June 15, 2011

Last week we shared about how astronauts left some Nikon DSLR gear to burn up in the atmosphere instead of having it brought back to Earth, but it certainly wasn't the first time cameras were left in space. Did you know that there are 12 Hasselblad cameras currently sitting on the surface of the moon? The cameras that shot those iconic images of the moon's surface between 1969 and 1972 were left there to allow for the 25kg of lunar rock samples that were brought back instead. Only the film …

German sports photographer Peter Langenhahn has an interesting way of documenting the important moments in a sporting event. Instead of showing them each in a separate photograph, he shoots events from a distant perspective and combines the important moments into a single image afterward. For example, one of his panoramas shows every single foul called throughout the course of a soccer match. After shooting up to 3,000 photos during an event, he spends up to 2-3 months combining them into a …

Kate Spade's Pocomo Gwem handbag features a pretty well-known rangefinder camera. Recognize it? It's the Leica M9 with a gold plated spade in the "red dot" instead of the standard Leica logo. Too bad the $225 bag isn't meant to actually hold one.

Flickr is a popular method of sharing photos, but the service doesn't provide any easy way to download them in bulk. Flick and Share is a web app that creates simple download links for Flickr sets that you can send to family and friends, allowing them to quickly download a copy of the images you shot at an event. We've tested it out, and it works as advertised.

Film director André Chocron created this beautiful music video for the song "Time is of the essence" by Cold Mailman using time-lapse and tons of time-consuming editing. The time-lapse stills were shot over two weeks using a Canon 7D and Nikon D300, but that wasn't the difficult part -- editing the video to have the apartment buildings serve as equalizers for the music took a whopping three months!

Mobile photo sharing star Instagram just announced its 5 millionth member and will soon pass 100 million photos, but their domination of the market may not last much longer. According to TechCrunch, Facebook -- a service that receives 6 billion photos a month and stores 100 billion photos total -- is currently working on a feature-packed iPhone app that may soon be ubiquitous on iPhones.

Meet Ianto, a light painting Miniature Pinscher. Her owner Michael Zoellner created a special vest with 5 LED lights that functions as a Persistence of Vision display, spelling out the words of the novel "Makers" by Cory Doctorow in the air as Ianto sprints across the park. If you don't have the technical know-how to pull this off, you can always try strapping an iPad to your dog!