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The typical consumer digital camera offers 10 to 12 megapixels. Pro cameras tend to top out at about twice that – 24 megaixels or so, like this Nikon: 24 megapixels apparently isn’t enough however. Now there is an 80 megapixel camera from a company named Phase One: According to this article… Phase One pushes ahead [...]
Home construction is one of those things that really has not changed a whole lot for hundreds of years. For example, if you look at the houses in Colonial Williamsburg, they have pitched roofs with shingles, walls with siding or brick on the outside and plaster on the inside, wooden floors, casement windows and so [...]
Imagine that someone builds a really good model train layout, and you want to photograph it. You are likely going to be looking down on the model from above. You can’t possibly put the camera “in the scene”, as if one of the tiny human models were holding the camera, because the camera is 10,000 [...]
This video shows a family effort in launching a balloon into the stratosphere, 17 miles up. The balloon carries a camera and an iPhone, which acts as a tracking device to aid recovery: If you would like to send up a balloon of your own, this month’s issue of Make magazine has a nice article [...]
In this video, Microsoft demos a system it is calling LightSpace: The most interesting part of this feels like the camera’s ability to sense and “understand” the people in the room. Cameras are now cheap, and it is easy to imagine rooms having little smoke-detector-shaped cameras in the ceiling that understand gestures and positions for [...]
In most cameras, you take a large image sensor (say 12 million pixels) and use those pixels to capture more detail across the X and Y axis of the image. What if you changed the lens on a camera so that it used all those pixels to capture more data about the Z dimension instead? That is the basic idea behind the plenoptic lens shown here…
The best time-lapse and high speed videos you will see today…
by Marshall Brain | September 21, 2010
Both of these videos are amazing. If you need to relax for a few minutes with some stunning imagery, this gorgeous time lapse video will help…
Something seems to have happened in the video camera marketplace to shrink cameras and make them inexpensive. For example, there is this micro-camera disguised as a key fob…
An amusing comparison between the $1,800 Canon 7D and the $50 Barbie Video Girl: You can find a fair number of these comparisons if you look around. In the Canon vs. Barbie comparison the difference in image quality is obvious. In some of the others, it is harder to tell: Comparison between Canon 7D and [...]
Behold, the Frankencamera. It lets developers, hobbyists and experimenters play with camera components and algorithms to create new things: From the video’s description: Although there has been much interest in computational photography within the research and photography communities, progress has been hampered by the lack of a portable, programmable camera with sufficient image quality and [...]
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