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It’s spring. Time to get outdoors, take pictures … and deal with all those rain showers with a rain cover for your digital camera. They cost $25 to $250. Yes, $250 for an industrial strength cover for a long telephoto lens. Most work similarly: a generously sized shroud for the camera body with a snout for the lens, a ring-shaped fastener that secures the snout to the lens shade, two elasticized openings you stick your hands in, and clear plastic in back so you can look through the viewfinder.

Given the impressive knockoffs and official camera kits we’ve seen, we’d say the iPad’s definitely got the stuff to help out most shutterbugs, but up until now, uploading content from a CF card wasn’t exactly easy. Well, our friends over at MIC Gadget recently showed off an iPad / iPad 2-compatible card reader that fixes that on the cheap. Simply called the CF card reader for iPad and iPad 2, the thing slips right into the slate’s dock connector port and, as you can see from the video below, it transfers HD video and high-res images in a snap — it also sports USB connectivity. Like its predecessor, the reader’s available from MIC for $29.90, but you’ll have to wait at least a month to get your hands on one. Oh, and a word of warning, you might want to make sure the iPad supports your camera’s video format before shelling out the dough, as MIC found the slab couldn’t playback video from a Canon EOS 5D Mark II.

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You might get thrown out of some art galleries for taking photos, but a gallery of work by two Toronto artists requires it. The series of “invisible paintings” (as the artists’ website calls them) uses LEDs that put out light outside the spectrum that our eyes can see. When you walk into the gallery, you get the art equivalent of John Cage’s 4’33”: several blank paintings on the walls.

However, thanks to the sensitivity of digital sensors, you can turn on your digital camera or pick up your cell phone and see the glowing images on the two-foot by three-foot canvas. The art is tuned to the presentation method too, depicting smiles and winks as you take its photo in a sort of a self-aware nod to its viewers.

Brad Blucher and Kyle Clements, the artists behind the project, say on their website that their goal is to expose the contrast between social media and digital technology, where everything is photographed and shared, and most art museums, where this type of sharing is frowned upon or even banned outright. See a video of them talking about the project after the break.

[via Make Magazine, Kyle Clements]