Archive for: Photography
The digital age has allowed modern photography to hit new heights. The things we can do to a photograph (and video no less) are mind blowing. Reaching such heights, however, takes a great deal of skill. But things are going to get easier as technology will allow for the less technologically inclined to create complex effects quickly and easily. And it all starts here with Lytro’s the Light Field Camera.
The coolest feature of this spacey camera is that it gives users the ability to edit pictures after they’re taken. But not just things such as exposure, color depth, etc. We’re talking actual focal points!
The way it works is simple, really. Instead of grabbing a small chunk of light that enters its lens, the Light Field camera grabs all of it including color, intensity and direction of the rays of light.
Ready for a hands-on demo, hop past the break and get to it…
With the ubiquity of Apple’s past iPhones coupled with the updated 5-megapixel camera on the most recent iPhone 4, mobile photography has officially entered a new era. While countless camera phones (even many with much better optics) have come and gone before Apple’s iPhone, few have garnered the same popularity and at the same time amassed such a following of 3rd party accessory makers. With that said, we’ve seen some truly unique devices and contraptions to strap to the iPhone. And thanks to the LightInTheBox 8x iPhone 4 lens, that journey keeps going…
Who says the megapixel race is dead? Sigma’s new $9,700, 46-megapixel DSLR is the epitome of over-indulgence.
HItting the stratospheric megapixel count comes courtesy of a three-layer sensor (15 megapixels each) with a True II Image processor. Added touches such as 100 to 6,400 iso sensitivity, 11-point auto-focus, magnesium body w/ sealed o-rings, and a 3″ 460,000 color LCD ’round back ensure you take the very best pictures possible. Serious photographers can now begin jumping for joy.
Ships in early June.
[Sigma]
We here at Gadgetsteria love infographs. Visual representation and nerdy details thrown together make our pulses jump and eyes widen. The only thing better than finding infographs is sharing them with others. This spiffy one before you details the rise of iPhone photography. While the earliest iPhone cameras weren’t much to write home about, the latest hardware along with several versatile 3rd party attachments are quickly eating into entry and mid-level DSLR territory. It’s an interesting battle for sure. Hop inside and check out the full 590 x 2482 infograph in all its glory…
- February 20, 2011 4:17 pm
If you’re on the lookout for a more robust camera app for iOS, you’ve no doubt come to the realization that the sea of suitable apps is vast and chock full of options. How is a consumer such as yourself supposed to choose? It’s quite simple actually. Read GS! On that note, today we’re taking a look at PhotoStudio for iOS. For mobile photographers and photo aficionados, PhotoStudio ads a considerable amount of extra options and features the stock camera app doesn’t offer. Hop inside and check it out…
- November 30, 2010 6:10 am
As cameras grow in megapixel count, gain video recording capabilities, and life’s demands request more and more pictures, the memory cards that store said memories are pushed to their limits. Though, storage space isn’t really a concern. Numbers for such things have exploded over the last few years to the point that anyone can pick up more memory or storage than they’ll probably ever use for photos. But what good is a 2TB memory card if it transfers at a pokey 10-100MB/s?
Nikon, Sandisk, and Sony are coming to our aide, as they have started work on a next-gen Compact Flash standard that would see speeds raised from 100MB/s to nearly 600MB/s. A 6x increasing in transfer speeds could certainly give hardcore photographers a nice chunk of their day back that is currently wasted on waiting for images to transfer. The only downside of course, is that the new standard won’t be backwards compatible with existing Compact Flash technology.
For now, the wait looks pretty long. The Compact Flash Association is just beginning to receive the trio’s ideas and plans. From there begins many, many months of testing and planning. But if it brings about dramatically improved Compact Flash transfer speeds, I personally don’t mind the wait.
- September 10, 2010 10:59 pm
What Apple taketh away, the jailbreaking community giveth. What am I talking about…this time? HDR photos. Yesterday, HDR photos were solely an iPhone 4 feature. But in the near future, it will also be an iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS feature too thanks to @cdevwill. The tweak isn’t available yet. But you can be sure that once the new HDR love takes a blast from the past, we’ll let you know. Stay tuned…
It’s friday. News is kind of slow. We’re looking (like really, really looking) for stuff to throw your way. But dammit. I keep getting distracted by videos such as “Tempus II”. The video, created by Philip Heron, a student at Ravensbourne College of art in the UK, highlights 7 minutes of super slo-mo 5,000fps video, capturing everything from shooting cards, a karate dude taking out some cinder blocks, to light bulbs smashing against the ground. There’s a lot to take in with those little eyeballs of yours.
One thing I found pretty interesting was the sheer amount of storage needed to pull of this video. Shooting at 1/5th the speed (1,000fps if you skipped ahead) takes up 8GB of storage for every 6 seconds. So shooting at 5,000fps for nearly 7 minutes equals up to nearly 3TB of images! That’s insane!
Anywho, thrill me (and entertain yourself) by taking a few minutes to watch Tempus II. If you’re a real nerd like you claim to be, then you’ll certainly enjoy what you see…
Camera+ is an awesome and well put together iPhone camera application. In a recent update, they made it even better by tapping into the volume +/- buttons to use them as a shutter button. Awesome! I along with countless other iPhone users know holding your precious iDevice and trying to poke the screen to aim and shoot isn’t always the best option. It’s nice to actually have…you know…options. But this is the iPhone and the infamous App Store approval process at work. So you know where this is going…
Apple rejected the app with the hardware shutter buttons saying it would confuse users. Stupidity is too nice a word. Moving on, Camera+ had the last laugh. While the latest version of Camera+ that’s in the App Store doesn’t have shutter button features enabled by default, an ingenious solution by the developers (Tap Tap Tap) is included to allow end users to enable and disable said feature easily and after the fact:
We’ve seen various apps and services get around Apple’s draconian App Store polices via Safari before. This is yet another notch in the belt if you will. Unfortunately as we’ve seen before, Camera+’s days in the App Store may be drawing to a close once Apple finds out (and probably already has because of our big mouths). When things don’g go their way, they get all ban happy. Best get to it while there’s something to be had…
