iPhone joins DSLRs in top flickr cameras list

Posted on December 29 2008 by Bryan Partington

CNET's Stephen Shankland posted an interesting set of stats a few days ago. According to flickr's camera finder, Apple's iPhone now reaches the same daily upload rates as all the DSLRs on flickr, with the exception of the Canon Rebel...

Cold Fingers?

Posted on December 22 2008 by Joan

Gloves for Photographer's Freezing Fingers

Point and Shoot 3D!

Posted on December 11 2008 by Bryan Partington

This looks to be one of the most fun photographic gadgets I've seen in some time. From a CNET Asia preview: Typically, 3D photography requires stereo cameras which are usually film-based. You require special accessories such as 3D glasses to...

"Steamr" and Utility Photography

Posted on December 07 2008 by Bryan Partington

One of the most intriguing things about photography in the modern world is that so many people carry around cameras. Cameraphones are so ubiquitous that even people with no interest in photography have them, and it is sometimes more difficult...

iPhone Photography app review: Photogene

Posted on December 02 2008 by Bryan Partington

Photogene wasn't the first iPhone based photo editor I tried. Its seeming emphasis on wacky cartoon balloon captions wasn't really what I was looking for, but after reading through the feature list carefully I realized that photogene was actually a...

Human as Camera

Posted on November 28 2008 by Joan

We’ve thought about it over and over — Why can’t I just take a picture with my eyes? --John Heylin in "The Future of Gadgets" Nov. 10, 2008

Snappr.net barcode reading

Posted on October 20 2008 by Bryan Partington

Snappr.net is an application for the iPhone that reads barcodes and then presents you with information [pricing and otherwise] about the product whose barcode you've shot.

Safeguarding Images On the Road

Posted on October 07 2008 by Joan

When photographers travel for an extended period and plan on doing a lot of shooting, what are the options for backing up and protecting images while on the road?

Griffin Clarifi iPhone case

Posted on October 07 2008 by Bryan Partington

Take close up photos with an iPhone that don't look like blurry blobs of blob.

Three Favorite iPhone & iPod Touch Apps for Photographers

Posted on September 28 2008 by Joan

If you've ever been on the road and away from Flickr finding yourself jonesing for some interaction and photo-fun, you might enjoy these entertaining and easy to use applications that let you interact with your photos, and other's photos, on the fly.

Use TinEye to track down images on the web

Posted on May 31 2008 by Bryan Partington

There's been some discussion lately about "orphaned works" legislation. That a diligent search won't be able to find a web image's source. "TinEye" promises to render that argument moot.

The Story of the First Photobooth

Posted on May 14 2008 by Bryan Partington

Modern Mechanix has a 1928 article on the inventor and invention of the "Photomaton", or photobooth, with a keen description and cross-section of the internal components of the photo spewing robot.

The Story of the First Portable Digital Camera

Posted on May 12 2008 by Bryan Partington

The Kodak blog recently posted Engineer and "Curious Soul" Steve Sasson's recollections of the development of the first portable digital camera in 1975.

Image Control

Posted on January 25 2008 by Brittney Bush

The current issue of Blueprint magazine has a great primer on how to tackle one of the toughest photo problems out there: keeping the darned things organized. The tips they offer are mostly very simple and straightforward, but combined, they...

Keep That Camera Cozy

Posted on October 23 2007 by Brittney Bush

It's approaching winter in the more northerly climes, and you know what that means: warm fuzzy knitted things! Under the wonderful influence of my housemate, I've picked up knitting again, and am eager to undertake ambitious and complicated projects which...

DIY Remote Shutter Release

Posted on October 09 2007 by Brittney Bush

Flickr user Dave Schlier has figured out a way to modify an old computer mouse into a remote shutter release for certain cameras.

Seam Carving For Content Aware Image Resizing

Posted on August 23 2007 by Bryan Partington

This is pretty difficult to explain. Computers normally think of photos as a series of columns and rows. Rows and columns of pixels, where no element has any more importance than any other. So when a computer resizes an image,...

