Archive for the 'Cameras' Category

The world’s first digital camera

Monday, May 5th, 2008

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Here’s an image of the world’s first digital camera invented by Steven J. Sasson under the supervision of Eastman Kodak in 1975. [via]
The camera was heavy, weighing in at 8-pounds and taking about 23 seconds to record an image and another 23 seconds to read the image from the digital tape. [...]

Canon Camera Museum

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Wow, I had no idea that Canon had an online camera museum up on their website.
The Canon Camera Museum is pretty detailed. It shows the evolution of various Canon products including film cameras, film camcorders, digital cameras, and digital camcorders. It’s interesting to see how the camera bodies have changed and improved over time.
The camera [...]

Custom large-format cameras by Kipp Wettstein

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

“Camera 05″ - 8×10 made with carbon and aluminum parts
I have a love-hate relationship when it comes to shooting large-format. On one hand, I love the quality of the images that results from shooting large-format (plus the ability to correct for distortion without having to go into post-production), but at the same time, I hate [...]

David Pogue reviews the Casio EX-F1

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

OMG. THIS CAMERA=AWESOME.
Also, kinda random, but YouTube just unleashed their revamped video pages. See a screenshot below.

Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8 L USM lens

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Oh my goodness, how do I even begin to explain how awesome this lens is…
So fast, so quiet, so sharp.
I just hired it for a day to do a shoot. *SLOBBER SLOBBER!*

Casio Exilim EX-F1 to go on sale March 28 in Japan

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

The Casio Exilim EX-F1 is set to be released in Japan on March 28, 2008.
I’m excited because YouTube will become so much more interesting after that date. Whee! Slow-motion everything!

Slow-motion video of a tomato in a blender

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Awesome. Look at those blades just rip through that tomato!
This video was shot at 2000 fps with a Photron ultima APX. Man, that’s just impressive. What’s even better is that the full resolution clip from Lucid Movement is an astonishing 1024×1024!
I want a camera that can capture video at a high frame rate!

Manfrotto 055XPROB tripod

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Yesterday I bought a Manfrotto 055XPROB tripod. I needed a really good tripod that would be versatile enough for large format cameras as well as SLR cameras. After looking around for a bit, I decided that this Manfrotto tripod was the best choice for me.
The tripod that I already own (but left in NY) was [...]

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM lens

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

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I’ve found myself taking a lot of wide-angled photos lately. Well, attempting to at least. A Canon EF 17-40mm wide-angle zoom lens should be pretty nifty. Yes, f/4.0 isn’t much of an opening, but that isn’t anything a proper flash setup won’t fix.
Peep PBase for sample photos taken with [...]

Canon EOS Rebel XSi comes with IS kit lens

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

I didn’t notice this when the official press release was let go, but apparently, the new Canon EOS Rebel XSi comes with a EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS. Yep, that’s “IS” as in Image Stabilizer. Pretty cool, huh!
From what I can recall, I don’t think any camera in this line from any other company comes with an [...]