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And by practical I mean a waste of $100 (plus shipping). Check it out at LockCircle.com. In other news it’s been a crazy month. New things really will be coming up soon, I promise! [...] Continue reading LockCircle is a practical choice for a body cap Not the first HDR video demonstration but perhaps one of the first video cameras built solely for the purpose. I’m not sure when my eyes started bleeding but I was definitely grimacing when they flicked the tonemapping switch, some of those settings were just awful. We definitely need overdone horrible HDR in full motion video, that will definitely be an improvement. They really know how to pick exciting demonstration videos too, don’t they? Video capture in HDR surely has its place but the tasteful application will separate appealing from obnoxious. It will be interesting to see if something like this sees wider adoption. As with photography, capturing a good HDR is one thing but the processing after the fact is another. Tonemapping is usually where people take an HDR with potential and turn it in to a giant mess. [...] Continue reading AMP HDR Video Camera 
Think Tank Retrospective 10 Over a week ago I got an email from Think Tank inviting me to join their affiliate program. After accepting I asked if I could review one of their products and wound up choosing the Retrospective 10. It just arrived and I’m really looking forward to putting it through the paces. [...] Continue reading Think Tank Retrospective 10 in the house! The Invisible Camera proposes a tantalizing new method for photographing the world around us. I’m sure none of us can wait for this to be available in stores! [...] Continue reading The Invisible Camera 
The latest in a long line of bizarre multicolored Pentax cameras seems to have anti-theft intentions in mind. If your camera looked like this you’d be pretty secure in knowing nobody else would want to touch it. Sadly I’m not colorblind enough to be spared from experiencing the horror that is Pentax special edition design. Check out the source on Pentax’s Japanese site or get a bit more info about it on CrunchGear. [...] Continue reading Another crazy Pentax? What the heck are they doing? RED’s Jim Jannard has admitted to mistakes with the Scarlet system, and has now declared a change in focus. Instead of aiming at the prosumer, in a world where video shooting DSLRs or EVILs have taken over, the Scarlet will now have a more professional user in mind. [...] Continue reading RED’s Scarlet seems to have lost its way It might not be official Lego (it’s actually a Japanese Lego clone called Nanoblocks) but this Pentax with its Lego-like front is probably my favorite special edition camera yet. Imagine the crazy designs you could come up with for your own or the contraptions you could build the camera in to (or hide it in). [...] Continue reading Lego camera! You would probably have to be the ruler of Dubai to be able to afford one of these but it’s impressive either way. That tiny little spec to the right of the gigantic sensor is the embarrassingly small ‘full frame’ sensor found in a camera like the 5D Mark II, Nikon D3 or Sony A900. Canon makes no mention of the resolution of this beastly sensor but it certainly doesn’t sound like it’s that high considering the improvements in sensitivity. [...] Continue reading Canon demonstrates the largest CMOS sensor ever If you thought the resolution jumps were over you might want to brace yourself because Canon clearly doesn’t agree with that train of thought. Their latest and greatest exhibition of pixel packing shoves 120mp in to a sensor. You might be thinking that with such resolution it must be a “full frame” sensor, but no, it’s APS-H sized. If it were full frame you’d be talking over 200 megapixels. For comparison Canon’s current best full frame sensor rocks 21.1 megapixels and their 1D mark IV runs an 18mp APS-H sensor. [...] Continue reading Canon says “the more the merrier” and trots out 120mp sensor Pellicle mirrors are back, but this time it’s not just to allow higher FPS in continuous shooting [drive] mode. Sony has brought back semi-transparent mirrors to take a portion of the light and direct it towards phase detection AF sensors for use while shooting video. Compared to contrast detection based AF using the image sensor, phase detection is faster and more accurate. This should definitely help address many of the AF concerns found in DSLRs (which use contrast detection AF) when shooting in video mode. Sony’s three new cameras sporting this design are the A33, A55 and A55v (has GPS built in). [...] Continue reading Sony brings pellicle mirrors back with the SLT-A33 and SLT-A55 
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