By: Michael Zhang · Feb 25, 2013 (http://www.petapixel.com)
Craft Camera (DIY)
Enjoy playing around with Arduino and want to try your hand at making your own digital camera? Photographer Coralie Gourguechon has come up with a DIY digital camera called Craft Camera that consists of a simple cardboard body and Arduino guts.
Aside from the Arduino board, you’ll also need a Lithium Backpack (~$47) for the power and a Snootlab Memoire ($25) for the SD card slot:
The new flagship of Nikon’s DX-format HD-SLR lineup. Achieve a thrilling new level of image quality and sharpness thanks to a specially designed 24.1-MP DX-format CMOS sensor. Enjoy speed, precision and convenience at every step, from shooting up to 6 fps to instantly sharing your shots with the optional WU-1a Wireless Mobile Adapter. Create dazzling Full HD 1080p videos and ultra-smooth slow-motion or time-lapse sequences. Unleash the power of Nikon’s nimble DX-format system.
Nikon D7100 DSLR Camera
Capture every detail true to life Pure Sharp Images
The D7100 marks an exciting advancement in image quality for high-resolution DX-format cameras. Nikon specially designed its 24.1-megapixel DX-format CMOS sensor without using an optical low pass filter (OLPF), resulting in the purest, sharpest images using D7100’s DX-format CMOS sensor. Combine that with fantastic ISO performance at both ends of the spectrum—down to ISO 100 and up to ISO 6400—the processing speed and intelligence of EXPEED 3 and the extra lens reach of a 1.5x crop factor, and the D7100 is the ultimate tool for those seeking a lightweight DX-format HD-SLR.
By: Parmy Olson, Forbes Staff (http://www.forbes.com) Tech.
Tucked away in Stockholm’s snow-covered Old Town, about half a dozen engineers with tech startup Memoto are making the final tweaks to the world’s smallest, wearable camera.
Oskar Kalmaru, the firm’s co-founder and marketing director, meets me outside in the frozen slush and invites me into the company’s apartment-style office. He offers a round, Swedish sponge cake to mark the last day before the country’s pseudo-secular celebration of Lent. Were he to wear the Memoto camera through our meeting, it would document that, sadly, the cake remains untouched through the entire interview. That is largely because what he says is so intriguing.
Kalmaru and his co-founders have built a device that could change the way people reflect and remember things. From the moment it is turned right-side up and uncovered, Memoto’s camera takes a constant stream of 5-megapixel shots, every two seconds. It costs $280 plus a monthly subscription fee for server space.
Samsung DV150F Digital Camera
The new Samsung cameras include the $150 DV150F and the $230 WB250F. Both cameras are part of Samsung’s “Smart Camera 2.0” line-up, which allow users to easily offload their photos to a phone or computer, or upload them directly to the Internet. (They’re not to be confused, however, with Samsung’s Galaxy Camera, a 4G-connected device powered by Android.)
The WB250F is a 14.2-megapixel camera with 18x optical zoom, an f/3.2 to f/5.8 aperture lens, and a BSI CMOS sensor. It has a 3-inch LCD display on the backside and a pop-up flash that can be tilted forward and backward.
Nikon Coolpix S31 Camera
Nikon Coolpix S31 Camera (Back)
This camera is built to be safe and durable enough for everyone to have fun with. If it is dropped, it can resist the shock of impact from a height of up to 1.2 m/3.9 ft. Its beautifully balanced symmetry makes the camera easy for even small hands to grip firmly without slippage. Buttons are optimally positioned for two-handed operation. A back panel space for fingers to rest comfortably also ensures secure handling.
Water resistance to 5 m/16.4 ft. depth adds to the fun
Rugged resistance to dirt and water prevents damage to the camera when dropped into or submerged in water down to 5 m/16.4 ft. deep, so you can shoot at greater leisure without worrying about the camera getting wet at the pool or elsewhere.
By Jay Alabaster, IDG News Service (http://www.itworld.com)
February 04, 2013, 4:44 AM — Panasonic has developed a new way to drastically increase the color and light sensitivity of digital cameras including those used in smartphones.
The Osaka-based electronics manufacturer said Monday its method replaces the color filter arrays widely used in such devices to capture individual colors, using tiny prism-like color splitters instead. The company said the new method can double the color sensitivity of image sensors, leading to far brighter images under the same lighting conditions or similar image quality at half the light.
Most image sensors on the market detect only the intensity of light they are exposed to, and so must rely on filters to provide color information. Each pixel in a sensor sits under a tiny filter that lets through only a single color. In the widely used Bayer filter, light is filtered into red, blue and green, with green given half the total pixels and the remainder split between the other two colors.
But Panasonic said this filtering method blocks much of the light before it reaches the sensor pixels, letting only 25 to 50 percent through. The company’s “micro color splitters” use a super-thin transparent and refractive material to diffract light into combinations of white, red and blue, with no loss of light, which can then be translated back into standard colors mathematically.
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