September 16, 2011

If you're the proud owner of a Sony NEX-5N but have been pulling out your hair due to strange clicking noises ruining your videos, here's some good news: it's not just your camera. Frustrated camera owners have taken to the Internet to complain about the faint clicking noise that can be heard from inside the camera when moving it around, a problem that was found in every NEX-5N that Engadget tested. 1080/60p video recording is one of the highly touted features on the camera, so Sony could be in …

Photo fads are themselves growing as a fad -- after "planking" became a worldwide Internet sensation earlier this year, it seems like every week a silly new idea is introduced as "the new planking".

Since photography emerged in the early 1800s, the number of photographs created every year has grown exponentially. A dramatic shift occurred around the year 2000 though: …

Here are the recordings of all the "Is Photography Over?" panel sessions hosted by SFMOMA that we referred to earlier today: …

Google Street View is neat in that it allows you to step into far away places through street-level photographs, but it's missing the fourth dimension: time. WhatWasThere is an awesome project that aims to combine the element of time with a photographic map of the world. The map includes both modern day and historical imagery, and users can contribute their photographs by tagging them with a date and a time. The site even lets you switch to Google's Street View and overlay historical photos onto …

In April of last year, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art held a two day summit on the topic of "Is Photography Over?". The panel discussions from the summit featured some pretty notable names from the industry, and generated quite a bit of discussion once they were shared online. In response, Conscientious editor Jörg Colberg made this humorous tongue-in-cheek video introducing a new color coded threat level advisory system as a quick and easy way of staying up to date with how over …

Facebook is by far the world's largest photo service, but how does its massive image collection compare with other website and photo libraries? 1000memories created this interesting graphic showing the relative sizes of the world's largest photo libraries.

You've probably seen videos showing the rolling shutter effect turning airplane propellers into boomerangs, but what if the camera was attached to the spinning object rather than pointed at it? mguw of Helidigital decided to find out by attaching a small camera to the rotorhead of an RC helicopter, synchronizing the RPM of the rotor to the scan rate of the camera. The result is an uber-trippy video in which reality is bended through the rolling shutter effect.

Canon sent out this teaser yesterday stating that it's going to be making some kind of game-changing announcement on November 3rd. Since the location is Hollywood, it seems more likely that it'll be some kind of camera for filmmaking rather than a mirrorless camera. Filmmaker Philip Bloom thinks it'll be an EF and PL mount camcorder with a Super 35mm sensor (possibly offering 4K resolution).

YouTube user smithje77 and his dog recently embarked on a cross-country road trip from Seattle to Maine (3,000+ miles!), and he decided to document the journey by programming his Droid X to snap a photograph every 90 seconds (the script is available here). Afterward, he took all the stills captured and combined them into one epic time-lapse video that shows what it's like to drive from coast to coast.