Cameras

Lightpainting Goes Spooky For Halloween

We saw some amazing examples of lightpainting in our Shooting Challenge back in July, but Flickr user Jannepaint has come along and eclipsed them all with his pro-shooting. It’s all done in front of the camera, with no after-trickery involved. https://gizmodo.com/46-people-painted-with-light-5590916 This particular one, Serotonia, is my favorite—it was shot using a Sony DSLR-A200. It…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 27

Over 7,000 People Tagged in One Facebook Photo Wins a Guinness World Record

36 ultra hi-res photos taken with two Hasselblad cameras at this year’s Glastonbury Festival in England were stitched together to create a 1.3-gigapixel image. Of the 70,000 people captured, over 7,000 dirty revellers have tagged themselves on Facebook. This has awarded the pictured, created by mobile network Orange, a Guinness World Record for most people…

Social Media Kat Hannaford Oct 22

TV Cameraman Keeps Filming After A Baseball Bat Smacks His Gear

We’ve seen what happened when a golf ball gently bounced off a camera lens, but what happens when a baseball bat is violently flung toward a very expensive camera? And more importantly: What happens to the guy holding the gear? https://gizmodo.com/tiger-woods-shoots-golf-ball-directly-at-photographers-5654535 Turns out that very little happens to both camera and cameraman. Or at least…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Oct 20

What’s Going On Here?

While the Apple din goes on, let’s try and work out what’s happening in this photo. Are those two cameras collaborating on something 3D? Shooting the air in between the lenses? Just saying “hey”? Give us your opinion here: Here’s a bonus shot: After you solve our question, you can go back to ogling the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 20

This Inflatable Photo Studio Could Also Make For a Cheap Mobile Home For Hungry Photogs

I love that the inventor of this inflatable photo studio was so frustrated at rising studio hire prices in New York, that he built his own portable studio for sidewalk-working—and is now flogging them for $500 each. If that doesn’t show this photographer as having a large dosage of creativity and forward-thinking, then I don’t…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 19

This DSLR Rig Looks Like A Torture Chamber For Cameras

With so many bars, wires and knobs, this Swedish Chameleon DSLR Rig looks more like a torture tool than anything else. In reality, it’s a $3500 tool used to give photographers and filmmakers insane stability and a sick level of customization. I’m not exactly sure if this sort of possibly heavy, probably complicated rig is…

Tech News Casey Chan Oct 16

The Ultimate Smartphone Camera Battle

Smartphone cameras are becoming increasingly powerful-many, in fact, are fully capable of taking very sharp and professional looking photos. But are these phones capable of holding their own against more sophisticated equipment? And which phone does it best? To make a fair comparison, we compared smartphone shots taken in a bevy of different lighting scenarios,…

Reviews Alan Fackler - MaximumPC Oct 14

Sony’s NEX Cameras Now Support Auto Focus When Using A-Mount Lenses

The brilliant thing about Sony’s NEX-3 and NEX-5 cameras is that they’re compatible with the company’s A-mount lenses (when using the $200 LA-EA1 Mount Adaptor). Thanks to a firmware update, there’s now AF support when using these lenses, plus users can customize the soft-key settings and maintain the aperture settings when recording video. [Sony] https://gizmodo.com/sony-nex-3-and-nex-5-cameras-receive-firmware-update-fo-5577116…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 14

Panasonic’s Micro Four Thirds Video Camera Won’t Cost “That” Much After All

I say “won’t cost that much” because the Japanese price of the AG-AF100 converted to just under $10,000, which is a heck of a lot more than what it’ll really cost in the States when it goes on sale December 27th: $4,995. https://gizmodo.com/panasonics-compact-interchangeable-video-camera-will-co-5636422 It’s the first mirrorless camcorder that can use interchangeable lenses, so if…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 14

Please Don’t Ever Photograph These Seven Things Again

Most of us post stupid pictures of ourselves on the Internet constantly, but it’s time to stop being annoying attention whores. The first step? Never photographing these seven things again. Republished with permission from Matthew Inman aka “The Oatmeal,” a former web designer turned comic artist. You can see more of his work on The…

Books & Comics Matthew Inman Oct 13

82 Striking Photos of Smoke

Like water, smoke is beautiful, powerful and unpredictable. The 82 photos from this week’s Shooting Challenge not only capture smoke as smoke, but smoke as demons, jellyfish and…OK…sometimes just as smoke. Lead Shot – Toasted The set-up is trivial: an industrial hot lamp (700wt) is shining at a small angle from from below and the…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 12

Olympus is Ditching Entry-Level SLRs for Micro Four Thirds Cameras

While an entry-level DSLR has its time and place, Olympus is focusing its attentions on its PEN series of micro four thirds camera instead, according to Toshiyuki Terada, the product manager at SLR Olympus Planning department. “We do not have concrete plans to replace the E-620 and other recent SLRs. The entry level SLR class…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 12

