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The iPhone 18 Pro Camera Finally Breaks Its Biggest Rule (Video)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Cameras, Videos,
Every iPhone main camera before this one picked an aperture at the factory and lived with it forever. The iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max get to change their minds. Six tiny laser-cut blades, controlled by a microscopic precision rotor, let the main camera physically switch between f/1.48, f/1.8, f/2.8, and f/4.0, reading the scene to decide in real time.
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Nikon’s $1,400 Z5IIC Is a Full-Frame Camera You Can’t Put to Your Eye
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Cameras,
Take the electronic viewfinder off a full-frame camera and Nikon will sell it to you for about $300 less. That is the Z5IIC, announced today, a Z5 II with the eyepiece deleted and a $1,399.95 price on the body. Whether that reads as a bargain or a dealbreaker depends almost entirely on what you shoot.
If your footage ends up on YouTube, you already know your answer. Nobody presses a mirrorless camera to their face to film a talking head. The flip-out screen is the whole workflow, and the EVF was a lump on top that you paid for and carried around anyway. If you shoot stills outdoors, the answer runs the other way. No rear LCD beats an eyecup at two in the afternoon in July, and no brightness setting fixes the part where your arms are stuck out in front of you instead of braced against your face.
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Paris Opened a Criminal Probe Into Smart Glasses Filming, Five Days Before Meta Connect
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Cameras, Wearables, Editorial,
You can be filmed on a public street by a stranger in ordinary-looking sunglasses, end up on TikTok, and never know either thing happened. The Paris prosecutor's office says it has recently opened at least one criminal investigation following sexual harassment complaints involving smart glasses, after a run of videos in which men record women in public without their consent and post the footage for engagement.
Prosecutors told Reuters that their cybercrime unit tested a pair of the glasses about two weeks ago to work out what offenses the devices could be used to commit. They did not say whether Meta is a target of the investigation or whether the file covers only the unnamed people doing the filming. Meta has not been named as a suspect, and the office has not clarified the scope. Anyone telling you France is prosecuting Meta is ahead of the reporting.
Oppo’s Find X10 Pro Max Has Three 200MP Cameras, Including the Ultrawide. It Lands September 22.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Cameras, Smartphones,
Your phone's ultrawide is almost always its worst camera. It's the lens you reach for when you want the whole room or the whole mountain, and the one you regret the second the light drops. Oppo's answer on the Find X10 Pro Max is to stop treating it like the cheap seat.
Oppo confirmed this week that the Find X10 line arrives in China on September 22, and that the Pro Max carries three 200MP rear cameras: main, ultrawide, and periscope telephoto. The company says no phone has done that before. Find X series product lead Zhuo Shijie posted the specifics on Weibo, so this is Oppo talking, not a tipster.
Dyson Put a Camera Inside a $500 Toothbrush
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Cameras, Smart Home, Misc. Tech,
Dyson spent six years building a toothbrush that can see inside your mouth. The CameraJet is up for pre-order now at $499.99 in Ceramic Ultra Blue and Ceramic Pink, and it ships September 8. It brushes, flosses and rinses in one pass. The seeing part is the whole pitch. A camera under the brush head finds the gaps between your teeth and fires water at them, so you never have to aim.
That is either the most Dyson product ever made or five hundred dollars for a toothbrush. Both are true.
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Meta Closes the Ray-Ban Glasses Trick for Hiding the Recording Light
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Cameras, Wearables, Editorial,
The white light on the front of a pair of Ray-Ban Meta glasses is the only thing standing between you and a stranger filming you. That's the whole design. There's no shutter sound, no lens barrel, no obvious gesture. A small LED comes on, and you're supposed to notice it and act accordingly.
Meta has started rolling out an update that closes the newest way people were getting around it. Until now, the glasses only checked the LED at the moment you pressed record. Start a video with the light exposed, then slide a finger or a piece of tape over it, and the camera kept going. Alex Himel, Meta's VP of wearables, announced the fix on Threads: "The camera will now stop working if the light is covered during a recording."
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Kodak’s New $35 Film Camera Wants to Be Your First One
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Cameras, Hot Deals,
You know that feeling when you want to try shooting film, poke around online for a camera, and immediately bounce off a wall of jargon about apertures and light meters and $300 price tags? The new Kodak EC35 is built for the exact moment right before you give up. It costs $35, it fits in a pocket, and it asks almost nothing of you.
Announced July 19, the EC35 is a reloadable 35mm camera aimed squarely at people who have never loaded a roll of film in their lives. The whole pitch is right there in the price: this is meant to be as easy, and nearly as cheap, as a disposable, except you keep the camera and just swap in a new roll when you are done.
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Adobe’s Project Indigo Camera App Will Now Critique Your Photos Like an Art Teacher
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Cameras, Software, Artificial Intelligence,
You know that little pang you feel when you look back at a photo and something's just off? The lamp growing out of someone's head, the exposure that's a touch too flat, the great subject buried in a busy frame. You can feel that the shot isn't working, even when you can't say why. Adobe's Project Indigo now wants to say why for you.
The experimental iOS camera app is testing a new tab called AI Playground, and it does two things that are more interesting together than apart: it edits your photos with generative AI, and it critiques them like a patient art teacher looking over your shoulder. That second part is the one worth paying attention to.
Black Lives Matter w/ Guest Sara Dietschy
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Cameras, Smartphones, Editorial, Features, PC / Laptop,
This week, we reflect on the uprising that we’re seeing in the USA and across the world as people fight for change in how the lives of black and brown people in America and are viewed and valued. Andru shares his 24-hour fight with YouTube to get a video that would help protesters stay safe. Our guest, Sara Dietschy joins us and gives her unique perspective on the new Sony ZV1 handheld camera, which is targeted at vloggers.
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- How to Police-Proof Your Smartphone
- Sara Dietschy's Sony ZV-1 Review
- Sara Dietschy on YouTube
- Geared Up on YouTube
- Jon Rettinger on YouTube
- Andru Edwards on YouTube
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Geared Up: Predictions for the Upcoming iPhone Event with Sara Dietschy
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Cameras, Features, HDTV, Home Entertainment,
On this week's Geared Up, Sara Dietschy joins us in this episode as we talk about our predictions for the Apple iPhone 11 event. We also talk about our first handheld game consoles from back in the day, the problems with the MacBook Pro, do a deep dive on all the new cameras that were announced last week, and talk about what it's like behind the scenes of being a content creator.
LINKS MENTIONED IN THE SHOW
- Geared Up on YouTube
- Jon Rettinger on YouTube
- Andru Edwards on YouTube
- That Creative Life Podcast with Sara Dietschy
- Sara Dietschy on YouTube
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