Entries from Manifest Tech Blog tagged with 'Photo'
HD Video DSLRs -- A Different Kind of Camera
Still or motion? Camera or camcorder? Technology is converging -- as even consumer digital cameras shoot HD video, and video camcorders shoot multi-megapixel photos. And the trend has continued into professional Digital SLR cameras, which have evolved to add...
SteadePod - Quick and Easy Steadying for Cameras and Camcorders
Today's cameras are getting smarter, to try to make a good shot no matter how informal we are at shooting with them. But as cameras get smaller and lighter, the biggest issue is simply holding them steady enough to get...
Adobe Photoshop.com Mobile Now on Android
Adobe has really extended its Photoshop brand, from desktop to online, and now to mobile. There's the legendary Photoshop CS4 for advanced professional photo editing, now with an Extended edition expanding into 3D and motion. And there's the more accessible...
Nikon D90 Digital SLR as an HD Video Camcorder
There never have been so many options for shooting images, stills or in motion -- with digital cameras that shoot video, camcorders that shoot photos, and ubiquitous camera phones that shoot both. Yes, today's consumer digital cameras can capture video...
Lensbaby "Selective Focus" Lenses
Another updated product at PhotoPlus is the Lensbaby line of special-effect lenses, now with swappable optics. The Lensbaby idea is a wonderful hack, in the positive sense of the word. It lets you achieve "selective focus" by mounting the lens...
Joby Gorillapod Flexible Tripods and New Gorillatorch
The Joby Gorillapod line of flexible tripods was refreshed earlier this year, tweaking the original set of four models The Gorillapod Original is for holding compact digital cameras (up to 11 oz., $21), the Gorillapod SLR is for lightweight...
Get Hands-On at PhotoPlus Expo in New York
PhotoPlus Expo is back in New York for its 25th year at the Javits Convention Center, with three days of seminars and exhibits. It runs from Thursday, October 22, through Saturday, October 24. This is the biggest photography trade show...
Samsung DualView Digital Cameras with Front LCD
Samsung is very serious about consumer electronics. It's no accident that you've been seeing more Samsung products in the stores, from mobile phones, to HDTV and home theatre, to cameras and camcorders, to computers and peripherals. At a press event...
Eye-Fi Adds Ad Hoc Networking, Uploads of RAW Photos
Someday we will be able to get rid of our collections of data cables and card readers -- when all our devices are wireless. But until then, the Eye-Fi SD cards are a step in that direction by adding Wi-Fi...
Sharing Photos on Portable Devices
Got pics in your pocket? You don't need to carry snapshots in your wallet anymore, much less a photo album in your bag -- That's so last decade! Today's portable electronic devices can make great photo viewers, some with...
Eye-Fi Takes Photo Sharing to Video Sharing
The good news with digital cameras is that it's so easy to shoot lots of photos. The hard part is then accessing and sharing them -- hooking up the equipment and software to transfer your images to a computer, and...
David Pogue's Digital Photography: The Missing Manual
David Pogue has done it again, with his modestly named David Pogue's Digital Photography: The Missing Manual, part of the Missing Manual series which up to over 90 titles. This book is chockablock with good, clear, sensible advice, highlighting...
Eye-Fi SD Card Uploads Videos from Digital Cameras
As promised at CES (see previous post), the Eye-Fi Wi-Fi SD Memory card now can upload video clips as well as photos wirelessly from your digital camera to to your computer, or to a photo sharing site like Fickr...
Instant Photography: Polaroid Pogo and Dell Wasabi Printers
Instant photography is back! The magic of the old Polaroid instant cameras was the satisfaction of having that physical, tangible photo to show around and save. Showing your digital photos on the screen of your mobile phone is just not...
Sony DSC-G3 Wi-Fi Digital Camera
Someday all our devices will be linked wirelessly, so our growing collections of data and media can be automatically synced with whatever device we happen to be using. Until then, we're stuck with manually cabling devices together and then selecting...
