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Posted on 10.05.08 by John @ 6:20 pm
Conventional cameras use a curved lens to focus an image onto a flat surface where the light is captured either by film or by digital sensors. However, focusing light from a curved lens onto a flat surface distorts the image, necessitating a series of other lenses that reduce the distortion but tend to increase the bulk and cost of a device. [via boingboing] Popularity: 4% [?] Filed under: Cool and Photography and Science and Technology Comments: None |
This is quite an impressive achievement if you ask me.|
Posted on 03.11.08 by John @ 9:05 pm
Popularity: 7% [?] Filed under: Cool and DIY and Historic and Mad Science and Photography and To be used for Evil Comments: None |
This is a bit old news but if you act soon you can snatch one of these up before they are gone. This is a cool little hack to repurpose the head mounted display from a remote controlled car for better purposes. The procedure is simple, get a power supply (some batteries) pop the back off the display and move a shunt from one pad to another (switch form PAL to NTSC video standards) and you are set.|
Posted on 01.29.08 by John @ 8:45 pm
" This camera is a serious camera for the police, and not a toy. It is a pistol camera DORYU 2-16 famous as rare and valuable camera. The DORYU 2-16 has the same C mount as the 16mm movie camera. A Cine-Nikkor 25mm F1.4 lens was able to be mounted in the DORYU 2-16 pistol camera. You can find the small lens for GOLDECK 16 on the table." This is something I’d buy if I had that chance. [via Ektopia] Popularity: 6% [?] Filed under: Cool and Historic and Japan and Photography and To be used for Evil Comments: None |
Oh yeah baby, you can be |
Posted on 09.14.07 by John @ 7:03 pm
Being a photographer who is passionate about pinhole photography, I wanted to create a complete all-in-one internet resource that offers information for the beginner, amateur and professional pinhole photographer. I hope you find this information helpful whatever your pinhole interests are. Maybe one day a few of my pinhole projects will end up on this fine list. [ CK ] Pinhole Photography Resources Popularity: 4% [?] Filed under: Artistic and DIY and Photography Comments: 2 Comments |
I ran across this a few days ago:|
Posted on 09.14.07 by John @ 6:56 pm
If you have a point-and-click digital camera made by Canon, you may be able to turn on all sorts of features usually reserved for more expensive SLRs. That includes live histograms, depth-of-field calculation, under and overexposure highlighting, and — best of all — shooting your pictures in RAW. The secret is CHDK, an enhanced, free software replacement firmware. I’m going to have to disagree that the best part of this is being able to shoot in RAW mode. Don’t get me wrong, I love using RAW (or NEF as it’s called on my Nikon) but the best part of this enhancement is that fact that you can do scripting in a BASIC like language in the camera. Wow… This is like getting a computer that has predefined programs on it and then discovering the programming tools for it. With these scripts you can do such amazing things as automatically create a series of photos for HDR stacking that can later be run through software to extend the dynamic range of the images. You can run an interactive interval timer to take X number of photos ever X seconds, minutes, or even hours so you could do a time laps study of ice melting or a building being built. Those are just two examples of what can be done with the powerful feature. [via MAKE] Popularity: 4% [?] Filed under: DIY and Hacked and Mods and Photography and Technology Comments: None |
One of the greatest things about technology isn’t what it does, but it’s what it can do. This is a shining example of this very concept:|
Posted on 09.06.07 by John @ 10:20 pm
Popularity: 2% [?] Filed under: Cool and DIY and Mad Science and Photography and Technology Comments: None |
I don’t usually toot my own horn but this time I’m going to. I was recently asked if MAKE magazine could use a few of my photos of a Halloween display that I had made a few years ago. I agreed to it of course, I mean who wouldn’t want to see their photos in a national magazine? So I signed some paperwork and waited for the issue to hit the stands. All my waiting paid off when I saw the issue on Saturday and saw my photos printed up in glorious color. My photos of glow sticks, black light, and electric arcs fit right in with the other amazing projects that are being showcased in the Halloween issue. If your looking for a way to add a little something to your garage turned haunted house or even if your just wanting to scare the crap out of a coworkers with some automated nasty in the cube farm this is the magazine to buy!
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