Cameras & Camcorders Category - Page 7

All right, camera buffs out there, I know you don’t get quite as much love out of your favorite companies as you used to since cameras started cropping up on tablets and smartphones and all sorts of portable devices. But rest assured, you have not been forgotten about, and the [...]

We’ve been following payment processor Square, owned by the same folks who own Twitter, for some time now. But there’s about to be a whole new level of competition in the mobile payment processing arena, and this one looks to make credit cards not only safe, but incredibly easy. It’s [...]

For those of you who haven’t hit the vacation trail yet this year, you’re probably already starting to think about where you’re going to go and what you’re going to see and do when you get there. For those of you who favor a vacation in the later part of [...]

It’s not every day we hear about new cameras from the folks out at Panasonic, but they’re bringing out a pair of new Lumix models that should get you shutterbugs out there interested. We’ve got an advance look for you at the DMC-FZ47 and the DMC-LS5, a pair of Lumix [...]

Most photography professionals and enthusiasts are familiar with the concept of bokeh, that technique of focusing on a subject and blurring out everything else. While often achievable with capable hardware (like an SLR with a wide-aperture lens), a patent application by Samsung aims to achieve this with compact cameras.

Okay, camera buffs–I know you’ve all got your sidearms of choice, but when you clap eyes on this little wonder you might well throw that old friend over for a slice of the new hotness. The folks out at Pentax are showing off a limited edition of the 645D DSLR [...]

Yes, folks, it’s still, at least for now, the last space shuttle mission from the United States. And regardless how you feel about it–based on what I’ve seen so far the feelings on this one run the gamut from wistful to enraged–one thing is for sure; the last shuttle flight [...]

Sometimes, writing about technology, I get to see devices that I immediately can’t get enough of. And sometimes I see devices that are so ludicrous I can’t help but scoff when I see them. And on rare, truly rare, occasions, I get an eyeful of devices that actually manage to [...]

Speaking here as someone who is incredibly nearsighted (seriously, get me without my glasses and the world from about three feet out turns into a series of ill-defined pastel smears), reading something like this is downright heartwarming. We’ve heard about bionic eyes before, but now we’ve got a step up [...]

If you’ve ever found yourself bored beyond description with a drive on the freeway, the folks out at Volkswagen are putting something special together for those long trips of mostly straight road. They’re calling it Temporary Auto Pilot, and it represents the first step toward me one day owning a [...]