In addition to the hinged LCD-harboring S6600 Coolpix that was announced earlier this evening, Nikon has also introduced its new Coolpix L620, a high-power zoom compact with 14x optical zoom and a backside-illuminated 18.1-megapixel CMOS sensor. The camera will be available in two different colors: black and a red wine type of color. As far […]
Because we all carry smartphones and because we all fancy ourselves as photographers and because we’re all just satisfied with good enough, the pictures we take hardly ever reach the full potential of a shot. Even worse, they’re run through filters that destroy the tone, they’re squared off to limit the scope and they’re used with a flash that should never be used.
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Nikon has introduce a new compact digital camera, the Coolpix S6600, which is the first in the S-series to feature a hinged LCD for multiple positions depending on the shooting situation. In addition to the “vari-angle monitor,” the Coolpix S6600 also boasts Gesture Control, allowing users to take self portraits with a wave of their […]
A rental house in Munich modified their digital camera to take Stanley Kubrick’s f/0.7 lenses, which NASA commissioned from Zeiss to shoot the dark side of the moon. Meaning you can go out and shoot photos with, essentially, historical artifacts.
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Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.
In that human-behavior lab known as the New York City subway, a vacationing family recently sought to get in a group self-portrait on their last day in the Big Apple. But the rocking train kept thwarting the capture of their jostled bodies. To frame the picture, they tried trading the quality of their smartphone’s rear camera for the one above the phone’s display so they could better preview the picture, but still had trouble composing the shot. Finally, a local passenger riding with them stepped in and offered to take their photo, which he did to their expressions of gratitude.
The incident served as an illustration of the often precarious situations in which we use our smartphone cameras. Had their phone been Nokia’s Lumia 1020 and the stranger not intervened, the 41 megapixels of light-capturing prowess might have gone for naught as the family would’ve had to rely on the phone’s middling front-facing camera.
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Just after Mars rover Curiosity touched down, it sent home a selfie worthy of Instagram
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Ever wanted to take pictures like an astronaut? Now’s your chance. There’s an original Hasselblad 500EL Electric Camera
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If you bought a Nokia Lumia device in the past 6 months and were wondering if there were an easier way to transfer photos to your OS X machine than the already in-play Windows Phone app, lucky you: today there is. What you’re looking at here is Nokia Photo Transfer for Mac, an extremely simple […]
If you want to get a good shot of lightning, it helps to have an amazing sense of timing. Barring that, you could just fake it by creating an entire miniature lightning storm that looks impossibly real, and shooting that instead. Same difference.
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It’s back! Can you believe it’s already been three years since we wrote about Red Bull Illume, the world’s biggest photography contest for action and adventure sports? (Remember the incredible winners?) Beginning in June, Red Bull has been slowly leaking its top 250 finalists, and today, we’re happy to announce that the gallery has been complete! We just spent the last few hours looking over each image and all we can say is, "Wow!"
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