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Diapod: A Simple LED Slide Projector

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May 10th 2012 - 0 comments

Have some slide film sitting around and no slide projector to show them off with? Diapod is a tiny product designed for you. It’s a simple and lightweight slide projector that uses a tabletop tripod, aluminum body, and LED light to project your slide film photos. Here’s a short video showing how it works: The [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/04/69/470469.jpeg[/IMG]

Leica Launches The M-Monochrom ? Black & White Only M9-P

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May 10th 2012 - 0 comments

Leica have released another variation of camera based on the old M9 platform.  Last year we saw the M9-P and for Spring 2012 we now have the M-Monochrom, an M9-P that only allows shooting in black and white.  It forgoes the usual anti-aliasing filters and color array filters found on nearly every digital camera and [...] Support the site If you enjoyed reading this post and found it helpful, please consider supporting the site by making your next photography purchase by clicking through one of the links below. B&H Photo Amazon.com Adorama Zacuto Outdoor Photo Gear ebay Think Tank Photo -As a friend of this site, clicking through to the Think Tank site and spending more than $50 will earn you a FREE bag when you reach the checkout. Choose from several different accessory or modular bags for FREE! Borrowlenses.com DROBO Enter coupon code DANCARRPHOTO for up to $150 off on certain models. Clicking through these links doesn't cost you a penny more but helps me to bring you new, fresh content.Thanks for your support ! [IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/04/52/470452.jpeg[/IMG]

Leica Unveils The X2 ? 16MP APS-C Fixed Lens Compact

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May 10th 2012 - 0 comments

Today Leica has unveiled their new X2 compact, fixed lens camera.  On the outside there appears to be very little different apart from a socket to attach an optional EVF.  Very sadly this camera has the same 230,000 dot LCD screen as it’s predecessor. The problem that I have with this screen is that it [...] Support the site If you enjoyed reading this post and found it helpful, please consider supporting the site by making your next photography purchase by clicking through one of the links below. B&H Photo Amazon.com Adorama Zacuto Outdoor Photo Gear ebay Think Tank Photo -As a friend of this site, clicking through to the Think Tank site and spending more than $50 will earn you a FREE bag when you reach the checkout. Choose from several different accessory or modular bags for FREE! Borrowlenses.com DROBO Enter coupon code DANCARRPHOTO for up to $150 off on certain models. Clicking through these links doesn't cost you a penny more but helps me to bring you new, fresh content.Thanks for your support ! [IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/04/38/470438.jpeg[/IMG]

Light Painting Photos Shot Using an RC Helicopter

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May 10th 2012 - 0 comments

Destin of Smarter Every Day recently shot some light-painting photographs using an RC helicopter loaded with colored lights. The maneuverability of the helicopter turns the great outdoors into a giant canvas for your to light paint giant 3D shapes. The shoot can be seen this is science-y video in which Destin talks about helicopter physics:[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/04/21/470421.jpeg[/IMG]

Sample Black & White Photos Shot Using the New Leica M Monochrom

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May 10th 2012 - 0 comments

DPReview has published a gallery filled with sample photographs shot using the new Leica M Monochrom. The photographs are tack sharp and have a beautiful “film look” to them that is difficult to achieve by doing a conversion from color digital images. Watch out: looking at the gallery may be bad for your wallet. Leica [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/03/95/470395.jpeg[/IMG]

Leica Announces the M Monochrom Black and White Digital Rangefinder

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May 10th 2012 - 0 comments

Leica has officially announced its new monochrome digital rangefinder, the M Monochrom — the world’s first digital camera to do dedicated black and white photography. The camera features a newly designed 18-megapixel monochrome CCD sensor and “100% sharper imaging” due to the fact that raw data is processed directly without interpolation. The monochrome sensor allows [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/03/55/470355.jpeg[/IMG]

?______.jpg?: Ceramic Sculptures of the Apple JPG Preview Icon

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May 10th 2012 - 0 comments

Artist Alan Belcher is known for pioneering a genre of art known as “photo-object” in which the disciplines of photography and sculpture are fused and explored in different ways. His latest piece is titled “_____.jpg”, and consists of 125 ceramic sculptures of the ubiquitous Apple JPG icon. Each one was manufactured in China and then [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/03/37/470337.jpeg[/IMG]

Samsung Moving Away From Compact Cameras to Focus on Mirrorless

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May 10th 2012 - 0 comments

Last year Olympus announced that it would be moving away from DSLRs in favor of mirrorless cameras. Today Samsung revealed that it’s moving towards mirrorless as well, except from compact cameras instead of DSLRs. The company is converting its main Chinese camera plant to manufacture high-end mirrorless cameras rather than the cheap point-and-shoots it has [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/03/23/470323.jpeg[/IMG]