Underwater Pinhole Photography

Posted on August 07 2007 by Bryan Partington

Underwater Pinhole Photography. Could there be such a thing? Enter Donald Lawrence...

Dirkon - The Paper Camera

Posted on August 03 2007 by Bryan Partington

From a ceramic pinhole camera to a paper one, today's Ink brings us the story of the 'Dirkon'. This DIY paper pinhole camera works with 35mm film, and is adorably designed to resemble a Japanese manual camera, complete with ornamental...

Paint Can Alternative

Posted on August 01 2007 by Bryan Partington

Meet a ceramic pinhole camera, made of stoneware fired to 1,300 degrees. It includes some 24 carat gold leaf and a dainty little plug which can be removed to make an exposure onto 4x5" photo paper. It is rather striking...

Picnik

Posted on March 28 2007 by Bryan Partington

Can an online photo editing application actually be GOOD? I've seen a lot of online photo editors before, and some were very impressive. That said, I wouldn't go out of my way to suggest them to people. Picnik is an...

Photo-Shopping

Posted on February 21 2007 by Brittney Bush

While zooming along at 30-odd thousand feet, headed towards Reno, I found myself flipping throught the Skymall catalogue that Southwest had craftily stuffed in my seat pocket.

"ZINK" handheld printer

Posted on February 09 2007 by Bryan Partington

Something of an attempt at a Polaroid for the digital age. The ZINK pocket sized printer looks like something that might be useful at parties or family gatherings or for other more adventurously creative endeavours. The printer itself costs 100...

Flickr-enabled WiFi LCD Frame

Posted on January 05 2007 by Brittney Bush

You've probably seen other digital picture frames, which rotate through a series of pre-loaded photos. This nifty little eStarling gadget one-ups those, though, by enabling you to recieve photos through email OR a flickr RSS feed.

Quote Of The Day

Posted on January 02 2007 by Brittney Bush

"If you are a woman, beware of babies; if a man, flee the posed young lady. The one is just too cunningly sweet; the other is to cunningly fascinating."

Is Your Pet A Wine-r?

Posted on December 29 2006 by Brittney Bush

If your dog or cat is tired of being left out of your fancy dinner parties, now you can not only invite him, but you can let him sit on the table! Windsor Vineyards of California now offers collector's cases...

Eight Cool Gifts For Photogs

Posted on December 08 2006 by Brittney Bush

Only eight more shopping days til Chanukah, boys and girls! And look, I've picked you out a git for every night!

geoGreetings

Posted on December 06 2006 by Brittney Bush

At geoGreeting, you can enter any letter, number, or common punctuation mark into the input field and a message will be created using aerial photographs of buildings shaped like each of the characters. It's an aerial architecture alphabet! Even cooler,...

Overcompensating For Something? Part II

Posted on October 12 2006 by Bryan Partington

Seitz 6x17 160 MegaPixel Digital Panorama Camera

Overcompensating For Something? Part I

Posted on October 11 2006 by Bryan Partington

Carl Zeiss recently announced a totally unique 'monster lens', the built-to-order Zeiss Apo Sonnar T* 1700 mm F4 lens. Designed to be used with a Hasselblad 6x6 medium format camera this monster lens weighs in at 256 KG (564...

DipStych

Posted on October 04 2006 by Bryan Partington

Once upon a time, I had a friend ask me how to make a Diptych. Without spending any money. After pouring through all kinds of options and tutorials, I finally found a less-than-ideal process using infranview that would do the...

Tabblo - A Review

Posted on September 16 2006 by Bryan Partington

One of the difficult things about sets is that while they wrap up collections of photos with a nice pretty ribbon and a Flickr Pink bow.. they just aren't very good at articulating narrative.What I mean is that if...

The Perception Laboratory's Face Transformer

Posted on August 22 2006 by Bryan Partington

The Perception Laboratory's Face Transformer is a java applet that runs in your browser and transforms photographs of your face into all manner of ungodly horrors.

GeoTagging Concept Videos

Posted on August 06 2006 by Bryan Partington

For those of us interested in Geotagging and location aware photography, it was a bit of a shock last week when Microsoft released some interesting proof of concept videos.