Category Archives: Future of Photo Equipment

Appcam: a brand new operating system for cameras

By PR admin | Published: August 7, 2011

Appcam is a new project promising to introduce a new operating system for cameras. Similar to the iPhone, Appcam will introduce “camera-apps” which will be controlled with a touchscreen. Here are some of the advantages listed on their website:

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This digital camera can print photos on any surface, but is it real?

By PR admin | Published: June 7, 2011

The PrintBrush 4X6 is a camera that can print in color on virtually any surface. The printing process is done by sweeping the device over a flat surface: The PrintBrush is developed by Alex Breton who spent 11 years and $10 million for the development of the device. Expected release date is early 2012. I am […]

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The WVIL camera strikes back

By PR admin | Published: April 13, 2011

Do you remember the WVIL camera (Wireless Viewfinder Interchangeable Lens) and their “tricky” video during CES 2011? They are back again with another video: Artefactgroup via Gizmodo

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Digital film design concept

By PR admin | Published: April 9, 2011

After the RE-35 April Fool’s prank, a group of students from Hongik University designed another “digital film” concept: While we are on the digital film topic, you can read few interesting comments from someone who used to work for Silicon Film back in 2001 in this thread (search for Jon). I am expecting/hoping Jon will share some more […]

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Is this invisible camera possible?

By PR admin | Published: March 21, 2011

Updated – this is a 100% hoax since the camera will be “shipped” a week form Friday – on April 1st… This video describes “The Invisible Camera” which is a see-through plastic box with a pinhole that can completely isolate the film from the ambient light and take a correct exposure. What do you think, it this real or […]

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World’s smallest camera

By PR admin | Published: March 11, 2011

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany have created the world’s smallest camera with dimensions of 1 x 1 x 1 mm. The camera has 62,500px resolution, can take 250x250px images and is very cheap to produce.

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New sensor technologies

By PR admin | Published: March 5, 2011

Bidirectional OLED microdisplay combines a sensor and a display on the same chip by integrating photodiodes between the OLED pixels: This technology was developed by the the Fraunhofer Institute. For now the demo chip is only monochrome with 320×240 display and 160×120 camera, but there are plans for higher resolution displays (VGA and above). Here is a video (in German) […]

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