More precisely, the human brain can develop a negative! Now this is just freaky and it works: Instructions: Stare at the red dot on the girl’s nose for 30 seconds. Turn your eyes to a plain surface (your ceiling or blank wall). Blink repeatedly and quickly while still looking at the plain surface. The brain […]
Right, as a film shooter back in the day, who wouldn’t be wary of airport X-ray scanners. It often took a great deal of effort to convince staff that under no circumstances I’ll let my precious rolls of film through that machine. That was in the days when we were served metal cutlery in planes […]
Welcome to Izitru, a new photo hosting service that applies image forensic technology to analyze whether an image originates in-camera or is changed substantially by editing means. To get the service’s highest seal of approval an image must pass six forensic tests. You’ll say every digital image today is in some way post-processed. Some, however, […]
For some those MTF charts are the holy grail when buying a lens. If as a photographer sharpness is important to you, then you must understand this stuff. Right, sharpness means different things to different people. MTF however is like a universal language. It’s the terminology used by lens designers. In the end it’s all […]
“Greatest” camera ever in the totally literal sense. Well if you wanna go retro, this is “living” the reverse trend in consumer electronics — or maybe it parodies the endless production and marketing of prosumer cameras: (via Walley Films)
Magnum photographers Steve McCurry and David Alan Harvey are on a quest to solve a fundamental functionality roadblock in the world of professional photography. One thing they never want to worry about is whether their equipment is protected and accessible at all times, reports Time magazine. “A big part of what we do is cart […]
Those tiny Raspberry Pi computer modules are great little devices, able to perform so many tasks. Since March 2013 the Raspberry Pi camera module is available, for $30 the piece… Or get the more fancy Rasperry Pi NoIR night vision module without IR filter for $38… Equipped with an imaging sensor, this hobbyist cameras can […]
Think again. You actually can buy happiness: (via Frank Algermissen)
Grand old Neil Young needs no introduction, but his latest project does: Kickstarter’s PonoMusic campaign that’s all about the mission to provide the best possible listening experience of your favorite digital music. Shortly after kickoff the project already got 1 million dollars pledged, then 2… There’s obviously no shortage of lovers of music who miss […]
Don’t get me wrong, am an admirer and fervent user of these compact new system cameras that are technological proof of Moore’s law, the law that says the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years in a computer. And with cameras becoming, in fact, more and more computerized, one of the […]
You’ve been there, everyone does it: waisting whole days without doing anything constructive. Or how often did you turn on TV only to find out that another evening could have been spent more wisely. In fact, each time you give in to laziness and apathy your body’s in passive shutdown mode. It’s your choice: either […]
Who knows, a machine wanting your job? Here’s the 3D MFP — Office Photography Machine with push button simplicity and colorful, professional photography results. It’s the next generation of (office) imaging devices: Ortery’s 3D MFP studio is a one stop solution for all internal imaging needs. Machines can be set up in a centralized location […]
Here’s something for the photography connoisseur and camera aficionado alike: a meticulously illustrated catalog of 100 landmark cameras, culled from over a century of photographic history, depicting both professional and consumer models and tracing photography’s history from the first models to today’s digital wonders. 18″ wide and 24″ high, this poster is more than just […]
For once Bing’s ahead of Google with something. Check out the new Bing Photosynth, a pretty groundbreaking experience that analyzes digital photographs to generate three-dimensional views of real world spaces. In essence Bing a.k.a. Microsoft tries to create a digital replica of the planet with an immersive 3D way to traverse and explore the world. […]
Here’s some food for thought: random quotes on the future of photography, collected from the Net. The future of photography is certainly more software-based. As technology marches on, some of the romance in photography dies. We’re still playing with film metaphors, not yet fully aware of the capabilities of these optical computers and sensor arrays […]
An unnamed Asian buyer purchased a rare Leica camera, one of only four of its kind in the world, for $620,000 at a Hong Kong auction. The 1932 Leica Luxus II, shown on the left with its case, fetched HK$4.84 million on November 22 in an auction where about 80 cameras and accessories went under […]
Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke said that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” But even Clarke never envisioned Google’s Magic Picture Machine. They’re unlike anything else out there, the new Google+ photo and video features. Shall we take a moment to marvel at the technology behind it? The popularity of Google+ still […]
It’s one of those articles — published by Luminous Landscape — that really feel the pulse of many photographers and come at the right time. Mark Dubovoy’s essay An Appeal for Divergence and Simplicity pulls all the right strings, at the right moment, given that Nikon looks destined to fulfill his wishes with its new […]
Here’s a nifty infographic by B&H on how light affects your subject (or is it object? I vote for the latter…). It’s about understand the effects of various light modifiers on a subject. Explains B&H: We’ve been hard at work trying to demonstrate to you the effects of various lighting modifiers. So we created this […]
Some of us are buying cameras like articles of daily use. There’s no bonding whatsoever between photographer and gear. Imagine using your current digital camera — or iPhone, for that matter — 30 years from now. That’s exactly the concept of the folks at Ilott, refurbisher of fine vintage cameras: take pictures with their lovingly […]
Or virgin Leica? This one-of-a-kind variant of the M Typ 240 is a clinically clean design by and true to the style of Apple’s chief designer Jonathan Ive. Designed by Ive and Marc Newson, this purist Leica M will be given to the highest bidder this November in New York at Sotheby‘s “Jony and Marc’s […]
A series of interesting recent articles makes you think whether it will be worth in the future to pay big money for good lenses — given the fact that digital imaging is more and more about in-camera algorithms and post-processing. A digital image is nothing but a numeric, normally binary representation and therefore interpretation. Yes, […]
By JAWAD RIACHI I’ve recently downloaded DxO Optics Pro (demo version) just for the sake of experimenting with the software on some photos I shot with a small Micro Four Thirds camera. The camera I used had a fairly sharp wide angle lens (14mm F2.5). When I uploaded the photos into the software, DxO Optics […]
Who cannot help but laugh at the breathless excitement over doing “serious” photography with a smartphone, with or without any gimmicky filters, right? Yet today we have serious photographers, including some leading photojournalists, doing assignments with crappy iPhones, making the resulting photos technically even worse by using gimmick filters and post processing add-ons that produce […]
Good camera bags are expensive. You might have payed thousands of dollars for your gear setup. It’s only logical to carry the precious hardware in a worthy bag. There are all kinds of bags, the options are overwhelming, but still not good enough for photographer Allen Mowery who was “just sort of shot in the […]
Digital photography has come a long way since the 90s, the early days of consumer digital photography that were filled with cameras that broke new ground, though not necessarily in directions that were widely adopted. After more than a century of “conventional” film photography, also the old mechanical ways became questioned: be it the sensor, […]
This is actually quite big and I’m a bit surprised that no major camera or lens maker has yet bought up Swiss company Optotune for their ingenious invention of a focus tunable lens — or in other words: of optics that are no longer based on solid glass or plastic lenses that move back and […]
Lomography is all about going back to the basics, about analog photography stripped down to its bare essentials without the bells and whistles fancier gear comes with. Right, you don’t want to see MTF charts of those plastic lenses, but then again, once you use a, say Konstruktor, you might be amazed by the image […]
By JAWAD RIACHI I have been lately disturbed by the recent trend of camera manufacturers. So many cameras in so many different forms are being introduced to the market, all at different prices, yet I cannot find one which I can connect with. I want a small form cameras with high image quality and preferably […]
This one’s really cool: an Adobe charm offensive. After all the negative press Adobe recently got for its Cloud(y) future, here’s some splendid creativity in action. It’s part of Adobe’s Creative Days — well they better try to appease photographers! And this is one smart prank, Adobe:
