Digital Camera News, Reviews and Tips
As firefighters went into a burning home in Fresno, California, one of them found a lifeless kitten on the floor of a room in a house. He then took the kitten outside and administered a tank of oxygen to it and poured water on it in an attempt to revive it.
That firefighter, Cory Kalanick, was wearing a helmet cam and caught the act on film. He edited the 15-minute ordeal down to about a minute by creating a faux movie trailer about saving Lucky the kitten’s life. [Read more…]
Perfectly Clear version 2.0 is now available for Android. Perfectly Clear’s patented auto-correct technology is used throughout the photo industry from iPhone apps to commercial kiosk photo printers.
The new Android app includes the popular Beautify preset for photos of people, along with several capture modes, such as HDR, Panorama, Burst and Portrait modes.
Perfectly Clear 2.0 for Android is available in the Google Play Store for $2.99.
Apparently, the backlash from Adobe’s recent Creative Cloud subscription announcement has lit a fire underneath Corel and its development team.
Corel has started pushing harder into the photography market (they need to keep pushing and push harder) with advertising and brand awareness, and now we are starting to see some actual product moves happening (note to Corel: you need to keep this up and do more if you want to earn the trust for photographers to rely on you for their workflow needs).
In the past few days, Corel released an update to AfterShot Pro (version 1.2.0.7), which is an alternative to Adobe Lightroom (see my initial impressions of AfterShot Pro when it was released last year). The update provides raw file support for the following cameras: [Read more…]
Earlier today at the first round of the British Open, PGA pro Thomas Bjorn hit a ball out of the rough on the first hole and struck the camera that was capturing his swing.
Commentator Mike Tirico said the camera costs around $80,000. And while it appears to only be the lens that was damaged, those HD ENG zoom lenses generally cost a pretty penny themselves. [Read more…]
Peak Design has launched a new Kickstarter campaign (after two hugely successful prior campaigns) for the second generation of its Capture camera clip for DSLRs. The new design incorporates customer feedback on the first-gen version to add tripod use, sling strap compatibility and GoPro mount. [Read more…]
Panasonic has unleashed an new superzoom point-and-shoot camera, the Lumix FZ70, with a massive 60x zoom reach that is equivalent to a 20-1200mm lens on a 35mm camera. [Read more…]
B&H has the Nikon D600 refurbished for only $1584 (compare to $1996.95 new). Check it out here at B&H Photo.
Canon Germany has posted a teaser video that bears a message at the end “ihr publikum wartet auf sie” which translates to “Your audience is waiting for you,” along with the date July 31, 2013. [Read more…]
Of course, Sony is going to keep generating new iterations across its popular NEX line. The latest word on the mid-level range is that Sony will replace the NEX-5R with the NEX-5T. [Read more…]
Don’t have $12,000 laying around to buy the new Canon EF 200-400mm f/4 IS USM Extender 1.4x lens? You can still rent it for as little as 3 days and up to 4 weeks. Rental rates start at $420. Check it out here at BorrowLenses.com.