Camera Technica - Photography Blog
Photography for your Left Brain
One of the many enhancements in the iPhone 4S camera is reportedly an embedded infrared (IR) filter. Sounds good you say, but what good is an IR filter and how can we even tell if it’s really in there? One of the easiest IR filter testers may be located right beside you. If you have [...]
For everyone who has stitched a few photos together in Photoshop and called it a panorama, here is how you take it to the next level. Jonas Pfeil, a student at of the Technical University of Berlin has taken one part camera array and one part Nerf toy and combined them into a throwable camera. [...]
If your still photography is in a creative rut, maybe you should consider flipping your DSLR camera over to video mode. While it may not be the reason you bought your camera, film makers the world over are embracing DSLR cameras for their video abilities. Entire TV episodes have been shot with the Canon 5D [...]
Forget about setting exposure. Check. Forget about memory cards. Check. Forget about focusing? Ch…..What? Today, amid a torrent of fanfare, Lytro introduced the first of its “light field” cameras. These cameras incorporate a remarkable shoot first, focus later concept which they hope will take the photography community by storm. Earlier this year, we previewed the [...]
Canon has announced the newest member of the high-end DSLR family, the EOS-1D X. Canon’s formally diverse 1D lineup included the 1D Mark IV, a crop frame camera beloved by sports photographers for its high frame rate and the 1Ds Mark III, a high resolution camera used by high end portrait and studio professionals. It [...]
On June 11, 1997, a gentleman named Phiillipe Kahn did something remarkable. Sitting in a maternity ward, he snapped a picture of his newborn baby daughter. The remarkable part is that the photo was taken on his cell phone. Seconds later, he had transmitted that photo to more than 2000 friends, family, and coworkers. This [...]
