Category: Photography

xRez – Extreme High Resolution Images

Wow. Impressive set of photos. The interface is whats nice. Very Google / Yahoo maps like. I seem to remember a freeware app that would let you do this with your own photos. I’m going to have to dig that up… Still, these photos are very nice.

xRez is a consortium of digital artists committed to exploring new creative opportunites made available by the advent of extremely high-resolution gigapixel digital photography. We believe this is clearly the next revolution in photography, allowing photographic experiences with a deeper level of fidelity and impact than previously seen. Further, by combining powerful 3d tools and techniques appropriated from the visual effects field, possibilites arise of new imagery and animation that are truly novel and unprecedented.

[via Red Ferret Journal]
xRez – extreme high resolution images

Olympus Wood Camera Casing

I love this idea. I hope that this process is easy to do so we see more things have something unique to them. I wonder if it would work with bamboo.

Olympus just announced their three dimensional compression molding process for wooden materials at the Photokina show. Accordingly, the processed wooden material has the feel and grain pattern of natural wood and proves to be harder than engineering plastics such as ABS and polycarbonate resins.


[via core77]

Monsterpod – Shapeable Camera Tripod

Whee! I’ll be an unwitting shill for a viral marketing campagne but only because it looks neat. If the Monsterpod does half of what it says it can do then I might buy one. The Monsterpd is like a beanbag tripod without the beans. Actually, it’s a plastic base that has a mold-able ‘viscoelastic morphing polymer’ (read: some sort of shape holding gel foam stuff), and a neoprene outer covering. All in a 6oz package. As long as your camera is under 300 gm (10 oz) it will hold whatever in place for a minute to an hour before oozing and letting go. This should give anyone enough time to set the self timer and get in the shot. If I were to guess how it works and I might as well do that, I’d say that you push it onto whatever you want and it fills in the nooks and crannies with bits of itself until it hold fast. Like the way a vine will crawl up a wall. I’m paranoid so I’d use a safety line on the camera if I were to plant it on a  tree or sideways to a pole. But that’s just me.
The website says it will be shipping in a few weeks so look for it soon.

MONSTERPOD

Rocket Booster Video of the Space Shuttle Discovery Launch.


From launch to a water landing, this stunning video shows you exactly what it would be like if you were duct tapped to the side of a space shuttle solid rocket booster. They get extra points from me for adding sound to the video. They must have bolted a transducer to the space frame of the SRB. RocketCam has more videos from past SST missions and even a few from some satellite launches.
[via neatorama]

DIY – Build a Panoramic Tripod Head

Building a pano headIt’s true, having a good tripod head can save you a lot of headaches but normally it costs quite a bit to buy one. The only solution is to build your own!

There’s some amazing software out there for panoramic photography. Various software packages warp, stitch and blend sequences of photos so that they (ideally) look like one big, high-resolution, panoramic shot. However, getting these shots to turn out perfectly isn’t easy when hand holding your camera or using a normal tripod, especially when some parts of the image are fairly close to the lens. Panoramic tripods can cost hundreds of dollars, but making your own isn’t that hard. Even better, it’s dirt cheap.

[via Steve and Worth1000]

How to Build a Panoramic Tripod Head – WikiHow