“Here’s a sampling of user interfaces across compact cameras from every major digital camera maker: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Panasonic, Casio, Olympus and Fujifilm. User interfaces matter in these cameras more than ever because they’re increasingly the major way you drill down to change settings or switch modes—rather than manually cranking a dial, like on a [...]
Leaked photos of an upcoming Samsung camera show memory and battery gauges. Reminds me how wonderful analogue controls and displays are.
Link: New Samsung TL320 (WB100) has OLED display and analog gauges (1001noisycameras.com)
Taking the form of a DIY tutorial, the Canon web site shows how they prototype the forms of their cameras.
Link: Balsa Wood Mock-up Modeling Tutorial (canon.com)
The original instant gratification photography will soon be no more. Follow the link for some great Polariod TV ads of past.
“I greeted today’s news with an instinctive combination of shock, grief, and indignant fury: Polaroid has announced it’s ceasing production of its instant film, which will become unavailable after 2009. What will I do when [...]
Kelly Goto describes how to build a cheap and cheerful mobile phone testing camera rig.
Link: DIY gotomobile’s mobile cam (gotomobile.com)
“Emosive is a service for mobile devices which allows capturing, storing and sharing of fleeting emotional experiences. Based on the Cognitive Priming theory, as we become more immersed in digital media through our mobile devices, our personal media inventories constantly act as memory aids, “priming” us to better recollect associative, personal (episodic) memories when facing [...]
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“In her bedroom in Lubbock, Tex., Ms. Adams, 21, tried out a variety of poses — coy, friendly, sultry, goofy — in the kind of performance young people have engaged in privately for generations before a mirror. But Ms. Adams’s mirror was a Web cam, and her journey of self-expression, documented in five digital self-portraits, [...]
Published by Gabriel White.