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Kenko Tokina buys the filter maker Cokin. Rumor: K-mount mirrorless still in the works. Europe to launch massive gigapixel camera into space. This is probably the slowest Instant camera ever:

Below is a very interesting video from Kodak describing the way film and digital cameras capture light. Around the 8:00 min mark you can hear a thought-provoking statement that when you bring your camera on a plane over 20,000 feet, the gamma rays can actually fry some of the pixels on the sensor. This is why […]

This is the trailer of the upcoming Artists & Alchemists documentary about the resurgence of 19th century chemical photography:

Just a quick update to the What are the best AA batteries for photography post from last week – Sanyo just announced in Japan two new rechargeable batteries: Eneloop Pro and Eneloop Plus. No details were provided when those new batteries will be available in countries outside Japan.

This hi-def camera prototype developed by NHK and Sharp has “a single image sensor with an on-chip color filter array (4 chips each capable of imaging 8 million pixels). The 2.5-inch sensor is also compatible to conventional SLR camera lenses.” Via Crunchgear

I have been collecting those links for few weeks and never got the chance to publish them: The Midnight Shot NV-1 camera has an infrared-night shot mode that can see through some types of fabric and materials: The smallest video camera – 0.99mm wide, the CMOS sensor size is 0.66 x 0.66mm, total resolution of 45k pixels: […]