Canon is known to be working on fingerprint sensors for cameras and lenses, but Nikon is apparently going a step further: it's developing biometric sensors for cameras and lenses that can detect biological information as well as your mood when shooting a photo.
Canon DSLRs can trigger Canon Speedlites using the pop-up flash. If you try triggering those same Speedlites with a different camera's flash, it doesn't work, which means that there's actual light-based communication going on between the DSLR and Speedlite. In this 9-minute video, Roger Nieh of Science'n'me explores the technology behind this communication.
NVIDIA has unveiled an impressive new AI that can automatically remove noise, grain, and even watermarks from photos. What's even more impressive is the fact that it's all accomplished without studying any examples of "clean photos" -- all the AI needs are examples of corrupted images.
Light's groundbreaking L16 camera generated a great deal of excitement over its 16-camera design, but early reviews have largely fallen short of the hype. The company is pushing full speed ahead, though, and will reportedly be unveiling a first-of-its-kind smartphone that has as many as 9 cameras on the back.
A mechatronics engineering student has invented a "mobile airbag" that automatically deploys when you drop a device, protecting it from harm.
The SD Association has just announced the latest specifications for the widely used Secure Digital (SD) memory card format. The new Ultra Capacity (UC) designation will mean capacities of up to 128 terabytes and the "Express" designation will mean transfer speeds of up to 985 megabytes per second.
There's a new photo recovery technique that may help humanity recover some of the world's oldest photographs that were previously considered to be damaged beyond repair.
Adobe's software has been widely used for many years now as a tool to create fake photos, but now the company is developing software for the other side: it's using AI to spot photo manipulations to aid in the war against fake photos.
The rotors on camera drones can do serious damage to human flesh if the two come in contact. Researchers are working on a new flesh sensor that would stop a rotor so fast that an approaching finger can be spared from harm.
"Great photos! You must have a great camera!" If you take your craft seriously, the odds of having heard these words are quite high. Audiences associate good images with great cameras, and for the longest time this (almost) accusation has bothered photographers who felt their skills were downplayed. But the interesting bit is that we’re walking towards making the “great cameras = great photos” equation true! And they fit in your pocket.
"Take it again, I blinked." That's something commonly said after pictures are snapped, but it may soon be a relic of the past if Facebook has its way. The company's researchers have created an AI that can automatically replace closed eyes with open ones in your pictures.
NVIDIA researchers have created a new AI system that can turn standard 30fps video into high-quality slow-motion that looks like it was actually shot at higher frame rates with a high-speed camera. The 1.5-minute video above has demos and comparisons showing what the AI can create.
It looks like electronic info displays are becoming a new norm for camera lenses. A new patent filed by Canon suggests that the company's next 18-55mm kit lens will feature an LCD display.
Think medium format CMOS sensors are big? Check out what Canon's largest sensor looks like when placed next to a DSLR camera (an EOS Rebel T3i/600D). The picture above is to scale.
As privacy concerns grow and as facial detection/recognition technologies improve, a new arms race is emerging. Researchers have created a new privacy photo filter that prevents facial recognition systems from detecting and recognizing faces.
Ordinary cameras can be modified for astrophotography by introducing additional cooling for the sensor. CentralDS has one extreme way of keeping sensors chilly: it extracts sensors from cameras and moves them into their own external cooling module.
TIME magazine's latest issue is a special report on the rapid explosion of drones in our culture. For the cover photo, TIME recreated its iconic logo and red border using 958 illuminated drones hovering in the sky. It's the first-ever TIME cover captured with a camera drone.
Sony has announced a new OLED electronic viewfinder display with a huge increase in resolution thanks to the world's smallest pixel pitch of 6.3µm. The viewfinders in Sony mirrorless cameras will soon be both sharper and faster.
Apollo is a new "immersive illumination" iPhone app that lets you edit 3D lighting in Portrait mode photos. The app uses the depth map created by dual camera iPhones, allowing you to post-process photos as if they were 3D renders.
Canon is now officially in the business of selling sensors. Third-party companies can now purchase three of Canon's state-of-the-art sensors, including the 120-megapixel monster that has received a significant amount of attention in recent years.
Google wowed attendees at its I/O developer conference last week with a number of AI-powered photo technologies, including automatically colorizing black-and-white photos with one tap. But there's one impressive feature teased at last year's event that hasn't arrived yet: object removal.
When shooting a photo in low light, a low-ISO long-exposure photo requires a stable camera and blurs movement in the frame while a high-ISO short-exposure photo can be plagued with noise and poor quality. Now AI is bridging the cap, opening the door to low-ISO image quality while shooting at faster shutter speeds.
Google is taking to the stage at the Google I/O developer conference this week to show off its new products and technologies, one of which is a new AI-powered version of Google Photos. The new app will feature a host of new intelligent features, including the ability to colorize black-and-white photos with one tap.
While companies and researchers around the world work to build the most advanced and powerful AI systems, Facebook has a special treasure trove that most don't: billions of tagged photos thanks to Instagram. Facebook has now used those photos to create a leading image recognition AI.
