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ephotozine
by rwatuny
& 2 others
Digital camera reviews, photography techniques, photography gallery and photography forums
October 2009
New camera promises to capture your whole life - tech - 16 October 2009 - New Scientist
by CharlesNepote
A camera you can wear as a pendant to record every moment of your life will soon be launched by a UK-based firm.
Slit-scan Photography (Stockholm Geekmeet presentation) - Peter Krantz
by karlcow
The processing code for time lapse captures through the iSight camera with a static centered slit looks like this:
24h Berlin on The Auteurs
by manue
& 3 others
24h Berlin is television's longest programme ever: No actors, no screenplay, no tricks – just real life. A 24-hour documentary, told in real-time, airing September 5th. On that day, in 2008, a story both intimate and exotic began in Berlin, a story told from the perspective of the people. Exactly a year before today's broadcast, 80 camera teams immersed themselves in the lives of Berliners, for 24 hours.
technobabbler » Blog Archive » drive a webcam with python
by karlcow
I bought a USB webcam off of eBay quite some time ago, and I decided to connect it to my telescope with a little bit of hardware hackery. I'll have to see about posting a writeup on how I did that at a later time. Anyway, when I installed my camera software, I quickly found how horrible the program was. It gave a tiny preview of what the camera saw, and had no way of capturing images or video without waaaay too many clicks of the mouse. That's when I decided to write my own in Python.
24h Berlin on The Auteurs
by mixher
& 3 others
24h Berlin is television's longest programme ever: No actors, no screenplay, no tricks – just real life. A 24-hour documentary, told in real-time, airing September 5th. On that day, in 2008, a story both intimate and exotic began in Berlin, a story told from the perspective of the people. Exactly a year before today's broadcast, 80 camera teams immersed themselves in the lives of Berliners, for 24 hours.
24h Berlin on The Auteurs
by znarf
& 3 others
24h Berlin is television's longest programme ever: No actors, no screenplay, no tricks – just real life. A 24-hour documentary, told in real-time, airing September 5th. On that day, in 2008, a story both intimate and exotic began in Berlin, a story told from the perspective of the people. Exactly a year before today's broadcast, 80 camera teams immersed themselves in the lives of Berliners, for 24 hours.
24h Berlin on The Auteurs
by sbrothier
24h Berlin is television's longest programme ever: No actors, no screenplay, no tricks – just real life. A 24-hour documentary, told in real-time, airing September 5th. On that day, in 2008, a story both intimate and exotic began in Berlin, a story told from the perspective of the people. Exactly a year before today's broadcast, 80 camera teams immersed themselves in the lives of Berliners, for 24 hours.
iPhone Camera Roll 相片消失問題
by blackgoldfish
原來是當相片檔案編號跳到 IMG_9999 之後 (即由 IMG_10000 開始)，就無法在 Camera Roll 內顯示出來。
將 DCIM 資料夾整個刪除。沒錯！狠狠的刪掉吧！下一次再用 iPhone 拍照，就會自動重新建立一個 DCIM 資料夾，相片檔案編號亦會重設至由 IMG_0001 起跳，此後所拍的相片又會如常在 Camera Roll 內顯示。
tiltshiftmaker.com - Transform your photos into tilt-shift style miniatures
by PêUR
& 4 others
Tilt-shift miniature style photos are pictures of real-life scenes that are manipulated to look like model photographs.
Now you can easily transform your existing digital camera photos into tilt-shift style miniatures using tiltshiftmaker.com. Our online photo editing tool is fun and requires no registration or signup.
Welcome to dxomark.com (beta), a free resource dedicated to RAW-based camera image quality
by mozkart
DxO Labs created dxomark.com for members of the digital photographic community who are passionate about image quality – professional photographers, advanced amateurs, photography reviewers and imaging media journalists. While other websites publish information about JPEG image quality, only DxO Labs provides the first publicly-accessible database of objective and in-depth RAW sensor image quality measurements.
