Matt Honan of Wired.com thinks the time has come to banish comments sections from the Internet. Writing in Wired.com’s Gadget Lab blog, Honan describes the ‘collective delusion’ among online publishers that comments are a necessary component of web content and characterizes active comments moderation as ‘a messy, frustrating and typically thankless affair that involves more time than most people have’. In this short editorial, editor Barnaby Britton explains why we do allow comments, despite the downsides.
Flickr users may be alarmed to learn some of their private images could have been temporarily viewable publicly. Yahoo’s photo sharing site alerted affected users with an email message last week, detailing the error and explaining what steps to take. According to Flickr, a software bug resulted in some private images, uploaded between April – December 2012 becoming public for a short period from January 18th to February 7th this year. Are photos posted on the Internet ever really private? Click through for more details and analysis on connect.dpreview.com.
While surfing on Youtube today I came across the following video from photographer Nick Francher creating a DIY studio setup that created a cool effect.
In it he uses peg board to create a background which he then shoots light through to create what he calls a ‘white room’ (he also has white hard board on the floor and ceiling which reflects light around). – check it out!
Nick has shared a lot of images taken in his White Room on his blog (here, here, here and here are just a few).
Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips.
Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips.
See Nick Francher Create a ‘White Room’ with some Pegboard [Video]
A video I made to be played at our wedding when people arrived. I’ve added on some footage and photos from the night at the end as well. (footage is in HD, so click the little ‘Watch in HD’ button) A huge thank you to everyone who helped organise the event, and to everyone who attended – you all made it an incredible night for us. To people who couldn’t make it – we really missed having you there, but would love to catch up with you all some time soon – Shivali and Shahir (For the geeks out there, the video was shot on the Sony EX1 camera – at 720p with a Letus Extreme adaptor and Nikkor lenses. Our photographer was Rob Driessen, and videographers were cameramen extraordinaires Rico Humphreys and Mark Hutchings – edited on Adobe Premiere, motion graphics in Adobe After Effects, some stock material from Andrew Kramers fantastic collection on videocopilot.net. Music from Jon Brion’s Punch Drunk Love soundtrack and The Ruby Sun’s Sea Lion – which is the best album of 2008) Video Rating: 4 / 5
The clock has ticked over to 25 December here in Melbourne Australia and I wanted to take a moment on a day that means a lot to my family to wish you and yours a peaceful end to the year.
Whether you’re celebrating Christmas, another holiday or are just looking forward to New Years I hope that this time of year is one in which you find rest but also manage to find some time to get out and about with your camera!
Thanks for your readership and support of dPS – without you dPS would be just a shadow of what it is!
For those celebrating Christmas – here’s some of our past tutorials that might come in handy today (some specifically Christmas related while others might help you capture different aspects of the celebrations):
16 Tips for Photographing Christmas
How to Take Beautiful Bokeh Christmas Lights Images
A Christmas Portrait: How I Took It
How to Take Great Group Photos
Holiday Food Images and Thoughts to Go With Them
11 Great Camera Angles for Food Photography
25 Wonderful Christmas Light Painting Images
Winter Photography Projects (for those of you in the Northern Hemisphere)
10 Beach Photography Tips (for those of us in the Southern Hemisphere heading to the beach)
10 Tips to Take Great Family Portraits
How to Photograph a Child’s Party (a lot of these will be relevant for grown up parties too)
8 Tips on Taking Party Photographs
Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips.
Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips.
Christmas Greetings from dPS [And some Holiday Reading!]
