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Photographers shouldn’t mind adding this massive fisheye lens to their studio setups even though it’s described as soft, and is made of wood. It’s actually a stool designed to look like a Canon lens, but with enough changes to skirt any lawsuits or legal repercussions. More »

COWON Japan released Wi-Fi compliant Full HD (1920×1080) drive recorder “AUTO CAPSULE COWON AW1″ today.

After installing the “Smart Manager” application provided by COWON to your smart device, you can connect your smart device to “AUTO CAPSULE COWON AW1″ wirelessly and monitor in realtime and check recorded videos.

The lens component can rotate 360 degrees so that videos in any direction can be captured.

There are several modes you can use according to the situation: recording while driving, monitoring while parked, and recording triggered by a shock to the car.

Price: 23,800 yen
Color: silver
Size: 38 x 102cm (diameter x width)
Weight: 76g
Capacity: 8G
Audio recording: microphone
Memory card: max 32GB memory card

Thanks to Sony, YouTube is soon to be flooded with countless first-person videos of dog butts and fire hydrants as the company is releasing a dog-mount for its Action Cam, starting in Japan. Specifically designed for dogs larger than 33 pounds, the $54 mount is designed to be worn like a traditional harness providing exciting footage of your dog during its daily hour of playtime, and its other 23 hours of sleeping. More »

After opening a lot of eyes with its 30mm, F1.4 DC HSM lens, Sigma‘s just thrown another curve at the photo community with a feat that the major players haven’t managed so far: a zoom lens with a fixed, sub f/2.0 aperture. The Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 DC HSM that launched today for Canon APS-C cameras flew under everybody’s radar and flaunts over double the light-gathering powers of the priciest zooms, which typically top out at f/2.8 — except for Olympus’ $2,300 14-35mm f/2.0 Four Thirds model. The extra third of a stop over that model may not seem like much, but the company said it needed to “solve a variety of technical challenges” to build it in order to minimize distortion and aberration. Sigma’s also promising fast autofocus via a hypersonic motor (with full-time manual override) and rubber-coated brass construction. There’s no pricing or availability yet, but don’t expect it to be cheap (think $2k plus) — after all, it’s the only game in town for now.

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Via: Sony Alpha Rumors

Source: Sigma

Earlier this year, a group of enterprising students from the University of Texas unveiled the Lynx A 3D camera and asked for money to fund its construction on Kickstarter. Since then, they’ve soared past their funding goal of $50,000, and are getting ready to ship out their first set of cameras. Today at DEMO Mobile SF, we finally got to see a prototype unit for ourselves and watch it scan someone’s head in real-time. For the uninitiated, the Lynx A is billed as a point-and-shoot 3D camera that uses Kinect-esque hardware to obtain depth mapping and imaging info from your surroundings. Using GPU computing power and some custom code, it turns that data into 3D scene and object models or motion capture, and it displays the finished models on its 14-inch screen a minute or two after it’s finished recording — all for $1,799.

The Lynx A we witnessed working in person today was a prototype unit, so fit and finish were far from being retail ready, as wide gaps and exposed screws abounded. Lynx assured us that the units going out to its backers will not only have a more polished appearance, but also be six times more accurate and 30 percent smaller due to newer hardware components. Despite the prototype’s rough appearance, the modeling process went off without a hitch. It was able to scan 2/3 of a human head in about a minute and within a couple minutes more it was displaying a 3D model ready to be manipulated and printed out by a Replicator or a Form 1. Don’t believe us? See for yourself in the video after the break.

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