News entries for April, 2014

 

Photo: Unknown, “Woman wearing headdress, Mongolia,” AMNH Digital Special Collections

In what certainly qualifies as a treasure trove, the American Museum of Natural History has digitized its photo archive—dating back 145 years—and made it available to the public through its website.

The collection is made up of...

For months, the internet rumor mills have been busy speculating on what the next iPhone could look like and what its specs will be. The iPhone has always been a favorite with photographers due to its camera module and vast array of photo apps, which have been getting better with each new generation. Now if the latest report is accurate, the...

 

Photo: Guy Rhodes

When Guy Rhodes covered the Winter Games in Sochi for USA Today Sports a few months ago, he not only brought his typical digital gear for work, but also hauled along a 4x5 large format view camera and 34 sheets of Kodak Tri-X 320 film for a personal project.

That project, essentially, was to “let...

 

Photo: Matt Molloy

Artist Matt Molloy brings new meaning to the phrase “painting with light.” His photos make the sky and clouds look like they’ve been painted into the frame with an Impressionist’s brush.

These “time-stack” images are created by stacking and blending hundreds of individual shots together in...

 

 

Ever looked at a droplet of water on a window, and thought "That looks a lot like a lens"? You're not alone. Researchers at Australian National University noticed the same thing, and they ran with it, creating a lens that's inexpensive, easy to make, and yet very high quality.

Of course, water's not the...

 

 

Earlier today, we reported on two anti-drone bills passed by the Louisiana State Senate, both of which promised to criminalize drone photography in the state. Just hours later, one of those two bills has now been thrown out.

According to an article from New Orleans City Business, Senate Bill 356 was voted...

 

 

There's no question that Ricoh's flagship APS-C DSLR, the Pentax K-3, packs a lot of technology into a little package. The K-3 is absolutely unique: No other camera on the market offers on-demand anti-aliasing, letting you choose whether moiré reduction or ultimate sharpness are critical for any given shot. And its...

 

Samyang 7.5mm fish-eye cinema lens for Micro Four Thirds.

Following yet another round of teases and speculation, Samyang has announced five new lenses. Each is really just a re-worked version of a pre-existing model, and they're all still manual focus. But there's nothing wrong with good, cheap glass in any form.

A couple of years ago, a 'camera phone' was a cellphone that sported a camera. Today, where most cellphones sold are smartphones which universally sport highly capable photo and video cameras, the term has lost its former semantic breadth. So what makes a camera phone in a time where every phone sports a camera? Samsung's line of...

 

 

If you’re a drone photographer in Louisiana, get your air-time in while you can: The state senate just passed two bills severely restricting drone photography, under penalty of fines and jail time, reports Motherboard. Both will need to pass the house and receive approval from the governor before they become law,...

 

 

Bundles, bundles and more bundles! If you're looking for a new camera with a few lenses to round out the kit (or perhaps something for Mom -- yep, Mother's Day is coming up), then today's the day. There's some great bundle promotions for Olympus mirrorless cameras, as well as a couple Sonys with a new mirrorless...

 

 

The ever-popular Canon T3, their previous entry-level DSLR offering, debuted more than three years ago and yet is still hugely popular among the camera-buying masses. No wonder they took their time in issuing a follow-up model, and thus far the Canon T5 looks to be a worthy follow-up indeed.

Increasing in...

Let's be honest: how often do we think about where our water comes from, and where it goes to, while using it? Probably not all that often. After all, most of us, living in a society where almost everyone has easy access to seemingly unlimited supplies of freshwater, it's easy to take that daily shower or bottle of spring water for granted....

 

 

The Samsung NX30 has now taken the first leg of its voyage through our rigorous test lab series, and we present to you our lab test First Shots from this new flagship model in Samsung's mirrorless camera line.

Almost two years in the making, the NX30 houses a new sensor with the same size and 20.3 mp resolution...

 

 

Some Instagrammers are positively swimming in likes. Their follower counts are sky-high off of nothing more than filtered snapshots of foamy latte hearts, it seems. If you’re craving that kind of positive reinforcement for your square-crop photos, The Bold Italic invites you to play “The Game of Likes.”

This...

 

 

The first light-field video camera will essentially record moving holographs. We don’t know when that camera will come out, and we also don’t know if there will yet be a good way to display those holographs. But we’re getting a step closer to it.

Apple Insider found a new patent awarded to Apple for an...

 

 

Happy Monday, folks! Camera deals were dwindling down in the past few weeks, but they are picking up steam today! On tap are two big promotions from Canon and Nikon for large chunks of savings. There's also a Fujifilm X-E1 sale over at Adorama. In the lens department, there're new instant and mail-in rebates for...

 

 

In 2014, we look back at an early digital cameras like the Kodak Hawkeye from the late 1980s as if it’s an antique, and a long-running lens standard like the Nikon F mount, launched in 1959, as a stalwart relic of an ancient past.

This newsreel clip produced by British Pathé in 1939 is as old as dirt by those...

 

 

It's a tough time to be plenoptic camera maker Lytro. While it's attention-grabbing refocusing, depth-of-field and perspective effects are undeniably cool, others are getting onto its turf and copying its tricks. First HTC launched its One M8 smartphone with depth-sensing camera. Then Google got into the game...