November 15, 2010

You might be seeing your photography enthusiast friends upgrading their camera straps left and right, opting for fancier ones that are attached to the bottom of a camera via the tripod mount, but what if you're super attached to your traditional strap? Say hello to the C-Loop, a simple little attachment being developed by Custom SLR and funded through Kickstarter. It's an elegant solution for transforming your beloved (albeit ordinary) strap into a fancier R-Strap-style one.

One day, ordinary digital cameras might be able to capture not just the image of a scene, but the depth information of that scene as well, allowing 3D representations to be built afterward. UC Davis visualization researcher Oliver Kreylos took the Microsoft Kinect webcam-style sensor and built such a camera. The video above shows him demonstrating how the scene can be viewed in three dimensions after combining the information from the device's infrared and color cameras.

"Photocopy Romance" is a creative stop motion video made with a scanner.

TIME magazine has named the Sony Alpha A55 as one of the top 50 inventions of 2010. They write, …

Wow, who knew this little toy camera by Penchan would beat all the big camera corps in being the first to offer terapixel photos?... Now all you need is a terapixel petabyte memory card.