Category Archives: Future of Photo Equipment

Some camera concepts

By PR admin | Published: March 5, 2011

The first camera concept is developed by Lucas Ainsworth and is called Capture 180 – it takes a 180° hemispheric photograph and allows the user to view an image beyond the dimensions of a standard image. By moving the large LCD display on the back, you can see different portions of a previously taken picture: The second concept, […]

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Fly’s eye camera a.k.a. panoptic camera

By PR admin | Published: December 3, 2010

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland created a panoptic camera that resembles a fly’s eye – it has 100 cameras and the combined image is rendered on a computer providing a 360° view in 3D. The camera is also able to measure the distance to an objects and can potentially be used in the car, movies and video games […]

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MIT camera can take pictures around corners

By PR admin | Published: November 17, 2010

Interesting news reported by BBC – MIT created a camera that can produce an image of an object that is not directly visible by sending a laser beam and creating an image from the  bounced light of the object: “The prototype uses an ultra-short high-intensity burst of laser light to illuminate a scene. The device constructs a basic […]

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Connectivity: key to camera market growth in the next 5 years

By PR admin | Published: November 12, 2010

InfoTrends published a report (digital camera market forecast for Western Europe) in which they outline that connectivity will play a major role in the camera development over the next 5 years: “Sharing images instantly with friends and family is becoming a more important aspect of photography. Smartphones currently provide this ability, but digital cameras generally do not. […]

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What is a Plenoptic camera?

By PR admin | Published: September 23, 2010

Plenoptic technology is developed by Adobe and it lets you select which part of the image you want to be in focus. A Plenoptic camera contains an array of microlenses between the front lens and the sensor and it captures a series of small images from different viewpoints that can later be extracted and manipulated by special […]

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Yaniv Berg’s curved camera design

By PR admin | Published: August 15, 2010

I aways find camera concepts very interesting (see the category “Future of Photo Equipment”). Today’s entry is designed by Yaniv Berg – the “curved” camera: Via Yankodesign

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Canon EVIL concept

By PR admin | Published: July 29, 2010

This Canon EVIL camera concept was designed by Idan Shechter of DigitalPhotographyWriter. This rendering is just an artist’s view of the camera and is not linked to Canon in any way. The latest comments from Canon indicated that they are still not ready to completely drop the mirror and are trying to create a “small SLR” camera.

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