WirelessIris brings follow focus to your DLSR via iPhone app (video)

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Published June 4, 2010 at 9:46 a.m.
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If you're shooting with movie cameras (or HD-enabled DSLRs like the Canon 5DMkII), being able to make your adjustments digitally is "epic" (or so says Engadget Show Producer Chad Mumm, who just declared this particular hardware "awesome"). The fStop Wireless Receiver is an affordable WiFi receiver that's compatible with most remote focus systems (common in the world of professional cinematography). Featuring multiple wireless channels and integration with the WirelessIris iPhone app, this bad

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Kodak's First Touchscreen Camera Shoots 720p, Goes By "Slice" [Cameras]

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Published Jan. 6, 2010 at 12:01 a.m.
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Kodak's first wave of cameras basically embodied the commodity point-and-shoot: they were cheap, simple, and not particularly good. The Slice, their first touchscreen P&S, is their first attempt at something better ... The Slice is the only camera that stands out in Kodak's new P&S line, not just for its touchscreen, but for its price. $350 gets you 14MP still shots and 720p, 30fps video, optical image stabilization, a Lithium Ion battery, and facial recognition and tagging. It's a sleek little

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Take Better Cameraphone Pictures

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Published Dec. 2, 2009 at 1:55 p.m.
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Your cameraphone doesn't take a half-bad photo if you know what you're doing. No wonder it has replaced the point-and-shoot in terms of popularity. What it hasn't replaced is a real camera's quality. Here's our guide to getting the most out of your phone's camera ...

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With an Eye to the Future, Try Raw Photos Today [Photography]

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Published Dec. 2, 2009 at 1:36 p.m.
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If you enjoy photography, don't make the mistake I did ... Using my then-new SLR in 2005 and 2006, I photographed everything from my new son to otherworldly canyons we visited in Utah. The only problem: the photos were taken only in JPEG format ... JPEG is fine as far as it goes, and indeed for most folks it will suffice. But having rediscovered my enjoyment of photography in the digital era, I wish I'd used the raw image format that comes with SLRs and higher-end compact cameras ... My initial

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Casio stuffs backlit CMOS sensors in Exilim EX-FC150 and EX-FH25 superzoom

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Published Nov. 16, 2009 at 4:34 a.m.
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Casio's usual Exilim fare might struggle to engender a second look from the weary-eyed camera cognoscenti, but a few of the company's models do feature an attention-grabbing 1,000fps shooting mode (albeit at a relatively useless 224 x 64 resolution). A pair of those speedy shooters, the EX-FC100 and EX-FH20, have today been ever so gently upgraded with a set of new name badges and mildly improved performance. The EX-FC150 ups the pixel count to ten million while adding a backlit CMOS sensor, but

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Canon EOS-1D Mark IV lands for a pre-production hands-on

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Published Oct. 30, 2009 at 3:58 p.m.
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We've already seen some sample footage from Canon's new professional EOS-1D Mark IV DSLR (and should be seeing plenty more come December), but a pre-production version of the camera has now turned up at the Canon Pro Photo Solutions 09 show in London, and TrustedReviews managed to get an early hands-on with it. As you might expect, the camera definitely seems to impress in person, with the 1.2 kilogram body providing a feeling of "solid reliability and competence," while its ergonomics also

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Y550 Laptop Lenovo's First With a Core i7 Inside [Laptops]

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Published Oct. 26, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.
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The Y550P, a 15-inch laptop, is Lenovo's first portable to offer a Core i7 option ... Besides that, it's got a lot of juice available in options—up to 8GB of memory, 500GB hard drive, Nvidia GeForce GT 240M (1GB) graphics, an integrated subwoofer, and some kind of crazy "touch-sensitive slide bar for easy desktop navigation." It'll retail at around $1400 to start ... It comes with Lenovo Enhanced Experience for Windows 7, basically optimization that results in faster bootup and shutdown times

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Nikon's D3S officially announced, previewed extensively

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Published Oct. 14, 2009 at 7:23 a.m.
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One day after having been leaked to the wilds and then officially announced, Nikon has opened the floodgates on the upcoming D3S, an upgrade to last year's D3 that was oh so warmly received. Early indications are the D3S is just as hot, adding a 720p24 video mode to the mix and allowing use of the camera's full aperture and ISO range while recording. Important, that, because this camera offers a ludicrously high maximum ISO value of 102,400 -- approaching night vision territory. That's thanks to

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Giz Explains: When (Not) To Use Your Camera's Flash [Giz Explains]

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Published Oct. 7, 2009 at 1:20 p.m.
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What is photography's greatest scourge? Cellphone cameras? MySpace self-portraiture? Neither even comes close to the insidious, creeping threat that is your camera's built-in flash. Here's when and how you should—and more importantly, shouldn't—use a flash ... Avid photographers, you already know the score, and this isn't a guide for you. Nor is it for the dude with the brand-new 5D Mk II with an external flash gun, or the weekend strobist. This is a reference to be passed around as a

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Sony Announces Development of High Frame Rate, Single Lens 3D Camera [3D]

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Published Oct. 1, 2009 at 9:40 p.m.
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Why use two lenses when one is better? Sony's announced that they're developing a single lens 3D camera with a frame rate of 240fps and none (ok, ok: less ) of those freaky misalignments 3D cameras can have ... The emphasis is on smooth and speedy. 240fps 3D filming would be great to begin with, but with Sony taking steps to do it with a single lens camera, it'll be great looking too. While we haven't got much detail about the gadget being developed yet, what we're reading sounds good so far:

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