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Amazing Photo of Mars Rover’s Destroyed Heat Shield
NASA’s Mars Opportunity Rover has been sending back some really incredible photography detailing the unique landscape on Mars. This week, NASA released a true color-rendered photo showing the debris of the Opportunity’s heat shield, which was destroyed during impact. Continue reading
Atlantis, ISS and Earth Captured in Incredible NASA Photo
This amazing photo captures the shuttle Atlantis docked at the ISS, with the beautiful glow of the Aurora Australis (southern lights) in the background. Continue reading
Amazing Lytro Camera Will Revolutionize the World of Photography
Wow. Lytro has just invented a camera that will change photography in a way we haven’t seen since the 1800s. Even if you aren’t a photography nut, this is some really brilliant technology. Continue reading
Lady Gaga Rematerializes the Image
To reboot their product line, Polaroid have appealed to the highest authority: they’ve named Lady Gaga their creative director. Her photographic sunglasses may be a caprice; her new digital instant camera offers retronovation with technical flair. Continue reading
To preserve the union, it took a lot of boxes
Along with advances in telegraphy, weaponry, and medicine, the Civil War seems to have touched off a revolution in box-making. Continue reading
The scanner without us
Digital filmmaker François Vautier installed an ant colony in his scanner and scanned it every week for five years. The movie he made of the results is fairly astonishing. It’s high-tech ruin porn at insect scale. Continue reading
Target Photo Kiosks Now Let You Print Photos From Facebook
Target announced today that their Kodak photo kiosks, where customers can print out their own photo prints, will now support Facebook connectivity. Users will be able to log-in and print out photos featured on their own Facebook page in glossy professional prints. Well at least now you know you’ll never be short of photos of your friends making kissy-lips at the camera. Target customers will be able to integrate their Facebook photos into photo books, collages, calendars, holiday and greeting... Continue reading
Inflatable Photo Studio
Every choice in life comes with positive and negative baggage. The good thing about the Inflatable Photo Studio is that you can mobilize your hobby and always have a portable spot to snap off a few B&W portraits of your favorite subject. And then, of course, there is the downside, which isn’t nearly as pleasant. The bad thing about dealing with massive plastic enclosures is that there’s always the risk of deflation, and when deflation occurs, so does the suffocation... Continue reading
Swedish Chameleon Turns Your Canon DSLR Into a Multi-Purpose Monster
At first glance, I would have sworn this was some engine for a small motorcycle, but then I thought to myself, “Wait, engines don’t have lenses.” No, what I saw wasn’t an engine at all. This was some sort of camera. And a Canon DSLR at that. As it turns out, this is Swedish Chameleon’s way of compressing a whole bunch of photographic features into one awkward, yet completely usable, DSLR rig. Swedish Chameleon aims to reduce the size of... Continue reading
It’s Not Always Black and White: How to Turn B&W Photos Into Full Color Images
If you haven’t done your research, I bet you had no idea that digital cameras actually only take black and white shots. What your camera actually does is collect light intensity, recording a light level for each individual pixel ranging from 0 to 255. But how exactly does the actual photo become the colored masterpiece you see on your display? A processing technique filters each pixel with a red, green or blue filter which lets the camera know how much... Continue reading
