How-Old.Net Uses Science To Guess Your Age From Your Photo
Facial Recognition is something that’s becoming more and more a part of all kinds of photographic software—It’s even baked into the new version of Adobe’s Lightroom. But, we’re getting past the point...
View ArticleThis High Speed Experimental Camera Can Make a Trillion Images Per Second
You’re probably familiar with the awesome Phantom cameras that shoot a lot of the amazing slow-motion scenes you see in movies. Their flagship camera can capture up to a million frames per second at a...
View ArticleCanon’s New $30K Camera Shoots at ISO 4,000,000
Do a quick skim of the internet camera message boards and it’s not hard to find people criticizing Canon for their lack of innovation in terms of sensor technology. People quote DXO scores in a vacuum...
View ArticleCanon’s 250-Megapixel APS-H Sensor Shoots 5 FPS at 30x 4K Resolution
The Canon Expo is about to start here in New York, which means Canon is ready to show off some of their new technologies, including their 4,000,000 ISO camera. Today, Canon Japan announced the...
View ArticleFacebook Patent Outlines Tech For Identifying Specific Cameras From Their...
If you were to go picking through my camera bag, you’d find that my gear has been used pretty extensively. Over the course of that use, it has picked up little quirks. Sensor pixels have died and...
View ArticleThe TinyMOS Is a Small Camera Built For Astro Photography
We write about a lot of gear that’s in the Kickstarter (or more broadly, the crowdfunding) stage, but the TinyMOS is even younger than that. This relatively minuscule camera is built specifically to...
View ArticleSony Shows Off Starvis Super-High Sensitivity Camera Sensor Tech
Earlier this year, Canon started debuting technology made to produce insanely high-sensitivity image sensors. They released a camera with an ISO setting over four-million and then showed off even more...
View ArticleResearchers Taught a Neural Network To Evaluate Selfie Pictures
Everyone knows, the way you properly evaluate a — ahem — selfie, is by counting the number of likes it gets on social media. It’s a foundational system in our current society. Andrej Karpathy is a...
View ArticleLytro Immerge Is the Evolution of Light Field Photography
When Lytro first introduced their camera in 2011, the idea of light field photography was new and pretty exciting. The promise of shooting a photo and then deciding on the focus point later was novel...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Project Oxford Can Figure Out the Emotions Of People In Photos
When it comes to looking at photos and recognizing their contents, computers are getting smarter all the time. Microsoft’s Project Oxford has a function called Emotion Recognition that analyzes a...
View ArticleThis Video Provides an Excellent Explanation About How Camera Sensors Work
Sometimes I catch myself taking my camera for granted. On a fundamental level, I know how it works, but some of the things a modern camera can accomplish are truly amazing if you step back and consider...
View ArticleSony’s New Exmor Stacked Smartphone Camera Sensor Is The First To Use Hybrid...
Putting phase detection autofocus pixels onto imaging sensors has been something camera manufacturers have been doing for years now, but Sony’s new Exmor 1/2.6-inch 22.5-megapixel sensor is the first...
View ArticleThe Lytro Cinema Camera Shoots 755-Megapixel Light Field Images at Up to 300 FPS
Gear Lytro's latest pivot is a fascinating one The Lytro Cinema camera is built to make high-end movie production look a lot different…
View ArticleFacebook Has Created a 360-Degree Virtual Reality Camera
Gear The 17-camera array can capture 8K VR footage Facebook is betting big on VR and now they have a camera to go with their Oculus headsets…
View ArticleFlexible Sheet Camera Concept Warps The Image As It Changes Shape
Gear Using an array of tiny lenses, this concept camera can take a wide variety of shapes Columbia University researchers have come up with a flexible camera that changes field of view as it bends…
View ArticleGoogle Is Using a Robotic Gigapixel Camera to Capture Famous Paintings With...
NewsThe Google Art Camera makes gigapixel images of famous works of art…
View ArticleApple Patent Would Allow Infrared Signals to Block iPhone Photo and Video...
News It could also implement augmented-reality-like features A simple IR transmitter could eventually be enough to block the iPhone from taking photos or video…
View ArticleTry Out This Tool That Automatically Colorizes Black-And-White Photos
News An interesting automated tool adds color to monochromatic photos This algorithmic process is surprisingly adept at adding color to black-and-white photos.
View ArticleHands-On With Nikon’s Remote-Controlled Robot Cameras At Photokina 2016
Gear They can be controlled with a regular Xbox One Controller Nikon's robotic cameras from Rio can be controlled with a touchscreen or an Xbox One controller.
View ArticleShree Nayar Transformed Smartphone Photography, Now He's Looking to the Future
Gear A look at an impressive 30-year career and the work that's helping to shape the camera of the future. Over a 30-year career in imaging science, Shree Nayar has already transformed the camera in...
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