Smartphone cameras are advancing at an impressive rate, but they still fall short of most point-and-shoots and are miles away from even low-end DSLRs. That said, most DSLR owners don’t bring their smartphone along for its camera capabilities. But for those of you with a Canon EOS DSLR and an Android smartphone, a new app [...]
While just about everyone working in photography today has a digital camera thus largely eliminating the need for a scanner, sometimes a project will call for such a device. Such an example would be an older photograph that needs to be digitally retouched. While you can technically take a picture of it with your DSLR [...]
The cameras built into today’s latest smartphones are more powerful than ever before. Better yet, manufacturers don’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon, as is usually the case with the tech industry. A prime example of this would be the 12.1 megapixel CMOS sensor Sharp debuted a while back made specifically for smartphones. While [...]
Thanks to some fancy science done at MIT, consumers everywhere may soon be able to shoot in 3D from the convenience of their smartphone. Homemade movies will no longer be watched in boring and flat dimensions, but instead, baby’s first steps, baseball games, and “hi, Grandma” shorts can be seen in 3D. Drawing inspiration from [...]
A recent study by the NPD Group states that the number of photographs taken by U.S. consumers makes up as much as 27% of all photos. This is up from 17% last year. Concurrently, the number of photos and videos captured by point-and-shoot cameras and camcorders dropped to 44%, down from 52% in 2010. Along [...]
Buying smartphones and consumer electronics has gotten a lot more complicated nowadays. I don’t mean the act of buying per se because, really, all we do is hand over a credit card, issue a check, or fork over the cash. Rather, I’m talking about the process of choosing from what’s available–and the time when you [...]
If you were to go back in time and tell a photography enthusiast that smartphone cameras would one day be where they are today, you would without a doubt be deemed insane. But, while smartphone cameras may very well one day rival DSLRs in picture quality they still have a ways to go. In the [...]
Every so often, one comes across a Smartphone App that is almost mind boggling when one tries to come to terms with what it actually does, only to later realize that this might actually have a purpose worthy of an App marketing campaign. According to a number of reviews/press releases, because this App costs a [...]
It was always eventually going to happen. You were going to decide that sending a postcard or two from whatever location is just too mind-bogglingly hard, and in essence, just waaaaay too much work overall. Never fear however, in order to flip the world of postcarding on its head, there’s an app called Postagram. Available [...]