“Some Gave All” performed by Billy Ray Cyrus in honor of American Veterans. Featuring Sherman Gillums, Jr., on stage. Sherman is a father of two children who began his Marine Corps career in 1990 at age 17. During his 12-year career he has served as a forensic photographer, drill instructor, and close-combat instructor-trainer. His service achievements include two commendation medals, an achievement medal, meritorious promotion to staff sergeant, and commission to the rank of Warrant Officer in 2000. His military career ended due to a car accident in 2002. He followed new pursuits in life after a year of physical therapy and rehabilitation, working first as the Cal-Diego Paralyzed Veterans Associations newsletter editor then on the Chapters board of directors. In 2004, he accepted a position with Paralyzed Veterans of America as a service officer where he prosecuted disability claims on behalf of veterans at the San Diego VA Regional Office and Board of Veterans Appeals in Washington DC, and currently serves as President of Cal-Diego PVA. 16x9films.com, Produced by Steve Shelden. Video Rating: 5 / 5
For A55 specs or to purchase: bit.ly For the Cyber-shot® WX9: bit.ly Today we’re looking at two really different types of Sony cameras. First, we’ll compare the Sony Cyber-shot® WX9 and see how it stacks up against other point-and-shoots. Then, we’re taking apart a Sony Alpha A55 camera and checking out what goes on inside. Stay tuned at the end of the episode for an awesome giveaway. Subscribe for free Sony gadget videos! www.youtube.com More SGNL www.youtube.com SGNL Homepage sony.com Tweet us your thoughts! twitter.com ABOUT SGNL A close-up look at Sony’s gadgets, games, movies and music. (less info) Video Rating: 5 / 5
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Last week, 180,000 photo fans from all over the world came together in Cologne, Germany for Photokina.
What’s a Photokina? It’s Disneyland for photo nerds!
WEDONOTKID. We saw lenses the size of buildings, ladies swinging from the ceiling, zoetropes made of Legos and so much more.
It’s the world’s biggest photo conference that comes around only every two years. Along with the conference came camera announcements.
And with it, a flood of tech specs.
If it seems to have blurred into an indecipherable cloud of hyphenated terminology, allow us to translate!
A Guide to the Latest in Digital Cameras
p.s. Woot! We teamed up with our chums at Threadless to help you pack sweet threads + photo gear for your next trip. Enter here.
All New Instant Cameras
What’s new? The Impossible Project’s Instant Lab and 8×10 film, Polaroid’s Z2300, and the Instax Mini 8.
The Instant Lab
This is where it’s at when it comes to the future of phoneography. The innovators at the Impossible Project combined phoneography with analog and came up with this amazingness.
It’s a modified Polaroid-esque camera that fits a phone on top to expose your phone photos directly onto instant film.
That essentially means you’re turning your phoneography into instant prints, and that’s socool.
Dave Bias of Impossible demoed it for us!
The Polaroid Z2300
Digital analog mashups are the jam (we made a funny!).
The Polaroid Z2300 pretty much does everything a lover of digital and analog would want it to do. It shoots your photos at a decent 10MP and gives you instant prints at your behest.
Oh, and those prints come with sticky backs, so you can stick your photos on album pages, in notebooks, or a bathroom stall ’cause you’re a rebel like that.
You can actually find this one in the Photojojo Store!
8X10 Impossible Film
This is hands down the most analog newbie you’ll find at Photokina.
The Impossible Project are magicians, we say. They snatched up the last known 8×10 Polaroid machine in 2009 and have successfully made 8×10 integral film — meaning the film contains the chemicals needed to make a photo, good ‘ol Polaroid style.
See the 8×10 prints they had at their booth!
The Instax Mini 8
The Instax Mini 8 is a slimmer Mini with a new “high-key” mode for getting brighter prints.
What’s most exciting is that it comes in a bunch of rad pastel colors, like this sunny yellow one we played with here.
Camera + Smartphone Hybrids
What’s new? Nikon’s Coolpix S800C and the Samsung Galaxy.
Walking Photokina, you’ll notice most new cameras have added Wi-Fi, Instagram-ish filters, or Android!
You might be wondering what the difference between a phone with a camera in it and a camera with a phone in it is? And whatever happened to shoes with phones in them?
We were wondering, too, and here’s what we found.
