Britain to Prosecute Japan’s Olympus for Fraud
TOKYO British authorities plan to prosecute Olympus, the Japanese manufacturer that was embroiled in a $1.7 billion accounting fraud two years ago, reviving a scandal after a Japanese court imposed modest fines and suspended sentences on several executives. Kyodo News, via Associated Press Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, former president of Olympus, and two…
Building a Large-Format Photo Scanner Using Arduino & a DSLR
Many photographers will tell you that the image resolution of even the latest digital cameras simply don’t compare to film. This is especially true when you’re talking about film in formats larger than 35mm. One problem that has arisen, though, is how to properly archive or convert to a digital…
Samsung Galaxy NX review (preview)
Samsung Galaxy NX at a glance:20.3-million-pixel, APS-C-sized CMOS sensor4.77in, 1280×720-pixel HD LCDAndroid 4.2 Jelly Bean operating system800x600 electronic viewfinderISO 100-25,6003G connectivityStreet price around 1,200 body onlySamsung Galaxy NX introduction There is a whole generation of photographers who have found a passion for photography through the use of…
Smartphone Cameras Have Killed The Point-and-Shoot, But Not The dSLR
Everything in the technology space seems to be revolving around the camera built into the hardware device. If there’s a social component to it, then it needs to have a camera. Take today’s Samsung Galaxy Gear news where the electronics manufacturer unveiled a smartwatch with a 1.9 megapixel camera on There’s…
Pentax K-50 review
Pentax K-50 at a glance:16.28-million-pixel, APS-C-sized sensor81 weather seals100% optical viewfinder3in, 921,000-dot LCD screenISO 100-51,200Street price around 529 body onlyPentax K-50 introduction There was a time when Pentax SLRs were proudly worn round their owners’ necks. Now-legendary models, such as the Pentax K1000, Spotmatic and ME Super, were…
‘Average’ Web App Creates a Composite Image from a Flickr Set or Tag
We’ve run across some neat web apps in the past be it the Face to GIF app that lets you create animated GIFs with ease using your computer’s webcam, or something a bit more practical like UT’s enlarging and denoising app. The ‘Average’ web app definitely falls on the less-practical…
Canon Unveils the PowerShot SX500 and SX160: Zippy Zoom and Fast Focusing
Canon has added two new beefy compact cameras to its SX ("superzoom") line: the PowerShot SX500 IS and the PowerShot SX160 IS. The main features of these two cameras is snappy autofocus speed and powerful optical zoom. Both cameras feature a 1/2.3-inch CCD 16 megapixel sensor, an ISO range of The…
Can the Lumia 1020 take on a compact system camera?
The Nokia Lumia 1020 may have changed the mobile photography landscape, but is it going to cause any disruption in the compact system camera class, too? If you aren’t already familiar with the Lumia 1020’s camera, it’s basically a point-and-shoot or compact camera stuffed into a smartphone body. Sort of. After…
Alumni corner: Skyline grad Marshall on brink of another title
Former Skyline and CU star Nikki Marshall (right) will face former Buffs teammate Amy Barczuk in the National Women’s Soccer League final on Saturday. (Picasa) There will be plenty of familiar faces on the other side for Nikki Marshall on Saturday evening. But what the former Skyline and University of…
The new Kodak
In a June 2010 interview with this newspaper, Chairman and CEO Antonio Perez observed that Eastman Kodak Co. was "a very successful company for 100 years that stayed too long in the old path." As Kodak’s leader, Mr. Perez saw his task as finding a way to recover from that A year…
