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Invented in the late 1800s, kinegrams were a simple form of animation that predated the first animated movies. A team from MIT has now given the technology a digital makeover, in the form of the one-off KineCAM.Continue ReadingCategory: Photography, Te… Continue reading Experimental KineCAM produces paper photos that can be made to move
Surely no one could have predicted this:
The new proposal—championed by Mayor London Breed after November’s wild weekend of orchestrated burglaries and theft in the San Francisco Bay Area—would authorize the police department to use non-city-owned security cameras and camera networks to live monitor “significant events with public safety concerns” and ongoing felony or misdemeanor violations.
Currently, the police can only request historical footage from private cameras related to specific times and locations, rather than blanket monitoring. Mayor Breed also complained the police can only use real-time feeds in emergencies involving “imminent danger of death or serious physical injury.”…
Continue reading San Francisco Police Want Real-Time Access to Private Surveillance Cameras
Soccer’s international governing body, FIFA, has developed semi-automated offside technology that uses AI, stadium cameras and a connected match ball to assist on-field referees with offside calls at 2022 World Cup matches in Qatar.Continue ReadingCate… Continue reading Semi-automated offside technology to track players at 2022 soccer World Cup
Nikon has launched its third DX format – or APS-C – mirrorless camera, following the Z 50 from 2019 and last year’s Z fc. The new model shares much with both of its ancestors, and is being aimed directly at vloggers, streamers and other content creator… Continue reading Nikon puts vloggers in focus with Z 30 mirrorless camera
Samsung wants the world to witness the power of its fully armed, operational and wildly unnecessary 200-megapixel Isocell HP1 smartphone camera sensor. So it’s taken a picture of a cat, and printed it at 1.5 times the size of a basketball court.Continu… Continue reading Samsung finds use for 200-megapixel phone camera, prints giant cat pic
It’s been a few years since Fujifilm took the refresh brush to its X Series flagship, but that’s now changed with the launch of the X-H2S APS-C mirrorless camera – which boasts a brand new image sensor, improved autofocus, 40 fps continuous shooting an… Continue reading Fujifilm launches 40-fps stills, 6.2K video X Series mirrorless camera
Canon has added two more cameras to its EOS R series of mirrorless cameras, this time made more compact by employing small imaging sensors. The EOS R7 is being aimed at hobbyists and enthusiasts, while the EOS R10 is pitched at content creators.Continu… Continue reading Canon adds two compact members to its EOS R series mirrorless family
Though many smartphones today can survive a dunk in the drink, taking photos or videos while submerged can be a challenge. A dedicated case might help, but you may still struggle to match the underwater capabilities of a rugged camera like Ricoh’s new … Continue reading Ricoh lights up underwater photography with WG-80 rugged camera
Back in 2020, China’s ZTE tried to wave goodbye to notches and punch-holes with the first under-display selfiecam in the Axon 20 5G smartphone. Now a much-improved third generation of the technology has debuted in a flagship Ultra model.Continue Readin… Continue reading ZTE puts cameras in focus for flagship Axon 40 Ultra launch
In photography, depth of field refers to how much of a three-dimensional space the camera can focus on at once. A shallow depth of field, for example, would keep the subject sharp but blur out much of the foreground and background. Now, researchers at … Continue reading Record-breaking camera keeps everything between 3 cm and 1.7 km in focus