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Nikon’s New Coolpix P1000 is Capable of 125x Optical Zoom
Zoom to Your Heart’s Content Nikon is launching their new Coolpix P1000 camera, improving upon the previous Coopix P900 significantly. While the Nikon P900’s 83x zoom capability is impressive, the new Coolpix P1000 is capable of up to 125x optical zoom. That is the 35mm equivalent focal range of 24-3000mm,…
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Photographer Mounts Canon EF Lens to Game Boy Camera
Game Boy Camera Upgraded Nintendo‘s Game Boy Pocket Camera is an accessory attachment initially released back in 1998 for the handheld console. Obviously, it features a very primitive lens and sensor by today’s smartphone standards. However, it is not meant to be any sort of true camera replacement either. Since…
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Canon Releases Impressive Range of New Cameras, Lens and Gear
Canon decided to feed the gear-hungry photography crowd with plenty of hardware this Valentine’s day. Not one, but two APS-C sensor DSLR camera bodies, one Mirrorless camera. Additionally, they also released a new EF-S kit lens and a bluetooth Wireless Trigger. The new entry-level DSLR camera body is called the “Rebel T7i“.…
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Nikon Camera and Lens Price Increases Incoming
This is getting out of hand. There’s a confirmed price increase on most (if not all) Nikon Camera Bodies and Lenses starting Feb 2 2017 (thanks for the New Year’s present Nikon!). A few months ago, Nikon raised the prices a lot on plenty of their lenses, they laid off a lot…
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Sigma Increasing Lens Prices up to 28% in Europe
According to a credible source in the industry, who leaked a wholesale pricelist document indicating a 9% to 28% price increase on all models and mounts, Sigma’s following Nikon’s lead and they are also increasing their lens prices. If you plan on buying one of their very good lenses like…
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Do You Want A Computer In Your Eye? Google Does
When it comes to technology, everyday something that was considered science fiction becomes reality. From a ship-mounted railgun straight out a film to the self-driving cars, every day we as a race are developing what was once a dream into something very real. The next step comes from Google who looks to…
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Stem Cells Could Repair Cataracts
Cataracts are the most common reason for blindness in today’s world. Cataracts are when the lens in your eye becomes clouded and while often associated with the elderly, it also affects the young and even infants. While there is a surgical option to address this issue, a group in China…
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Lens-Less Cameras Are Now A Thing
Cameras have evolved so much over the past few years. They began with the throwaway cameras you would take on field trips with you to capture 40 different moments, then they became digital with you buying a small block of metal and watching the screen light up as the lens…
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Watch: Solar-Powered Ray Can Melt Metal
Kevin Moore and Grant Reynolds from the Science Channel looked at one of their favourite childhood pastimes – burning things with the rays from a magnifying glass – and wanted to magnify it. They wanted to magnify the ray so much so that it could melt metal. So how do you get that much heat?…
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Revolutionary Chemical Iris Could Bring Smaller Cameras to Smartphones
A normal iris has physical blades which move in order to change the amount of light entering the lens. More light enters when wider and less when closing down. The same principle is applied to cameras found in some smartphones nowadays too. A new chemical iris however tends to change…
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Smart Glass Has Potential To Give Smartphone DSLR Grade Photos
Smartphones are really making big waves in the world of photography these days, the quality of sensors, lens and the processors behind it all have come along a lot in recent years. However, as good as smartphones are getting, you will still struggle to get the kind of performance of…
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New Virtual Reality Gear Surfaces in Europe
For the virtual reality fans out there Oculus Rift and Project Morpheus are the most well-known VR projects considered and eagerly awaited, but there are a couple of flaws to be considered when looking into this. First is the price, where Oculus Rift development kit would cost around $350, as much…
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Google Reportedly In Development Of Contact Lenses Which Can Read Glucose Levels
A contact lens which contains a glucose sensor, an antenna, a capacitor and a chip has been developed by Google dedicated to people suffering from diabetes. It does not restrict eyesight and performs analysis of glucose twice every second, afterwards send the information gathered to an external monitoring device with…
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