I mentioned a month ago that Nikon is outperforming Canon of late because of their ability to innovate and approach their consumers in unique ways – Nikon is at the very least advertising, if not offering, an experience rather than simply providing world class hardware. Moving right along these lines Nikon Europe, with help from Hybris Software, [...]
How would you like to throw your 5D Mark III on a desk and have it charge automatically? By the time you run out on the next shoot the battery would be showing full power. With the use of inductive charging this is certainly possible, but this currently comes at the cost of a large [...]
Just about every day, tech publications are flooded with reports of new smartphones featuring higher resolution cameras than ever before. As of now, highly popular smartphones including the Apple iPhone 4S and Samsung Galaxy S II feature 8-megapixel cameras capable of recording full 1080p HD video. But, if you thought an 8-megapixel would stay top [...]
The thing with photos is that they don’t just manage to capture a moment in time. With just a single image, photographers can convey emotion, bring back powerful memories, push for peace, and maybe even change the world. Every year, the World Press Photo organization chooses one photo from over a hundred thousand submissions and [...]
Institutions and private collectors have another date to mark on their calendars: May 12, 2012. Approximately a little over two months from now, a rare selection of 500 cameras, lenses, and accessories will be heading to the auction block at the 21st WestLicht Camera Auction. This auction comes just two weeks after Tamarkin’s Photographica Spring Auction, [...]
Japan’s national broadcasting organization, NHK, has revealed that they are developing a sensor that is capable of capturing 8k video at 120fps. These chips will be able to support NHK’s Super Hi-Vision standard of 7680×4320 pixels, which is known as UHDTV. At 33 megapixels, this is over sixteen times higher than the resolution of current 1080p [...]
With all of the recent news about the Olympus OM-D, you’d think that the manufacturer would be planning to release more shooters from the same line; if not to take advantage of all the publicity, at least to just keep the momentum going. The E-PL3 cameras, which are a part of Olympus’s PEN line. However, [...]
Although it’s hard to imagine a suite as powerful as Photoshop making its way to tablets, that’s just what Adobe did when they put Photoshop Touch on Android devices at the beginning of this year. Well, as of yesterday, Apple fanboys need fret no longer as Photoshop Touch has made its way to the iPad [...]
Phottix recently posted a mysterious photo on their official blog of an upcoming product with the title “Photo: Game-changer”. This is probably their answer to the PocketWizard Plus III which, by the way, TogTech is giving away for free. Aside from the image, the Phottix team did not give away any other hints except for the comment: [...]
Based on a photo posted by Pentax Imaging, the Pentax Optio WG-2 has reached new levels of, well, crap – only in a good way? I’m rarely lost for words but this one’s got me. The camera is one of Pentax’s rugged offerings that comes with the usual plethora of “proofs.” It’s waterproof, dustproof, freeze [...]