Category Archives: Digital Cameras

Work Zone Cam Launches 12 Megapixel Do-it-Yourself Construction Camera

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Professional Quality Time-Lapse Documentation with No Recurring Fee

New York (PRWEB) August 13, 2013

Work Zone Camera

Work Zone Camera

Work Zone Cam, a leading provider of construction webcam solutions, introduced a new 12 megapixel time-lapse camera designed for both professionals and amateurs seeking the ultimate do-it-yourself solution. While other jobsite webcam providers offer solutions with a monthly price tag attached, Work Zone Cam’s user-friendly system is plug-and-play and available for no monthly fee.

The powerful jobsite documentation camera is designed for extended outdoor use and provides the perfect do-it-yourself solution to create time-lapse movies with professional results. Work Zone Cam’s new value loaded offering is loaded with features not found on more expensive cameras, including superior digital SLR technology, a built-in wireless Sprint or Verizon modem and onboard storage capable of recording 3 years of images.

With applications in the construction, retail, healthcare, education and design-build industries, the rugged construction camera captures high-definition images of project progress, which the system FTP’s directly to the user’s local computer. Users can easily view and manage project images through the computer’s image directory.

For clients that don’t have a computer or simply want to outsource the service, Work Zone Cam offers a no-frills low cost hosting service. With the hosting services, the images are updated to Work Zone Cam’s secure servers and are delivered directly to the user’s website or mobile device, without the need for additional operating software. The client can easily access and navigate their image content within the provided web interface. At any time during the project, users may view, download, embed or share a high quality time-lapse movie of progress from beginning to end.

Companies can keep customers, partners and staff updated with live and archived images of project progress by promoting important updates and milestones on their website, Facebook and Twitter. The HD images are also ideal for print-quality ads and company promotions.

About Work Zone Cam
Founded by webcam specialists, Work Zone Cam provides a professional, reliable, and easy to use time-lapse camera solution for the construction industry. Work Zone Cam follows a simple approach of empowering their customers with the best Do-it-Yourself construction camera and delivering a basic, no-frills service to keep the prices low. Backed by award winning technology that is licensed from EarthCam – the industry leader, Work Zone Cam systems are wireless, all-weather digital SLR cameras that are ideal for documenting projects and producing HD quality time-lapse movies. Work Zone Cam has documented projects for many leading companies in the construction industry, including Skanska Construction, Turner Construction, Hensel Phelps, Parsons, Flintco, Ames Construction, Arco Murray and Shawmut Design & Construction.

Learn more about the Work Zone Cam solution at http://www.workzonecam.com/.

Unleash your camera’s inner Hulk with a free hack to the firmware

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By Les Shu  —   

Last year, two Canadian teenagers, Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, successfully sent a Lego mini figure up into space using a weather balloon as the vehicle. To document the event from liftoff to crash-land, they rigged a basic Canon point-and-shoot camera to continuously snap photos. While it sounds like a complicated science project, it’s actually something many have successfully accomplished (Ho and Muhammad just made theirs unique by sending the little Lego guy with it and, oh, they’re teens). And hacking the camera might actually be the easy part, thanks to an open-source firmware update.

While cameras are often already loaded with features, software-based hacks can add new shooting capabilities not mentioned in the instruction manual. If the inner MacGyver in you is up for some tinkering – and you happen to own a Canon camera, in particular – here are some hacks that will unlock your camera’s hidden potential and add extra value. (Set aside a weekend to study up on the guides before you attemp

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Casio EXILIM EX-ZR800 introduced with 18x optical zoom and OIS

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By: Brittany Hillen, Aug 7th 2013 (http://www.slashgear.com)

Casio has unveiled a new digital camera in its EXILIM line, the EX-ZR800. With this new camera comes 18x optical zoom and a 5-stop/5-axis image stabilization, as well as several other features commonly found on point-and-shoot compact cameras. Although the European announcement doesn’t specify the launch date, the company’s Japanese division says it will be launched on August 23.

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SIGGRAPH 2013: Reconfigurable Camera Add-On, KaleidoCamera

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Published on Apr 29, 2013 (Alkhazur Manakov)

A Reconfigurable Camera Add-On for High Dynamic Range, Multispectral, Polarization, and Light-Field Imaging.

We propose a non-permanent add-on that enables plenoptic imaging with
standard cameras. Our design is based on a physical copying mechanism
that multiplies a sensor image into a number of identical copies that
still carry the plenoptic information of interest. Via different
optical filters, we can then recover the desired information. A minor
modification of the design also allows for aperture sub-sampling and,
hence, light-field imaging. As the filters in our design are
exchangeable, a reconfiguration for different imaging purposes is
possible. We show in a prototype setup that high dynamic range,
multispectral, polarization, and light-field imaging can be achieved
with our design.

More info and results here:
http://resources.mpi-inf.mpg.de/Kalei…

Decline of the Point and Shoot, Rise of the Smartphone Camera

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June 10, 2013 by Juliana Payson in Camera (http://www.gadgetreview.com)

The emergence of Smartphone camera accessories is a major indicator for where photography is heading. That is to say that the Smartphone has to a large degree replaced the standalone digital point and shoot camera.

What consumers are concerned with now, is the footprint of their Smartphone and their associated accessories while placed in their pocket. Moreover, since it is the single most portable intelligent device the majority of us carry around, the Smartphone has become a hotbed of ingenuity for customizations, plugins, and app development all to customize your personal imaging device and thus further propelling the death of the point and shoot.

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