Tag Archives: Digital Cameras
Digital Camera Dissection Explains Why Your Dirt Cheap Shooter Sucks
The image quality might be absolutely terrible, but one advantage to dropping just $18 on a low-low-end digital camera like the Vivitar V25 is that you can dissect it without feeling guilty. The Kahn Academy certainly didn't shed a tear over th...
Digital Camera Dissection Explains Why Your Dirt Cheap Shooter Sucks
The image quality might be absolutely terrible, but one advantage to dropping just $18 on a low-low-end digital camera like the Vivitar V25 is that you can dissect it without feeling guilty. The Kahn Academy certainly didn't shed a tear over th...
Syrian Rebels Hack Together Digital Cameras To Replace Machine Gun Scopes [War]
Rebels in Syria are not satisfied with the munitions and technology readily available to them. So, increasingly, they're building their own badass battle tools. New York Times' At War blog is discovery ...
Can You Really Shoot Print-Quality Portraits With a Red Epic Video Camera? [Video]
There are murmurings in the tech word that eventually still cameras will be replaced with video cameras, and photographers will simply pore through thousands of frames to find the perfect shot. And cur...
A Forgettable Camera/Media Player Is Suddenly Worth Remembering When It’s Just $22 [Cheap]
It's been quite a while since a personal media player finagled its way onto the site, and while eMatic's new eSport Clip is probably a marginal-at-best media player and digital camera, it's worth noting...
Why Boosting Your Camera’s ISO Setting Can Make Your Photos Worse [Video]
Increasing your camera's ISO setting improves its ability to see in the dark, but it can also lead to artifacts in your images that look like millions of tiny dots, known as noise. But where exactly do...
Kodak to stop making digital cameras as struggles continue
Kodak said it will stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames in order to focus on more profitable products, reports the Associated Press. The move isn’t surprising, as the company is slowly emerging from last month’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. “Our goal is to maximize value for stakeholders, including our employees, retirees, creditors, and pension trustees,” Kodak said in a press release. The company’s digital camera and picture frame products will be phased out during the first of half of the year as Kodak instead focuses on photo printing and desktop inkjet printers. The company will continue to honor warranties and provide technical support for discontinued products, and the move is expected to result in annual savings of more than
The "Eye of America" Takes Two-Story-Tall Pictures [Video]
To celebrate the 200th birthday of the invention of the camera, photographer Dennis Manarchy built one of his own. It looks just like a classic film camera with a wooden frame, leatherette, and brass ha...
Will Samsung’s Zoomy, Wi-Fi Cameras Beat Out Your Smartphone For Your Love? [Cameras]
It's not news that smartphone cameras have gotten so good that even tiny, excellent point-and-shoot cameras for all their benefits can seem, well, a little unnecessary. Samsung's WB850F hopes to change ...
Nikon’s $6000 D4 DSLR Stalks Light Wherever It Hides [Cameras]
Nikon's $6000 D4 might just be the new most deadly lightstalker around with a new 16.2-megapixel full-format CMOS sensor that has (relatively) gigantic 7.3-micron pixels (bigger than Canon's new 1 DX). ...