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Apple Patents Watch Band with Built-In Camera

Apple has patented a new Apple Watch band that features a camera built into it. But unlike other bands with built-in cameras, this new Apple design allows the wearer to point the camera in all kinds of directions without having to bend the wrist.

This High-Tech Watch Strap Adds Two Cameras to the Apple Watch

To hear startup Glide tell it, your smartphone camera is just too difficult to reach at a moment's notice, sitting there in your pocket. The next step in the evolution of the portable camera must be attached to you, which is why they developed CMRA: an Apple Watch strap equipped with not one, but two cameras.

New Patent Shows Apple Watch with Built-In Camera

When the Apple Watch first came out, Apple saw no reason to make it bulkier by putting a camera into the tiny device. But according to a patent published this week, the company may have changed its mind.

AstroPad Mini Turns Your iPhone Into a Photo Editing Graphics Tablet

Last month we reported on the AstroPad App for the Apple iPad: a solution that allowed you to turn your consumer tablet into a professional graphics tablet when working with applications such as Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, or Illustrator. Now, the company is announcing a new app for the iPhone called AstroPad Mini -- it's everything you love about AstroPad... just minimized.

Recreating an Apple Watch Product Picture

Apple has a distinctive style when it comes to product images promoting its gadgets. After seeing the teaser image for the new Apple Watch, photographer Jared Polin of FroKnowsPhoto decided that he would try his hand at recreating the shot as closely as possible.

The Apple Watch Can Be Used as a Live View Remote for the Olympus Air

If you're the early adopter type and are looking into owning both the Apple Watch and the Olympus Air, here's some good news for you: the two gadgets can be combined into one functional camera system. A new app allows the Apple Watch to be used as the live view display and control interface for Olympus' unusual camera.

Lumy Arrives on Apple Watch to Put Golden Hour Reminders On Your Wrist

Last September, we featured Lumy, an elegant iPhone app that's designed to help photographers track golden hour and other times of the day with ideal natural light. Today, the company released an update that brings the app to the new Apple Watch, allowing photographers to be reminded of certain lighting conditions with notifications on their wrist.

A Rundown of the Photo-Related Features in Apple’s Exciting New Watch

After unveiling Apple’s latest lineup of iPhones, Tim Cook got back up on the Apple stage and said the now-iconic words that Steve Jobs became known for, “one more thing…”

That one more thing was Apple Watch, affectionately referred to as Watch if you like symbols. And while a watch is traditionally more of a fashion accessory than a functional tool for photographers, the wrist-worn device definitely has some neat photography-related capabilities.