Shoebox App Turns Your Smartphone Into a Photo Scanner

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May 10th 2012 - 0 comments

Shoebox is an app by 1000 Memories that lets you turn your iOS or Android smartphone into a scanner for digitizing old paper photos (the photos don’t have to be old, of course). The app goes far beyond manual snapping and cropping: it uses edge detection to help you crop, color balance to compensate for [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/03/13/470313.jpeg[/IMG]

Ships Sailing Across Seas of Sheets

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May 10th 2012 - 0 comments

Ara Solis is a creative series of photographs by Guatemalan photographer Luis Gonzalez Palma showing model ships sailing across seas of crumpled bed sheets. Ara Solis by Luis Gonzalez Palma (via My Modern Met) Image credits: Photographs by Luis Gonzalez Palma and used with permission[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/02/96/470296.jpeg[/IMG]

Shtuff People Say to Photographers

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May 10th 2012 - 0 comments

It’s time for a little photographer humour with this video on the Shtuff People say to Photographers. From the team at Outward Bound Collective Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Shtuff People Say to PhotographersPost originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Shtuff People Say to Photographers[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/02/76/470276.gif[/IMG]

Photoville 2012: A Photographic Village Built with Shipping Containers

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May 9th 2012 - 0 comments

Brooklyn-born and bred art cooperative United Photo Industries have a treat in store for any and all photography enthusiasts who happen to find themselves in New York between June 22nd and July 1st. In partnership with many different galleries, vendors and national institutions, United Photo Industries is putting together a photographic village it’s calling Photoville [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/00/90/470090.jpeg[/IMG]

LightPlot: A Robotic Arm That Creates Animated Light Paintings

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May 9th 2012 - 0 comments

The video you see above was created entirely in-camera using software and a robotic arm programmed before hand with predetermined patterns. The project, known as LightPlot, started as an NXT Lego experiment in stop-motion photography by Ben Cowell-Thomas. He wanted to create a motion control rig for stop-motion using NXT, but as he was looking [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/00/43/470043.jpeg[/IMG]

Departure Date: The First Ever Feature-Length Film Shot Entirely at 35,000 Feet

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May 9th 2012 - 0 comments

Virgin America airlines is producing the “first-ever film made at 35,000 feet”, titled Departure Date. It’s a movie that takes place entirely inside the cabin of an airplane that’s actually airborne. 20 hours of in-flight shooting was done on Virgin flights that spanned 3 continents and covered 28,000 miles. The film was written and directed [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/00/23/470023.gif[/IMG]

The Famous Tiananmen Square Tank Man Photo From Slightly Different Views

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May 9th 2012 - 0 comments

Most people are familiar with the famous Tank Man photo taken by AP Photographer Jeff Widener as tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square on June 5th, 1989. Taken from a 6th floor balcony of the Beijing hotel, the iconic version we’ve come to know is only one of 4 very similar photos taken that same moment. [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/99/98/469998.jpeg[/IMG]

Wordless Web Turns the Internet Into One Giant Photo Book

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May 9th 2012 - 0 comments

Want to enjoy photographs on the web without the annoyance of words? Check out Wordless Web, a simple browser bookmarklet by Ji Lee and Cory Forsyth that instantly strips away all the text on any website. No text also means no context. You’re free to enjoy the images in their purest form, without names, labels, [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/99/64/469964.jpeg[/IMG]

SynchroCam Connects Two Smartphones for Synchronized Photos

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May 9th 2012 - 0 comments

The future of consumer photography could very well be with new sensors, or more compact interchangeable lens cameras, or 41-megapixel smartphones; but why not cameras that are wirelessly tethered together? Thats what SynchroCam can do, and for a free app it’s pretty cool. Using the app you can connect two iOS cameras (ideally from the [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/99/46/469946.jpeg[/IMG]

Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-HX20V Review

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May 9th 2012 - 0 comments

First there was the HX5V, then HX9V ? now the HX20V. So we’ve gone from a 10x zoom camera to a 15x, and finally a 20x zoom compact digicam. I happily use the earlier HX5V as an everyday camera, for holidays and occasionally for shots of review cameras. A good all-rounder but, if I had [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-HX20V Review[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/99/07/469907.jpeg[/IMG]

Simulated Battlefield Photo Sells for $3.6 Million, Sets Canadian Record

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May 9th 2012 - 0 comments

A fake war photograph by Canadian artist Jeff Wall was sold yesterday at Christie’s in NYC for a staggering $3.6 million — a new record for Canadian photographers and the third highest price ever paid for a picture. The 1992 photo, titled Dead Troops Talk, was captured inside a suburban Vancouver studio using models, borrowed [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/98/96/469896.jpeg[/IMG]

Cops vs. Cameras: Widespread Camera Use and The Rise of The New Media

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May 9th 2012 - 0 comments

In 1991 when the Rodney King beating was caught on tape it was a coincidence that someone happened to have a video camera with them. Today, nearly everyone carries one in their pocket. And the advent of social media means that a photo or video need only generate a few retweets before it goes completely [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/98/83/469883.gif[/IMG]