To everyone shooting Instagram videos right now, just give up. No one cares about your 15 second selfie or crappy first video test. It’s never going to be as good as your pictures. But you should also give up because these guys used 1,600 different Instagram pictures to stitch together a wonderful stop motion Instagram video that kills every Instavideo dead.
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When James Speed Hensinger was 22, he’d already spent nine months fighting in Vietnam, spending his nights in perpetual fear of snipers hiding in the mountains above. So come April of 1970, after fielding multiple nighttime attacks from a single sniper and his AK47, the 173rd Airborne Brigade—of which Hensinger was a part—decided to hit back with an arsenal of insane proportions.
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Rust is the worst enemy of any classic car owner, but it’s also evidence of nature in the industrial age—an urban rot
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The seven-year-old Emma Mærsk can carry more cargo than a 41-mile-long train and has a turning radius of almost a mile. Even compared to oil tankers, she’s more like a city than a boat—albeit a city that few people ever get to explore. But in 2010, a young photographer named Jakob Wagner became one of the few non-employee passengers to board Emma.
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Last night, the moon came as close to the Earth as its elliptical orbit will take it. That means we didn’t get just any old moon—we got a ginormous, glowing supermoon
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Whether you need another option or not, Flytecam is a 1080p POV video camera that’s looking to compete. It has specs that land it between GoPro’s lowest and middle tier offerings, but it’s supposed to be cheaper and doesn’t require waterproof or shock resistant cases.
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There’s nothing like a good dual-LED flash upgrade after a long set of months and years only using the one. That’s what’s suggested for the iPhone 5S this week, with a second unique photo of the machine’s back top-end appearing with the same setup: two bulbs, better than one. Could this one, single, unmistakable differentiator
Who doesn’t love baby pictures? It’s fun and nostalgic to remember what you were like as a kid. But do you keep your baby pictures stored on your computer or are they squirreled away in a yellowing album in the basement of your parents house?
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There’s a certain irony to the Impossible Instant Lab taking a long time to develop, but we won’t mind (much) now that it has a solid release date. The instant photo kit ships to stores on August 29th, when it will cost the same $299 that The Impossible Project promised during its crowdfunding campaign. Compatibility hasn’t changed much since then — you’ll need to use at least an iPhone 4 or fourth-generation iPod touch, and there’s no immediate support for devices using Android or other platforms. If that’s no barrier, however, you can bring your digital photos to the analog world in a matter of weeks.
Filed under: Cellphones, Peripherals
Source: The Impossible Project
A new batch of leaked photos give us a glimpse of the future: Fuji’s next model of interchangeable-lens cameras, the X-M1. The new camera is rumored to be a cheaper, entry-level version of their popular X-series line, with a body-only price of around $600, according to speculation.
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