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(Reblogged from important-things)
Not a disposable
Henri Cartier-Bresson’s well worn black paint M3; this is the other Black One
The future president Franklin D. Roosevelt with his camera in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, while en route to Groton. His cousin Warren Delano Robbins can be seen on the right. 1897. (FDR Presidential Library & Museum)
The opposite of don’t drop it
Throw This Camera
Jonas Pfeil and a team of designers created what they’re calling the Throwable Panoramic Ball. Created as a thesis project at Technische Universitat in Berlin, the camera is equipped with 36 fixed-focus 2 megapixel mobile phone cameras encased in a squishy ball.
Via Pfeil’s Web site:
The camera is thrown into the air and captures an image at the highest point of flight - when it is hardly moving. The camera takes full spherical panoramas, requires no preparation and images are taken instantaneously. It can capture scenes with many moving objects without producing ghosting artifacts and creates unique images…
…Our camera contains an accelerometer which we use to measure launch acceleration. Integration lets us predict rise time to the highest point, where we trigger the exposure. After catching the ball camera, pictures are downloaded in seconds using USB and automatically shown in our spherical panoramic viewer. This lets users interactively explore a full representation of the captured environment.
Looks great but it’s not yet for sale. Instead, the team is looking for partners and/or investors to bring it to market.
(Source: futurejournalismproject)
Just for clicks
If you’re a shutterbug, you’re going to love the fact that there’s an entire YouTube channel dedicated to just one tiny part of the photographic experience – the sound of the shutter. Shutterlog encourages users to submit videos of the exact moment when they’re clicking the shutter on their cameras. Putting together an awesome compilation of submissions, with both modern and vintage cameras, Shutterlog have created a rendition made entirely of shutter sounds. As Peta Pixel points out, this isn’t the first example of turning that delightful shutter sound into a cool beat, but it would certainly seem to be the first crowd sourced example. (via Did you know there’s a YouTube channel made up entirely of camera shutter sounds?)
Resisting the temptation to use cliches about lenses and turning tables
From our sister blog
(Source: becketts)
Lytro’s Camera Lets You Shoot First and Focus Later
With an innovative camera due out later this year from a company called Lytro, photographers will have one less excuse for having missed that perfect shot.
The company’s technology allows a picture’s focus to be adjusted after it is taken. While viewing a picture taken with a Lytro camera on a computer screen, you can, for example, click to bring people in the foreground into sharp relief, or switch the focus to the mountains behind them.
But is Lytro’s technology just a neat feature, or is it the next big thing in cameras? (NYTimes.com)
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Grace Kelly and her friend Rollei
(Source: aanothersunnyday)
