Archive for the ‘sensor’ tag
An Analysis of Apple’s iPhone 4S Camera: What We Know So Far
Image from This is My Next’s Liveblog of the Apple Announcement, by far the fastest and best one that didn’t crash.
Today, Apple announced the iPhone 4S. In the world of photography, we mostly care about the camera to help spur on our creative initiatives. The iPhone 4 had an impressive range of features like an f2.4 lens, ISO 80-2000 and 1/1000th shutter speeds. Indeed, after our field test we saw that use of Apple’s iPhone 4 really took off with the amount of apps that came out such as Hisptamatic, Instagram, etc.
Apple proclaimed that they wanted to create a camera that is better than a point and shoot. So, have they? Without having our hands on the product at all, we’re going to do a breakdown the specs.
Hands On: Ricoh GR4D
The other night, I was able to get my hands on the newly announced Ricoh GR4D digital camera. The new camera is a premium point and shoot targeted towards those that want to shoot, “Candids” as they stated during the presentation. Here are the specs you care about and my hands on time with the camera.
My apologies for the noisy images, my EP2 has been steadily becoming noisier and noisier.
10 Tips on Keeping Your Photo Gear Cool During The Summer (From Experience)
Summer is here, and we’re all feeling the heat. Whether you’re a digital or film photographer, your gear is bound to get hot too. If your gear overheats, problems could be abound: so here are some quick tips on how to keep it all nice and cool.
The Sigma SD1 Foveon sensor better be amazing
SD1
With the SD1 becoming available in early June we’ve just received some more detailed information about this new offering from Sigma. The really groundbreaking aspect of it is its’ Foveon sensor. With the Foveon each pixel captures Red Green and Blue signals simultaneously instead of separate pixels dedicated to each channel and interpolating that data later. The result is a whopping 40MP image and the claim is that you gain greater color fidelity and less color noise. The questions are two-fold. First, will this be true, and second, will it have a market?
Read the rest of this entry »
RE-35 Turns Your Film Camera Into a Digital Camera
Imagine if your old film camera could easily capture digital photos. That’s the promise behind the RE-35 cartridges. Hold onto your horses though, that doesn’t mean that it will be replacing your Leica X1 or Fujifilm X100 anytime soon though.
Edit: This was sent into us by a reader…we hope it’s not an April Fool’s Prank.
Hands On Review: Canon G10 Camcorder
Last month, my hands fondled and caressed the newly announced Canon G10 prosumer camcorder. While I wasn’t allowed to take pictures, handling the non-working prototype model proved to be an interesting experience coupled with the presentation from Canon. Because of this, I wasn’t able to gauge the image quality of the camcorder but I was able to take away quite a bit from the experience.
