The Passion-Aggression Chassis is the future of DSLR video rigs. It is big, expensive and loaded with features like cup holders, dice, lot’s of places to grip, a mat box, and a built in boom mic with a custom baby seal fur wind screen. We all know that size matter, so the bigger your rig is the better! Okay so if you have not caught on the Passion-Aggression Chassis is not a real product. The guys at Neumann Films are trying to make a point, it is not all about your camera gear, it is about creativity. You don’t need a $10,000 rig to make a movie, you can do it yourself with a T2i or another HDSLR camera and a tripod.
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(Via PetaPixel)
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Lytro cameras lets you focus after you have taken the photo
Lytro, a new camera start up, is trying to make the biggest change in the photography world since the 1800s. Instead of taking a traditional photo that just captures one plane of light their camera captures the entire light field in one shot, this allows you to adjust the focus after a photo is taken. The camera is built on research from the mid-1990s called light field technology, where 100 cameras were required in the same room to produce the same type of photo, Lytro is able to recreate that effect and fit it into your pocket.
The Lytro camera uses a microlens array sensor which captures more light data, from many different angles. Then that data if sent through powerful software that allows you to switch the focus point. In addition the camera is much faster than traditional cameras, there is no shutter lag or autofocusing device, this allows you to take photos faster.
(click the image to set your focus point)
The camera also gives you the feeling of 3D, by reorienting a photo after it is taken. You are also able to take photos in much lower light than regular cameras. When you take a traditional photo you have one opportunity to set the depth of field, while light field camera takes a lot of photos from different locations and angle which allows it to produce this type of image.
The company has raised $50 million to bring their new light field camera to the market. There is a big risk that this might be too much innovation and that consumers will not buy the camera if the price is too high. There is no word on how much the camera will sell for, but they say it will be priced for the “Consumer market” and should be out by the end of the year.
What do you think, is this just a neat feature, or the next innovation in cameras?
(Via NYT and TechCrunch)
Behind the Lens: Pete Souza the White House Photographer
Pete Souza has a job that a lot of people would die for, Pete is the current chief White House photographer for President Barack Obama. A White House photographer gets complete access to the President to document history as it happens, and there is a lot of documentation, Souza and his staff take up to 20,000 photos a week.
If you have a little more time, than watch “The President’s Photographer” a great National Geographic special about, Pete Souza and other White House photographers over the last 50 years.
Watch the full episode. See more The Presidents Photographer.
Top 10 Iconic Kisses of all time
After the Vancouver Canucks lost the Stanley Cup this week, a riot broke out. From that riot came an iconic photo taken by Rick Lam of Scott Jones and Alexandra Thomas. After Thomas was knocked down and was crying on the ground, her boyfriend stooped down to help and comfort her with a kiss. Rick didn’t even know he had captured the couple kissing until a co-worker congratulated him on the great photo. In the spirit of this great photo we have put together a list of the most iconic kisses of all time.
10: The Vancouver Riot Kiss
9: A 1968 episode of Star Trek entitled “Plato’s Stepchildren” featured the first kiss between an African-American and a Caucasian on American television.
8: This internationally acclaimed photo taken by Tanya Chalkin has become a best-selling poster.
7: Spider-Man, played by Tobey Maguire, kisses Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst) in the first Spider-Man movie.
6: Adrien Brody kissed Halle Berry after winning the 2002 Academy Award for Best Actor.
5: The kiss that woke Princess Aurora in the 1959 Walt Disney film “Sleeping Beauty”.
4: At the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards Madonna smooched with both Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera after the opening performance of ‘Like a Vigin’ and ‘Hollywood’
3: The kiss from the 1939 film “Gone with the Wind” starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh.
2: After the royal wedding in 1981 Prince Charles and Princess Diana kissed on the balcony of Buckingham Palace.
1: A photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt that showed an American sailor kissing a young nurse on V-J Day in Time Square on August 14, 1945.
How camera lenses are made
Have you ever wondered how camera lenses are made? Discovery Channel’s “How it’s Made” produced a segment a few years ago on the process of assembling a lens.
According to the video it takes 6 weeks to make an lens and optical glass can costs up to $1000 per kilogram, no wonder lenses are so expensive.
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Image credit: Photographs by Duncan Meeder