Here's an interesting 20-minute-long documentary film titled Chimping in which Dan Perez de la Garza speaks to various photojournalists about their work and the state of their profession. Subjects include two Pulitzer Prize winners and an Emmy Award winner.
This past Sunday, a group of amateur astronomers in San Antonio, Texas successfully "flashed" the International Space Station with a blue laser and spotlight as it whizzed by overhead. While this might sound like an easy thing to do, it's much more complicated than you think. Astronaut Don Pettit shot the photo of the experiment seen above, and writes, …
Apple officially announced the new iPad today (called "the new iPad" rather than the "iPad 3"). It's a tablet computer, but its new features make the device much more camera-like than the iPad 2. There's a new 5-megapixel iSight camera on the back that features a backside illuminated sensor and a five-element f/2.4 lens. It's also able to record HD video in full 1080p. On the frontside is a 9.7-inch 2048x1536 retina display that packs 4 times more pixels than the iPad 2 and 1 million more …
KEH has published a helpful primer on memory cards that describes the different types, common error codes you might come across when using them, and how to take care of them: …
On December 31st, 2011, Oaida Raul decided pay a tribute to the recently-retired Space Shuttle program by creating a GoPro video of a Lego Space Shuttle model traveling up to the edges of Earth's atmosphere on a weather balloon. You can read an in-depth description of the mission and the components used -- the entire project was launched and completed in a span of about a week -- over on Raul's blog.
Nokia caused quite a ripple in the mobile phone market last week by announcing its new 41-megapixel 808 PureView smartphone. However, if you live in North America and have been drooling over the phone, here's some bad news: Nokia isn't planning to sell the phone on our continent. On the 808's official product page, Nokia has included a footnote that says "Excluding North America" for the phone's global availability. The reason may be that US carriers aren't willing to subsidize the $600 phone …
Not too long ago I finally got around to picking up a decent manual flash for exploring lighting and speedlight techniques. I picked up a Yongnuo YN-560 Speedlight Flash for Canon and Nikon, and my friend Sean was kind enough to send me his old radio triggers to play with. I was mostly all set to start exploring the world of off-camera lighting...
Photographer Steven Pippin creates unique photographs that capture the precise moment in which the camera used to capture the photo is destroyed by a bullet from a handgun. The images show the final moment of the camera's existence (with the help of a mirror) and are themselves damaged by the bullet passing through the film.