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September 2009
Digital Photographers, Welcome Back to 1999 | PixSylated | Digital Photography, Canon Flash, Shooting Tethered
by mozkart
Why the value of still images is collapsing
It’s that old supply-and-demand thing. The supply of digital images is way, way up. At the same time, advertising in magazines and newspapers is sinking.
If you want to continue earning a living at something you already do, it’s helpful if your trade is difficult to do and expensive to get started. Photography during the film-era was this way. Every time I pushed the shutter-button a couple of bucks flew out the window. Now the cost of getting into the pro photography game is virtually nothing (aside from the cost of the camera, the computer, the software, the training… still a relatively low investment for what you’re able to accomplish). I’m grateful that HDSLR cinematography is expensive and problematic right now.
The Trib Is Dead. Long Live The Trib. For several generations, ads in magazines and newspapers were the leading consumer of commercial stills. Sorry Charlie, those days are gone. Today advertisers are increasingly moving their efforts over to web-based campaigns. It’s not personal. It’s demographics. OK. So that means that it is personal. The web, with it’s ability to provide instantaneous feedback to advertisers enables those spending the ad bucks to target their message exactly where it needs to be within minutes. For an ad placed in the wrong magazine, the response time is measured in weeks or months. Print advertising is plummeting (stats here). It’s not the economy, stupid. It’s the medium. Check out MagazineDeathPool if you’re not already a regular reader. Now is not be the time to launch a career as a magazine shooter.
PRESETS AND ADOBE CAMERA RAW (ACR) – A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN | x=blog stay informed
by mozkart
(via)
Presets for ACR are not new, however the free presets available for ACR are both less numerous and less diverse than those created for Lightroom. One way to leverage Lightroom presets in ACR is to copy every setting by hand over to ACR and save the preset, however this is extremely time consuming, and introduces more opportunity for human error.
The following is a procedure that streamlines the conversion process using the metadata power of Adobe’s DNG file format.
Cheap Fisheye - a set on Flickr
by 4004
(via)
Made from the innards of a broken Sigma 28-200mm lens. Cost £5 from the camera shop in watford, Bargain :)
Stanford “Frankencamera” project aims to create an open source imaging platform
by sbrothier
It is, however, a fun idea to play with. The camera really is enough of a specialized platform that it could be one of the few devices that doesn’t succumb to convergence over the next decade (I don’t share TechCrunch’s optimism about phone cameras). Every other device we interact with is getting smarter, so why not the camera? Sure, you’ve got smile shutter and 100 scene modes and all those features we don’t want or need, but that’s not smart. It’s convenient, and barely that. And you’ve got HD movie mode now — great, but while admittedly the resolution is slightly higher now, my 2MP Sony was doing movies in 2001.
Stanford’s Open Source Camera Project
by sbrothier
& 1 other
The web is abuzz over a project over at Stanford that aims to revolutionize how we think about photography by building an open source camera (dubbed Frankencamera).
That’s right…
Open. Source. Camera.
While you try to wrap your mind around this new paradigm, I’ll point out of a few of the important aspects of the project and throw in some of my thoughts on it.
Open-source camera could revolutionize photography
by ghis
Stanford scientists' open-source camera could change photography by giving programmers anywhere the power to change camera features and create new possibilities.
Flickr Officially Comes to the iPhone
by sbrothier
iPhone is the most popular camera on Flickr, but Flickr (Flickr) hasn’t really returned the love to iPhone users…until now. Because, you know, having your website optimized for the iPhone is one thing, and having a full fledged, native application for the platform is another.
Stanford’s Open Source Camera Project
by Spone
& 1 other
(via)
The web is abuzz over a project over at Stanford that aims to revolutionize how we think about photography by building an open source camera (dubbed Frankencamera).
That’s right…
Open. Source. Camera.
While you try to wrap your mind around this new paradigm, I’ll point out of a few of the important aspects of the project and throw in some of my thoughts on it.
