Camera gear

Manything cloud based security camera iOS app review

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Manything is an iOS app that will let you to turn your unused iPod touch, iPhone or iPad into a security camera that can be controlled and viewed remotely. You can even view captured video from as old as 30 days. But the most exciting thing about Manything is that it’s free. Well at least for now.

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The Foldio 2 is a bigger, brighter, and better home photography studio

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Read Julie’s Foldio2 review. Last year, we told you about a Kickstarter project for a small, foldable, portable photography studio called Foldio.  People who sell products online or who review gadgets need a clear, well-lighted area to take photos for their postings.  Foldio was designed for the person who needed a home studio, but who

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Picture It On Canvas Gallery Wrapped Canvas custom photo print review

Even though we’ve lived in our new place for just over a year now, we still don’t have enough artwork on the walls.  I’m trying to find some Mid-century prints and metal art for the walls, but I still like to leave room for pictures of loved ones.  When Picture It On Canvas offered The

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The 3-in-1 Smart Box is a pocket sized speaker, shutter button and loss preventer

The 3-in-1 Smart Box is a keychain attachable gadget that offers three different features in one tiny package. Just pair the 3-in-1 Smart Box with your Android device and install the free app to toggle the features on and off. Are you a forgetful person when it comes to your phone? You’ll never walk off

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Breakthrough Photography X1, X2 and X3 UV filters review

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(Supermodel Priya poses behind the three filters being tested in this review) I love photography.  There isn’t a day when I don’t have my camera with me, ready to capture something beautiful.  I shoot with a Canon 5D Mark III full-frame dSLR and my workhorse lens is the 24-105 f/4L.  A top-quality lens on a

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Improve iPhone 6 selfies with the Nova Bluetooth Flash

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There’s nothing more tragic than taking badly lit selfies snapped with your new iPhone 6. Don’t subject the world, Instagram, Facebook, etc with your dimly or overexposed duck-faced pictures anymore. Run, don’t walk to the nearest Apple store and buy a Nova Bluetooth flash. This is a wireless flash made especially for the iPhone. It’s

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Amazon gives unlimited photo storage to their Amazon Prime customers

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Amazon just announced a new perk for their Prime members – unlimited free storage of photos in the Amazon Cloud Drive.  You’ll be able to copy up all the photos from your computer and your mobile devices to one secure location and view them from all your devices.  Amazon’s world-class security and protection systems will keep

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Gigaflash Mobile iSmile Selfie Remote review

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Whether you like it or not, the selfie is here to stay.  Capturing yourself in the moment is an extremely popular form of self-expression these days.  Heck, I used to turn my film camera around and point it towards myself and take what I hoped would be a usable shot.  Even some new phones are

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Waterproof video on the go with the Ricoh WG-M1 camera

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Portable action cameras are almost a dime a dozen now days, and with so many models, designs, features and accessories it can be hard to choose. Ricoh, a well-known name in imaging has dropped their hat into the action video camera race with the WG-M1. What makes the WG-M1 different from a lot of other

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Mount your Dropcam outdoors with the Dropcase

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The Dropcam Pro is my all time favorite security camera. It’s my favorite because it provides the best wide angle image I’ve found in a security camera, it’s easy to setup and has a very good web viewer and mobile app for remote viewing. Of course no gadget is ever 100% perfect for everyone and the main

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Have a Polaroid Cube Camera? You’ll need accessories!

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If you have one of the cute Polaroid Cube cameras Larry Geisz told us about a few months ago, you’ll need some accessories for it.  SkyMall has an assortment of stands (like the Mr. Monkey stand), cases (like the Waterproof Case), and mounts (like the Tripod Mount).  They have a lot of stands to attach

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Cobra Drive HD Dash Cam with Wi-Fi (CDR 900) review

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I don’t know about where you live, but where I am in Columbus, Indiana, people have horrible driving skills. I constantly see people run red lights and cut in front of you with little to no time to brake. I’ve often thought that I should consider buying a dash cam to use an insurance policy

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Narrative Clip wearble lifelogging camera review

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Do you have a good memory? Do you remember everything that happened on your last birthday, vacation or family outing? Do you wish you had some pictures from that one time… at band camp? Although most of us carry a smartphone with a camera, we can’t take a picture every minute to document our lives. That would

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Peak Design Slide, Clutch and Anchor Links camera accessories review

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Peak Design ha built a company by holding three successful crowd-funded Kickstarter campaigns for their innovative Capture and Capture V2 Camera Clip mounting systems and Leash & Cuff accessories. Having reviewed the Peak Design CapturePRO a while back, I found it to be well-engineered and well-built and I was impressed enough that I wanted to

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Now you can see what your cat has dragged behind the stove, without having to move the stove

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If you’ve ever seen those big, gooseneck inspection cameras that plumbers use to inspect pipes, you may have wished you had access to one when you drop a ring up under the bed or the cat has dragged off your socks behind the fridge.  DinosaurLifeStyle (alas, Andrew Baker, it still suffers from a dearth of dinosaurs…)

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A jumbo name for a small product: the pocket-sized Elephant Steady iPhone video stabilizer

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I find as I am getting a little older, my hands just aren’t as steady as they use to be. Now for most things this is not an issue, but for shooting videos with my iPhone, this becomes a real problem. Elephant Steady, a Kickstarter project from ADPLUS Co., hopes to help the un-steady like

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