When I first saw the OnSlot On-Hot Shoe Cleaner I was confused because I didn’t know there was such a huge problem with dirty hot shoes on our cameras. But then I read the product description and learned that the hot shoe is just a place to store the OnSlot when you’re not using it. […]
OnSlot is a screen cleaner that stores on your camera’s hot shoe Read More
Super 8 movie cameras and players are going the way of the dinosaur, if they haven’t already gone. The time is now to convert that pile of movies that you or your parents have laying around. With the Super 8 to Digital Video Converter, you can convert them yourself, without having to search for a
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When using your cell phone to take selfies, you are limited by the length of your arm. That limits the number of people you’re able to include in a photo, and you may find it hard to trigger the camera when you’ve got your arm stretched out to the limit. With Brando’s Quick Selfie Pole
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iPhones have decent cameras, and you can snap even better photos with the built-in flash. That flash does have its problems, though, because it’s fired directly at the subject. Photos can look harsh if you were too close to the subject, or they can be dark if you were too far away. The Nova external
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It can be hard to hold the iPhone steady while you reach for the virtual button on the screen or find a volume button to trigger the camera to snap a picture. If you like taking pictures with your iPhone but you’d like controls that are easier to find and use, consider the Snappgrip iPhone
Snappgrip adds DSLR-like controls to your iPhone Read More
If you do a lot of photo editing, you may already know all the keyboard shortcuts to make your task easier. But if you’re a novice, or a not-so-novice who just can’t remember all those shortcuts, these Keyboard Shortcut Skins for Apple keyboards will help you speed up the process of editing your photos. Skins
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Do you still take a lot of photos with a film camera? Or perhaps you use digital, but you still like to print out your images? In either case, you probably like to display them, and you probably want something that looks more polished than thumbtacks or double-sided tape to attach them to the wall.
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Keeping an eye on your property and loved ones when you’re not physically there is important for your peace of mind and for security purposes. The Butterfleye is a new camera that features completely wireless operation, two way audio and Active Eye Intelligence which automatically captures 1920 x 1080 pictures and videos using motion detection
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Canon’s EF 16-35 f/2.8 L II is a very popular lens, particularly for landscape and architectural photography. It has remained out of the reach of many enthusiast photographers due to its very high price ($1700, but at the time of this writing there is a $200 mail-in rebate). The lens is also not image stabilized,
Canon EF 16-35 f/4 L IS: a cheaper and stable alternative Read More
I love photography. There is seldom a moment when I am not at work and there isn’t a camera in my hand. Like all photographers, I go through camera bags like crazy. What works for one application somehow doesn’t seem to work for another. I have used such camera bags as the Billingham Hadley Pro
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Someone once said that your best camera is the one you happen to have with you. Sometimes your iPad is the camera you happen to have, and for some people, the iPad is the only camera they have. The iPad’s back camera is pretty good, but it could be improved, and that’s the purpose of
Improve photo and video quality with the Olloclip iPad 4-in-1 Photo Lens Read More
Why limit yourself to taking selfies in your bathroom? With the Samsung NX Mini camera, you can photograph yourself anywhere in the world. You can always see what you’re including in the shot, because the 3″ LCD touchscreen view screen can flip up and face forward. The camera is slim (0.9″) and light (5.6 ounces),
This Samsung camera takes selfies (and all your other photos) to a higher level Read More
Torn. Conflicted. Confused. Verklempt. Ok, maybe not verklempt, but conflicted, yes. I am one of those people who gave up the traditional digital camera and exclusively use my Samsung Galaxy S4 as my digital camera. It’s with me all the time, right? And like many of you I have struggled to take good pictures consistently
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The Lensbaby Composer Pro is an intriguing solution to selecting the perfect focus spot in your composition. Available in mounts for several ILC and dSLR cameras, it is a fully manual lens with a manual aperture control and swivel lens. The aperture settings will determine the width of the in-focus area and the swivel lens
Tilt-shift focus on the cheap: The Lensbaby Composer Pro Read More
With the iPhone and Android Film Scanner, you’ll be able to scan your own 35mm photo negatives directly into your smartphone, as easily as snapping a photo. And you’ll be able to color correct or even stitch together images before you save them. You’ll need to use the LomoScanner app from Lomography on your Apple
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The GoPro action cameras are synonymous with capturing exciting video. But what if you want to hold the tiny camera instead of strapping to your helmet or the handlebars on your bike? The Kamerar KamPro Handle Kit is a flexible and clever way to do just that.
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The selfie craze has swept the nation, it has been determined that some people are even addicted to taking selfies. With smartphones having front-facing cameras, I guess this phenomenon was pretty much inevitable. Heck, I was taking selfies with my little Olympus Stylus pocket film camera back in the 1980’s, when I’d actually have to
Now they’re just enabling you: GabbaGoods #TheSelfie Camera Remote Shutter Release Read More
For all those selfie addicts out there who can’t go even one day without posting a picture of themselves to Facebook or Instagram, I have a tiny gadget that will make it even easier for you to annoy all your friends with your attention seeking photo habits. It’s the HISY Wireless Smartphone Selfie Remote for
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I have been an amateur astronomer for the longest time but astrophotography has always eluded me. I never had the proper equipment and getting a dedicated CCD camera for the purpose of photographing the sun, moon and planets is prohibitively expensive. A while back, a company called Scopetronix made custom milled adapters that connected point
Telescope camera adapters: attach your digicam to your telescope! Read More
I love my 17-40 f/4 L Canon wide zoom. Last year it grabbed me some tasty shots of storms and the aurora borealis! Storms aren’t that hard to shoot… until you hit low light, then the camera struggles to find that autofocus point. Same goes for the aurora. So you flip the switch and
Drive manual better: the PhotoJojo dSLR Focus Shifter! Read More