On September 2nd, a woman in Northern California named Debbie Payne heard a loud crash and, upon investigating, found a smashed Canon 24-105mm lens on the ground and a gaping 9-inch hole in her roof. Now the police department in Petaluma is trying to figure out how the lens apparently fell from the sky.
Want to add some simple panning action to a time-lapse video? Trying using a cheap IKEA kitchen timer. GetawayMoments has a tutorial on how to convert a $2-$6 timer from IKEA into a simple device for your time-lapse projects.
Regardless of how bad photographers' rights seem to be in your country, here's a story that will definitely make you appreciate them at least a little bit more: a photojournalist named Sithu Zeya may spend 18 years of his life in prison after being arrested for photography. Zeya, who's only 21 years old, was arrested in Burma last year after getting caught photographing the aftermath of a grenade attack that killed 10 people in the country's largest city, Yangon. After being sentenced to 8 …
Tokyo-based editorial photographer Irwin Wong created this funny Justin Bieber parody song titled "Pay Me" as a shout out to all his "photographer homies who have had their copyright infringed".
Canon sends out an email containing a customer survey once or twice a year, and yesterday's survey included a few questions regarding mirrorless cameras. Looks like the company is looking into entering the mirrorless game. About time too -- mirrorless cameras are chipping away at Canon's market share, and Nikon is rumored to have a mirrorless camera announcement just around the corner on September 21st.
Melbourne-based design studio Betty Wants In is at it again. They've created this stunning slow-mo video of BASE jumpers doing their thing -- a perfect followup to the skydiving one they shared back in April. The footage was captured with GoPro cameras and then slowed down using Twixtor, just like the crazy wingsuit video we shared yesterday.
Today Canon unveiled its new high-end PowerShot S100 compact camera, successor to the popular S95. The S100 uses Canon's new DIGIC 5 image processor and packs a CMOS sensor (1/1.7") instead a CCD one. It shoots 12 megapixel images with a 24-120mm (35mm equivalent) f/2.0 lens, can capture RAW files, has a max ISO of 6400, includes GPS functionality, and has a 3-inch LCD screen. The camera is very similar to Canon's high-end G series (the sensor size is the same), except the S series has a …
If you ever find yourself needing some quick stabilization when recording video with your DSLR, but don't have a fancy rig with you (or you're in a place where you can't bring one), you can use an ordinary tripod as a makeshift shoulder rig for some extra stability.
