“The Nikon Coolpix P100 is such a superior camera to the L110, it’s ridiculous.” We’ve added a new Nikon Coolpix L110 [QuickPrice Check] Review to our Reviews Matrix. Imaging Resource has posted...
Archive - August 2010
Shark Hunting!
A Thresher Shark hunts with its tail. It’s subtle but watch carefully at about the 0:08 to 0:10 mark as the shark flicks its long tail at the passing school of fish. This is apparently a rarely seen event. source...
Nighttime Time Lapse – Southern France
A time lapse is a work of love as depicted by this beautiful video of the night skies taken with a Canon 7d and shot on location in South West France over a period of two weeks by Jon Bryant. Sundown: Nighttime...
Special Olympus E-P2 Kits
Exclusive New Kit Features Black PEN E-P2 Body, Black 17mm M.Zuiko Lens and Black FL-14 Flash CENTER VALLEY, Pa., August 31, 2010 – In the past year, the Olympus PEN family has won a series of high profile awards...
Olympus Announces Two New Micro Four Thirds Zoom Lenses
THE STRONG, SILENT TYPES: TWO NEW POWERFUL OLYMPUS MICRO FOUR THIRDS™ ZOOM LENSES World’s Smallest 600mm Telephoto Zoom Lens and 80-300mm Equivalent Lenses Deliver Both Extreme Portability and Optimal HD Movie Recording...
Infrared Photography Tutorial @LearnMyShot
Infrared photography is “cool” — even though you are really using the part of the light spectrum that is “thermal” and invisible to the human eye. Infrared photography is used by the...
Canon Develops World’s Largest CMOS Image Sensor
Canon succeeds in developing world’s largest CMOS image sensor, with ultra-high sensitivity TOKYO, August 31, 2010—Canon Inc. announced today that it has successfully developed the world’s largest*1 CMOS...
40,000 Volts Photography
Some photographers shine light directly on it, others may even use X-rays to photograph it, but professional landscape photographer Robert Buelteman hooks it up to an electrical charge and zaps it with 40,000 volts to...
Vincent Laforet HD DSLR Gear
Vincent Laforet has been instrumental in showcasing the video capability of Canon’s HD DSLR cameras. If you are interested in what gear he uses for production, here’s a thorough description of the newer...
Intel’s Thought-Controlled Computers
Controlling a cursor on the screen using brain waves is one thing, but researchers at Intel is working on computers that can directly read the words thought by a user. Whenever we think of a word, brain activity occurs...
Katrina & New Orleans: Did We Keep Our Promises?
When hardened war photographers break down as they covered the story… When it takes you well over a year to get over the experiences and things witnessed… When you see the very worst — and the very...
Time Lapse of Asteroid Discovery
As scientists discover new asteroids, they add them to a map and highlight them white to indicate they are new ones. The final color of an asteroid indicates how closely it travels into the inner solar system: Earth...
Microsoft Surface
The touchscreen interface is useful if implemented properly, as in the iPhone and iPad. Many digital cameras also now sport a touchscreen interface that is very usable. Mark Micire is a graduate student at the...
Ultra Hi-Res Displays Using Nanoresonators
If you love the iPhone 4’s “Retina Display,” then you’ll marvel at what researchers at the University of Michigan are working on. Jay Guo, an associate professor in the University’s...
This Week’s (Aug 21-27, 2010) Digital Camera Review Roundup
Here is this week’s (Aug 21-27, 2010) digital camera review roundup: TrustedReviews gives a thumbs down to the Ricoh GXR P10 for the “disappointing image quality shown by the test unit, as well as the...
Setting Up Your Portfolio And Website @blackstar
I remember when creating this website that it was a never ending work in progress. There was always one more aspect to get right before going live. But when is your website ready to go live — and when do you still...
Canon EOS 60D Image and Video Samples
Canon has published image and video samples taken with its new EOS 60D DSLR. The Canon EOS 60D has an 18MP APS-C CMOS sensor, optical viewfinder, articulated 3.0-in. LCD (1.04M-dot), 9 cross-type AF points, Continuous...
PixBoomBa, badda boom, badda bing
With a name like PixBoomBa, you know the jokes will fly. But do veteran National Geographic photographers Bob Caputo and Cary Wolinsky care? Not at all! In fact, they count on it! See, they’ve just launched their...
We’re Back!
We’re back from a week’s vacation and have so much to catch up! You guessed it: after debating whether to take a laptop with us or not, we finally opted to leave the laptop at home. We knew that we would...
Olympus E-PL1 Review @TrustedReviews
“The Olympus Pen E-PL1 is [a] well-made high-spec compact camera that has been equipped with interchangeable lenses.” We’ve added another Olympus E-PL1 [Specs] Review to our Reviews Matrix...