Topic: PHOTO - on January 6, 2017 at 1:47:00 PM CET
Kodak Ektachrome Film is Coming Back from the Dead
It’s not every day that you hear about a classic film line being brought back from the dead, but that’s what’s being announced today. Kodak Ektachrome film is coming back for film photographers. The announcement was made today at CES in Las Vegas by Kodak Alaris, the separate company owned by the Kodak Pension Plan in the UK that runs Kodak’s old Personalized Imaging division.
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Topic: PHOTO - on August 11, 2016 at 4:30:00 PM CEST
Nikon Develops Camera with 4 Lenses and 4 Sensors
The multi-aperture computational camera is an exciting technology that’s emerging in the world of photography, and it appears that Nikon wants in. The company has patented a “4-eye” camera that packs 4 lenses and 4 sensors. The startup company Light made splashes in the computational camera space in October 2015 when it announced the L16, a compact camera that combines the powers of 16 separate camera modules to shoot 52-megapixel “DSLR quality” photos.
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Topic: PHOTO - on August 11, 2016 at 4:25:00 PM CEST
‘The Impossible Project’ Documentary Tells the Story of Polaroid’s Rebirth
When Polaroid announced that it would stop making Polaroid instant film in February 2008, The Impossible Project was founded to keep the film alive. Filmmaker Jens Meurer has spent several years shooting a feature-length documentary film about the saving and reinventing of the Polaroid picture. “The Impossible Project” is a film about film that was actually shot on 35mm film. Here’s a first official trailer that gives a taste of what the movie is like:
petapixel.com impossible-project.com Instant Photography Reinvented
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Topic: PHOTO - on July 29, 2016 at 5:20:00 PM CEST
Disney Wants to Track Park Visitors By Secretly Photographing Their Shoes Like a Creep
With millions of tourists visiting its theme parks around the world each year, it makes sense that Disney would want to track how visitors move about its attractions to help minimize lines and crowds and also to provide a unique experience for each guest. But does it have to sound so incredibly creepy?
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Topic: PHOTO - on July 19, 2016 at 4:27:00 PM CEST
This Vintage 1927 Steampunk Bowling Alley Looks Amazing
During the midst of prohibition, the original Highland Park Bowl first opened in 1927. During the 80s and 90s the space transitioned into an iconic live music venue is Los Angeles called Mr. T’s. Now 89 years later, the 1933 Group have restored and revitalized the vintage bowling alley, transporting patrons into a different era with a steampunk vibe.
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Topic: PHOTO - on July 12, 2016 at 4:44:00 PM CEST
GoPro Evolution: A Teardown Through the Ages - Part 2
Our third and final family member is a relative newcomer to the scene. The Hero4 Session is just under a year old—you can tell because it’s 50% smaller and 40% lighter than a full-grown GoPro. All kidding aside, compactness is one of its major selling points—that and the fact that it is supposedly waterproof to 30 feet without an additional waterproofing case. Makes one wonder if it might be hard to break into…
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Topic: PHOTO - on July 6, 2016 at 2:05:00 PM CEST
This Scarf Hides Your Face if Flash Photography is Used
Dutch designer Saif Siddiqui has created a fashionable scarf that hides your face when flash photography is used. The concept first struck Saif in 2009 when he took a photo of friends in Amsterdam and a nearby bike’s reflector obscured everyone in the photo.
Six years later, Saif unveiled a line of ‘anti-flash’ wearables under the brand name, Ishu. The self-proclaimed ‘invisibility cloaks’ were first released as scarves, but Ishu has since created a tie, pocket square and phone case that are also anti-flash.
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Topic: PHOTO - on July 4, 2016 at 11:00:00 AM CEST
Fujifilm’s instant photo printer is finally out of its awkward phase
In a world full of smartphone photography and digital cameras, shooting pictures on film has become a niche endeavor. Instant film, popularized by Polaroid in the mid-to-late 20th century, is an even deeper niche. But Fujifilm’s newest product, the Instax Share SP-2 printer, is a smart little bridge between the digital and analog worlds.
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Topic: PHOTO - on June 29, 2016 at 11:25:00 AM CEST
GoPro Evolution: A Teardown Through the Ages
Our latest teardown focuses on the popular action camera GoPro. This teardown is actually not a singular adventure, but an odyssey of epic proportions, split into 2 parts. We’ll look at the product’s evolution across three generations and see how the engineering and manufacturing techniques have changed in the last half decade.
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Topic: PHOTO - on August 5, 2014 at 4:32:00 PM CEST
Move Over Schlieren, Scientists Are Upping The Sound Wave Photography Ante
Okay, Schlieren photography is still pretty awesome. I’m actually still quite fascinated with our ability to photograph sound waves. I also love that I can do it myself for less than $10. But, this project announcement from MIT is pretty wicked, too. Scientists from Microsoft, MIT, and Adobe have developed a way to use similar science to recover the audio from images taken using high speed cameras and even a prosumer level DSLR.
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Topic: PHOTO - on June 13, 2014 at 4:18:00 PM CEST
The Amazing Photography Of Aerial Archeologist Klaus Leidorf
German photographer Klaus Leidorf (Flickr) has a unique point of view on the world. It may be connected to the fact that he looks at it from above, riding a Cessna 172.
What started as a primarily archeological photography business, i.e. conducts archaeological surveys, turned into a passion when Leidorf joined Corbis as a contributing photographers and started selling photograph to academic publishers, newspapers, and a major insurance companies.
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Topic: PHOTO - on June 9, 2014 at 2:57:00 PM CEST
Samsung NX300 Gets Rooted
We have seen some major cameras get hacked and it usually makes them better. Magic Lantern made Canon better, Nikon Hacker added functions to Nikon, and Ptool added video Codex for Panasonic. Now it is the time for Samsung camera to get hacked.
Finally after a year and a half in the wild the NX300 got rooted. Getting rooted means gaining administrative rights to the camera and practically running any program on it.
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