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Retro-camera addicts may have remembered mutterings of Superheadz’s Digital Harinezumi camera a few months back, the unusually-shaped Japanese shooter promising Super 8 style images and silent video. At the time, finding one outside of its native country was tougher than selling Nokia shares, but now arch-importers AudioCubes have stepped in with a $169.99 sticker price.
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Superheadz Digital Harinezumi retro-110 camera reaches US shores
By Chris Davies on Friday, Oct 16th 2009 No CommentsPro Cyc MyStudio 20 – Tabletop Photo Studio review
By Daniel Lim on Friday, May 8th 2009 No CommentsSo what does an avian photographer knows about product photography? Not much, but a good image is all in the lighting and background. With the right equipment, product photography is in fact very simple, and twice as straightforward in a consistent lighting photo studio. A professional light tent with balanced lighting and seamless background can be costly, up to thousand of dollars, and is out of reach for small profit auction retailers or ecommerce that regularly add product images to their online catalogs. What we have for review today is an affordable product with an infinity virtual backdrop that the manufacturers claim can be used by anyone, regardless of experience, to get high quality product shots –- the Pro Cyc MyStudio20 Tabletop Photo Studio. (setup video after the cut)
Pentax shows off 645 Digital; updates K20D, K2000
By Brenda Stokes on Tuesday, Mar 24th 2009 No CommentsPentax released more details on several of their products today. First up is the Pentax 645 Digital. It was first previewed in 2007, but now we’re finally getting closer to a release, it seems. This camera is a monster with 30-megapixels! It is also expected to handle film-based 645 lenses, have a full-view eyepiece and more.
Sigma DP2 camera now available for pre-order
By Brenda Stokes on Tuesday, Mar 24th 2009 No CommentsWe got our first look at the Sigma DP2 camera back in September, but now it looks like the digital point and shoot device is available for pre-order on Amazon.com. Following in the footsteps of the DP1, the DP2 features a 14-megapixel FOVEON X3 image sensor and is equipped to be much like a standard DSLR in a much smaller frame.
Tilt-Shift done properly: Bathtub IV by Keith Loutit [Video]
By Chris Davies on Friday, Mar 20th 2009 No CommentsTilt-shift takes the real world and, if it’s done right, makes you wonder whether we’re actually all tiny figurines. Artist Keith Loutit is perhaps one of the best at it that we’ve seen, and his latest project – Bathtub IV, a music video starring the Sydney harbor and a whole flock of seemingly-minute people, boats and even a helicopter – is arguably his finest work yet.
Watch Bathtub IV after the cut
Eye-Fi 4GB cards upload video; new iPhone app released
By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Mar 4th 2009 No CommentsEye-Fi have now officially launched their latest wireless memory cards, that not only offer 4GB of storage but can automatically upload video to YouTube and Flickr. The cards, which were first announced back at CES, in fact support more than 20 online media sharing sites, and will automatically transfer images and video content when in a predefined WiFi hotspot. The company has also announced a new iPhone application for Eye-Fi owners.
ATP GPS PhotoFinder mini gets reviewed: slow geotagging
By Chris Davies on Friday, Feb 27th 2009 No CommentsGeotagging and location-based services are fashionable right now, and if you have the right cameraphone then you could already be taking high-resolution shots with embedded GPS data. If, though, you’re using a standalone digital camera, it’s far more unlikely that it has GPS built in; that’s when something like ATP’s GPS PhotoFinder mini steps in, a relatively cheap, standalone way to add location information to your photos. OhGizmo have been trying the PhotoFinder mini out, and while it’ll do what it claims on the box, you may find the drawbacks outweigh the benefits.
Canon PIXMA pro9500 and pro9000 Mark II upgrades imminent?
By Daniel Lim on Tuesday, Feb 10th 2009 No Comments
A press release consists of number of printers and upgrades to company’s professional series Pixma inkjet printer was reported at Canon’s Hk site. The new PIXMA pro9500 and Pro9000 dubbed “Mark II”, are assuming successors to the long overdue Mark I series, especially the latter.
Technicality, we don’t see any major improvements from the spec sheet. Both units are getting the same 10 colors Lucia pigment ink plus a 3-Ink monochrome system and 8 colors dye ink the 9500 and 9000 respectively. If anything new, they are now supported CS4.
Nikon’s stereoscopic Microscope now fits Nikon DSLR, Extreme Macro anyone?
By Daniel Lim on Wednesday, Feb 4th 2009 No CommentsShoot! I thought my stacked lenses with 2.7:1 magnification was extreme, Nikon optics geek-squad have came out a portable stereoscopic microscope, for the first time ever, allows the use of its DSLR lineup to capture images with magnification of up to 66 times from a 1.5 crop factor image sensor.
Impossible Project takes on re-engineering Polaroid Integral film
By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Feb 4th 2009 No CommentsWhen you give your scheme a name like “The Impossible Project” you’re obviously setting yourself up for some seriously hard work, but then again aiming to not only reverse-engineer Polaroid’s iconic instant Integral film, but improve upon it and then market it as a commercial enterprise does sound like a tall order. That’s just what some Integral-obsessed Polaroid addicts are doing, however; they’ve taken out a ten year lease on a closed Polaroid factory in the Netherlands and are gathering up film experts to help them develop a new instant photography product.
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