Category Archives: Future of Photo Equipment

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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Interesting links from the past week

By PR admin | Published: July 25, 2010

What you may have missed  this week: Digital Holga prototype. Why not? Did you notice this? The uneventful announcement of the Fujifilm FinePix F300EXR point and shoot camera brought us a new Hybrid Auto Focus System – first in the world: “Enhanced with built-in phase detection pixels, Super CCD EXR is the first sensor in the […]

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CompactFlash Association announces new CF5.1 Specification Goals

By PR admin | Published: July 15, 2010

Some of the key proposed features are: Key Feature Benefits Ultra DMA 167 Mode Enables the development of higher performance cards while providing complete backward compatibility. Sanitize Provides an efficient NAND Block Erase of the entire user data area to return the CF card to “fresh” state before reuse or repurposing. Leverages a command defined […]

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Canon Wonder Camera Concept displayed at Expo 2010

By PR admin | Published: July 6, 2010

An interesting video showing an Canon concept camera with touch interface (at the beginning of the video): Head over to gizmag for the full picture gallery:

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Another amazing Samsung concept from Tecnofotografia

By PR admin | Published: May 31, 2010

After the amazing Sony concept, today Tecnofotografia published a new Samsung concept – you can attach the flash unit on top of the viewfinder! Can someone offer those guys a job to design photo equipment?

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Camera concepts (part 2)

By PR admin | Published: May 25, 2010

Continuing with part 2 of the Camera concept series (camera concepts part 1 can be found here). Sony concept camera from tecnofotografia: Canon 3D concept from Dean Franciss: Fleximus camera – the lens (and I guess the sensor) are mounted on a flexible tube and can be a attached to a LCD display or a […]

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