February seems to be the month when lost photographers' lives are saved thanks to their camera flashes. Last year around this time a German tourist was miraculously rescued when a woman spotted his desperate flashes on a live webcam feed.
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The Super Bowl isn't just the biggest event in the NFL season, but one of the biggest events for the world's best sports photographers each year. Here's a neat behind-the-scenes look at what it's like to shoot the Super Bowl as a Sports Illustrated photographer.
NEC announced today that they've developed "noise suppression technologies" for compact cameras that will clean up the audio in video recordings by canceling out the noise created by the lens zooming in and out. It works by storing a recording of what the zoom noise sounds like to the camera, and subtracting that noise from recorded video. Casio's new EX-ZR10 will be the first compact to feature this new tech, but NEC promises that it'll be found throughout the digicam market soon. Enjoy the …
Did you know that Russian President Dimitri Medvedev is an avid photo enthusiast? In this video he shares some thoughts on photography, and talks about his own involvement in the art. If you're wondering what he shoots with, the answer is a Leica M9, as well as Canon and Nikon cameras.
For his project titled "Ponte City", photographer Mikhael Subotzky photographed every door, window, and television set in a particular apartment building in Johannesburg. The photographs are then displayed on giant contact sheets, creating beautiful miniature apartment buildings out of photographs. You can view larger versions of each contact sheet on Subotzky's website.
