September 7, 2011

Adobe announced a new cloud-based photo storage and sharing service today called Carousel, which will let you store all your photos at a central location, making it easy to view, share, and edit them -- using a Lightroom/ACR-based engine -- on any device you own. It'll only be available for Apple users in the beginning (e.g. Macs, iPhone, iPad), but Android and Windows versions are in the works. The service will cost $9.99/month or $99/year, and the free apps will be released later this month.

Back in March of 1954, Popular Science magazine featured an invention called the "dentapod" -- a metal bracket attached to the tripod mount that you bite with your teeth to stabilize your camera. For some reason, this didn't seem to catch on back then, but if any of you aspiring entrepreneurs decided to revive this thing for DSLRs, I'm sure it would be the next big thing.

Here's a startling video on how 9/11 turned using a camera in public into a "suspicious activity": …

Bloomberg reports that Canon and Nikon's failure thus far to enter the mirrorless camera market has allowed Sony to eat into their combined market share -- at least in Japan: …

Here's an uber-inspiring video in which National Geographic photographer Sam Abell discusses the difference between "taking" and "making" photographs through his experience of shooting one particular photograph for a story on painter Charles M. Russell. He explains that taking an image is shooting a photo as a reaction, without any preparation, while making a photograph is a process.

What you see here may be the first leaked photograph shot with the upcoming iPhone 5. The EXIF data claims it was shot with the iPhone 4, but other EXIF details indicate otherwise. Although the leaked image was cropped, the original size of the image was 3264x2448 (roughly 8MP), the rumored resolution found on the next iPhone. The lens info was recorded as "4.3mm f/2.4", more similar to a point-and-shoot than then 3.85mm f/2.8 lens found on the iPhone 4. Finally, the geotag info in the photo …

When Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980, photographer Robert Landsberg was documenting the changes in the volcano from just a few miles away. Realizing that he couldn't possibly outrun the approaching ash cloud, he kept shooting for as long as he could before using his body to preserve his film: …

Artist Jennifer Collier uses found and recycled paper as if it were fabric to recreate common household objects, including cameras! Here are a few that were made using maps, postcards, and letters.