A pair recent Sony patent applications reveal what is clearly an Alpha-system DSLR with a touchscreen display that is functional with both the standard grip and a vertical accessory grip. (See US Patent Appl. Nos. 2010/0134676 and 2010/0134433.) According to the patent application, the challenge with integrating a touchscreen on a DSLR is keeping your nose from activating it when looking through the viewfinder, while at the same time allowing you to access features mapped to the touchscreen controls. [click to continue…]
We’ve got menus, buttons and touch screens to help use operate our cameras. However, imagine telling your subjects to “say cheese” and the camera listens to your command as well, waits for people to smile and handles the shutter button for you. The latter portion of those operations is are already available on today’s cameras with features like SmileShot and ShutterSmile, which wait for smiles before releasing the shutter. And, if one of Canon’s latest patents comes to life, we could have the voice recognition features on our cameras in the near future. [click to continue…]
Canon coffee mugs had been dominating the stuff-you-want-but-don’t-need category for quite a while. That is, until Nikon shooters got their very own coffee mugs in the AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8 and 70-200mm f/2.8 sizes. [click to continue…]
Leave Me is a short film that centers around a broken Canon DSLR and the images within. While the human element makes the film, it’s a very cool use of a camera to tie it all together.
The film was shot with a Panasonic HVX200 with a Brevis35 lens adapter and Nikon primes.
Extra credit if you can identify the camera in the film.
Mamiya has announced the RZ33 medium format camera, which packs in a 33MP CCD sensor. The RZ33 has a sensitivity range of ISO 50-800 and captures files to a .mos 16-bit RAW file format.
The Mamiya RZ33 should start shipping in July for $17,990. Check availability on B&H Photo.
