I thought this was a joke when I first read it, but apparently Kodak are serious about making a Super 8 film camera costing $1000 which shoots 8mm film (processing cost $50-$75).
Eastman Kodak Co., the photography pioneer that was disrupted by the digital revolution, is placing a new bet on a gadget from a simpler time.
Inside the Cupola, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, an Expedition 36 flight engineer, uses a 400mm lens on a digital still camera to photograph a target of opportunity on Earth some 250 miles below him and the International Space Station. Cassidy has been aboard the orbital outpost since late March and will continue his stay into September.
The renowned Antwerp photographer Marc Lagrange has died in a road accident on Tenerife. Lagrange built an international reputation with his artistic nude photography.
They are rare shots of the capital. In the early twentieth century, the French banker Albert Kahn wants to create a photographic record of cities around the world, using one of the first color reproduction processes, the autochrome, patented in 1903 by Auguste and Louis Lumière brothers.
Images NASA recently captured of Pluto were black and white, but that didn’t keep them from being some of the clearest, most vivid close-up shots of Pluto’s surface that humans have ever seen.
Source: The clearest photos of Pluto you’ll ever see – CSMonitor.com
“Everybody Street” illuminates the lives and work of New York’s iconic street photographers and the incomparable city that has inspired them for decades. The documentary pays tribute to the spirit of street photography through a cinematic exploration of New York City, and captures the visceral rush, singular perseverance and at times immediate danger customary to these artists.
Now available on Netflix
Source: http://everybodystreet.com/
The moon is a pretty desolate place and the truth is, you just don’t have a whole lot to work with. You’ve got moon dust, some craters and if you’re lucky, you’ve got some shadow and light.To make your lunar photos really pop, you’re definitely gonna need to bring some props and your creativity cap. Let’s take a look at how past visitors to the Moon handled their photographic challenges.
The largest civil penalty yet against an unmanned aircraft (drone) operator was announced Tuesday, when the FAA proposed a $1.9 million fine for SkyPan International, Inc., an aerial photography company based in Chicago.
Source: FAA’s $1.9 million fine against drone photography company is biggest yet
The city of Atlanta says it will repeal an ordinance aimed at “street photographers” and widely condemned by legal experts as unconstitutional after The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and a local civil rights lawyer raised questions about the matter.
Source: Atlanta to repeal photography ordinance deemed unconstitutional | Atlanta Buzz with Jennifer Brett
Thayer professor Eric Fossum—the engineer and physicist who invented the CMOS image sensor used in nearly all cellphone and digital cameras, webcams, medical imaging and other applications—joined with Thayer PhD candidate Jiaju Ma in developing pixels for the new Quanta Image Sensor (QIS)…. Their new sensor has the capability to significantly enhance low-light sensitivity. This is particularly important in applications such as “security cameras, astronomy, or life science imaging (like seeing how cells react under a microscope), where there’s only just a few photons,” says Fossum. “Light consists of photons, little bullets of light that activate our neurons and make us see light,” says Fossum. “The photons go into the semiconductor [the sensor chip] and break the chemical bonds between silicon atoms and, when they break the bond, an electron is released. Almost every photon that comes in, makes one electron free inside the silicon crystal. The brighter the light, the more electrons are released.” Fossum says that one of the several challenges in the QIS is to count how many electrons are set free by photons and thus effectively count photons. This is particularly important in very low light applications, such as in life science microscopy, photography, or even possibly quantum cryptography and the Internet of Things. “When we build an image sensor, we build a chip that is also sensitive to these photons. We were able to build a new kind of pixel with a sensitivity so high we could see one electron above all the background noise.” The new pixels are considerably smaller than regular pixels since they are designed to sense only one photon, but many more are placed on the sensor to capture the same amount of total photons from the image. “We’d like to have 1 billion pixels on the sensor and we’ll still keep the sensor the same size,” says Ma.
Source: Engineering researchers produce breakthrough for photography
