Marques Brownlee (AKA MKBHD) recently paid a visit to the company Motorized Precision in Portland, Oregon, to check out the company’s high-speed camera robots. In this 8. 5-minute video, Brownlee shares the beautiful camera moves that are made possible by this “dope” technology.
The company’s main robot is called Kira. It’s a fully-metal device that has […]. petapixel.com
Despite raising about $1. 25 million in a crowdfunding campaign, now-defunct company Panono GmbH went bankrupt after failing to deliver its 360-degree camera to many of the people who had backed the product. dpreview.com »
2017-12-22 21:49
Launched today by a company of the same name, Rylo is a 360-degree camera that uses some nifty software to produce "beautiful, cinematic video" that is "impossibly smooth. " You just focus on shooting, and Rylo can just about handle the rest. dpreview.com »
2017-11-01 01:00
After months of financial troubles, GoPro's restructuring efforts have begun to pay off. The company showed notable growth during its second fiscal quarter 2017, including a 34% year-on-year increase in revenue and a 39% drop in quarter-on-quarter inventory levels. dpreview.com »
2017-08-07 18:13
Episode 187 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. Download MP3 – Subscribe via iTunes, Google Play, email or RSS! Featured: What the Duck comic strip creator, Aaron Johnson In This Episode If you subscribe to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast in iTunes, please take a moment to rate and review us and help us move up in the rankings so others […] petapixel.com »
2017-06-22 16:12
Canon's recent acquisition of Toshiba's medical equipment unit has helped spur strong first fiscal quarterly financial results for the camera company, and as a result it has increased its full 2017 operating profit forecast. dpreview.com »
2017-04-26 23:40
When camera companies announce new cameras or lenses, the press releases are often filled with generic statements about the wonderful qualities of the product. Now the marketing teams behind those words have a new shortcut: the Random Photo Marketing Generator. petapixel.com »
2017-04-15 21:04
Ricoh has issued a response to a report from the Nikkei Asian Review, denying that the company is considering leaving the consumer camera business. Ricoh's statement says that it will focus its attention on 'high added value products' in its Pentax and GR lines. dpreview.com »
2017-04-12 22:15
Snapchat is best known for being a social messaging app that has transformed the way people share photos. But its parent company, recently renamed to Snap Inc. , has much loftier goals: it’s aiming to become a juggernaut of a camera company. petapixel.com »
2016-12-17 21:27
Canon has made a 19-megapixel full-frame global shutter CMOS image sensor, and it's available now.
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In 1998, San Francisco installed the latest cutting-edge technology to run the train network: floppy disks. A quarter of a century later and the city's transportation agency is still using the same system. [Read More]
Mark Weir, Senior Manager of Electronics at Sony, retired this week after working for the company since 1986. He is, without a doubt, one of the smartest and friendliest people the digital camera industry has ever known and while we are so happy he finally is taking time for himself, we're still a bit sad to see him go. [Read More]
Artificial intelligence companies Stability AI and Midjourney Inc. are fierce competitors in the AI image generation space. The rivalry has allegedly boiled over into the dangerous and felonious realm of corporate espionage. [Read More]
Despite a combined valuation of its 32 teams nearing $150 billion, the National Football League (NFL) has long relied on a literal chain -- carried by a "chain gang" -- to measure first downs.
A new advanced neuromorphic system designed to eliminate blurring in smartphone photos is now ready for production, using a mix of AI and existing processing power to freeze action in ways not seen on current smartphones. [Read More]
Researchers have developed a new method of storing data on an optical disk. It is capable of holding 24 times the data of the most advanced hard disk drives: the equivalent of 20 million digital photos. [Read More]