Camcorder Trends: Panasonic 2009 Camcorders with 70X Zoom and 9 MP Res
Once of the most visible trends in this season's new camcorders coming out of the CES conference is the rapid adoption of the smarts from digital photo cameras into video camcorders. The new photo cameras try to be more fail-safe...
Panasonic LUMIX DMC-TS1 Rugged Digital Camera
You can battle the elements, and take pictures of them at the same time, with the newly-announced Panasonic LUMIX DMC-TS1 Digital Camera -- a rugged camera that shoots 12.1 megapixel high-res stills and 1280 x 720 high-def video. With...
Eye-Fi To Upload Videos from Digital Cameras
The Eye-Fi Wi-Fi SD Memory card is a standard SD memory card, with some extra magic: built-in Wi-Fi networking ($129, see previous post). Insert the Wi-Fi card in a digital camera, and when you take pictures at home it...
Eye-Fi Wi-Fi SD Card: Not Just for Digital Cameras
I had fun trying out the Eye-Fi Explore Wi-Fi SD Memory card the past week ($129, see previous post). While the Eye-Fi card is currently designed to be used with digital cameras to upload photo files (i.e., JPGs), it's...
Nextar Christmas Ornament Digital Photo Frame
Digital photo frames were a big hit for last year's holiday season. For this season, the Consumer Electronics Association again lists them in the top 10 CE accessories that consumers expect to purchase as gifts. You can get big photo...
Eye-Fi Wireless SD Card - Now 4 GB
Someday all our devices will be wireless, and our files and media will just be there whenever we want them. Even today we can see the beginnings of connectivity for sharing photos, with camera phones that automatically upload photos to...
Chatham Rainbow
Rainbow on Chatham Lighthouse beach while visiting Cape Cod...
Joby Gorillapod Flexible Tripods
The Joby Gorillapod line of flexible tripods is both fun and practical for getting your camera on a firm foundation for a great shot. Bend the legs as crazily as you need in order to get a solid set-up,...
PhotoPlus in New York
The PDN PhotoPlus Expo is in New York this week, Thursday through Saturday, October 23 - 25, at the Javits Center. In its 25th year, PhotoPlus includes 11 seminar tracks on topics including business, digital tools, photo markets, promotion,...
Rick Sammon's Face to Face: Photographing People
"Anyone can take pictures, but not everyone can make pictures," writes Rick Sammon, travel and adventure photographer and author of some 27 books. And in Face to Face: Rick Sammon's Complete Guide to Photographing People (O'Reilly, May 2008), he...
The Digital Photography Companion by Derrick Story
Prolific author Derrick Story will be in New York next week for PhotoPlus Expo -- teaching seminars and at the O'Reilly booth. Check out his recent book, The Digital Photography Companion (O'Reilly, March 2008), which crams both photo basics and...
Npower Gadgets for Kids from Memorex and Nickelodian
The Npower consumer electronics line is designed for 5 to 12 year-old kids, and includes digital cameras, digital photo frames, music players, and audio accessories. The line was introduced last September 2007, distributed by Memorex, and featuring familiar Nickelodian personalities...
Polaroid PoGo Instant Mobile Photo Printer
Mobile phones mean instant communication. And camera phones offer instant sharing of photos with multimedia messaging to other phones, to the Web, and to PCs. And now the Polaroid PoGo portable printer offers instant (OK, one-minute) photo printing, wirelessly from...
MyLife-MyArt Photo Paintings
Digital photography means instant access to all your photos -- on your PC and the Web, and carried along on your mobile phone or PDA and/or media player. But sometimes it's nice to have special photos in a tangible, physical...
Digital Foci Keychain Pocket Album
Even in the age of Web video, we still love sharing photos. And digital photo viewers make great gifts, with customized photo shows. But aren't such dedicated devices obsolete in this age of convergence, when you can carry your favorite...
Parrot 7" Photo Viewer
Digital photo viewers were tremendously popular gifts last Christmas season, as consumers were met with a flood of products from a huge variety of companies, some new to this kind of product. Unfortunately, some of these products were rushed to...
