Cameras

Everybody Probably Has These Dumb Pictures on Their Phone

The best camera is the one you have with you, they say. What they don’t tell you is that if that camera is your phone, it also doubles as the worst camera because of all the stupid pictures you have saved and forgot about in your camera roll. You know those photos. Accidental screenshots, once…

Fire-Breathing Human Is Even Crazier in GoPro Bullet Time

Here we have 24 GoPros recording at high speed, strategically arranged around a fire-breathing daredevil. When the footage is slowed down and spliced together, you get a sweet bullet-time effect—without using a bunch of crazy professional cameras. Sure, this is some $7000 worth of GoPro Hero 3s, but it’s pretty slick considering sometimes these rigs…

Sony A7 and A7r: Mirrorless Cameras Have (Finally!) Gone Full-Frame

Mirrorless interchangeable-lens cameras have come a long way in only a few years. And after gradually layering on new features and capability, they’ve finally reached an apex in Sony’s new A7 and A7r models, both of which sport that big and beautiful bastion of image quality—the full-frame sensor. Sony’s new type of mirrorless system not…

Sony RX10: A Loaded, Long-Zoom Camera With a Killer Sensor

Sony’s expanding its line of snazzy high-end point-and-shoot cameras with yet another formula we haven’t seen before. The new RX10 takes the design of the superzoom “bridge” cameras popular with amateurs and juices it with an enthusiast-quality image sensor and dope optics. Like the entire RX-line, the new shooter promises impressive image quality for a…

Report: These Are Sony’s New 24- and 36-Megapixel Alpha Cameras

DigitalCameraInfo has reportedly gotten ahold of the specs and images of two of Sony’s new Alpha digital cameras, the A7 and the A7R. We don’t know how they shoot yet, but they sure look nice. The A7, pictured above, will supposedly have 24 megapixels, and cost around $1700 for just the body. In the top…

Dropcam Pro: A Burlier Webcam to Keep Watch Over Your Home

Dropcam, the worldwide leader in nanny cams, is following up its popular cloud-powered remote monitoring system with a greatly improved piece of hardware so that you can track your home-piece in more detail than ever before. Dropcam Pro doesn’t look different than its predecessor, but there’s a lot of good new stuff under the piano-black…

Flickr’s new iOS 7 app now offers automatic uploading at full resolution, with sharing set to private by default. Neat.

Nikon will release an ever-so-slightly modified version oflast year’s totally fantastic,D600full-frame DSLR. The new D610’s only change is its drive. The camera will now feature a slowed-down “quiet-continuous mode” that will fire frames sequentially at a slowed-down 3 fps with closer-to-silent shutter action so you don’t disturb the birds or whatever you’re taking pictures of.…

Pentax K-3: A DSLR Camera That Sees the World a Few Different Ways

As the sub-$1000, beginner DSLR camera’s utility has been gradually been replaced by the rise of mirrorless cameras, the just-over $1000 DSLR market remains an area where camera companies are hoping to reign in more advanced and even professional users. With that in mind, let’s take a look at Pentax’s new K-3, a completely overhauled…

Olympus OM-D E-M1 Review: Robust, Utilitarian, and Wonderful

It was only a year and a half ago when Olympus showed that a small, stylish camera with no mirror and a little sensor could hang in the big leagues. Many photographers instantly fell in love with the OM-D E-M5. Now, with the E-M1, nearly every bar has been raised for even the most demanding…

Narrative Is A Lifelogging Camera That’s Finally Happening

In March we covered Memoto, a lifelogging camera that takes two photos a minute while you’re wearing it. It was in the preorder stage then and with $500,000 more than expected from its November Kickstarter, it had an ambitious April shipping timeframe. Which obviously didn’t happen. BUT now it’s actually going to ship on November…

TheMoto X camera fix that hit T-Mobile handsets last week is now rolling out to AT&T versions of the phone. Rejoice smartphone shutterbugs.

The classic toy camera Diana F+ can now be bought as an Instant Camera package for $140. Previously, you had to buy a separate instant back to the camera for $90, not to mention the $90 it cost for the Diana F+ camera itself. Save a few bucks! [Lomography]

A Projector Camera That Adds Wacky Animations Can’t Just Be for Kids

Photography is a lovely hobby for adults who’ve developed the requisite patience to wait for the perfect shot. But for kids? Not so much. They demand more instant gratification, so Hasbro has created the Showcam, a digital camera targeted at kids that lets them add effects and hilarious animations to photos, and even project them…

Stabilized Action Cam and Smartphone Mounts Smooth Out Your Home Vids

It doesn’t matter how extreme your stunt was no one’s going to want to see your home video when it’s bouncing all over the place making people sick to their stomach. But now you can skip the stabilization software and stop the shaky cam problem at its source with these handheld gimbals. Keeping a video…

This Camera Array Lets You Tweak the Shot Angle In Post-Production

In the same way the Lytro camera allows photographers to tweak the focus of their shots in post-production, this multi-camera array, developed by researchers at the Fraunhofer institute, allows directors to adjust the depth of field, the aperture, and even the camera angle of a given shot after it’s been captured. The phrase ‘fix it…

How Mercedes Benz Uses Cameras to Stabilize the Road While You Drive

The newest Mercedes Benz S-Class has a new Magic Body Control feature that basically stabilizes the road you drive on. Mercedes is cleverly using a chicken’s self-stabilizing head to popularize the feature but explains how it works in more detail in the video above. https://jalopnik.com/2014-mercedes-benz-s-63-amg-ghaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-811470106 You’ll never feel a bump again. Hopefully. The magic in…

Sony QX100 Teardown: The Beautiful Guts of a Weird Camera

The QX100 is a freaking bizarre camera. It looks like just a big lens barrel, but it’s actually a whole camera. No matter what you think of its odd appearance, though, on the inside, its guts are indisputably glorious. Here’s a look at what’s inside. https://gizmodo.com/sony-qx100-a-fancy-freaky-lens-camera-that-feeds-off-1245985295 The teardown reveals many of the RX100 guts we…

iPhone 5S Camera Battle: A Stand-Up Camera That Doesn’t Stand Out

We spent the morning and afternoon testing out the redesigned iPhone 5S camera to get a sense of how it compares to its predecessor, as well as to the cameras on its biggest competitors. Without a doubt, it’s a solid shooter that incorporates some improvements, but mostly, we’re just damned impressed at how far smartphone…

Nikon AW1: A Rugged, Waterproof Mirrorless Camera Could Make a Splash

Nikon’s new AW1 is the first waterproof interchangeable-lens camera we’re aware of, and we have to admit that even if it seems a tad niche, it’s refreshing to see Nikon dive into something new. This camera will definitely be a lot of fun, but more importantly, it’s a smart design direction for the company’s line…