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It's crystal ball time, Pentaxians! The hawk-eyed folks at two Japanese tech blogs -- Egami and Love Pentax -- have picked up news of several newly-published patent applications from Ricoh, owner of the Pentax brand, in the last few days. Two of them make quite a bit of sense, but we must admit we're a little baffled by...
In the last couple of years, affordable mirrorless cameras have well and truly demolished even the most expensive of DSLRs in terms of burst-shooting performance. Leveraging their lack of a cumbersome mirror-flipping mechanism and the advent of on-chip phase detection, mirrorless cameras can now shoot far faster...
There are times when words can do technology justice, and times when it fails to come close. Some new technology from researchers at Microsoft falls into the latter camp, so we'll keep this brief and get straight to the video.
In a nutshell, what Microsoft's team have done is to solve the problem of first-person...
Now this is just plain cool: A KickStarter project that has already surpassed its funding goal will soon give you a really memorable way to share your online portfolio, reports PetaPixel.
If you're a photographer looking for new clients, it's pretty obvious that the best way to persuade them to sign on the dotted...
Famous British sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke once wrote that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Well, dear readers, we have a little piece of magic for your delectation today, courtesy of research from MIT, Microsoft, and Adobe. Together, the trio of tech titans have developed...
It's a good time to be a sensor manufacturer, it seems. While camera sales have been hard-hit by the rise of smartphones, demand for image sensors is stronger than ever. (And that's especially true of stacked, backside-illuminated image sensors, a popular choice in smartphones where the tradeoff between camera module...
Ever wished your studio lights could adjust themselves, freeing you up to focus on your subject? Well, if the folks at MIT have their way, it could just happen. In a video released last Friday, they've demonstrated a prototype system for providing rim-lighting using a quadcopter, and the drone can move itself to track...
We don't cover news of too many patent licensing agreements here at the Imaging Resource, because they can be rather on the dull side. A new agreement announced earlier this week, though, strikes us as rather more interesting than most. That's because of the parties involved in the agreement, Canon and Microsoft.
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If you've made the leap to a compact system camera, you've already done away with one outdated piece of technology -- the reflex mirror. But is there another dinosaur lurking within your lenses, ripe for a modern replacement? It's possible, if research at Germany's University of Kaiserslautern pans out.
A paper...
For consumer photographers, there's much to recommend the travel zoom lens. Although travel zooms are often compromised in terms of maximum aperture and image quality, these one-size-suits-all optics cover your bases in terms of focal length, a metric that's easier for beginners to understand. And even for more...
Although the folks at the Flat Earth Society might have you believe otherwise, our world is anything but two-dimensional. Yet for the most part, that's how our cameras see it, and so that's how they present it to us in our photos.
Now, new technology from the folks behind Seene -- the iPhone app which puts some depth...
No free lunch?
Aspheric lenses meant onion-ring bokeh... until now.
Aspheric lens technology is part of the reason many modern photographic lenses are better in so many respects to models from 50 years ago. Lenses with aspheric elements inside have less spherical...
Ever looked at a droplet of water on a window, and thought "That looks a lot like a lens"? You're not alone. Researchers at Australian National University noticed the same thing, and they ran with it, creating a lens that's inexpensive, easy to make, and yet very high quality.
Of course, water's not the greatest...
Every now and then, something comes along that promises to reboot the debate on a hot button issue. A new algorithm developed at the Chinese University of Hong Kong looks set to do just that, pitting privacy advocates against technologists in a fresh fight over facial recognition technology.
Dubbed GaussianFace,...
A dead smartphone is a hassle, but a dead camera battery is a catastrophe if you’re in the middle of a shoot—that is, only as long as batteries still charge at a glacial pace.
Startup firm StoreDot is working on a way to almost eliminate charge times. Last week, they unveiled a prototype that can fully charge a Samsung...
Sigma Corporation's image sensor subsidiary, Foveon Inc., takes a very different approach to sensor design than any other company out there. With a technology that captures red, green, and blue light simultaneously at all pixel locations across the entire sensor surface, they've long claimed that their chips...
Imaging Resource publisher and editor-in-chief Dave Etchells recently interviewed a number of industry leaders at the annual CP+ tradeshow, held last February in Yokohama, Japan. Here's a transcript of his interview with Kazuto Yamaki, CEO of Sigma Corporation....
If you're a fan of the dreamy, surreal look that a super slow-motion effect can lend to your videos -- or you just want to analyze your golf swing in fine detail -- then Toshiba has good news for you. The company has just announced a new image sensor aimed at smartphones and tablets that promises an impressive 240...
Technology changes tend to be of two types: incremental improvements or disruptive innovations. Incremental improvements allow one manufacturer to take market share from another, and give the fanboys fuel for their Internet forum battles. Disruptive innovations may create a million new customers -- or make a...
In the middle of last week, Olympus announced several new cameras including the Olympus E-M10, an affordable, SLR-styled mirrorless camera it describes as the "OM-D for all." At the time, we kicked off our Olympus E-M10 review with a detailed introduction to the E-M10, including specs, samples, and the first...