Your Next Camera? Ars Technica has attempted to do a really interesting exercise – comparing the iPhone 4s camera to other smartphone cameras [iPhone 4 and Samsung Galaxy IIs], a compact camera[Olympus XZ-1] and a digital SLR[Canon 20D]. Despite the flaws in the comparison[see below], this is a must see article. For example, Picthat has been […]
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Photo contest are going worldwide and viral. More than ever before the Web is seeing some very intteresting photo contests. Here for the Fall are 3 contests with free entry and some interesting prizes as well as creative imaging challenges. Photo Art Gallery Competition This contest is open to photographers worldwide and the themes this
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Four years ago, thePhotoFinishes ran a story about the Memjet Inkjet Printer that used a unique paper wide printhead and the ability to print at 40 to 100 pages/minute full color with impressive fidelity. Here is our take at the time: As you can see there is still a good deal of suspicion, but as
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Cody Willard at Marketwatch is predicting an App-based revolution- where 1)smartphones and tablets displace notebooks and desktops for the bulk of media consumption and a large portion of media creation which is the world of Photoshop, Autocad, Flash and many popular clones, etc. Going in favor Cody’s notion has been 1)the swelling usage of smartphones
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The various underlying technologies shaping today’s cameras are undergoing profound transitions just as market pressures have companies looking for new capabilities to bring to market. It is mostly a match made in heaven for most camera consumers. The result is a continuing and even accelerating stream of innovations in the photo and camera world. We
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Swiffy is a strange program for Google. On one hand it can convert .swf files of 512KB or less into HTML 5 code that runs only in the Webkit browsers – Chrome and Safari on PCs. On the other hand Swiffy is far from complete – as conversions fall short for basic elements such as
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Ye Editor has to blush because the Picthat Blog is under construction much longer than expected. …and its not pretty because a number of new variations in the look are being tried while ICDSoft, our hosting service, cannot provide a simple FTP using the latest versions of Filezilla or CuteFTP. So a simple half
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As usual, the NYTimes is out prospecting for some of the nifty stuff in photography and appears to have uncovered the Next Neato Innovation – the Lytro multi-focus camera and pictures. The Lytro uses an array of micro-lenses to record not one but many images all at the same time but with differing depth of field
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