R&D archives (79 posts)


Intel powered Gesture camera demoed at Engadget (will this find its way in photography cameras?), April 11, 2013
Engadget has a video demo of a new Intel-powered gesture camera by Creative Interactive. This is similar to Microsoft's Kinect technology. Of photography interest in this case, it will be interesting to see if or when or how this type... Continue

R&D: dorky glasses to block photography and facial recognition, February 14, 2013
Research at the National Institute of Informatics in Japan proposes a new pair of dorky looking glasses that block facial recognition picture taking. A summary can be found at DIY Photography along with the five page research press release in... Continue

Kickstarter: the Lynx, a Point and Shoot 3D camera for 3D modeling and printing, February 3, 2013
A new Kickstarter project is developing the Lynx, a point and shoot 3D camera for 3D modeling and 3D printing. This is a special purpose camera that has the shape of a tablet and is to be used for modeling... Continue

R&D: Panasonic offers more details on SmartFSI pixel structure, January 16, 2013
Sensor geekery now. Panasonic published some more details on their SmartFSI pixel structure at their Image Sensors page. The two SmartfSI pixel structure images may remind some of ...dentistry... (via Image Sensors World). Continue

Hands-on videos: Photo editing (and more) with 20-inch Panasonic 4K tablet (and giant HDTV), January 8, 2013
We only mentioned the announcement links for this in our morning post, but now there are more hands-on videos and pictures, so here we go again. Panasonic showed a 20-inch 4K resolution Windows 8 prototype tablet with pen input at... Continue

Practical Patent: Digital Back for Film SLRs (by Nikon), December 30, 2012
As the patent wars intensify and armies of lawyers counter-sue each other until the judges get irritated and kick them out, so do the waves of new patents filed. Some patents are for real, some are carpet-bombing, some are defensive,... Continue

Toshiba reveals Light Field Photography project (oppa Lytro style!), December 27, 2012
Lytro is not the only game in town when it comes to light field photography. Toshiba has revealed that they are working on a new digital imaging module that offers light field technology advantages. They will use half a million... Continue

Kickstarter 3D printing project raises $1.5 million in one week, October 2, 2012
Most of photography so far lives in the world of 2D. There have been attempts at 3D cameras, but mostly they have been for the boldly-going adventurous early-adopters. Part of the challenge with 3D is that 3D printing is a... Continue

Pentax Ricoh showing prototype 360-degree spherical camera at Photokina, September 19, 2012
As more and more people explore the Photokina booths, more gems are discovered! Quesabeade has spotted a prototype of what looks like a 360-degree spherical camera developed by Pentax Ricoh. It looks like a cross between an hourglass, a dumbbell... Continue

Newsbytes: Getty Images sells for $3.3 billion, GiMP 2.8, R&D 100k dpi printing, etc, August 15, 2012
The newsy buffers have filled up, so it is time to let the newsy news escape into the atmosphere... + Getty Images sells for $3.3 billion at NY Times Dealbook (via APE) and BJoP; interview with Getty Images CEO at... Continue

Newsbytes: Samsung T-primes, RED Dragon fire, Panasonic X-Ray SD, etc, August 10, 2012
A number of newsy items have filled up the buffers, time to empty the buffers with a new edition of the Newsbytes! + Samyang announces Cinema T-versions of their 14mm, 21mm and 35mm primes via dpreview and LMdlP et al... Continue

Nikon patents f2-f2.8 lens for Coolpix type camera, July 19, 2012
Once upon a time Nikon was among the leaders in the world of fixed-lens cameras with RAW (5400, 8400, 8700, 8800, etc). Then they abandoned the segment only to return with what some aficionados of compacts-with-RAW may call half-hearted attempts.... Continue

New open source 4K Super35 CinemaDNG RAW sub-$10k crowd-funded video camera, July 12, 2012
The internets may be full of Tumblrs and animated .GIFs, but they also allow for things that were not even remotely possible a decade ago. Like a crowd-funded open-source video camera! Apertus has announced that they are developing the Axiom,... Continue

Geekery: Sony NEX-5n Cine Housing (prototype), July 9, 2012
What if you have a Sony NEX-5n and want to use it for video recording, and only wish, why can't someone make a cine housing? Wish granted! In prototype at the moment. Richard Gale has built a Cine Housing for... Continue

Patent watch: Ricoh 14mm lens for 4/3 and 19mm for APS-C, July 7, 2012
Japanese patent-hunting blog Egami (computer-translated) has spotted two recently published Ricoh lens patents. The patents were filed in December 2010, but only now released. The two patented lenses are a 14mm for a 4/3" sensor and a 19mm for an... Continue

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