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This year
DSLR Camera Remote - onOne Software
by sbrothier
& 1 other
DSLR Camera Remote is the next-generation cable release for your Canon EOS DSLR camera. Just connect your camera to a WiFi enabled computer and the DSLR Camera Remote software enables you to use your Apple iPhone or iPod touch to wirelessly adjust cameras settings, fire the shutter, review images, even get a live viewfinder preview.
26 Eye-Catching Long Exposure Photographs | Inspiration | PelFusion.com
by ghis
Long exposure is really amazing photography technique to capture light and movement. When an image is taken including stationary and moving subjects (for example, a fixed street and moving cars or a camera within a car showing a fixed dash-board and moving scenery) using a slow shutter speed, interesting effects, such as light trails occur.
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.
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.
iPhone app lets you shoot remotely with your Canon DSLR - Nikon support coming
by sbrothier
& 1 other
Now here’s an app many creative professionals might find useful. The DSLR Remote iPhone app lets you trigger your camera’s shutter, adjust almost any of its settings, and view photos it’s taken. The catch, unfortunately, is that the camera needs to be wired to a computer for this to work. Even so, I can think of plenty of situations where this could come in handy, though admittedly there are few where a professional would absolutely need it. Still, the more tools you have, the more versatile your whole setup is, and who wouldn’t want to snap pics via their iPhone anyway?
iPhone app lets you shoot remotely with your Canon DSLR - Nikon support coming
by srcmax
& 1 other
Now here’s an app many creative professionals might find useful. The DSLR Remote iPhone app lets you trigger your camera’s shutter, adjust almost any of its settings, and view photos it’s taken. The catch, unfortunately, is that the camera needs to be wired to a computer for this to work. Even so, I can think of plenty of situations where this could come in handy, though admittedly there are few where a professional would absolutely need it. Still, the more tools you have, the more versatile your whole setup is, and who wouldn’t want to snap pics via their iPhone anyway?
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2008
Thoughts About Photography: Updated 35mm Lego Camera Design
by sbrothier
Inspired by George Bristol’s variation on the film advance mechanism of my Lego camera, I have reworked the design of my 35mm Lego camera. The new camera has several things going for it. Overall it is slightly smaller. It now has an internal shutter mechanism which replaces the clumsy swinging door of the earlier model. Most importantly, I came up with a simple way to rewind the film so now the camera no longer needs to be unloaded in the dark. I have tested a couple of rolls of film with it and the improvements make this a very fun little toy! I am seriously starting to consider selling these, perhaps on Ebay. Would anybody be interested? What do you think it would be worth?
Unphotographable
by blackgoldfish
& 2 others
from photographer Michael David Murphy.
"Unphotographable is a catalog of exceptional mistakes. Photos never taken that weren't meant to be forgotten. Opportunities missed. Simple failures. Occasions when I wished I'd taken the picture, or not forgotten the camera, or had been brave enough to click the shutter."
2007
foocamp 2007 - Light painting
by fastclemmy
The effects are made by playing with light toys while the shutter is open in a dark room.
Digi-Info
by cascamorto
There's quite a bit of hidden information in pictures taken with your Digital Camera and Digi-Info will extract that info so you can view and save it. Types of information include Camera make and model, Orientation, Resolution, Exposure Time, Date, Time, Shutter Speed, Aperture Value, Subject Distance, Metering Mode, Light Source, Flash on/off, Focal Length, Width, and Height, among others. Works with most major cameras.
The Time Machine Camera Controller / Intervalometer
by fotopol
& 2 others
The Time Machine Camera Controller.
The Mumford Time Machine
A Programmable Controller / Intervalometer
for Cameras and Electronic Flashes
The Mumford Time Machine is a programmable controller and intervalometer for special photographic effects. It allows you to trip the shutter of your camera or fire an electronic flash at regular intervals (time lapse),
2006
exifstats -- How were your photos taken?
by parmentierf
& 2 others
(via)
exifstats -- a command line tool for gathering and displaying data about how your photos were taken. Such data may include the shutter speed, focal length and aperture and much more, and is stored in the image files according to the EXIF standard. The program works by parsing the EXIF data stored in each file in a directory and its sub directories. When all files have been parsed, it prints the results.
PEL: PHP Exif Library
by Xavier Lacot
The PHP Exif Library (PEL) lets you manipulating Exif (Exchangeable Image File Format) data. This is the data that digital cameras place in their images, such as the date and time, shutter speed, ISO value and so on.
2005
Nightcam @ Polaroid.com
by w0arz
essional and street photographers can expand their business by having a 600 camera that has an exposure control switch. Photographers can take enhanced background daylight pictures at nighttime with this camera which can hold the shutter open up to 8 seconds.
This is the ideal camera for photographers who shoot images in nightclubs and bars! There are nine different exposure settings. The camera comes with a tripod mount and shutter release cable. Similar to our other 600 cameras, this is lightweight and easy to use.
2004
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