Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
If you search around your loft or basement for long enough, you'll probably come across some old slides and negatives from pictures you took before digital cameras took off. These pictures often get damaged over time and if left out in sunlight, they also fade away gradually and lose colour.
The "Superior Slide and Negative to Digital Picture Converter" is a device that is able to capture images from negatives and slides at a resolution of 14 megapixels.
The JackPod is another great idea that I just came across on Kickstarter. It is a device that you plug in to the 3.5mm headphone jack on your smartphone and use that as a mounting point for a tripod.
The details show that it can mount any smartphone that uses any case safely on to a tripod so you can get steadier shots.
Taking picture on a DSLR can be challenging to some as there are a number of settings that need to be taken in to account such as shutter speed, ISO and aperture all of which need to be balanced to get just the right amount of light to the sensor without making the shutter open so long that you get blurry images. Under or over exposed images are also too easy to create if settings are not correct for the environment around you.
A traditional way of working with this challenge is either by experience gained over a number of years, or by using an expensive light meter that can detect the light around you and provide the settings you need.
To lower the cost of light meters, one company is launching a device called Luxi that attaches to the front facing camera on your iPhone. It is compatible with the iPhone 4/4S and iPhone 5 and fits snugly over the camera. You then fire up an app and can find the best settings for the current lighting available.
This little device is a submarine camcorder that is capable of moving 100 feet underwater and streaming back what it sees live to an iPad. The RC submarine is handy for those who regularly travel the waters so that they have a way to inspect below a boat or see marine life.
The Laser Rangefinder COOLSHOT AS is a device built by Nikon to help you accurately find the distance to an object. The gadget has been created primarily for golfers who can be assisted when figuring out how far a ball needs to be hit.
This new model is an upgrade on a similar version that launched last year. Upgrades on this particular model now allow it to track distances on up or down slopes. The Rangefinder can track with a measurement range of 4.5 - 550 meters and allows actual distances to be measured taking in to account the horizontal distance associated with the shot. [Read more...]
The X-Cap is a lens cap for DSLR and other similar cameras that replaces the manual lens cover with one that is more commonly found on a point and shoot camera. The lens cap fits on the end of the lens and has automatic covers that close up when you switch the camera off.
Associated Press has uploaded a video to Youtube (in 360p for some reason) showing some of the tech used behind the scenes at the Olympics to get pictures on to the screen.
A number of leaks over recent times have indicated that Canon is working on a new mirror-less camera. Just the Friday gone we posted an image of what the camera will look like. We now hear that the Canon EOS M has been made official by Canon.
The camera below is believed to be the Canon EOS M mirrorless camera. The new camera has been rumoured for a while now with several patents showing up which revealed that Canon is working on such a camera.
Sony has announced the new Sony Alpha STL-A57 which falls in to the popular A-mount camera range. The new camera has a 16 megapixel sensor and is capable of shooting at 12 frames per second. Video can be captured with the camera at 1920 x 1080 pixels at 60p, 60i or 24p/25p.
Canon has announced a new digital SLR camera called the Canon 5D Mark III. The new camera has a 22.3 megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor. It uses the DIGIC 5+ imaging processor and is capable of capturing full HD 1080p video at 30 frames per second.
As well as announcing the Panasonic LUMIX DX1 today, Panasonic has also announced the LUMIX DMC-3D1 camera. This particular camera has two lenses and is capable of capturing photos and video in 3D.
