When Canon first introduced HD video capabilities on its 5D Mark II in 2009, it revolutionized video production. Filmmakers everywhere could record on the camera’s large sensor and quality lenses at a fraction of traditional costs. But many features that were standard to dedicated video cameras, like proper audio recording capabilities and autofocus, still lacked. To […]
Let’s name off the arts: painting, drawing, music, photography, dance, theater, film, sculpting, graphic design, and on and on. Each art has its own particular tools specifically designed to create the art of that type. But what if you used the tools from one art to create another? Obviously, this isn’t possible with every tool. […]
Google is on an ambitious mission to map as much of the world as humanly possible. We recently reported on their project to photograph the tallest building in the world, and now they bring us to the shores of Hashima Island off the coast of Japan: Also known as Gunkanjima, or “Battleship Island”, for its resemblance to […]
Designed to Change the Way Photographers Capture Images and Video, New Camera Features Newly-Developed Dual Pixel CMOS AF Technology, Built-in Wireless Capability, 20.2 Megapixel CMOS Sensor, DIGIC 5+ Image Processor, and More MELVILLE, N.Y., July 2, 2013 – Canon is proud to introduce the high-performance EOS 70D Digital SLR camera – bringing advanced features to […]
Google Street View’s massive database of images covers thousands of locations all over the world. Biking and walking routes have been added along with time estimations for both. But perhaps one of Google’s coolest additions is their latest. They have moved from taking images outside to taking them inside, and have just recently photographed the […]
As if Japan’s dominance of the optical photographic market wasn’t carved deeply enough in stone, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan installed their new Hyper Suprime-Cam last August on the Mauna Kea Observatories’ Subaru Telescope in Hawaii. This telescope has no relation to the car company, except that both are named after the same cluster […]
The biggest supermoon of 2013 occurred in the last few days (and is still huge), over the evening of June 22-23 – it was a celestial phenomenon which brought out cameras around the globe to capture the event in an impressive flurry of amateur astrophotography. These three samples show the array of ways that the […]
The last few years have seen the rise of one name from unknown amateur to photography legend — Vivian Maier. Over the course of a lifetime that saw her documenting the world around her, at one point taking photos daily with a Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex camera, she amassed a staggering 150,000 negatives. Most of these […]
Street photographers are notorious for producing gritty, candid pictures of daily life in urban locales. Unfortunately, taking photos of strangers can sometimes incite unpredictable aggression and even violence. Twenty-three-year-old Christine Calderon was fatally stabbed on June 18th after taking a cell phone picture of panhandlers holding up cardboard signs in Hollywood. The accused perpetrators are […]
When it comes to taking group photos, this is probably the worst possible reaction a photographer could receive. But that is exactly what Don Ambridge, the father of 7-year-old Miles Ambridge said when confronted with his son’s second grade class photo: “This was not a malicious act; I don’t think it was done on purpose. I […]