What if you could relive your photos and videos by stepping back into those locations in virtual reality? Facebook is about to make that possible. The company just showed off a mind-blowing new feature that creates 3D spaces from your 2D photos and videos.
Phase One has announced the iXM 100MP, a 100-megapixel medium format camera for drones that's the first camera to feature Sony's 100MP backside-illuminated (BSI) 44x33mm sensor. It's "a breakthrough aerial camera platform driven by the world’s fastest medium-format imaging sensor," Phase One says.
SOUNDCAM is a new camera that lets you take pictures of sound. It's the first handheld camera that brings sound imaging to a size and cost that's more accessible than industrial solutions that cost upwards of $100,000.
NASA has developed a special camera called the "Fluid Cam" that can see and shoot clearly through ocean waves. The resulting photos can be used by researchers to study the health of reefs.
Behold the world's fastest camera car. This modified $200,000 Lamborghini Huracán supercar features a gyro-stabilized camera rig on its frunk, allowing to keep up with the world's fastest cars for photo and video shoots.
Canon recently released this incredibly dramatic 5-minute video to showcase its latest CMOS sensor technologies. The opening question, set to moving music, is: "Have you ever seen a rainbow in the light of the moon?"
There's a new app that lets you shoot portraits of virtual models in your real-world location. It's called Augmented Reality Photo Studio.
Satellite photos are generally shot straight down at the Earth and make the world look like flat, detailed maps. But shoot satellite photos at an angle, and suddenly they look like aerial photos captured from impossible heights with the world's longest telephoto lens.
ProGrade Digital has just unveiled the world's first 1 terabyte CFexpress 1.0 memory card. It's the first company to publicly demonstrate CFexpress 1.0 technology at this capacity.
Want to shoot beautiful photos without having to lift a finger or think about it? The Prosthetic Photographer can help you. It's a camera attachment that uses artificial intelligence and electricity to shock you into shooting good photos.
Marques Brownlee (AKA MKBHD) recently paid a visit to the company Motorized Precision in Portland, Oregon, to check out the company's high-speed camera robots. In this 8.5-minute video, Brownlee shares the beautiful camera moves that are made possible by this "dope" technology.
In addition to showing off its ultra-high-resolution 120MP sensor, Canon has also released this 3-minute video to show the abilities of 35MMFHDXS, a new 2.2-megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor that has both high sensitivity and high speed.
Canon has just released this new 3-minute video showing the power of its 120-megapixel CMOS sensor, which it first announced in September 2015 and then showed off at an expo in May 2016.
The Chinese smartphone manufacturer Vivo is trying to beat Google at the HDR game. It has unveiled a new AI-powered feature called "Super HDR," which claims to produce better high dynamic range photos with more natural results.
NVIDIA has unveiled a new AI algorithm called FastPhotoStyle that can transfer the style from any photo to another photo, producing impressive, photo-realistic results seemingly by magic.
Google is reportedly in the process of acquiring the light field camera startup company Lytro with a price tag somewhere in the range of $25 million to $40 million.
It seems Lytro has a new formidable competitor in the area of light field cameras. Google revealed today that it has created a rotating arc of 16 GoPro cameras arranged vertically to experiment with light fields.
ProGrade Digital, the new memory card company launched in mid-February 2018 by a group of former Lexar executives, is trying to stay ahead of the game in the memory card format wars. It will not be making any XQD cards, and instead the company is pushing for the CFexpress format.
Western Digital has announced the new SanDisk Extreme 400GB UHS-I microSD, the world's fastest-ever UHS-I microSD card.
Not content with creating low-light monsters in the world of interchangeable lens cameras, Sony has created a new smartphone dual camera that can shoot photos at a whopping ISO 51200 and videos at ISO 12800.
Apple just released this 1-minute video that offers a short and sweet behind-the-scenes explanation of how the company created the Portrait Lighting feature found in the latest iPhones.
How does SpaceX get such clear and detailed imagery and footage of its rocket launches? Here's a 5-minute video from Primal Space that answers that question.
It seems that February 2018 is the month of global shutter CMOS sensor breakthroughs. A day after Sony announced the first 1MP+ backlit global shutter CMOS sensor, Panasonic announced its own groundbreaking development: a global shutter CMOS sensor that's capable of 8K, 60FPS, and HDR.
If you're in the market for an SSD drive, you're probably looking at 128GB, 250GB, or 500GB drive. Well, Samsung just announced a 30720GB drive. Yes, you read that number correctly -- it's the highest-capacity SSD drive in the world.
Sony just announced a groundbreaking development in the world of camera image sensors: it has created a 1.46-megapixel back-illuminated CMOS sensor that has global shutter. This is the first-ever CMOS sensor of over 1MP that has both back-illumination and global shutter.
Fingerprint ID is used on many smartphones these days for security and identification, but would you like to see the same feature on your camera gear? Canon has apparently developed a fingerprint ID system that can identify the photographer using the camera or lens.