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Exploring the digital imaging chain from sensors to brains
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Philippe J DEWOST
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A new tiny camera captures better-than-HD video. The latest device from Point Grey is an “in an ice-cube sized, low-cost package,” says the British Columbia-base industrial camera maker. 
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After scorching over 18,000 acres and burning down 346 homes, the Waldo Canyon fire near and around Colorado Springs, CO has left scars that are both literal and metaphorical in nature.
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"The camera’s resolution is five times better than 20/20 human vision over a 120 degree horizontal field” and 50 degrees vertical, the university reports. .../... The prototype takes about 18 seconds to shoot a black-and-white frame and record the data.
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ZangZing had been cleverly standing out as a possible "after MobileMe" solution for those who cannot wait for iOS6 "share from Photostream" feature unveiled at WWDC.
Joseph Ansanelli's team had designed a superior user interface, a clever ingestion mechanism including fetching albums from other sites, along with comprehensive privacy settings while sharing albums with others.
The email below is therefore a total surprise for subscribers as well as a strong disappointment, and we don't understand yet what motivated it.
Now that two consumer photosharing services are gone, which of the remaining ones will stand out and take care of the rest of us ?
-- Hi Philippe, Unfortunately, we have some sad news to share. On July 2nd, ZangZing will no longer accept new users to join or new photos to be uploaded. On August 31st, we will be shutting down ZangZing and permanently deleting all photos, contact information, and account information. To download your original photos, please follow these steps: If you have any problems, please refer to this Help article, http://zan.gy/Gzv1Qd. Thank you for sharing our same passion for design, privacy, and group photo sharing. You inspired us. The ZangZing Team ____________________________ ZangZing
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The photo and video mobile app market is not only booming, it is also changing rapidly. A new study from 6Sight finds that of the 475 top-ranking photo and video apps, 46 percent are less than six months old; 20 percent have just been introduced in the last 90 days.
The study, Photo/Video App Market Analysis, describes the trends in downloads, sales, and grossing rankings for free and paid Android, iPhone, and iPad apps. It also analyzes how these various rankings vary for certain segments. The findings include: · Photo and Video apps priced at the minimum store level of $0.99 are more common among top ranking apps introduced in the last 180 days than among older apps · iPad and iPhone Photo and Video apps that offer in-app purchasing options receive lower user ratings than those without · within the rankings of Photo and Video apps downloaded on iPads, apps that are only available on iPads offer less often photo enhancement functions than those that are also available on iPhones
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Nokia will acquire developers, technologies and intellectual property for imaging from Scalado. Nokia plans to make Scalado's headquarters in Lund a key site for Nokia's imaging software for smartphones, in addition to Nokia's existing locations in Espoo and Tampere, Finland.
The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close during the third quarter of 2012.
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The Woven photo viewer lets you see in one app all your photos on various online sharing services such as Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, and Shutterfly .
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“Taking photos is only half the work,” says developer C² Enterprises. “Sorting, organizing, and sharing are every bit as important – but they’re also a chore.” With Photosmith on the iPad, “you can do it as easily in a crowded train as on your couch, or a beach-side hammock.”
What’s more, the app is designed to automatically synchronize with Adobe’s Lightroom software running on a full desktop PC or Mac. “When you get back to your computer, it’s a matter of two taps to synchronize it all back to Lightroom,” C² says.
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An observer in Colorado stands framed by a partial solar eclipse in a picture taken last week and submitted to National Geographic's My Shot. Solar eclipses happen when the moon lines up between Earth and the sun. But in the most recent case, known as an annular eclipse, the dark moon's apparent diameter was smaller than the visible disk of the sun, so that it left a ring—or annulus—of fiery light around the edges. The event was the first annular eclipse seen from the mainland United States since 1994.
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IMHO much more intriguing and better designed than other samples such as these ones
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If you ever create a slideshow of portraits, you might want to avoid showing them aligned side-by-side with a gap in between. This video shows a crazy optical illusion that researchers have dubbe...
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2011 SuperMoon as yesterday was too cloudy for a 2012 update
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Avec la bénéfiction d'Aurélie Filipetti, ministre de la Culture et de la Communication, la société Gaumont et la Caisse des Dépôts annoncent la signature d'un partenariat, portant sur la numérisation en très haute définition dans les quatre prochaines années de 270 films du distributeur, de 1920 à nos jours, parmi lesquels de vraies raretés. Ce sont ainsi des chefs-d’oeuvre de notre patrimoine cinématographique, comme La passion de Jeanne d’Arc de Carl-Theodor Dreyer, L’Atalante, seul long métrage réalisé par Jean Vigo, Toni de Jean Renoir ou encore L’assassin habite au 21 de Henri-Georges Clouzot qui vont pouvoir être conservés et valorisés, mais également des films plus récents, comédies et drames à grand succès des années 1960 aux années 1980.
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The Vyclone mobile video app lets you “create movies that mix your clips with footage taken by other people filming the same events. Instantly. Film an event together, upload your footage to Vyclone and receive a movie with all your combined perspectives,” the company says. “It collects and synchronizes any clips taken at the same time and place. Then it edits them together, cutting between shots to show the scene from every point of view.”
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It's important to note that this chart only shows PCs vs. Macs--full-fledged computers that Apple actually doesn't sell that many of. (Mac sales are growing nicely, in stark contrast to the PC market, but they aren't blowing any doors off).
If the chart included sales of iPhones and iPads, the ratio of PCs sold to Apple products sold would look quite different. And given that the distinction between "a PC" and a tablet or smartphone is becoming ever more blurred, the latter chart would actually be more meaningful.
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Laure Berlan Martineau's "A Love Song" is warmly witty.
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Pecha Kucha is 20 slides by 20 seconds each. Photo Coverage by Rodrigo is 80 pictures covering 12 speakers, shot either with is Canon 5D or his Leica M9
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Beyond the hardware and software announcements, Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote address Monday was a victory lap full of big numbers.
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After FullHD and beyond 2k and 4k, here is (already) Ultra HD
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If All of Earth's Water and total fresh water were put into spheres, from the USGS Water Science School...
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Four seconds is all it takes to get 3.3 million views.
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[Update] - Pascal called in the evening and confirmed he would leave Apple by the end of the year. -- "Apple's vice president of Europe Pascal Cagni has reportedly resigned after twelve years at the company, having originally joined in 2000 as a direct appointment by Steve Jobs."
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The trade-off: greater sensitivity. The company says the rangefinder’s full-frame 18-megapixel monochromatic sensor isn’t burdened with the color filter array and anti-aliasing filter other cameras have atop their sensors, and so is “capable of producing extraordinarily detailed black-and-white photographs with no Bayer interpolation. The sensor does not ‘see’ colors, Leica says, and so every pixel records true luminance values. The lack of a CFA also means that the sensor is significantly more sensitive to light, resulting in an ability to produce unusually clean image files at sensitivity settings up to ISO 10,000.”
The $7950 camera has a one-piece magnesium alloy housing, and the components and shutter assembly “are similarly constructed with a view to a lifetime of endurance. For photographers, this provides absolute reliability over decades of use,” Leica says.
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