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Archive - May 2011

The Lightning Thief: Lucky Snap or Lucky Escape?

Photographing lightning can be a hair-raising experience, especially when it strikes less than 200m away from you. Any grade five student could tell you that you don’t want to be standing upright in a field during...

Tenba Launches Discovery Photo Bags

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tenba Launches New Discovery Collection New Shoulder Bag and Photo/Hydration Daypack are ideal for photographers who like to hike, bike or climb with their gear Elmsford NY – May 24, 2011 – Leading...

Onswipe Gives Any Site The App Experience

Onswipe Demo Video from Onswipe on Vimeo. The Apple iPad is probably on track to revolutionize how we consume information online but the way of laboriously coding an app content from scratch just doesn’t cut it...

Panasonic G3 Review @ Trusted Reviews

“Overall, we’re mightily impressed by the specifications, performance and overall image quality of the G3. There are a couple of niggling omissions but nonetheless we’re confident enough to say that it’s...

Samsung PL210 Review @ ePHOTOzine

“The PL210 is capable of taking colourful pictures and [takes] excellent macro and portrait pictures.” We’ve added a new Samsung PL210 [QuickPrice Check] review to our Reviews Matrix. ePHOTOzine has...

Capture 360-degree Panorama on Your iPhone 4

If you want to be able to capture 360-degree panoramas using your iPhone, Kogeto is planning to get you a device that can do just that. Trouble is, they need your Kiskstarter pledge before they launch into the...

Photographing The Shuttle Remotely

How do photographers capture images of the shuttle launch while several miles away from their cameras? Turns out, they use a sound trigger mechanism so that the roar of the launch will activate the motor on the cameras...

The Art of the Future will be FRAMED*

From FRAMEDofficial It was bound to happen as LED display screens have gotten thinner and lighter. The next big thing will be subscription to works of Art, sent to an appropriately sized LED screen hanging on your wall...

Sigma SD1 Hands-On Preview @ DPReview

We’ve added another Sigma SD1 preview to our Reviews Matrix. DPReview has published their hands-on preview of the Sigma SD1 with 15x3MP resolution (on a 23.5 x 15.7 mm Foveon X3 sensor), 11-point AF system with...

Nikon’s First Electronic Camera Cost $20K

Wow, it was only 23 years ago since Nikon introduced its first filmless and electronic camera, the QV-1000C. It is careful not to call it a digital camera since technically it isn’t one; instead, the Nikon QV...

Michaels Camera Museum

From petermxxxx If you are in Melbourne, Australia, do visit the Michaels Camera Museum at the corner of Elizabeth and Lonsdale Streets. What started as a pharmacy in 1928 steadily grew into a camera store now with...

Come Fly With Me

Experience Human Flight from Betty Wants In on Vimeo. You won’t get me to jump out of an airplane, but this is what the skydivers from the Melbourne Skydive Centre do for fun and sports! In February 2011, the five...

Summer Reading: 100 Pieces of Fantastic Journalism

Summer has always smacked of lazy reading in the sun with a tall glass of orange juice or your favorite coffee strategically placed within arm’s reach, and preferably on an Amazon Kindle [QuickPrice Check]. Conor...

Capture Camera Clip System

Instead of carrying your DSLR hanging around your neck, Peter Dering is proposing a new way of carrying it clipped to your belt. View the video and, if you believe it is something you’ll like to back, visit...

Doors Open Toronto Photography Contest 2011

From thecityoftoronto Doors Open Toronto 2011 starts May 28-29 and we encourage you to participate if you are in Toronto. You’d get to see a different side of Toronto since a number of buildings will be opening...

Sony W510 Review @ Camera Labs

“The Sony Cyber-shot W510 provides some great features in a very compact form at a very reasonable price.” We’ve added another Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-W510 [QuickPrice Check] Review to our Reviews Matrix...

Miami HDR Timelapse

– C A T H E D R A L – Miami in HDR Timelapse from Edo – Timelapse.it on Vimeo. Shot whit Canon 5DMkII and Nikon AF 85mm 1.8 – Canon EF 17-40mm 4.0 – Sigma 15-35mm 3.5 – Nikon 28mm 2.8...