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XCraft Raises $1.5M from Shark Tank for Its Next Gen Camera Drones
Pin It The drone company XCraft has successfully raised $ 1.5 million at a $ 6 million valuation after appearing on the ABC reality TV show Shark Tank. The two founders convinced all 5 “sharks” to...
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AIG Has an Insurance Policy Specifically Designed for Camera Drones
Pin It If you’re an aerial photographer making a living with your camera drone, it might be a good idea to get it insured. Good news: AIG is now selling insurance that’s specifically designed with...
View ArticleThis is the First GoPro Camera Drone Video
Earlier this year, GoPro announced that it will be launching its own camera drone in the first half of 2016. While details of the quadcopter’s specs, features, and design have been sparse, GoPro just...
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Canon Reportedly Working on a Full-Frame Mirrorless EOS M Camera
Pin It Canon’s sales and profits have been taking a bit hit from the emergence of smartphone and mirrorless cameras, and the company’s EOS M line of mirrorless cameras hasn’t done much to help. The...
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Photographer Travels Across the US with His Camera, Girlfriend, and LED Hula...
Pin It This past May, photographer Grant Mallory and his girlfriend Maria celebrated Maria’s college graduation by embarking on an epic road trip around the United States. Mallory wanted to capture...
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Roaming the Stadium With My Camera During an NFL Football Game
Pin It Last month, I covered an NFL football game in which I had freedom to roam once what I shot what I needed for ESPN the Magazine (that story to be published this month). I was done with my...
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Polaroid Sues GoPro, Claims Its Cube Camera Design Was Ripped Off
Pin It The company behind Polaroid cameras has filed a new lawsuit against GoPro, claiming that GoPro ripped off the design of Polaroid’s cube-shaped action cameras by launching the GoPro Session back...
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Lytro Immerge is the World’s First Light Field Camera for Virtual Reality
Pin It Lytro today announced Immerge, a new camera that may revolutionize how virtual reality content is captured. The company calls it “the world’s first professional light field solution for...
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DJI Phantom X Concept Video Imagines the Future of Camera Drones
Want to see where camera drones are headed? DJI made this 3-minute video that shows a concept drone called the DJI Phantom X. It’s a look at what camera drones may soon offer for capturing both daily...
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3RDi is a Camera for the Middle of Your Forehead
Pin It Think the Google Glass camera glasses are funny looking? Check out the 3RDi. Pronounced “third eye,” it’s a new camera that lets you capture your life while you’re enjoying the moment by...
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How to Make a DIY Pinhole Camera
Looking for a fun activity this weekend? Gather together some simple materials and make yourself a pinhole camera—a simple camera with no lens and only a single, fixed aperture: The video above comes...
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Product Camera is a Camera App That Creates Photos of Objects on White Backdrops
Pin It The developers behind the popular Android camera app Camera51 have just announced a new app for helping people shoot the photos they need. This time the startup has targeted the online seller...
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This is the Largest Stunt Explosion Caught on Camera
Want to set a new Guinness world record with a stunt explosion in your next photo or video shoot? You’re going to have to beat the explosion in the video above. The new James Bond movie Spectre has...
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Is Samsung Shuttering its Camera Business?
Pin It Rumors have been swirling around in the photo industry the past couple of months about Samsung pulling out of the camera industry. Samsung hasn’t announced anything new in recent times, and its...
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Shooting the World’s Smallest Tintypes with a Minox Subminiature Camera
Pin It How small can you go when it comes to wet plate collodion photography? Photographer Anton Orlov of The Photo Palace recently experimented with this question by shooting thumbnail-sized 8x11mm...
View ArticleA Simple Explanation of Smartphone Camera Quality
What makes one smartphone camera good and another one bad? YouTube tech video star Marques Brownlee of MKBHD just posted this easy-to-understand 5-minute-long explanation of smartphone camera quality....
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Someone Crashed Their Camera Drone Into the Giant Ferris Wheel in Seattle
Pin It Here’s another story that illustrates why the US government is racing to create a national drone registry that attaches each drone to a name: on Wednesday, someone apparently tried to fly their...
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Camera Sales May Be Stabilizing After a Few Years of Freefall
Pin It The camera market has been struggling in recent years, with Canon, Nikon, and Sony all recently reporting drops in camera demand from a year ago. But there may be a sliver of positive news for...
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Bye Bye Gura Gear: Company to Sell All Camera Bags Under the Tamrac Brand
Pin It The Tamrac brand of camera bags has been around for nearly 4 decades now, and it looks like it will continue to live on much longer. Gura Gear, on the other hand, ends here. When Tamrac went...
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OCOLOY: A One Camera, One Lens, One Year Project
Pin It With 2016 just around the corner, many photographers will be dusting off the cameras they’ve been neglecting and making new year’s resolutions in an attempt to rekindle their creativity. If...
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