September 21, 2011

If Apple ever got into the photo printer business, this SWYP ("See What You Print") printer might be similar to what they'd come up with. It's a brilliant concept photo printer design by Artefact, the same design group that dreamed up the WVIL concept camera. Instead of having to send photos to the printer from a computer, users use a giant touchscreen interface that shows you exactly what's going to pop out of the bottom. Come on SWYP, hurry up and exist!

What has the world come to? Apparently the prestigious Magnum Photos has partnered with Nintendo to promote the Nintendo 3DS as a camera. Photographers Martin Parr, Thomas Dworzak and Gueorgui Pinkhassov used the handheld gaming device to shoot a series of 3D photos that were then put on display in an exhibition held at the Magnum Gallery in Paris.

Cut Out + Keep member Myam made this awesome Leica-style messenger bag for a photography-lovin' friend. Sadly there's no tutorial for this bag, but she says that the process is identical to what's seen in this guitar bag tutorial she wrote. A padded insert can also be added to make the bag more suitable for holding cameras. This bag could definitely make for a fun weekend project and photography gift.

Warco -- short for War Correspondent -- is an upcoming video game in which the player takes on the role of a journalist named Jesse DeMarco. Despite being classified as a first person shooter, the objective is to shoot people with a camera rather than a gun. After venturing into dangerous conflicts and risking your life to snag some footage, you're given the task of editing the video into a compelling news story. It almost seems like a Pokemon Snap game for adults. If they went a step further …

Is it your dream to become a professional photographer? Magnum photographer Christopher Anderson says you should focus more on the word "photographer" than the word "professional": …

Here's a neat productivity tip for those of you who regularly buy stuff online (e.g. obsessive photo gear buyers): you can track most packages by simply searching for the tracking number with Google! The search engine automatically figures out which service the number belongs to, and provides you with a direct link to the droids page you're looking for. Since some shipping companies don't have bookmarkable tracking pages, this tip can help you avoid having to go through those companies' …

Japanese Gift Market sells these camera-shaped wooden pencil sharpeners that can conveniently be carried around on your keychain. They ship from within the US, and cost $10 each.

Turns out the giant hand sculptures that popped up all over the world over the past few days were indeed part of a marketing stunt for Nikon's new mirrorless cameras. thebighands.com is now an "I AM Nikon 1" website. Our guess yesterday turned out to be true as well: the hands are now holding giant Nikon mirrorless cameras!

Photographer Nathan Seabrook made this creative stop-motion music video for the band Yuba Diamond. Despite what your eyes might tell you to believe, no computer trickery was used. Instead, Seabrook used roughly 1700 separate prints and some old fashioned techniques (e.g. fishing line and projecting scenes onto the background) for all the animations and effects seen in the video.

At Levi's Photo Workshop in New York City last year there was a large collection of cameras sitting on shelves and available for anyone to use. To keep track of what was missing, labels and outlines were drawn on the wall to "carve out" little homes for the cameras. If you have a sizable camera collection, labeling your walls could be a neat way to both organize them and show them off! …

Nikon's long-awaited mirrorless camera system has arrived. Today Nikon announced the new J1 and V1 mirrorless cameras and four new Nikon "1 System" lenses. The two cameras have nearly identical specs: a 10.1 megapixel CX-format (13.2mmx8.8mm) CMOS sensor with 2.7x crop factor, a 3-inch LCD screen, 10fps shooting, 1080/30p HD video recording, 1200fps slow-motion recording at 320x120, simultaneous video/still capture, 73-point hybrid autofocus, and 12-bit RAW files.