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Adventures in stillmotion with Andrew Kornylak

May 17, 2010 by News

Andrew Kornylak is doing some amazing things in the great outdoors, putting still photos together in sequence to make multimedia in a style he calls “stillmotion”.

In this Digital Photo Pro article, Kornylak explains the idea. It’s photography meets stop motion animation, meets pop video meets slideshow.

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Thom Hogan on modular, programmable cameras of the future

May 14, 2010 by Gear, News

In a recent essay, writer, photographer and Nikon hardware expert Thom Hogan wrote about the current state of camera design.

Since it was first published the essay has generated a lot of feedback and comment, which Thom has used to update the original article. If you’ve not read it yet, it’s well worth 30 minutes of your time.

Hogan’s premise is that cameras are fast becoming computers, at least as far as their internal components are concerned. Yet the external design is still tied to the design choices made in the days of film cameras, and to an extent the days when digital cameras were young and were not yet very computerized.

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Superb multimedia essay by Paolo Pellegrin: Iranian Memoir

April 27, 2010 by News

I love Paolo Pellegrin’s slideshow Iranian Memoir, which you can see over at Magnum Photos.

The story is simple, but compellingly told. Pellegrin’s powerful images of modern Iran and Iranians are shown alongside audio interviews with Iranian-Americans whose parents fled the country during the 1979 revolution.

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Celebrating Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day

April 25, 2010 by News

Today is Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day. Time to celebrate with some really really small apertures.

If you want to quickly throw together a pinhole camera from a beer can and some gaffer tape, look no further than these instructions.

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Barbara Davidson’s “Frozen Land, Forgotten People”

April 25, 2010 by News

Even if you only have five spare minutes today, I urge you to spend them watching Barbara Davidson’s heart-wringing audio slideshow Frozen Land, Forgotten People.

It’s the story of the residents of huge chunk of Arizona which was declared a “no development zone” by Bureau of Indian Affairs Commissioner Robert L Bennett back in 1966. The ban made it illegal for the residents to do anything to improve their living conditions – and stayed in place for 40 years.

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Awesome geekery, a camera that sees wifi signals – could be a visual aid for hackers and other packet sniffers

April 23, 2010 by News

The Panoramic Wifi Camera photographs that which even the most expensive optical lens will never see – electromagnetic waves.

Such waves behave in a similar way to light. They bounce off things. Some materials are electromagnetically opaque and cast shadows, others are transparent.

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