Nikon’s Coolpix S800C
The main difference between this camera and your smartphone is that it shoots photos on a higher-res 16MP sensor and has a 10X optical zoom (to compare, the iPhone 5 gives you 8MP & 3x digital* zoom).
So, it leans a little more towards camera than phone, and lets you do all your favorite Android stuff via WiFi like geotag photos and upload to Instagram or Facebook.
One tidbit: the camera runs separately from the older Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) that it runs on, so the camera can open faster without having to wait for Android to load.
Samsung’s Galaxy Camera
Samsung’s played a competitive match in the smartphone game with their Galaxy S III rivaling the iPhone 5. Now they’ve taken that over into point-and-shoots.
This camera runs on Android’s latest version, Jelly Bean, and shoots with 16MP sensor and 21x optical zoom.
It can also connect to 3G, 4G, and WiFi, which is pretty rad since it means you can upload your photos from anywhere — instead of being dependent on WiFi as is with most digital cameras right now.
*Why does optical vs. digital zoom matter? Digital zoom is like enlarging your photo and cropping it around your subject. Your photo ends up losing resolution and looking all pixelated, which is sad pandas if you ask us.
Optical zoom means your optics do the work, so you get to keep your image nice and high-res. This is more of a happy pandas situation.
See our photos of the Samsung and the Nikon.
Über-Fancy Mirrorless Cameras
What’s new? Hasselblad’s Lunar Camera and the Leica M (and the ME & Monochrom).
Hasselblad’s Lunar Camera
Hasselblad was the first camera on the moon, and their new mirrorless camera won’t let you forget it … which may be in part because it costs a fraction of what it does to get to the moon ($ 6K!).
It does all the good stuff a mirrorless will buy you, like a 24.3MP sensor, up to 16000 ISO and can 10 frames per second when in burst mode. Plus, it has a handsome Don-Draper-esque design that doubles as an ergonomic extra.
One thing folks have pointed out is that this camera is awfully similar to Sony’s NEX-7 ($ 1K), which would make sense considering the two companies have partnered and this camera is compatible with Sony lenses.
Check out our photos of the Lunar up close!
The Leica-M
Leica had us at hello, and then it wooed us with its lustrous magnesium alloy body.
After you’re blinded by its good looks, you remember that it’s a camera and that you can shoot with it.
So here’s what you need to know about that: a 24MP full-frame sensor, an upgrade from the M9′s 18MP not-full-frame sensor, a faster Maestro processor (their speediest processor yet which also allows for a longer battery life because it’s just that efficient), and Live View, which includes an electronic viewfinder.
Why would you get this pricey camera instead of a cheaper DSLR? A few reasons. Maybe you’re a big Leica fan, maybe you’re looking for a smaller-bodied camera that can deliver images comparable to a DSLR’s (you can thank the full-frame sensor for that), or maybe you just fancy.
See our photos from the rad Leica booth.
Nikon & Canon’s All New DSLRs
What’s new? The Nikon D600 and the Canon 6D.
Nikon’s D600
Someone needs to drop balloons from the ceiling because this camera’s one to have a party about.
It’s the cheapest full-frame sensor Nikon DSLR! Ever! Its specs place it a notch above entry-level DSLRs but at a level that’s more affordable than say, a Nikon D800 ($ 2000 vs $ 3000).
This is awesome because that makes it available to serious photographers who don’t necessarily need all the trims.
For a quickie comparison, it has a full-frame 24MP sensor, while the D800 has a full-frame 36.6MP and the entry-level D3200 has a 24.2 DX sensor, which is quite a bit smaller in size (about 2.3x smaller).
AND it’s lighter and smaller than most pro-cameras, and we think that merits confetti cannons.
Nikon had a Lego zoetrope at their booth among other things! Check out our photos.
Canon’s 6D
It’s like Canon read Nikon’s mind … or vice versa!
The 6D is the most affordable full-frame Canon DSLR yet! Balloon drops all around!
