A few weeks ago we reported on the ridiculous $US160,000 Nikon 6mm f/2.8 fisheye lens up for sale in the UK. But with no images utilising the lens, we were left wondering what they might look like. Now we know and kinda wish we didn’t.
Let’s face it, most rugged cameras can cope with being dropped, frozen or dunked in water, but few of them take good photos. This is why the newly announced Olympus TG-1 stands out: it’s based on the company’s amazing point-and-shoot XZ-1, only it’s toughened up for the great outdoors.
We’ve known about Pentax’s K-01 Marc Newson-designed K-01 since February, but the mirrorless camera got its official Australian launch at Sydney Fashion Week on Friday. Unlike Gizmodo UK, we quite like the look of it. Also: apparently it’s easier to design a camera than an airline.
A few weeks ago, Canon confirmed that in certain extremely dark situations, the excellent 5D Mark III’s LCD’s backlight leaked light onto the camera’s auto-exposure sensor. Oh no! Our friends at LensRentals.com took apart one of the newly fixed models — and the solution is so simple we can’t believe it works.
Vision Research expanded its line of popular Phantom cameras recently to include a series of compact, rugged high-speed options. One lucky user is the first to get his hands on the Miro M120 and let it loose in the wild. And we’re lucky enough to see the results.
If you’ve ever wondered what a Kinect with DSLR image resolution might be like… well, you’ll have to wait. But for now, this is the next best thing: called RGBDToolkit, it’s a project designed to layer HD video over Kinect’s depth maps. And it’s pretty neat.
Camera tests can be somewhat tedious, and if you’re a tried and true camera nerd, you have probably seen experiments and comparisons ad nauseum. But this test, showing the effectiveness of the image stabilisation feature of the Olympus OM-D E-M5, has a personal touch that makes it stand out among the rest.
If your day has lacked colour and joy up until now, perhaps this animation will brighten things up — especially if you’re into cameras.
Making the jump from point-and-shoots to an SLR can be a daunting proposition, but this 8-bit explainer from Sound and Matter should help. It covers the three most fundamental elements of exposure — aperture, shutter speed and ISO — clearly and succinctly, giving even complete photography newbies *raises hand* a quick grasp of what all those buttons and dials and fractional f’s mean.
