Cameras

The Leica V-Lux 30 Will Record Your Summer in 1080i

Leica revealed the newest addition to it’s compact digital camera line today with the V-Lux 30. Its equipped with a 15.1MP sensor, 16x zoom range, built-in GPS and a new mode for creating 3D-stills. Video records in 1080i HD with full use of the zoom as well as a stereo mic with electronic wind noise…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola May 25

Shooting Challenge: 1 Second

Last week, you captured life at 1/1000 of a second. This week, your photographs will last 1000x as long. You will photograph one entire second of time. https://gizmodo.com/111-scenes-that-lasted-1-1000-of-a-second-5805026 The Challenge Capture a photo with the shutter speed of 1 second. No faster or slower. The Technique 1-second exposures are interesting because it opens up options…

Tech News Mark Wilson May 25

Wooden Pinhole Camera Makes Art, Is Art

Sure, it looks like a speaker cabinet, or mysterious piece of nautical equipment, but what you’re looking at is actually a pinhole camera from Kurt Mottweiller Studios. The P90 is a lensless, medium format cameras are handmade from cherry, brass, and anodized aluminum in Portland, Oregon. It has a gracefully curving frontside, with a field…

Tech News Mat Honan May 24

Five Years On, the World’s Largest Photo Is Still the World’s Largest Photo

In an age where TV makers and the like are constantly outdoing one another with new “world’s largest” claims, it’s refreshing to discover that something so analog—a pinhole camera’s photo—is still the world’s largest, five years on. It may not look like much, but the photo’s eery landscape of the El Toro Control Tower, runways…

Tech News Kat Hannaford May 23

A Modern-Day Invisibility Cloak (Er, Necklace)

You’re probably on camera right now. Wave hello. If you were wearing this line of Cold Flare jewelry from a pair of ITP students, you’d be invisible—or at least, anonymous(er). Embedded in the jewelry are high-output infrared LEDs, which cause massive lens flare in surveillance cameras—particularly the kind designed to see at night. The result…

Tech News Matt Buchanan May 20

Turn your iPhone into a Super 8 camera — and learn secrets of J.J. Abrams’ new movie

A new app lets you turn your iPhone (or other i-device) into an old-school Super 8 camera. And it’s chock full of hints for J.J. Abrams new movie Super 8. It’s part tie-in app, part viral marketing, part movie-making tool. We got the inside scoop on the Super 8 app from David Baronoff, creative executive…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders May 19

PayPal Lets Android Users Deposit Checks With Their Cameras

Just like the iPhone PayPal app, and just like the Chase app, PayPal on Android now allows check deposits via photo upload. Apparently, a million dollars per month is transferred using this method on the iPhone app. [MobileCrunch] https://gizmodo.com/pay-in-checks-to-your-paypal-account-thanks-to-their-la-5656800

Tech News Adrian Covert May 18

This Big Ass DIY Camera Takes Pictures on 3 Foot Long Film

Darren Samuelson wanted bigger pictures so built himself a ginormous camera that he aptly named Darren’s Great Big Camera. When fully extended, the camera is taller than the average man (6 feet long) and shoots on 14×36-inch negatives. NBD. It’s definitely an impressive piece of work, that required a lot of audibles, tweaking and patience…

Tech News Casey Chan May 18

The Samsung Cube Camera, Too Bizarre to Exist

A recent interview with Samsung’s camera division yielded some interesting bits about their lenses—but the real star was this photo of lost prototypes. The model with the three vintage-y dials is gorgeous. But the cube? Uhh. Uhhh. We’re all for experimenting with form factors, but I can’t imagine anyone wanting to whip out a cube-shaped…

Gadgets Sam Biddle May 18

Nazis Filmed the 1936 Olympics in 3D?

Apparently, Nazis were using 3D cameras before any of us thought 3D was dumb. According to Variety, Nazis had developed a ‘sophisticated stereoscopic camera’ to record athletes as they crossed the finish line in the 1936 Olympics. Philippe Mora, a filmmaker who has previously found evidence of Nazi using 3D in propaganda movies, believes Nazis…

Tech News Casey Chan May 17

A Skinned Leica M6 Still Looks Hot to Me

I don’t know what possessed photographer Duncan Meeder to strip a Leica M6 rangefinder camera of its skin, but here you have it, naked. Doesn’t it chill you to your core, just like with the hacksawed Leica lenses? [PetaPixel] https://gizmodo.com/dont-cry-for-this-hacksawed-leica-lens-5802249/#comments

Tech News Kat Hannaford May 17

Video From Many iPhones, Beamed Over Wi-Fi, Can Be Shot By the CollabraCam App

CollabraCam links video from multiple iPhones and feeds them into another iPhone that controls live, multi-cam editing. Utilizing an ad-hoc Wi-Fi network [It requires a wireless LAN, but not an internet connection] to get all the phones networked, the idea behind CollabraCam is that minimal—if any at all—post-production is necessary. However, if your backyard wrestling…

