How to Choose the Right Lens for your DLSR
Here’s an awesome, direct to the point tutorial about Digital SLR lenses. If you’re having trouble choosing which type of lens to buy, watch this video. It will give you enough/basic information about the different types of lenses and how they affect your photos.
Tags: Aperture, Camera, DLSR, Focus Ring, Lenses, Photography, Zoom Lens
Lytro: A Camera that lets you Shoot First and Focus Later
Lytro aims to revolutionize the entire photography industry by making the first camera to ever capture the entire light field of a photo.
The light field is a core concept in imaging science, representing fundamentally more powerful data than in regular photographs. The light field fully defines how a scene appears. It is the amount of light traveling in every direction through every point in space – it’s all the light rays in a scene. Conventional cameras cannot record the light field.
Conventional cameras will require you to focus on a specific point before taking a shot. Then, they capture the all the lighting for that focused area and count it as one source of light. Capturing the entire light field will enable you to do the shooting first and focus after. This way, you won’t miss a shot by fighting with dials and settings and modes. Simply shoot and not worry about if the photo is out of focus.
The way we communicate visually is evolving rapidly, and people’s expectations are changing in lockstep. Light field cameras offer astonishing capabilities. They allow both the picture taker and the viewer to focus pictures after they’re snapped, shift their perspective of the scene, and even switch seamlessly between 2D and 3D views. With these amazing capabilities, pictures become immersive, interactive visual stories that were never before possible – they become living pictures.
Another feature worth mentioning is that the camera is said to take photos from sleep to snap in under a second. Almost no shutter lag.
See and play with the sample image below. Click the part that you want to focus.
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Tags: Camera, Light Field, photo, Photography
Live Feed of Images from The Best Camera iPhone App
What is the best camera? The Best Camera is the One That’s With You. This is what The Best Camera celebrates, photography with any camera. As of now, they are focused on the iPhone. The website features a live feed of images taken by iPhones using The Best Camera App. Created by world-renowned photographer, Chase Jarvis, TBC is divided into a three part “ecosystem” – an iPhone app, a book and an online community.
The Best Camera Book provides inspiration in shooting with any camera and seeing the world around you. This the world’s first book made entirely with images shot on the iPhone.
The iPhone App allows you to shoot, edit and share your images.
The online community streams live feeds of iPhone images from around the world.
This is a great app and tool to express yourself through photos taken from your iPhone. It would be great if The Best Camera will support other camera and camera phones as well. Since it stands for celebrating photography taken with any camera and not everyone owns an iPhone, it should probably feature photos taken by different cameras.
Tags: Camera, Camera Phone, iphone, iPhone App, The Best Camera
Cameroid: Photo Snaps With Effects Using Your Webcam
Cameroid is a service that allows you to take headshots using your webcam straight from your browser. There’s no need to download or install a webcam software that allows you to take stills and add effects to your snapshots. Simply head over to the site to take a photo and quick share them online.
The web app allows you take snapshots using several effects. You can take a photo of you with the filter, distort, framed or with scenario. Of course, there’s the regular clear snapshot with no effect.
To use the service, it’s self explanatory that you’ll need a webcam. Go to the “Snap” tab and grant the application access to your webcam. Choose which effect you’d like to use and click the “Take Photo Button.” You can either save your image to a Cameroid gallery, download the JPG version or use the URL link to share your image.
Creating a gallery in Cameroid can be accomplished easily. Simply take your first snapshot and click the save to gallery button. You will be prompted to enter your email address which pretty much covers the registration process. Everytime you save a photo on your gallery, you’ll receive an email from Cameroid containing the URL link to your snapshot so that you can immediately forward them to your contacts. To view previously saved images, just enter your email (no password needed) and browse the photos saved on your cameroid gallery.
Tags: Camera, Cameroid, Photo Eff, Photo Effects, Snap, Snap Shots, webcam
