- New camera technology can detect the amount of blood and water in a vehicle, enabling the fuzz to bust carpool lane violators. [Via]
- Scott Kelby shows how to get a cool, gritty look in Camera Raw/Lightroom + Photoshop.
- The world of the small:
- Lori Nix builds incredibly detailed tabletop worlds and photographs them. Love this little Zeppelin. She gives a behind-the-scenes tour on Cool Hunting. [Via]
- Martin Amm’s captured an amazing shot of a dew-covered bug. [Via]
- Kodak says they’ve shrunk CMOS sensors, squeezing 5 megapixels onto a 1.4 micron device. Meanwhile Sony’s new DSC-W300 brings 13.6 megapixels to point-and-shoots.
- Digital SLRs seem to have an inferiority complex, adding features found on compact cameras. First they got going with live preview (e.g. Sony’s autofocus-friendly version), and now they’re considering movie mode.
- "My pencil is very big and hard." Ahem. Photojojo has a cool idea for making your own photo pencils.
- Robert Rezabek’s Blackr JavaScript bookmarklet hides everything on a Flickr photo page except for the pictures. [Via]
- Leica has launched a rich, immersive Flash experience on their site.
- Can the iPhone be a pro photo accessory? Yep; Ben Long shows how, using iLevel software.
Kodak’s B&W photodiode could be a nice addition to the bayer mosaic. Being much more sensitive to light It should give us better dynamic range and higher ISO at the expense of color resolution. If that is a good trade or not remain to be seen.
I would love to have an all B&W DSLR, and could even use my old color separation filters occasionally, though I admit it would be a niche market for sure.
I really hope we don’t end up with gigapixel cameras with so much noise that the camera’s denoising makes it look like photoshop’s paint daubs filter was applied to the image.
hmm… 1.4µm pixels.
Though smaller pixels have better detail capability, they are easily swamped and lead to bloom. The sensor, by today’s commercial technology, would have less color fidelity and less quantum efficiency. However, that gives it a natural boost in low light situations, so long as the noise can be well controlled.
I’ll be very interested to see how they solve these issues, as microscopy cameras could really use a boost in this area.
The engadget article also mentions a 4th “layer” of pixels… afaik, only the Foveon sensor uses Si as a frequency filter in a layered configuration. Almost everyone else uses a standard Bayer mask (except Fuji’s hex pattern), with a GRBG pattern. Do they mean to say one of the green pixels is being replaced with an unfiltered pixel?