If you look at the price of Kodak's stock, you'll see that the company is currently worth about $600 million -- a figure that may be significantly lower than what its digital imaging patents could sell for. With the risk looming that a buyer might try to acquire the patents by simply taking over the company, Kodak is taking evasive maneuvers.
As far as camera cookies go, these colorful cookies by sweets shop manjar are top notch.
If you had any doubts that Leica's new M9-P is simply the M9 given a cosmetic makeover, get this: Leica is offering to upgrade any customer's M9 camera into an M9-P. For the low Leica-esque price of $1,995, the company will give your camera "sapphire glass" for your LCD screen and a new top cover without the famous Leica red dot. If only upgrading to the latest DSLR were this easy!
Alexa's traffic reports seem to show that photo sharing service 500px is growing like a weed. The site has received quite a bit of coverage as of late.
Craftzine has a step-by-step tutorial teaching how to turn your unwanted 35mm film into an uber-geeky necklace. Not sure how comfortable wearing it would be, but if you're the type that's constantly looking for new levels of photo geekiness, this one's for you.
Canon created this short but interesting video showing how its SLR cameras evolved from the Canon Flex in 1959 to the latest DSLRs that currently dominate the industry.
Now here's a camera accessory you don't see every day: over in Japan there's an artisan named Takuya Okamoto who handcrafts unique camera straps out of crocodile hide. The straps cost a whopping $1400 apiece.
Having a camera that shoots 5000 frames per second is enough to capture slow motion footage of a bullet flying through the air, but scientists at the Science and Technology Facilities Council have now announced a camera that shoots a staggering 4.5 million frames per second. Rather than bullets, the camera is designed to capture 3D images of individual molecules using powerful x-ray flashes that last one hundred million billionth of a second. The £3 million camera will land in scientists hands …
