Cell phone cameras have pretty poor image quality when compared with point-and-shoot cameras due to their small sensors, but one advantage they have over compact cameras is a naturally deep depth of field. That was particularly useful for this YouTube user in capturing some sharp video of his new motorcycle -- something that would have been much more difficult using a standard point-and-shoot.
Gomite's new Tiltpod is a simple "tripod" designed for people who do a lot of traveling with a compact camera. Stored on the end of your hand strap, it attaches quickly to your camera's tripod mount to help you frame and stabilize your shots when there's no one around to help you take it. The underside is made of a "grippy" magnetic material that helps it stay still on most surfaces, and the angle of the base can be adjusted after the camera is attached.
In this video, UK photography instructor Damien Lovegrove demonstrates how you can add some pseudo-sunlight to portraits by simply placing some weeds or part of a bush -- which he calls a "dingle" -- between an off-camera flash and your subject.
Baking blog Bakerella has a fun tutorial teaching how to make Instagram logo graham crackers, or "Instagrahams", a geeky treat for anyone addicted to the wildly popular photo sharing app.
According to a survey conducted for SanDisk, 64% of adults in the US wouldn't consider destroying their photo collections for $1 million. At the same time, the general public probably doesn't spend nearly enough time and money ensuring the safety of those same photos.
Earlier this year, daredevil BASE jumper Jeb Corliss leaped off a cliff in Switzerland in a wingsuit and wearing 5 separate GoPro cameras. One of the things Corliss did afterward was create this ethereal slow-motion video with the footage using Twixtor, the artificial slowmo program that has become quite popular as of late.
ifttt (If This Then That) is a new service that lets you automate tasks across different social media services you're signed up for, including Dropbox, Flickr, Instagram, and Facebook. All you have to do is choose what "this" and "that" are, and the service will take care of handling the task. For example, you can use ifttt to automatically send every photo uploaded to Facebook that's tagged with your name to your Dropbox account, or have it send all of your new Instagram photos to a particular …
Last September, Sony issued a notice informing customers that its pellicle mirror cameras would overheat during extended periods of video recording. Rather than maximum clip lengths, the company's cameras are apparently limited by how long the sensor can endure high temperatures. In the video above, someone tests Sony's new NEX-5N mirrorless camera for this overheating issue, and finds that you can record about 23m22s of video from a "cold start" before the camera issues a warning and shuts off …
Last week Toshiba announced "FlashAir" SD card with built-in LAN functionality, and today SanDisk is launching a counterattack. Rather than develop its own wireless cards, the company is partnering with Eye-Fi to sell co-branded wireless SD cards to European customers. The cards, which allow photos to be transfered to a computer over Wi-Fi, will be available in 4GB and 8GB sizes, and are basically Eye-Fi cards with a SanDisk logo slapped onto them. No word on price or release date as of yet.