It’s also priced at $ 2000, making it almost $ 1500 cheaper than a 5D MarkIII, Canon’s benchmark pro camera.
Since you might be wondering about how the sensor compares, here it is: the 6D has a 20.2MP full-frame sensor, the 5D MarkIII a 23.4MP full-frame sensor.
Two things that are making some photographer’s ears perk up:
Built-in WiFi and GPS. (Other Canon DSLRs need extra gizmos in order to use WiFi or GPS.)
The same video modes as the 5D MarkIII, meaning you can make some pretty mean video.
Here’s what Canon’s booth was like. Pretty epic.
Cameras That Surprised Us!
Which ones? The Fuji XF1 and the Casio Exilim EX-ZR100..
I know, right?
The Fuji XF1
With DSLRs and shiny mirrorless cameras everywhere in sight, little did we expect a point-and-shoot to catch our eye.
Lately, Fuji’s been all about retro bodies and outfitting their cameras in dapper leather wrappings.
And that’s what we like about the XF1! It has a super slim (1.2″) rangefinder-esque body that comes in a several faux-leather colors.
What we found especially fun when we played with it is that it comes with a manual focus lens, which zooms in and out from 25-100mm. It’s 500 bucks, but sometimes you just need things.
This is what it looks like in real life! Cute, eh?
The Casio Exilim EX-ZR100
You know that part in the Exorcist, when her head rotates in ways it just really shouldn’t?
That’s kinda like the Casio’s Exilim EX-ZR100! Except less scary and more handy.
The ZR100 rotating screen is totally optimized for the most convenient selfies (kewl new slang for self-portraits). It rotates to face you, so you can see what you’ll look like in the photo. The screen simultaneously acts as a stand, so you can prop your camera without having to set up a tripod! Smart.
Camera Style at Photokina
So who goes to Photokina? You’ll find a mix of dealers, distributors, and companies having to do with any kind of camera-related gizmo you can think of.
Then, there are simply photo fans who come to see what’s up.
We picked some especially stylish Photokina attendees to feature in a fashion roundup for a better idea of who you might find there!
See all of their photos on our Tumblr post!
The 10 Craziest Things We Saw at Photokina
Pretty much any camera-related company that you can think of has a booth at Photokina. Each one shows off their best, and if you look closely, you’ll find some really unusual stuff.
A Zeiss lens as big as a house.
A gang of birds of prey for all to photograph (including this tiny angry owl)
A Hasselblad clock.
All kinds of gold cameras and lenses, including this 24 Karat gold Minox.
Waterproof photo frames?
Sony straight up had a rainforest in their booth.
A croc-cage for crocodile photography.
A Lego zoetrope.
Half-off Olympus cameras.
An Olympus OMD pretty much mounted to a lightsaber.
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The clock has ticked over to 25 December here in Melbourne Australia and I wanted to take a moment on a day that means a lot to my family to wish you and yours a peaceful end to the year.
What’s new? The Impossible Project’s Instant Lab and 8×10 film, Polaroid’s Z2300, and the Instax Mini 8.
What’s new? Nikon’s Coolpix S800C and the Samsung Galaxy. 
What’s new? Hasselblad’s Lunar Camera and the Leica M (and the ME & Monochrom).
What’s new? The Nikon D600 and the Canon 6D. 
Which ones? The Fuji XF1 and the Casio Exilim EX-ZR100..
So who goes to Photokina? You’ll find a mix of dealers, distributors, and companies having to do with any kind of camera-related gizmo you can think of.
Editorial: Why Some People Hate Comments (And Why We Don’t)
Matt Honan of Wired.com thinks the time has come to banish comments sections from the Internet. Writing in Wired.com’s Gadget Lab blog, Honan describes the ‘collective delusion’ among online publishers that comments are a necessary component of web content and characterizes active comments moderation as ‘a messy, frustrating and typically thankless affair that involves more time than most people have’. In this short editorial, editor Barnaby Britton explains why we do allow comments, despite the downsides.
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