Eye-Fi announced their new Mobile X2 memory card today, which allows you to instantly transfer photos taken with your camera to mobile devices running iOS or Android. With the card in your camera and their special app on your device, a direct Wi-Fi connection will be established allowing you to shoot straight to your device. The 8GB card will be available later this week for $80.
Goodbye Flip Video camera. Cisco announced today that they're killing off the camera line in an attempt to refocus their consumer electronics business. They purchased the company behind the camera, Pure Digital Technologies, back in 2009. Flip Video cameras have long held the bestselling spots for camcorders on websites like Amazon by offering both HD video recording and convenient transferring with a built-in USB connection, but competition from rival camcorders and the introduction of HD …
At weddings, guests are often given disposable cameras that they can use to capture memories from their vantage point, but collecting and processing them afterwards can be a hassle and it's definitely not something that has caught up with our digital photography age. Hitch is a concept camera idea by industrial design student Martin Spurway that makes a lot of sense -- guests at an event are given simplified digital cameras, and photographs from the cameras are automatically collected when the …
For their Multimedia Installation class project, Pratt graduate students Alex Crawford and Austin Nelson built a Rube Golberg photobooth that starts with a Instax instant photo and ends with a digital one about thirty seconds later. 30 hours went into building this creative -- albeit useless -- contraption.
Photographer Chuck Miller got his hands on a roll of Super-XX 120 government surplus film from eBay with an expiration date of May 1959 -- film that's 50+ years old and, as Miller notes, older than the Los Angeles Angels baseball team.
If you want to make a "bullet time" video like the kind made famous by The Matrix, you don't need a gigantic budget or 52 DSLRs lined up in a row. Just get a large group of friends, stand in a circle around your subjects, and snap pictures at the same time! Photoblog.hk recently held an event called "See You Around Hong Kong" where large groups of photography enthusiasts gathered to do just that.
Customer: Hi. I'm a professional photographer but I don't understand why are my pictures green, and then sometimes blue. Salesperson: Do you have a certain mode enabled? Maybe a colour swap feature has been accidentally turned on, try resetting the camera back to the original factory settings. Customer: No, no. I know about that -- I've been published before with some of the pictures I've taken... I know what I'm doing. Salesperson: So reseting the camera didn't work? Customer: No. Salesperson: …
