Score one for the rumor mill: Pentax launches K-mount mirrorless
For more than a year now, rumors have swirled, suggesting that Pentax was planning to launch not one, but two mirrorless camera products with differing lens mounts. Some pooh-poohed the idea, perhaps understandably, but today the believers...
Pentax announces K-01 K-mount APS-C mirrorless camera
Pentax has formally announced the K-01 K-mount mirrorless interchangable lens camera and a revised 40mm F2.8 pancake lens to match. Built around a 16MP APS-C sensor, the camera can mount most of the lenses the company has ever made. It features sensor...
02 February 2012, Thursday
California's Nuclear Disaster
The media reported that the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) had a leak forcing a shut down at 3 PM local time on 31 January 2012.
As my California Radiation Levels report shows, there ...
Ricoh launches standard zoom GXR module with 16MP APS-C sensor
Ricoh has released a 24-85mm equivalent F3.5-5.5 zoom module with a 16MP APS-C sensor for its GXR system. The latest camera unit offers a flexible focal length range that starts slightly wider than the average kit zoom, without making the camera exces...
TOP Down (Briefly)
TOP will be down for maintenance for a few days. However we will be back AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! As early as Saturday, but at least by Monday.
—Mike, TOP Chief Custodian and Facilities Maintenance Engineer
3,000 Photos Are Uploaded Every Second to Facebook
Facebook officially filed to become a publicly traded company today and, in doing so, spilled the beans on many of its internal figures and statistics that are normally under wraps. A crazy fact that emerged is that an average of 250 million photographs are uploaded to the service every day. That’s equal to 10.4 million...
A Look At Yuri Arcurs’ Microstock Empire
German broadcaster Deutsche Welle produced this interesting segment on photographer Yuri Arcurs and how he turned his microstock photography into a million-dollar photography empire. Here’s a mind-boggling statistic: on average, Arcurs sells one...
Timeless Unity
"A timeless, limitless, perfect unity underlies all our feeling and thought, underlies every form of existence and every part of our self. We know this through a deep, inner awareness for which we can give no explanation or proof, because it ...
iOS App Review: Disposable Hipstamatic
Hipstamatic, an iOS app which mimics the look of classic 'toy' cameras is one of the most sucessful photography apps on the market. The latest variant, Disposable Hipstamatic, also builds on the appeal of the unpredictability of 'toy' cameras but incl...
Nikon P510 Offers Highest Zoom Ratio Ever Seen in a Compact Camera
Nikon has unveiled a new superzoom compact camera called the P510 that offers a ridiculous 42x optical zoom — the highest zoom ratio ever seen in such a camera. In 35mm terms, the lens goes from a 24mm on the wide-angle side to a 1000mm on the telephoto end. The 16.1MP camera also boasts a...
Portable Voice Over Booth from Editors Keys £204
I saw this cool voice over booth on my latest edition of my IOV magazine digital edition and was reviewed by Kevin Cook in fact hears what Kevin had to say about it… Conclusion There’s not a lot to dislike about the Vocal Booth Pro actually. Th...
In case you missed it: Vimeo Announces New Design
Open Your Eyes to the New Vimeo from Vimeo Staff on Vimeo. I have long found that Vimeo is the best video hosting site out there. Unlike YouTube, the focus has always been on great, user-generated content, and creating a supportive community of like-minded filmmakers. This has meant better content to consume and more...
