Category Archives: Future of Photo Equipment

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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New image compression format: JPEGmini

By PR admin | Published: August 25, 2011

Megapixel has an interesting article on a new image compression format called JPEGmini that is compatible with the existing JPEG and allows the file size to be up to five times smaller without any visible loss of image quality. You can try JPEGmini for yourself by uploading your own photo on their website.

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