The decline of film photography continues, with Fujifilm announcing the discontinuation of several of its films including Velvia 100F. "Due to decreasing demand globally we have to announce the withdrawal of some formats of Velvia 100F and Velvia 50" Fujifilm product manager for professional film Gabriel Da Costa said of the company's decision. "It is an unfortunate consequence of of digital capture, that some of the slower selling silver-halide lines will drop off the radar."
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Fujifilm axes select Fujichrome film as digital eats photography
Google Nexus 7 gets Camera Launcher app
The Nexus 7 may not have a dedicated camera for pictures, but it does feature a front-facing camera for video conferencing. It’s perhaps understandable that Google didn’t include a dedicated Camera app, but it’s a bit of a party pooper for those fascinated with funny camera effects. Fear not, friends, as Paul O’Brien of MoDaCo has published a Camera app for the Nexus 7 to the Play Store.
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Samsung EX2F offers WiFi, F1.4, Full HD and more
Samsung has outed its latest wirelessly-enabled camera, the EX2F, packing a 12.4-megapixel backside-illuminated CMOS and a 3-inch AMOLED display. The EX2F uses an F1.4 lens, which Samsung claims is the brightest in any compact camera, and can record 1080/30p Full HD video as well as capturing stills simultaneously.
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Iris camera concept reinvents blink detection
General camera use may well have been heavily cannibalized by cellphone cameras, but that hasn't stopped innovative concepts from attempting to rework the way we shoot photos. Iris, by designer Mimi Zou, is just one such unusual approach: rather than anything so mundane as a button to fire off a frame, Iris watches the user just as keenly as it does their subject, activating the shutter-release when they blink.
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Point Grey unveils world’s smallest 4K USB 3.0 camera
Point Grey, makers of industrial digital cameras, has released a new model in its Flea3 USB 3.0 camera lineup that supports 4K resolution and is being touted as the world's smallest 4K camera. It uses the bandwidth capabilities of USB 3.0 to deliver 4096 x 2160 pixel resolution color images at 21 frames per second. All this is stuffed into a tiny ice-cube sized package.
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Nokia 808 PureView Review
Excitement, about a Symbian phone? The Nokia 808 PureView has forced many to reconsider their platform loyalties by virtue of its big number boast: 41-megapixels of camera goodness. The surprise stand-out of Mobile World Congress, the 808 PureView is the first public evidence of a five year labor of love inspired by ultra-high-resolution satellite photography. There’s compromise galore involved, however, to join the early PureView train, so is it worth it? Read on for the full SlashGear review.
The Nokia 808 PureView has landed
Nokia’s 808 PureView has landed, and we’re the most excited we’ve been about a Symbian phone in years. Gradually rolling out in Europe this month, and up for preorder – albeit with a hefty off-contract price tag of $699 – in the US with deliveries next month, the 808 has progressively wowed us since its MWC debut with its game-changing approach to photography. Little surprise, then, that we jumped at the chance to try out one of Nokia’s 808 PureView kits.
Gigapixel Aware-2 camera is the PureView of tomorrow
There’s been some interesting developments in the camera arena over the past year, with Nokia showing off the 41-megapixel packing 808 PureView at MWC and customers getting a taste of the Lytro not long after. How about a camera with a billion pixels? That’s what researchers at Duke University are currently working on, with resulting images containing extreme amounts of detail even when zoomed in.
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Nokia 808 PureView up for sale in US: Ships July 8
Nokia's 808 PureView has finally gone up for preorder in the US, with the unlocked 41-megapixel smartphone expected to begin shipping on July 8. Priced at $699 - with no carrier subsidy - the 808 PureView supports 3G on both AT&T and T-Mobile USA and is sold SIM-free and unlocked. Still, it's likely the 808's photographic abilities that could win it buyers, rather than its performance as a phone.
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Nokia 808 PureView unlocked $699 presales in US this week [Updated]
Nokia has confirmed that the 41-megapixel 808 PureView smartphone will see a release in the US, though without the subsidy that most cellphone buyers are used to. The Symbian-based cameraphone will be made available unlocked and SIM-free, priced at $699 and supporting AT&T's 3G network (or T-Mobile USA's 2G network). Update: Nokia now says the 808 PureView actually supports 3G on T-Mobile USA, not just 2G.
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Facebook Instagram alternative gets new name: Camera•
Facebook has renamed its Camera app for iPhone, tweaking the title so as to cause less homescreen confusion by bizarrely adding a bullet point and calling it Camera•. A new version of the app dropped earlier today, v1.0.2, complete with the new screen name, more reliable photo uploads to your Facebook galleries, and boosted performance when location services are disabled.
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DIY Streetview camera kit lets you be Google
If you have a hankering to be like Google and make your own Street View images, you can do it with this new camera kit from a company called Streetview Technology. The company makes a camera with three mounting options, including a car mount or a backpack. The camera has lenses on each side that record in all directions at one time.
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