Follow, research and publish the best content
Get Started for FREE
Sign up with Facebook Sign up with X
I don't have a Facebook or a X account
Already have an account: Login
pixels and pictures
18.7K views |
+0 today
Exploring the digital imaging chain from sensors to brains
Curated by
Philippe J DEWOST
 Your new post is loading...
Your new post is loading...
Scoop.it!
Eight centuries and a half after the beginning of Notre-Dame’s erection, a scientific symposium will be held from December 12th 2012 to December 15th 2012 at the Collège des Bernardins. The lectures will be given by around 30 researchers with different specializations: religious, social, liturgical, artistic, literary and institutional. The cardinal archbishop of Paris, André Vingt-Trois will open this conference at 2:00PM on Wednesday December 12th 2012 before presiding the opening of the 850th anniversary of Notre-Dame de Paris.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Picture shot from the Pantheon 22 years ago - Canon EOS10 
Scoop.it!
Gear reviewer Sohail Mamdani over at BorrowLenses was testing the Canon 6D and Nikon D600 last week by shooting nighttime photos of San Francisco Bay, when he discovered something strange: the DSLRs exposed the scene differently even when all the...
Scoop.it!
Here’s an update on photographer Dennis Manarchy‘s Vanishing Cultures project, which we featured at the beginning of the year.
Scoop.it!
To me, photographic gear is like gourmet food. I see cameras as the entrées, lenses and other equipment are the side dishes and wines. While compact cameras are the sweet desserts. Sometimes, the d... Via kris phan, Gary Pageau
Scoop.it!
Jean Bornens participe régulièrement au salon des Artistes de l’Ile de France à Versailles, à l’exposition des Peintres des Portes en Ré (l’été) et organise des expositions individuelles ou collectives.
Scoop.it!
Vapp lets you keep your hands steady by triggering the camera with sound.
Scoop.it!
Visual analysis company Viewdle may be the latest acquisition of Google; the search leader is reportedly paying about $45 million for the Ukraine-based imaging firm.
Scoop.it!
After more than a year, and 25.000 +views, YouTube has decided to block the Minority Report UI innovation analysis video I use in my presentations and conferences, although there are 9.000 + others that deal with Minority Report, some of them copying more than 10 minutes of the original movie.
While I resolve this you may find it on Vimeo as well as on http://blog.dewost.com/user-interface-innovation-often-originates-fr
Scoop.it!
But the bid is lower than the > $2 billion Kodak desires ...
Scoop.it!
Pentax will announce their new DA 560mm f/5.6 lens at Photokina. The design will be slightly different from the prototype we have seen few months ago. Via ANPSA, Gary Pageau
Scoop.it!
The Leica APO-Telyt-R 1:5.6/1600mm, pictured above, is a massive telephoto lens that dwarfs any Leica camera that you attach to it. It’s the company’s longest, largest, and heaviest lens.
It was produced as a custom order by one of the world’s wealthiest photography-enthusiasts, Qatari prince Saud bin Muhammed Al Thani, who paid a whopping $2,064,500 for the hefty piece of glass.
|
Scoop.it!
As you know, Lytro’s new-fangled camera takes shots with depth: you can alter the point of focus, and subtly shift the point of view.
Unless you have the camera however, you can’t have a “light field” shot of your own… until now. For a few days, selected shots — even old treasured images — will be “Lytro-ized.”
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Still not sure of how a mass market pick up would happen though...
Scoop.it!
Where the other Canon cameras tend to come apart in modules (you can take off the back, or take off the front, etc.) the 6D was a bit more interconnected. To get the back off required removing the sides and a bit of the bottom for example. A bit of a pain for the exploring types, but I would imagine it also gives more structural support.
The body is basically plastic, but like most modern plastics it’s thick and solid. Never a thought that a screw was going to strip out during disassembly. Anyway, after a bit the back was off, and looks, from the inside, pretty similar to all the other Canon backs.
Scoop.it!
Murmurings of an upcoming Canon 7D Mark II, which we first wrote about back in October, are starting to heat up. It was suggested that the camera, which may mark the merger of the 60D’s and 7D’s lines, was to offer a high continuous shooting rate.
Scoop.it!
Nokia imaging guru Damian Dinning, who is considered the driving force behind the firm’s smartphone camera technology, has left the Finland-based company.
Dinning was the guy behind the incredible camera on Nokia's newest flagship phone, the Lumia 920. It's one of the best camera's ever used in a smartphone.
Scoop.it!
Containing more than 84 million stars, this nine-gigapixel shot of the Milky Way’s central bulge will help astronomers unravel the complex history of star formation in our home galaxy.
The image was taken by the European Southern Observatory’s VISTA infrared survey telescope, and combined thousands of separate pictures to create this monumental work. The photo contains 10 times more stars than previous studies and will allow scientists to perform important statistical analyses of the color, temperature, mass, and ages of the different stars in the Milky Way.
Scoop.it!
Over the past few days, iPhone 5 users have been reporting a "purple haze" prevalent in photos.
The issue is officially described as, "a purplish or other colored flare, haze, or spot is imaged from out-of-scene bright light sources during still image or video capture." Apple does not officially acknowledge that the issue is specific to the iPhone 5, instead it suggests that users reposition their camera when taking a photo.
Scoop.it!
Lexar Media says its industry-first 256GB SDXC UHS-I memory card provides the largest capacity for capturing, storing, and transferring high-quality images, as well as extended lengths of 1080p HD and 3D video content.
Scoop.it!
French tourist Nathalie Rollandin came across a camera-happy seagull recently. She was visiting the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, when she set her GoPro camera down while its was recording. Before she knew it, the camera was being carried away in the mouth of an artsy gull. Once the bird was a safe distance away, it set the camera down and recorded some beautiful footage of itself flying away into the sunset.
Scoop.it!
Samsung Electronics says it is “creating a brand new type of device” with its Galaxy Camera, “for those who wish to shoot, edit and share high quality photographs and video easily and spontaneously from anywhere, at any time.”
Scoop.it!
A new programming language for image-processing algorithms yields code that runs much faster, reports the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — and this could lead to much better in-camera performance in dedicated devices and smart phones.
Scoop.it!
We were still wearing our winter jackets when Sigma announced its 19mm F2.8 toutin' (28mm equivalent) DP1 Merrill compact was getting a (pseudo) 46-megapixel sensor overhaul. Now, we finally get word on when we can take the refreshed snapper for a spin: mid-September. If you're interested in an autumnal upgrade, we hope you've been saving, as you'll need to drop a sturdy $999 for the privilege. Which is fine, just as long as you weren't putting off the vacation until this arrived.
Scoop.it!
If the buzz in Silicon Valley is to be believed, the decade-old compendium of common knowledge Wikipedia could very well be replaced in the near future by a startup run by ex-Facebookers. Instead people will be visitingQuora, a San Francisco-based$400 million startup that's basically an extremely flexible and powerful question-and-answer site, because Quoradelivers new and relevant content in addition to having a giant database of information. Here is why:
|
Apple applies for US2012/041398 patent titled "Image Sensor Having HDR Capture Capability" by Michael Frank.
"...there exist disadvantages to the process of generating a HDR image from multiple independently captured images. For example, changes may occur when images are captured successively such that a composite HDR image generated therefrom may not be completely aligned. This may generate motion artifacts in the composite HDR image. Further, the images may be affected by local motion in the image scene, e.g., trees swaying in the wind, people and faces shifting slightly, etc. Additionally, the time required for a HDR image to be processed may be delayed based on the images to be captured."