Animals Like You’ve Never Seen Them Before, in the British Wildlife Photography Awards

Brits have terrific reputations for wildlife photography, thanks to the likes of David Attenborough snapping where no man snapped before. The BWP Awards are brimming with glorious shots like this frog spawn one, but there can be only one winner… And that winner is Steve Young from the Isles of Scilly, who won the annual…

Biology Kat Hannaford Oct 7

Sony’s 16.41MP Sensor Shoots 1080p Video and Will Be in Phones Next Year

Sure, it’s not all about the megapixels, but Sony’s just trumped Panasonic’s Lumix phone with their 16.41MP Exmor R-based CMOS sensor—seen in a phone near you shortly. Shooting 1080p video at 30fps, it uses back-illumination to reduce visual noise. It will be offered to manufacturers from January, and will no doubt show up in Sony…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 7

Shooting Challenge: Smoke

You know what they say: Where there’s smoke, there are people taking pictures of smoke. And for this week’s Shooting Challenge, we want to see beautiful, billowing smoke. The Challenge Take a photo that features the fine details of smoke as its subject. You can contextualize the smoke (in other words, it can be part…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 6

LEGO Leica Camera Works, But Won’t Fool Anybody

Save yourself $5k by making a Leica M8 out of LEGO for $50. It’s a good way to dodge those red-dot taxes, but I’ll warn you: the 3MP camera will hardly hold up to your phone, let alone a Leica. MOCPages user Schfio Factory used a $50 LEGO camera as a base for the camera,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 6

RED Gives Up Making Consumer Cameras, Saying “We Had No Idea What We Were Doing”

They might be struggling with how to position themselves in the market, but at least RED is willing to jump onto their message boards and update everyone on what they’re doing. A lot of companies could learn from that transparency. Still, it’s not at all surprising that the delayed prosumer Scarlet camera is going to…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 5

The Difference Between a Full-Frame Sensor and the Tinier One Inside Your DSLR

Only the most expensive DSLRs use full-frame sensors—one that’s about the same size as a 35mm frame of film. More typical DSLRs, like the Nikon D7000 or Canon T2i use smaller sensors. This video shows what that means. Mike Collins’ setup compares a 5D Mark II, which has a full-frame sensor, and a 7D, which…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 4

OMG, It’s a Full On Complete Rainbow All the Way Across the Moon!

It may not be a Double Rainbow, but it’s a Lunar Rainbow! How could this be possible? it doesn’t rain there. The Moon doesn’t even have an atmosphere…so how could the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s camera capture this phenomenal phenomenon? The LROC’s Wide Angle uses filters to capture images, capturing three different wavelengths: a 689nm filter…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz Oct 4

Zoom Q3HD Handy Video Recorder Shoots 1080p and Has Stereo Mics to Match

While pocket cams video quality has improved incrementally from “good enough” to really actually pretty damn good, audio quality has largely been ignored. The new Zoom Q3HD combines 1080p, 30fps video with stereo mics for the full pocket cam package. Zoom is known for their audio recorders, and the Q3HD is a nicer-looking refresh of…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Oct 4

Lightpainting Goes Spooky For Halloween

Over 7,000 People Tagged in One Facebook Photo Wins a Guinness World Record

TV Cameraman Keeps Filming After A Baseball Bat Smacks His Gear

What’s Going On Here?

This Inflatable Photo Studio Could Also Make For a Cheap Mobile Home For Hungry Photogs

This DSLR Rig Looks Like A Torture Chamber For Cameras

The Ultimate Smartphone Camera Battle

Sony’s NEX Cameras Now Support Auto Focus When Using A-Mount Lenses

Panasonic’s Micro Four Thirds Video Camera Won’t Cost “That” Much After All

Please Don’t Ever Photograph These Seven Things Again

82 Striking Photos of Smoke

Olympus is Ditching Entry-Level SLRs for Micro Four Thirds Cameras

Animals Like You’ve Never Seen Them Before, in the British Wildlife Photography Awards

Sony’s 16.41MP Sensor Shoots 1080p Video and Will Be in Phones Next Year

Shooting Challenge: Smoke

LEGO Leica Camera Works, But Won’t Fool Anybody

RED Gives Up Making Consumer Cameras, Saying “We Had No Idea What We Were Doing”

The Difference Between a Full-Frame Sensor and the Tinier One Inside Your DSLR

OMG, It’s a Full On Complete Rainbow All the Way Across the Moon!

Zoom Q3HD Handy Video Recorder Shoots 1080p and Has Stereo Mics to Match

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