Quik Pod DSLR Handheld Convertible Monopod
The Fromm Works Quik Pod is a clever little extension rod for getting your camera up, under, or over to shoot away from your body -- or to turn the camera around to shoot you and a friend on location....
Adobe Updates Terms of Use for Photoshop Express Site
In response to user feedback, Adobe has revised the Terms of Use for the Photoshop Express beta site (www.photoshop.com/express) -- its free Web-based photo editing and sharing application (see previous post). The terms of use for the Adobe sites basically...
Adobe Photoshop Express Beta
Adobe has released a beta of Photoshop Express (www.photoshop.com/express), its free Web-based photo editing and sharing application that brings Photoshop tools to the browser. You can upload your images to store online, edit them in the browser, and then share...
Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac
Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 is now available for the Macintosh. The clean, uncluttered interface offers three edit modes for beginner to expert photographers -- Guided, Quick, and Full edit -- with step-by-step assistance in the new Guided Edit mode....
Adobe Premiere Elements 4 and Photoshop Elements 6
Adobe continues to pull off a difficult trick with its Elements applications: providing an accessible interface for novice editors (at under $100) that still provides access to the underlying power and flexibility of its high-end...
Merax Mini USB Strap
Another fun photo accessory is the Merax Mini USB Strap -- it's a wrist strap with integrated Mini-USB cable, for around $10. The strap is the thin plastic USB cable, which loops to a length of around 5 1/2...
Merax One Shot Photo Studio
Shooting photos of small objects is tricky, for example for posting on auction websites -- Unless you have a photo studio available, you're always challenged to get good lighting, fighting shadows and glare, and struggling to position and stabilize the...
Eye-Fi - Wi-Fi SD Card for Digital Cameras
Tired of all that manual messing around whenever you want to get photos from your digital camera -- Bring the camera back to the computer, dig out the necessary cables and docking connectors, fire up the photo software to upload...
Digital Holiday Trends 2007: High-Def Home
Hot gift ideas this year start with portable devices in the first part of our coverage -- media players, mobile phones, and portable navigation systems. But this is also the season of high definition -- digital cameras sport multi-megapixels, flat-panel...
Adobe Photoshop Elements 6
Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 was released in September 2007, with new emphasis on a cleaner interface for quick and fun editing, including a shared Organizer with Premiere Elements 4, new Guided Editing assistance, new and enhanced tools for quick...
Eye-Fi - Wi-Fi SD Memory Card
In these days of wireless communications, why are we still physically connecting digital cameras to access our photos? Tired of finding and connecting the proper USB cable, or chasing down a compatible memory card reader? Your problems are solved, with...
Trek-Tech TrekPod Adjustable Hiking Staff / Tripod
I've found monopods tremendously useful for informal shoots -- They're much easier to collapse and carry than a full tripod, and I can just sit in the audience at an event and shoot quietly with my camcorder on a stick....
Joby Gorillapod Super-Flexible Camera Tripods
Want better, clearer photos without handheld shake -- but don't want to lug around a clumsy tripod? Even a mini-pod won't work well in the field, with rough ground and irregular environments. Instead, try the Joby Gorillapod, with flexible bendable...
Reaching for the Shot: Quik Pod from Fromm Works
If you've ever found yourself stretching too far for a great shot over a crowd, or getting dirty trying to shoot a hard-to-reach area, then the Quik Pod from Fromm Works can offer you relief, and for under $30....
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T100 Digital Camera
After seeing the latest generation of digital cameras with cool features like image stabilization and face detection, I finally pulled the trigger and bought myself a new camera, the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T100, generally available under $399. You may have other...
Digital Camera Trends: Face Recognition
The next generation of digital cameras is coming out, following announcements timed to the PMA (Photo Marketing Association) conference held last month in Las Vegas. The good news for consumers is the end of the artificial megapixel wars. Instead, the...
Fulcrum Gallery: Google Ads
How does an online art gallery and store like FulcrumGallery.com market their products? In this Internet age, most prospective customers look for art prints through searches on Google. As a result, the company is building its own custom search marketing...
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