Floppy Disk Style Kodak Film from 1982
Here’s a fun bit of photo history: did you know that back in 1982, Kodak attempted to introduce a …
Google Wants to Speed Up the Web by Killing the JPEG
Google unveiled a new image format today called WebP that it hopes will make the web faster by cutting files sizes of images without affecting quality. According to a blog post they published earlier today, photos and images account for 65% of the bytes transmitted by websites. In their tests done using 1 million randomly selected images from the web, re-encoding images as WebP resulted in an average file size reduction of 39%. Here's a gallery with image and file size comparisons.
New Canon Scanner is Film-Friendly
The freshly announced Canon CanoScan 9000F is designed with film-faithful photographers in mind.