GoPro never cease to amaze. They continuously produce astonishing, adventurous, immersive videos made with their tiny, adventuresome cameras. They are, in the vernacular, fucking awesome!
This one is underwater. Very James Bond. Lots of sharks. Bikinis. Epiphanies. The whole 6 fathoms.
Steven Sasson, with his invention: the digital camera.
This video provides great context for the amazing new digital film cameras coming out at the moment.
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New Sony FS700. Super 35mm. Up to 960 frames per second.
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iPhone 4 most popular camera on Flickr. How Mobile Photography Helped Kill Kodak
The darker side of police violence. Policeman shoots cameraman.
(Source: youtube.com)
Video shot on the iPhone 4S. Kinda makes the consumer camcorder market a bit pointless.
(Source: vimeo.com)
iPhone 4S from Apple. The camera is much improved, 8 megapixel with a f/2.4 lens and 1080p video, stabilised physically with a gyro, as well as digitally stabilised.
(Source: apple.com)
The Camera that Changed the World on BBC iPlayer.
The Eclair NPR was the first portable 16mm silent reflex camera with coaxial magazine design, 1963-1985. It was the HDSLR or it’s day. It mobilised documentary filmmaking and changed what could be seen on film.
(My apologies if this is not available in your part of the world. Global communications and regional broadcasting are not a good mix. It will take time, but eventually, one decade, perhaps during your grandchildren’s lives, broadcasters will sort out their copyright problems and publish globally. Maybe. Eventually. If they are still in business. On behalf of UK taxpayers, I think we can all agree if you want to watch programs funded with our tax dollars, it’s no skin off our asses. We don’t lose anything. It’s just a problem with copyright and licensing fees. Sorry. (It’s embarassing.)
Amazing light field camera creates images with infinite focus. User selectable depth of field.
The light field camera does not have a focus control, it seems. Everything is both in focus and out of focus at the same time. (I bet the images are rather big.)
This screen grab of a light field photo is called, Glamour girls at the Egyptian Museum. It’s one of the best in the Lytro Picture Gallery.
In the picture above, for example, the viewer can move the focal point to any of the four models. That is, when viewing it with a proper viewer. The image above is a screen grab from a Flash gallery. In the gallery, the user can change the focal point. I set the focus on the woman in blue and screen grabbed it.
I chose it because it had four obvious focal points. Many of the others effectively have 2 focal points.
I wonder what the film implications are. Doesn’t it make 3D as it is currently be marketed look funny and sad?
I bet the follow focus makers are shaking in their boots ;-)
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