Suppose Apple hadn't abandoned its digital camera business. What effect would Steve Jobs and his team have had on the cameras we use today? Photo enthusiast Karim Ghantous thought about this recently, and came up with the following list of things he thinks Jobs might have pushed for.
If you have a GoPro or any other compact camera with a constantly exposed lens, you can protect the lens from scratches when it's not in use by making a cheap DIY lens cap out of a ping pong ball and a rubber band.
Many Nikonians would have been overjoyed if Nikon's mirrorless cameras had been announced with an APS-C sensor instead of a 1-inch one, but are DSLR-sized sensors the best fit for smaller interchangeable lens cameras? Michael Johnston over at The Online Photographer says no, arguing that Micro Four Thirds is the optimal size: …
A 19-year-old man in the UK has been sentenced to two months in prison for snapping a courtroom photo. Paul Thompson was sitting in a public gallery last week -- the defendant was a friend who was on trial for robbery -- when another friend texted him to ask where he was. Thompson decided to snap a picture with his Blackberry to explain why he couldn't talk, but was quickly arrested by officers who noticed what he was doing. He was then sentenced to two months in prison for "contempt of court" …
Back in 1996, National Geographic released a documentary film titled "The Photographers" that gives the world a behind-the-scenes look at how the magazine's amazing imagery is created: …
Sling Shot is a concept camera that's designed to capture expressions of fear on people's faces. It's shaped like a slingshot, and the camera's shutter release is the elastic band: pretend like you're about to shoot the slingshot and the camera snaps a photo. It could make for a fun gag camera, and luckily it's nowhere near as morbid as this 1938 revolver camera.
Inspired by the incredible ISS time-lapse that went viral recently, YouTube user isoeph collected NASA photographs from The Gateway To Astronaut Photography of Earth and created this equally impressive time-lapse video showing the ISS passing over the auroras.
Nikon included the above illustration when announcing its new mirrorless cameras in the UK. The company's new EXPEED 3 image processor, which is supposedly "the fastest in the world", can process data at a whopping 600 megapixels per second. That's equivalent to 24 frames per second with a 25MP sensor! …
New Zealand-based wedding photographer Delphine Ducaruge takes photos from her wedding shoots and combines them into creative stop-motion animations. You can find more of them over on her Vimeo page.
The relatively small 1-inch CX-format sensor found in Nikon's new mirrorless cameras caused quite a bit of discontent among serious shooters even before the cameras were announced, but now that it's official we finally have the opportunity to see its image quality in real-world environments. dpreview has published a gallery of 23 JPGs shot with the Nikon J1, along with 5 RAW files shot between ISO 100 and ISO 3200. Take a look, and judge for yourself.
Artist-hackers Becky Stern and Limor Fried took an old Brother KH-930e knitting machine from the 1980s and turned it into a device that can "print" photos onto garments. Andrew Salomone showed off the machine at World Maker Faire New York 2011, along with a ski mask that has his face printed on it.
For the low price of $69, this master class offered through daily deal site LivingSocial will teach you everything you need to know about photography -- everything except how to hold your camera properly.
Tired of having to screw lens filters on and off? The Xume Quick Release Adapter is a new filter mounting system that turns your screw-on filters into snap-on ones. It uses powerful rare earth magnets, and consists of an adapter for your lens and a holder for each of your filters. People who use a single UV filter for protection might not benefit much from this system, but if you constantly find yourself switching between different filters then this adapter could take a lot of pain out of the …
