Using the onboard flash on your P&S camera will do nothing for you in getting great images at a concert, but flash them all more or less in unison, and you get a great light show. Which is what pop singer Robbie...
Archive - August 2010
Microsoft Image Deblurring Works Better Than Image Stabilization
Microsoft — yes, Microsoft — has demonstrated a technique consisting of a combination of inexpensive gyroscopes and accelerometer attached to a DSLR camera to estimate a blur function from the camera’s...
Story-Telling Revisited
Sometimes one pictures can tell a whole story. At other times, a number of related pictures is necessary to tell the story with the poignancy and impact required. The Picture Story is still a mainstay of some...
It’s Gross. It’s Icky. Great, Let’s Leverage it!
You teach and you teach your children about cleanliness and hygiene… and Lynn Lim comes along and tells them it’s OK, it’s art, it’s scientific, it’s beautiful,… it’s ART...
GigaPan Robotic Photography
How about some Robotic Gigapixel Close-Up Photography? Well, let me warn you right off the bat that there’s not much action going on here and I’m not sure why this presentation even warrants a video. And...
Virtual Bugs That Splat When They Fall Down
Virtual bugs crawl around in the sandpit, get up onto your open hand, then as you lift your hand up into the air, fall and splat onto the ground. We call them virtual bugs; the brains demoing them at SIGGRAPH 2010 call...
Watch the Perseids August 11-14 #meteorwatch
This year’s Perseid meteor shower is due on August 11-14 and scientists predict it will be one of the best in recent years. And now you can watch it with others — even if you are watching all alone —...
Panasonic TZ8 / ZS5 Review @ Camera Labs
“Panasonic has made a noteworthy attempt to make the TZ8 / ZS5 a real traveller’s camera.” We have added another Panasonic ZS5 / TZ8 [Specs] Review to our Reviews Matrix. Camera Labs has posted their...