Dec 15 2011
Fast Camera
Interesting article about the world’s fastest camera in terms of the number of frames per second – MIT’s trillion frames per second light-tracking camera.
Sep 03 2011
Popular Digital Cameras According to Flickr
I found some very interesting graphs from Flickr this week showing the most popular digital cameras with which its users take photos. See Flickr Camera Finder.
Perhaps the most amazing statistic has been the stellar rise of the Apple iPhone 4 to become the most popular digital camera!
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Jun 23 2011
Lytro’s Disruptive Technology Camera
Today I heard about Lytro, and the new camera that the company is developing based upon capturing something called the light field. For more information see Lytro, the Astonishing Camera Start-Up, Celebrates Its Splashy Debut (Video) and Meet the Stealthy Start-Up That Aims to Sharpen Focus of Entire Camera Industry (the clickable images in the later article are fascinating).
It is interesting that Lytro has decided to build the cameras rather than sell the technology. I wonder are the current leading camera manufacturers worried!
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Aug 06 2010
Online Photo Editor – Pixlr
I needed to edit a photo on somebody’s computer today. I needed to crop the photo, and then sharpen it. Unfortunately, there was no software installed on the computer that would do it :(
I previously wrote about an online photo editor called Pixenate in Online Photo Editor. Unfortunatly, it is not able to sharpen photos :(
So I did a search, and I found Pixlr. It is really slick, and it appears to be very functional!
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Dec 19 2009
Gigapixel Photos
No – the term gigapixel is not a typing mistake!
I came across two interesting gigapixel photos this week:
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Mar 09 2009
Online Photo Editor
I came across a really nice online photo editor today called Pixenate that is developed by a company called Sxoop Technologies. Perhaps the thing that I find most impressive about it is that it is written entirely in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
The user interface is really smooth, and it is very easy to use due to the helpful tips. There are plenty of editing tools to satisfy most requirements, although some of them seemed to be slow to update the photo. I do not know what caused this, because my CPU was certainly not the bottleneck. I also really like the way that each time you load the web page there is a new default image to experiment with!
The interface is so nice that I had to include a screenshot (click it to see a larger version). However, this is not a substitute for playing with it ;)
Pixenate Screenshot
I am not really clear who are the intended users of the software, because I think that most serious photographers will use desktop applications to edit their digital photos. Perhaps the software would be a good addition to photo printing web sites such as PhotoBox.
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