The iPhone 4S is blessed with the best still image and video quality in the smartphone world, but its wafer-thin, diminutive stature causes major problems for more serious photographers and videographers. It's so easy to capture beautiful 720p HD videos that look like they were shot from within the confines of a rock tumbler. Yes friends, smartphone camera jitter is one of the leading...
Adding to the deluge of recent car safety technologies, GM aims to bail out jaywalkers with its development of Wireless Pedestrian Detection Technology. This system will rely on Wi-Fi direct, a peer-to-peer wireless sharing system that can connect with other devices from up to 656 feet (more than two football fields away). Here's the catch, though. Wi-Fi direct is only capable of...
The Canon EOS 5D Mark III is the worthy replacement of the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, the full-frame DSLR that changed everything. The 5D Mark II was a phenomenal success when it was released back in 2008 and the camera is still one of the top contenders to this day. Much of this success could be attributed to the 5D Mark II's most excellent HD video quality, which made its way into...
The Lytro camera is the most revolutionary product in photography since the digital camera. Developed by Stanford graduate Ren Ng and his team of light field-obsessed colleagues, the Lytro captures images in Megarays rather than Megapixels. As a result, images can be focused after the fact, creating what Lytro refers to as "living pictures." The Lytro camera also scoffs at convention...
The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX200V has one heck of a model name, but it's also known as Sony's top-of-the-line Super Zoom digital camera. Filling the shoes of last year's Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX100V, the HX200V brings a lot of nifty new features to the table. The camera can record 1080/60p Full HD video, rocks a 30x optical zoom lens and is equipped with Sony's full range of manual and auto...
I’ve been proclaiming for many years that Pentax digital cameras are highly underrated, and a recent study shows that the Japanese brand is the most popular when it comes to customer satisfaction. A J.D. Power and Associates report measured satisfaction levels with customers across all major camera brands in the following categories: picture quality, durability/reliability, variety of...
Samsung announced the EX2F advanced fixed-lens point-and-shoot camera today. This model's primary weapon against the competition is its uncannily bright f/1.4 aperture lens. It's also belongs to Samsung's family of "Smart" cameras, including the Samsung WB150F, which we just reviewed. The new Samsung EX2F will be challenging the newly announced Sony Cyber-shot RX100, Canon PowerShot...
Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do? Drive the 2013 Ford Police Interceptors, of course! Thanks to the folks at Ford and their Go Further event this past week, I was able to engage in multiple hot pursuits along a closed course filled with police-related obstacles represented by an army of orange cones. Nevertheless, this was my favorite event of the entire week because for the first...
The Pentax K-01 is an odd duck that breaches the borders of traditional digital camera aesthetics. That's because this mirrorless nonconformist was designed by Marc Newson, a popular name in contemporary product design. Though Newson has designed everything from watches to boats, the Pentax K-01 was his first project of the digital imaging persuasion. The Pentax K-01 is certainly unlike...
We've already seen cars with solar panels on the roof (Fisker Karma), but how about all of the windows acting as solar energy conductors? That may be a reality sooner than later. New Energy Technologies Inc. and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory have uncovered a way to produce more economical and durable see-through solar cells. These glass window-bound see-through solar cells...
Olympus is known to stay true to its heritage, and the new OM-D EM-5 is a sparkling example. The company debuted its first film OM model 40 years ago in 1972, and I actually shot with an Olympus OM-1N a decade ago in my high school photography class. Much like the revival of the PEN family in 2009, Olympus plans on continuing the OM tradition with the OM-D EM-5 serving as the first...
In Photography Land, the full frame DSLR market is mostly governed by Canon and Nikon. Up until the release of the Nikon D800, Canon had ruled the roost with the 5D Mark II for one prodigious reason: its scintillating HD video capture. The Mark II's competitor, the Nikon D700, was blessed with a 12-megapixel full frame sensor that cranked out dazzling still images, but alas, video...
Various camera manufacturers have attempted to incorporate Wi-Fi in the past with limited success, but that hasn't stopped Samsung from releasing eight models with advanced wireless capabilities. The Samsung WB150F is one of the lower-tier point-and-shoot Wi-Fi cameras offered by the maker of the Galaxy family, but it comes with a slew of wireless features that enable images to be...
Canon has majorly revamped the popular EOS Rebel T3i to bring intermediate photographers the new EOS Rebel T4i, a mid-level DSLR that brings cutting edge technology to the market. The new Canon EOS Rebel T4i features a 3-inch vari-angle touchscreen LCD with improved 1,040,000-pixel resolution. Canon went with an electrostatic (capacitive) iteration, enabling shooters with the ability to...
The EPA just rated the 2013 Honda Fit EV at 118 MPGe, which edges out the Mitsubishi i-MiEV, Ford Focus Electric and Nissan Leaf. According to Honda, this is the highest EPA rating ever given by the EPA (if you forget about the Tesla Roadster's 119 MPGe). The Fit EV was also rated with a 29 kWh per 100 mile figure and annual fuel cost estimate of $500, which pertains to the electricity...
Just as I predicted at the start of the year, 2012 is shaping up to be the year of the big sensor in the fixed-lens point-and-shoot market. The new Sony Cyber-shot RX100 joins the Canon PowerShot G1 X and Fujifilm X10 in the Big Sensor Club with a new 1-inch type 20.2-megapixel CMOS chip. However, Sony has managed to master something that the competition hasn't, and that's the size...
In order to celebrate the launch of GoPro's Wi-Fi BacPac and Remote, the company gave pro skateboarder Ryan Sheckler 50 Wi-Fi enabled GoPro HD Hero 2 cameras and let him loose in lower Manhattan. The result is awesome to the max, and the video showcases what the Wi-Fi BacPac and Remote combo are truly capable of. Various angles, burst stills and perspectives and are captured in the...
We’re approximately five months away from the descension of the iPhone 5 hammer, and the rumors are already churning in a frothy effervescence. So while the iron is hot, I figured now would be a good time to talk about what I’d like to see from the iPhone 5’s camera, as well as forecast what I really think we’ll end up seeing. There’s no doubt about the fact that the camera on iPhone 4S...
The 82nd anniversary of the automobile radio system is on the horizon, and Chevy is paying homage to the past with this infographic on the evolution of in-dash entertainment. But that's not the only thing Chevy's promoting. The company's 2012 Spark compact will come equipped with an LCD-driven infotainment system using its MyLink platform. Chevy is also ditching the CD player on the new...
It’s hard to believe it was 35 years ago that Kodak filed its first patent for the digital camera back in 1977. Little did the film giant know that one of its scientists, Steve Sasson, would go on to develop the most earth shattering technological advances in photography history. Back then, Sasson and a few “crazy” colleagues assembled the first digital camera using a Super 8 movie...