Build your own instant camera with a Raspberry Pi and a thermal printer

John Aldred

The Raspberry Pi is amazing.  Instant cameras are also amazing.  So, it makes sense that somebody would eventually combine them, creating a Raspberry Pi powered instant camera, which is exactly what Adafruit have done. Ok, so you’re not going to be getting lab quality prints from this, and the Impossible Project might be more your […]

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Filmmakers Ruining Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone

Udi Tirosh

It seems that these kinds of reports are getting all too common. And this makes me sad. Buckrail reports that On Saturday afternoon, four men ran out onto the Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park. Since one of the folks had a glidecam in hand, I can only assume that he was a videographer. The person […]

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Canon is on the Cutting Edge . . . of Domain Names

Eric Reagan

Canon has announced that is moving away from the mainstream “.com” top level domain (TLD) names and will begin using its new “.canon” proprietary TLD.  Canon says that visitors to .canon sites can now “easily confirm their authenticity.” Apparently, they couldn’t do so when visiting canon.com? So far, Canon has launched the English-language version of […]

Hilarious sketch shows the effort we invest in Instagramming our coffee instead of talking to our table mates

Udi Tirosh

Have you ever obsessed over instagraming (or “gramming”*) your coffee rather that spend quality time with the person you are having that coffee with? I know I have. I know I have asked my buddies to use their phones as kicker lights; I know I have used menus as reflectors and I sure as heck […]

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Organization is key – 6 tools to keep your workflow in check

Clinton lofthouse

Benjamin Franklin once said “For every minute spent organizing, an hour is earned.” And no truer words have been spoken, well apart from “its finger licking good!”….but lets not get on to the colonel and his tasty chicken fillets. 😛 As photographers, most of us tend to have creative brains, which in my own experience, […]

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Lens Review: Lensbaby Twist 60

Levi Sim

This new Twist 60 lens from Lensbaby has my full attention right now. There are always new lenses boasting extreme sharpness or wide apertures or super telephoto, but Lensbaby steps aside from the sharper-faster-longer race and makes tools that actually help me be more creative. In short, it’s a marvelous hunk of metal and glass, it’s…

The sky’s no limit for this tiny camera with big astrophotography aspirations

John Aldred

Developed by a three man team describing themselves as a passionate photographer, a frustrated engineer and an electronics geek, the TinyMOS has been designed from the ground up specifically for the purpose of astrophotography. Over the past year, the three have been working a way to get to the point where they’re ready to open up […]

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