4 should be great in theory, due to its…

Tech News Michael Hession May 4

Easily Cut People and Objects From Photos With This Camera App

There are plenty of powerful third-party camera apps available for Android if you don’t like the one that came with your smartphone. They offer manual control over white balance, ISO and shutter speed, plus a range of advanced features—like the option to cut out moving people and objects from your photos, available in A Better…

Gadgets David Nield Apr 27

What an insane 343x camera zoom would look like zooming in from 3 miles

In the future, we might be able to zoom in from an impossible far off distance and see a target like some insane sniper. Daniel Taylor made this simulation that shows what an extreme 343x super ridiculous zoom would look like and it’s crazy to imagine that this could be real. In the future, they…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 22

7 Silly Techniques That Will Help You Take Fun Photographs

If you’re bored of the photographs you’re taking, perhaps it’s time to be a bit less serious. So forget about ISO settings, shutter speed or lens choice—and be a bit silly instead. These tips from the Co-Opeative of Photography aren’t at all complex, serious or expensive, but they are fun. Light painting! Smashed mirrors! Free…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Apr 21

Shooting Challenge: Car Light Trails

It’s one of the coolest, simple effects in photography. A car zooms by in the night. You capture it looking like Tron. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, capture long, luxurious exposure of cars at night. The Challenge Take a long exposure photo of cars driving at night. The Technique So to pull this off, it’s…

Tech News Mark Wilson Apr 16

The World’s First Self-Powered Video Camera Can Record Forever

It makes perfect sense. The sensors that capture images for a digital camera and the sensors that convert light into electricity for a solar cell rely on the same technology. So why not build a device with a sensor that does both, and create a self-powered video camera? Some Columbia University researchers did just that.…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Apr 15

27 Cool Photos Of International Coins

Money. It’s not all that matters, but not much else matters without it. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, we had you photograph money. Specifically, coins. And the results were fantastic. Winner: Cool Kiwi I’m based in Australia, but shooting New Zealand coins, due to the Australian requirement to request permission before publishing any photos of…

Tech News Mark Wilson Apr 14

There Are No Blindspots With This Real-Time 3D View Of Your Car

There are already countless vehicles that use multiple tiny cameras to give the driver an overhead view of what objects or obstacles are around their car while parking. But SPTek has developed a system that’s able to show a driver what’s around their vehicle while on the road, completely eliminating the blindspot that’s responsible for…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Apr 14

A Rocket Launcher Camera Rig Shoots Photos With Deadly Precision

We’ve been giggling about Sigma’s huge, 35 pound 200-500mm lens for years, mostly because the preposterous glass looks like rocket launcher that could be used to take down an airplane. This clever hack from Digital Camera Watch in Japan leverages the humorous resemblance between long lenses weapons to a useful end. The mod takes Olympus’s…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Apr 9

New FLIR Security Camera Turns Hours Of Footage Into Bite-Sized Clips

A security camera is a useful tool for providing evidence when something obvious happens in your home, but what’s happening during all the other hours it records that you simply don’t have time to watch every night? FLIR’s new FX Wi-Fi camera uses intelligent motion tracking to create a simultaneous replay of everything it’s captured…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Apr 7

Watch Olympus’ Dope Image Stabilization Work Its Shake-Free Magic

Olympus’ 5-axis image stabilization is some of the best out there. The system allows you to usable shoot images in conditions where the results would horribly shaky. This video captures a view of what the sshake-free guts look like under the hood. It’s hypnotizing. The stabilizationfound in cameras like the Olympus OM-D E-M5 II is…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Apr 6

Sony 4K Action Cam Review: Still Not Enough to Beat GoPro

Can Sony catch GoPro? It keeps coming close. Each new Sony action cam almost manages to reach GoPro’s lauded quality, but doesn’t quite seal the deal. With the new high-end 4K Action Cam, Sony looked like it might actually leapfrog GoPro’s flagship Hero4 Black. It doesn’t. In fact, in some ways, it feels further behind…

Reviews Brent Rose Apr 2

Now Aerial Photographers Can Get 80 Megapixel Photos From a Drone Camera

Remember that breathtaking 10k-timelapse video we stumbled upon last month? Expect to see more stuff like that in the future, but shot from drones: PhaseOne has announced the world’s smallest 80-megapixel medium format camera—a high end, lightweight shooter designed specifically for aerial photography. The iXU 180 will weigh in at a modest two pounds without…

Tech News Sean Buckley Mar 31

How to Take Better Photos Using Your Camera’s Mode Dial

Here’s What Sharks Do When You Give Them Cameras

Panasonic G7: The GH4’s New Kid Brother Can Still Shoot 4K Video

Fujifilm X-T10: A Smaller and Simpler Version of the Lauded X-T1

The Lily Is Your Latest Reminder That Flying Cameras Are The Future

We Took Some 50 Megapixel Shots With the Canon 5DS For You to Gawk At

Nokia vs Nokia: Holy Crap Smartphone Cameras Have Come A Long Way

Here’s How the LG G4 Camera Stacks Up To the iPhone 6 and Galaxy S6

Easily Cut People and Objects From Photos With This Camera App

What an insane 343x camera zoom would look like zooming in from 3 miles

7 Silly Techniques That Will Help You Take Fun Photographs

Shooting Challenge: Car Light Trails

The World’s First Self-Powered Video Camera Can Record Forever

27 Cool Photos Of International Coins

There Are No Blindspots With This Real-Time 3D View Of Your Car

A Rocket Launcher Camera Rig Shoots Photos With Deadly Precision

New FLIR Security Camera Turns Hours Of Footage Into Bite-Sized Clips

Watch Olympus’ Dope Image Stabilization Work Its Shake-Free Magic

Sony 4K Action Cam Review: Still Not Enough to Beat GoPro

Now Aerial Photographers Can Get 80 Megapixel Photos From a Drone Camera

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