Category Archives: Future of Photo Equipment

Interesting mirrorless camera concept

By PR admin | Published: March 23, 2012

This Snima Iris mirrorless camera concept is designed by Vladimir Markov. Check out his website form more details. Here are few more images:

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The camera that can take pictures around corners

By PR admin | Published: March 21, 2012

This video is an update on this post from 2010 about the MIT camera that can take pictures around corners. Read more at Scientific American.

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Seven futuristic camera concepts

By PR admin | Published: February 26, 2012

↑ The Digimo camera concept by Sangik Lee are actually two different units with LCD screens that can be separated and triggered wirelessly.   ↑ The D-CAN camera concept by Jean-Michel Bonnemoy reminds me of the Lytro camera. ↑ The eXcanvas camera by Junyoung Jang can be easily turned into a tripod.

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French company announces microdisplay with SXGA resolution

By PR admin | Published: January 29, 2012

The French company MicroOLED announced a 0.61 inch diagonal, 5.4MP microdisplay to can provide SXGA resolution (1280×1024). This resolution is more than double of the Sony’s XGA (1,024 x 768 pixel) OLED panel that is currently used in the Sony NEX-7, a77 and a65 cameras. This is what the CEO of MicroOLED Eric Marcellin-Dibon said about their […]

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Ducati Sogno digital rangefinder concept design

By PR admin | Published: January 7, 2012

Dan Anderson created this Ducati Sogno digital rangefinder concept design:

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MIT’s new camera can do 1,000,000,000,000 frames per second

By PR admin | Published: December 13, 2011

“You can think of it as slow motion,” Andreas Velten, a postdoctoral researcher who is a member of the design team, said during a recent technical presentation. “It is so much slow motion you can see the light itself move. This is the speed of light: there’s nothing in the universe that moves faster.” Read […]

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CompactFlash Association announced XQD – a new memory card standard

By PR admin | Published: December 8, 2011

The CompactFlash Association announced a new memory card standard called XQD. The new memory cards will be slightly bigger than standard SD cards and provide write speed of 125MB/sec and higher:

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Apple iCam concept camera

By PR admin | Published: November 29, 2011

Similar to the Leica i9 concept and the WVIL hoax, this Apple iCam concept created by Antonio DeRosa uses the iPhone as the core for a mirrorless camera system:

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Two fingers air concept camera

By PR admin | Published: November 23, 2011

This two fingers air camera is designed by Yeon Su Kim. The concept camera is operated by your fingers gestures. The images/videos are transferred to your smartphone via Bluetooth: “If you want to click pictures, wear the camera band on your thumb and the shutter button on your forefinger and gesture to click a pic. To take videos, […]

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13 crazy camera concepts

By PR admin | Published: October 17, 2011

The Edna camera: “It brings autofocus capability to these lenses through a shifting image sensor. With its horizontal mirrored design it is equally easy to handle for left- and right-handers. A distinction between the Nikon & Canon camera lenses and the HCI makes the platform accessible to the user.” (designers: Vuk Jakovljevic, Marko Doblanovic, Szilveszter Buzasi & […]

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