Chickens Have Image Stabilized Heads
Man-made technologies are often inspired by things found in nature, right? Well, the big camera corps could learn a …
Find Copyright Violations with a Right Click in Firefox
If you care about not having your photographs used with permission, there’s a Firefox extension called …
Locking Mode Dial Upgrade for the Canon 5D Mark II and 7D
Canonites in Japan who often find their mode dial inadvertently changed can now choose to have their camera upgraded …
‘The Presidents Photographer’ by PBS
Update on 12/18/21: This video has been removed by its creator. The PBS documentary that we mentioned yesterday …
Russian Software Firm Breaks Canon’s Authenticity Verification, Big Time
Dmitry Sklyarov of Russian software company ElcomSoft announced yesterday that the encryption system used by Canon to prove the authenticity of photographs is flawed and unfixable. This is the system that's used to prove that images were not altered after being captured by the camera, and has applications in things such as court cases.
To prove their point, ElcomSoft published a series of ridiculous and obviously "Photoshopped" images (e.g. the astronaut planting a Soviet flag seen above) that all correctly pass Canon's authenticity verification.
Playing Freeze Tag with Canon DSLRs
“Freeze Tag” is an award-winning commercial by Canon in which people play the popular children’s game using Canon DSLR …
Nikon, Sony, and Sandisk Team Up to Design Future Memory Cards
Nikon, Sony, and Sandisk have announced that they’re teaming up to develop a set of specifications for the next …