By Adriana Lee |
If there’s one thing hi-res photography’s good for, it’s showing an amazing amount of detail. Users can see the minutiae just by zooming in, and depending on the scale, they can do it without necessarily having to sacrifice zoom-out macro views. Now here’s something that…
By Adriana Lee |
Cool things happen when legends get together. Microsoft founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates met up last night at a party that the former was holding at his Living Computer Museum in Seattle. And wouldn’t you know, there just happened to be this room full…
By Adriana Lee |
Socialmatic‘s dream of producing a physical Instagram camera just got real, thanks to a new agreement that gives the company the right to build the device under the Polaroid brand. So what do you get when you combine the filter-happy, photo-sharing service with one of…
By Adriana Lee |
Ever been to London? Well, you can view the city without the airfare or jet lag, thanks to this 360-degree, 320-gigapixel image taken from atop the city’s BT Tower. The mondo panorama comes courtesy of 360Cities, a Prague-based panoramic photography firm, which shot 48,640 individual…
By Ron Duwell |
Why wait for the professionals to release gorgeous images of space when a man can do it from his own backyard? Amateur astronomer Alan Friedman uses nothing more than an industrial strength webcam and a small telescope to create powerful images of the Sun from…
By Adriana Lee |
Family portraits are rarely ever fun. In my family, they were usually marked by stress, irritations and ultimately petty squabbling. “He poked me first!” “Just stop hitting each other and smile!” “Mom, my stomach hurts.” “Are we done yet?” “Honey, can I wear my lodge…
By Todd Haselton |
Facebook is starting to roll out a new photo-syncing option that automatically saves a copy of every image snapped on an iOS device to a folder on Facebook. The folder is private so, in many ways, the service works like Microsoft’s SkyDrive photo option on…
By Brandon Russell |
Jon R. is back to tackle the biggest tech rumors of this week! It’s only been a couple of weeks since the iPad mini has hit store shelves, and there’s already rumors of an iPad mini 2 – this one packing a full pledged Retina…
By Brandon Russell |
Everyone has a camera. But not everyone has the knack for capturing interesting photos. With the holiday season just around the bend, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to hone your photography skills. Hopefully with this basic guide, your snapshots will go from boring to lively…
By Brandon Russell |
Twitter is reportedly lining up a new photo filterting feature aimed at taking Instagram head-on. According to The New York Times, the San Francisco-based social media company, which processes just under a billion Tweets every 48 hours, is hoping avid Tweeters will bypass the use…
By Adriana Lee |
Lytro’s buzzworthy light-field camera got a snazzy new update that adds some much-wanted new manual controls, colors and accessories. The controls — Shutter Speed, ISO Sensitivity, Neutral Density (ND) Filter, and Auto Exposure (AE) Lock — “give Lytro photographers the opportunity to take control of the…
By Brandon Russell |
Sony has been impressively bulking up its beautifully designed NEX lineup, and the company on Wednesday announced yet another addition that includes improved autofocus and Wi-Fi connectivity. Dubbed the Sony NEX-5R, following up to 2011’s NEX-5N, the new cam is introducing a “Fast Hybrid” autofocus…
By Brandon Russell |
To help differentiate itself from the pack, and maybe even attract a few old dogs to the digital game, FujiFilm is allegedly preparing to infuse a very retro look to its X line. Maybe (maybe not) known as the XP1, or even the XF1, the…
By Brandon Russell |
Exploring the globe with Google Earth is great, but when the heck are we going to be able to walk around the surface of other planets? Thanks to a series of photos taken by the Curiosity, Earthlings are now free to view the Red Planet…
By Brandon Russell |
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on Monday announced that Canon is recalling “around” 68,200 models of its Rebel T4i. This is not good, especially because the newest member of the Rebel lineup is so fresh, though apparently not clean. The good news is that…
By Brandon Russell |
Huntington Beach’s annual U.S. Open of Surfing perfectly captures the vibe of Bruce Brown’s The Endless Summer. The event attracts bodies from all across the globe to witness man and nature synchronize their movements in a graceful performance known as surfing. I’ve tried surfing only…
By Adriana Lee |
This has to be one of the coolest smartphone accessories I’ve seen in a long time. Despite our smartphone cameras getting better over time, one thing that has always remained the same is the nauseatingly jittery clips when we try to shoot video with them…
By Adriana Lee |
With Apple having unveiled its Retina laptop displays last month, some pundits figure it’s only a matter of time before higher resolution displays begin to march across the market. While exciting for the computer industry, a big question is starting to emerge in the area…
By Brandon Russell |
Turns out, Canon’s EOS M exists, and it sounds awesome. Unveiled on Monday, the Japanese company’s first offering into the mirrorless market is a resounding statement to Sony’s immensely popular NEX line, which recently released the NEX F3. Canon’s new monster is compact, attractive and…
By Brandon Russell |
Your Instagram experience may soon migrate to the Web. We’ve seen the company bring commenting and liking to the browser, but the online offering is still a bit dry feature-wise. A new discovery by Web designer Cole Reinke, however, suggests that’s all about to change.…
By Brandon Russell |
If you’re an active Instagram user, your next picture could be featured in an upcoming issue of TIME. A post from the publication’s website on Wednesday solicited readers to submit photos to the magazine, with an aim to highlight the roll “of the cellphone in…
By Killian Bell |
Right now, the only way to take a screenshot on your Windows Phone handset — without jailbreaking it — is to grab your camera and take a picture of your screen. Of course, this is inconvenient and the results are hardly worth the effort. In…
By Adriana Lee |
What if you could take a picture just by blinking? I know, it sounds like something out of I Dream of Jeannie, but what if a feat of technology like this actually existed? That’s what 24-year-old designer Mimi Zou imagines via a new camera concept…
By Adriana Lee |
As time marches on, video game graphics seem to be getting incredibly good. My husband, a well-seasoned machinima producer, often shows me the eye-popping visuals in his PC games (for work, of course. He’s only playing games to stay familiar with the different game engines…
