Sony Compact Design Hides Lens Behind Foldable Grip
Sony has been gaining ground on Canon and Nikon lately by focusing on innovation, creating new technologies and entering the mirrorless market early while the two mega-corps have mostly been content with playing it safe with their popular products. Sony recently filed an interesting patent in Japan that shows some of this creative thinking at...
Cute Pico Projector Concept Smiles Back
This adorable Pico projector concept which comes hot on the heels of Nikon’s more standard-looking S1100pj projector camera. The Pico, envisioned by René Wooram Lee, combines form and function in its anthropomorphic design: its blue “eye” is a projector lens and its greenish “eye” is the camera lens. The center smile is actually a microphone....
Egg Timer Tripod for Panning Time-Lapses
This contraption is essentially a glorified egg timer with a tripod screw designed to allow for easy 360 degree time lapse images. The Camalapse, designed by video gear rental and retailer Camarush, slowly rotates in a full circle. If paired with a camera’s time-lapse feature, it can allow for pretty seamless, panning 360 degree time-lapse...
Lather Up with Camera-Shaped Soap
Sure, you’ve got duster kits and lens cloths to boot, but what about your own body’s hygiene? Specialized soap-making duo Rob and Megan Green, better known on Etsy as Stinkybomb, have made this nifty camera-shaped soap for photo fans. Like all of their soaps, the camera soap was created with a mold made from a...
Simple DIY Shock-Resistant Camera Case
Using a bit of drawer liner as both padding and case, Instructables Living editor scoochmaroo has created instructions for this simple DIY shock-resistant camera case. It’s fairly straightforward: just cut from a template, add velcro, and sew. You can’t tote a DSLR in this thing, but it could come in handy for point-and-shoots, or even...
Next Nikon Compact May Project Video
The replacement to Nikon’s COOLPIX S1000pj, which already has a unique projection mode to display still photographs, is rumored to move beyond the stills and into video. French photography magazine, Chasseur d’Images, reports that Nikon might even take it a step further by including a video input which will allow the camera to function as...
Octopus Steals Man’s Point-and-Shoot
Octopuses are known to be the most intelligent invertebrate, and this clever guy also seems to have an eye for pricey camera gear and a playful sense of humor.
Diver Victor Huang was exploring off the coast of Wellington, New Zealand, when he happened upon the octopus. Like something out of a horror movie, a tentacled...
Will Camera Phones Kill Point and Shoot Cameras?
Here are the results of last week’s poll:
Around 50% of you have made at least some money from photography, even though a previous poll found that only about 12% of our readers are professional photographers.
This week’s poll has to do with the future of compact (AKA point-and-shoot) cameras. For many people, camera phones provide all...
