Success Stories of People Who Turned Ideas into Photo Products
Have an idea for a photo product and an entrepreneurial itch? PDN published …
The First “Camera Phone” Photograph Was Sent in 1997
Cell phone photography is a huge trend these days with Instagram skyrocketing past …
“Dentapod” Invention from 1954 Uses Your Mouth for Image Stabilization
Back in March of 1954, Popular Science magazine featured an invention called the “dentapod” — a metal bracket attached …
Upcoming Sony Lens Adapter Does More than Adapt Lenses, Helps Focus Too
Here’s some interesting innovation on the tech-side of photography: on August 24, Sony will be unveiling a new lens …
Hackers Create a DIY Flare Gun Camera
The Israeli army has a tactical intelligence device called the "Firefly" -- a wireless camera that's launched out of a grenade launcher, capturing eight seconds worth of imagery as it floats on a parachute from 500 feet in the air.
Scientists Develop a Camera 10 Microns Thick that Creates Images with Math
Thought the grain-of-salt-sized camera announced in Germany earlier this year was small? Well, researchers at Cornell have …
Camera Lens Cap Holder Lets You Snap Lens Caps onto Straps
We’ve seen quite a few solutions for storing lens caps when they’re not in use, ranging from …
A Digital Camera That Magically Prints onto Any Flat Surface
Swedish Alex Breton spent 11 years and and $10 million developing the PrintBrush, …
Color Photography Turns 150 Years Old
Color photography was born on this day 150 years ago in 1861 when Scottish physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell and photographer Thomas Sutton -- inventor of the SLR camera -- shot the above photograph of a colored ribbon.
Leica First Invented Autofocus but Didn’t See Its Value
Did you know that Leica was actually the company that first invented autofocus? …
Neat Look at the WVIL Concept Camera
We covered the WVIL (wireless viewfinder interchangeable lens) concept camera at the beginning …
Researchers Invent a Way of Shooting 3D Photos Using a Single Lens
The applications of this on the consumer photography market are likely nil, but researchers at Ohio State University have invented a method of shooting 3D photographs using a single lens. The trick is that the lens is cut like a gem, giving it eight different facets in addition to the main face that "see" the subject from different perspectives. Custom software then takes in the image and processes the 9 different views to create a single 3D image.
Homemade “Fiberstrobe” Uses Fiber Optics to Split Light
If Doctor Octopus were to design a DIY flash accessory, it might look …
Dr. Edwin Land of Polaroid Demonstrates His New Invention
The October 27, 1972 issue of LIFE read “A Genius and His Magic …
Satarii Star Camera Base Makes Cameras Follow Your Every Move
Shooting photos or video remotely may get a whole lot easier if a startup company named …
Concept Cardboard Pinhole Camera Shoots Instant Photos
The "Flutter in Pinhole" is a beautiful concept camera that combines a cardboard pinhole camera with instant film to make sharing memories a breeze, and could be the high-tech postcard of the future.
360° Degree Camera Inspired by the Eye of the Fly
The folks over at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland have created a camera modeled after a fly's eye that provides a 360° view of the world. Packed with the 100 small cameras, what the camera captures is combined on a computer to provide a single 3D view of the world.
Floating Camera Merges Two Worlds
How do you take a picture of something above the surface of the water and below at the same …
The World’s First Digital Camera by Kodak and Steve Sasson
If you're a digital photography buff, here's some required trivia knowledge: what you see above is a photograph of the first digital camera ever built. It was created in December 1975 by an engineer at Eastman Kodak named Steve Sasson, now regarded as the inventor of the digital camera.
Acadalus Helps You Keep a Level Head
Getting a tripod head level can be a hassle, as Dr. Carl Koch found out on a cold night …
Dress Shirt with Built-In Microfiber Cloth
I don't know about you, but I often find myself wiping off the LCD on my DSLR or point-and-shoot with my clothes. The unseemly but common practice of wiping gadgets with clothes is exactly what FIFT, a husband and wife design team in Japan, had in mind when they designed the 'Wipe Shirt'.
Paparazzi Bot Prowls for Smiling Faces
The Paparazzi Bots are a series of robots invented by Ken Rinaldo, a faculty member in the Department of Art at Ohio State University. Each bot is autonomous, and moves about on a wheeled platform, using infrared sensors to move towards humans. It's goal is to take single photographs of people, and it makes decisions on whether or not to capture the photograph based on facial expressions of the subject. If you happen to be smiling, the bot is more likely to photograph you.