Hands On with the New Lytro Camera
Hands on videos and first-impression reviews of Lytro's new revolutionary light field camera are starting to emerge. Engadget writes, …
Hands on videos and first-impression reviews of Lytro's new revolutionary light field camera are starting to emerge. Engadget writes, …
A week ago we shared a photo showing Nikon's factory in Thailand submerged due to the catastrophic flooding happening there. The latest news is that both Nikon and Sony have had their camera factories severely damaged, which may have cause delays of at least 1-2 months. 90% of Nikon's SLR cameras -- the low to mid-range ones -- are produced at the company's Thailand plant, while 100% of Sony DSLRs are made at its now-damaged factory.
Two years ago, Flickr partnered up with Getty to allow Flickr users to sell photographs, and today Getty announced that its "Flickr Collection" has grown to over 250,000 images. Getty also revealed that the above image titled "Rock Concert" by Flickr user Michael Bodge is their best seller. No word on how many copies it has sold, though.
Lytro has finally announced its revolutionary consumer light field camera. It's a tiny camera with built-in storage, an 8x f/2 lens, and a design that looks more like a futuristic flashlight than a point-and-shoot camera. The camera captures "living pictures" that can be refocused by the photographer and the viewer, which means focusing is completely eliminated from the process of taking a picture. An 8GB that stores 350 pictures will be priced at $400, while a 16GB with a 750 image capacity …
Daily photo projects have become quite popular as of late, and a number of viral time-lapse videos feature people who take one self-portrait a day over many years. However, if you think taking a photo every day requires a crazy amount of dedication, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Adobe's amazing Image Deblurring demo was the star of the Sneak Peeks event at Adobe MAX 2011, but it was just one of the many demos shown that night. Another interesting photography-related demo was for "Pixel Nuggets": a feature that lets you search a large library of photos for features (e.g. people, landmarks, patterns, logos).
Renowned rock photographer Baron Wolman, the first photo editor at Rolling Stone magazine, is speaking out against the worrying trend of copyright grabs by music artists. He recently spoke to makingimages.com.au, saying: …
Wedding photographer Lee Morris recently had the idea of trying his hand at making a wedding video with his still photography mindset. His idea was to slow down the video to make it more of a "moving image", bringing it more into his realm of expertise. To do this, he photographed a wedding at 60fps using a Canon 60D and then slowed the video down to 24fps afterward.
The latest version of Android, called "Ice Cream Sandwich", was unveiled by Google and Samsung in Hong Kong this morning, and they've focused a great deal on improving the gallery and camera aspects of the mobile OS. There is indeed built-in photo editing now, allowing users to do everything from crop and rotate to adjust levels and remove red eyes. There are also a number of Instagram-style filters that can be applied to photos. Adjustments are non-destructive and stored in a file separate …
