Apple is heavily promoting its new improved camera as a primary feature of the iPhone 4S. With a 60% increase in megapixels, a sharper and faster lens, and a newly engineered illumination sensor, the popular technology company is hoping consumers will now turn to the iPhone for their primary photography (and video) needs, as well as …
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Adobe Shows Off Blurry Picture Fix in Photoshop
You had the perfect shot. Everything was framed just right, your subjects were smiling, and the lighting was beautiful. But then you hit the camera button with a little too much gusto, and the whole photo came out a blurry mess.
Fortunately, Adobe has demonstrated a fix for blurry photos in Photoshop. Using advanced algorithms, the …
Will the iPhone 4S Replace Your Standalone Camera?
When I travel, I take at least two cameras, both a high-end digital SLR model, and the one in my phone—the latter mostly because I need my phone and can’t claw its comparably poor aperture from the frame. In a tight, impromptu spot, I’ll use the camera-phone, but if I want pictures I plan to keep, it’s the SLR camera, all the …
How to Organize Your Digital Photos
Summer’s over. You have a lot of happy memories, and many of them are stored digitally as photographs. Organizing those pictures will help you find the ones you want quickly and easily.
Sure, you can easily find all the photos from your Grand Canyon trip, because they’re in a folder called “Grand Canyon.” But can you just as easily …
Take a Look at Fujifilm’s Gorgeous X10 Point & Shoot
It’s a weird time for the camera industry.
On the one hand, DSLRs continue to get cheaper and more powerful, becoming more and more accessible to hobbyists and budding pros. Meanwhile, at the other end of the spectrum sits the iPhone, which unexpectedly became the most popular camera on Flickr (and likely the world), thanks in no …
Microsoft Sued over Secretly Tracking Smartphone Users
Remember when Apple was accused of illegally tracking the location of iPhone users via a location discovery system inherent to iOS4 earlier this year? Well, it turns out that it wasn’t just Apple—or Google, which was also found via a leaked memo to be doing the same thing with their Android devices. Now Microsoft is being sued for …
Sony Announces New Video-Friendly DSLRs and Compact Body Cameras
Sony announced four new cameras this morning: two “all-in-one” compacts with interchangeable lenses, and two DSLRs that aren’t really DSLRs (but more on that in a bit).
The new compact bodies are the latest additions to the popular NEX line, which combine the picture quality and control you get with interchangeable lenses with …
This Is the $118,000 Camera Used to Film Shark Week’s Slow-Motion Videos
The best part about Discovery Channel’s Shark Week is hands-down the ultra-detailed, split-second slow-mos of great whites shooting out of the water like scud missiles, snatching unsuspecting seal pups between jagged rows of dagger-like teeth. It’s gruesome, terrifying and, for fairly obvious reasons, I can’t stop watching.
So during …
‘Deluxe’ and ‘Technicolor’ Prepare for the Death of Film
It’s the end of an era: Deluxe Entertainment Services Group and Technicolor, two iconic names in the movie industry for almost a century, have signed subcontracting deals that, more than likely, herald the end of actual film being used for motion pictures.
The two companies have signed three-year contracts that will see Technicolor …
Will an Innovative New Focusing Technology Change the Way We Take Pictures?
Although technological advances have paved the way for smaller and cheaper camera models to enter the market, there haven’t really been any major innovations in terms of the hardware itself within the past decade. That’s why you see “classic” lenses and camera bodies still demanding exorbitant amounts of money on eBay, or on …
Ask Techland: How Can I Take Better Food Photos with My iPhone?
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Question: I recently upgraded to an iPhone. My friends are always posting pictures of their food on Facebook and Instagram, but mine always come out crappy. How can I take better food photos?
Answer: Ah, you’re friends with …
Code Found in Apple’s Latest Mobile Software Teases iPhone 5 and iPad 3
Thanks to a little digging, sources at TUAW have discovered hints about what Apple may have in store for future iPad and iPhone models. The info comes via code found in developer versions of Apple’s next mobile operating system update, iOS 5, which will be available to the public this fall.
In particular, files found in the version of …