Lomography’s Kickstarter-Backed Petzval DSLR Lens Is A Portrait Hero
Some companies have taken to using Kickstarter as almost a default step in their product pipeline, and New York’s Lomography is one of them. The photography focused company has successfully Kickstarted its film scanner for iPhone, and now it’s looking to fund a throwback portrait lens for DSLRs based on…
Yahoo Pairs Weather With Flickr Photos in Gorgeous New Weather App
Yahoo! just released a new weather app that takes advantage of beautiful photos provided by the company’s Flickr community to pair in depth weather information with gorgeous photos of your city experiencing similar weather. The idea is that users don’t just want to know the weather (numerically speaking), they want…
Flickr photo of the day: Hungry hippos
So one hippopotamus swims up to another hippopotamus and whispers in his ear: "Have you heard the one about what humans call the fear of long words? Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia!" The word hippopotamus comes from the ancient Greek word for "river horse," and some ancient Egyptian gods were represented as hippopotami. For…
More Pentax Q10 Photos and Specs: Tiny and Colorful with Interchangeable …
New details about Pentax’s upcoming Q10 interchangeable lens camera have emerged. The tiny camera which likely has a tiny sensor is the followup to the Pentax Q, the world’s smallest interchangeable lens compact. It’ll be available in a number of colors, and will feature a 12.4 megapixel CMOS sensor, an…
Why is Flickr down?
Flickr, the Yahoo-owned photo site, will be down for six hours Thursday evening for maintenance. The outage, which the company announced Wednesday in a blog post, is expected to last from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. ET. "During this time, Flickr will be unavailable on web and mobile, and the…
Nikon Coolpix S6400
Nikon recently launched 17 new cameras into the Indian market, a selection that aimed at pleasing pretty much every kind of consumer out there. Amongst the many cameras launched, there was the Coolpix S6400, over-shadowed by its celebrity-endorsed brother, the S6500. We’ve had the camera for some time now, and Build…
Where should the Photoshop police stop?
Video will begin in 5 seconds. Retouching a no no in news The Photoshop treatment of news images differs to that of other visual content, explains Sydney Morning Herald photographer Nick Moir. The ladies of the Liberal Party in Victoria want their MPs to ban the Andie "MacDowelled" advertisements on television….
Here Are Your Strange Anthony Weiner Photoshop Contest Things …
Hey, Wonkers, we know we said we’d be giving somebody second place in our Anthony Weiner Photoshop Extravaganza (first place went to shirtlesselfiedarth already, for the image we used to announce the contest), but at the very moment we were judging the entries, the Sekrit Chatcave was overwhelmed by an…
Shirtless Alec Baldwin Photoshop Winners
After Alec Baldwin was photographed jumping shirtless off of a boat, we felt that it was absolutely necessary to see his gorgeous Baldwin body photoshopped into a variety of different scenerios. So we solicited the help of all of you to get the job done. Below are our favorite images,…
Canon cuts profit outlook as China slowdown hits cameras
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Canon Inc cut its profit forecast for the year to December and trimmed its sales targets for both high-end and compact digital cameras as a slowdown in China and other emerging economies caught the company off-guard. Canon, the world’s largest maker of digital cameras, kicked off…
