Say hello to Lytro, a new consumer-grade camera capable of focusing on multiple points in an image with eye-popping accuracy after you’ve snapped the picture. We first heard about it this summer, and now it has a release timeframe: early next year. What, you thought “4D” was just marketing gibberish? Because 4D implies “time,” and what …
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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 …
Party Hats, Everyone! Instagram Hits 150 Million Photo Uploads
Instagram, the popular photo sharing service for the iPhone, just announced that it’s hit 150 million photo uploads thanks in no small part to its user base of 7 million picture snappers. For perspective, that’s about 15 photos being uploaded every single second.
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Old Meets New: ‘Historypin’ Is a Map-Based Time Capsule for Vintage Photos
A few weeks ago our friends at NewsFeed dubbed Dear Photograph their “Tumblr of the Week” — and for good reason.
Its premise, like most good things, is incredibly simple: Someone snaps a modern-day photo in the exact place where a memorable photo had been taken years earlier. The images are then presented side by side.
The result …
Pentax ‘Q’ Camera Sports Point-and-Shoot Size, DSLR Features
Camera company Pentax wants a space in your pocket, but it’s OK: you don’t need big pockets.
They’ve unveiled the Pentax Q, and they’re calling it the smallest, lightest interchangeable lens camera in the world.
And it’s true: the Q is small. It measures just four inches across and barely more than an inch deep. But there’s a lot …
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 …
Practice Your Digital Photography Skills On the Web
There comes a time for many amateur photographers when they decide to abandon easy-mode point-and-shoot cameras, and switch to a proper DSLR.
That’s when the learning starts.
And it’s not easy to get your head around the complexities of taking good pictures. It’s not just understanding exposure, shutter speed, aperture and so on, but
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Find Your Stolen Camera with Stolen Camera Finder
What can you do if your camera’s been stolen?
Not much, to be honest. Apple’s iPhones and iPads might have built-in locate-me technology, but the same cannot be said of most cameras, even the expensive DSLR ones.
A website called Stolen Camera Finder might be able to help, though.
It makes use of the data that your camera saves …
Photobucket Goes Retro with New Instagram-y App: Snapbucket
Cool kids take note. Photo and video sharing service Photobucket is making a move into trendier territory with the release of their new Snapbucket app, available for download on Androids as of today (the iPhone version will be available soon).
Contrary to their other app, Snapbucket allows users to apply vignettes and other artful …
Extra ‘Color’ for the Royal Wedding
Remember Color, the iPhone photography app designed to be used where people gather together?
Well, there’s a pretty big gathering of people expected in central London tomorrow, and the people at Color and one UK newspaper have decided to make the most of it.
Color and the Daily Telegraph have joined forces to create citizen news …
Photo Duo Creates Harry Potter-Style Moving Photos for the Web
Remember the moving photos that appear in newspapers and magazines in the Harry Potter stories?
Well someone’s come up with a digital equivalent that could bring news articles to life on tablet computers, phones and e-readers.
Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg worked together to create subtle animated GIF images for the web. They’re …
Photographers Join Forces For Tsunami Benefit iApp
Some of the world’s finest photographers have joined forces to document the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami – and raise money for its victims in the process.
The photojournalists – Dominic Nahr from Switzerland, Adam Dean from the UK, Shiho Fukada from Japan, James Whitlow Delano, Keith Bedford, and Paula Bronstein …