Tech News Adrian Covert May 17

Don’t Cry For This Hacksawed Leica Lens

While most Leica lenses cost thousands of dollars, you can pick one up on eBay now for $995. There’s just one catch…it’s in half. It wasn’t some random Sigma fan armed with a hacksaw—oh no, it was those darned Leica students, who created them for a graduation project. The lenses, a Leica Tri-Elmar-M 28-35-50mm (top)…

Tech News Kat Hannaford May 16

Please, Someone Send Help to the Wife of the Man Who Owns Over 1,000 Instant Cameras

Mind you, if I were TM Wong’s wife, I could happily put up with the clutter if I got to try out a new instant camera every day for close to three years. And that’s if the Hong Kong-resident doesn’t keep adding to the collection! According to The Mijonju Show, TM Wong set a Guinness…

Tech News Kat Hannaford May 12

Panasonic’s New Lumix G3 Snaps Snappier Shots (and Loves to Be Touched)

Panasonic’s newest Micro Four Thirds cam is a mostly-incremental boost over its predecessor, the G2. But improved specs on an already solid base is good news. The G3 brings a new sensor, faster shots, less noise, and a touch-heavy interface. We’ll get to that interface—but everything else is a numbers game. The G3 hops up…

Tech News Sam Biddle May 12

New Panasonic G3 Micro Four Thirds Camera Leaked?

According to 4/3 Rumors, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-G3 is going to be announced tomorrow. The G3 is Micro Four Thirds camera that’s a successor to the pretty sweet G2 and is supposed to be 25% smaller than the original. https://gizmodo.com/panasonic-lumix-dmc-g2-and-g10-micro-four-thirds-camera-5487406 Also, 4/3 Rumors is saying that the camera is expected to pack a 15.8 megapixel…

Tech News Casey Chan May 11

It May be Digital, But Rolleiflex’s MiniDigi Twin Lens Reflex Has All the Charm of the Original

As you point this Rolleiflex, your subject won’t know your dirty little secret—that you’re actually shooting a digital photo, rather than film. Just like the original TLRs, you look down into the lens—or 1.1-inch LCD, in this case. The crank on the side needs to be turned for every photo, and just like with the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford May 11

Some Gadgets Age Better Than Other Gadgets

The Japanese have a term for the pleasing decay of objects: “Wabi-sabi.” How many gadgets and other products have you held onto, because you like how they’ve worn down? Converse; holey jeans; your Casio watch…even your silver Game Boy from long ago, that looks so beautifully battered after years of being tossed in a backpack?…

Tech News Kat Hannaford May 9

Take iPhone Photos, Get Paid

That’s what Gigwalk promises at least, providing you the chance to make some money for snapping some street shots with your phone if you’re in the right place. It’s simple: you sign up, enter your PayPal info, and look on the map to pick up a nearby “gig.” TechCrunch uses Gigwalk’s client TomTom as an…

Tech News Adrian Covert May 6

Looking for a DSLR? Buy These Film Cameras Instead

Sure, the immediate impetus of Pop Photo’s list of 12 film cameras to buy is the creeping price of DSLRs in the wake of Japan’s giant mess, but really, summer is the perfect time to get into film, the perfect time to make seriously artsy photos. If you live in Brooklyn, how could you not…

Tech News Matt Buchanan May 6

The Leica V-Lux 30 Will Record Your Summer in 1080i

Shooting Challenge: 1 Second

Wooden Pinhole Camera Makes Art, Is Art

Five Years On, the World’s Largest Photo Is Still the World’s Largest Photo

A Modern-Day Invisibility Cloak (Er, Necklace)

Turn your iPhone into a Super 8 camera — and learn secrets of J.J. Abrams’ new movie

PayPal Lets Android Users Deposit Checks With Their Cameras

This Big Ass DIY Camera Takes Pictures on 3 Foot Long Film

The Samsung Cube Camera, Too Bizarre to Exist

Nazis Filmed the 1936 Olympics in 3D?

A Skinned Leica M6 Still Looks Hot to Me

Video From Many iPhones, Beamed Over Wi-Fi, Can Be Shot By the CollabraCam App

Don’t Cry For This Hacksawed Leica Lens

Please, Someone Send Help to the Wife of the Man Who Owns Over 1,000 Instant Cameras

Panasonic’s New Lumix G3 Snaps Snappier Shots (and Loves to Be Touched)

New Panasonic G3 Micro Four Thirds Camera Leaked?

It May be Digital, But Rolleiflex’s MiniDigi Twin Lens Reflex Has All the Charm of the Original

Some Gadgets Age Better Than Other Gadgets

Take iPhone Photos, Get Paid

Looking for a DSLR? Buy These Film Cameras Instead

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