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Leica's new X Vario compact APS-C camera can't compete

Aaron Souppouris June 12, 2013 06:58 am
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Leica has announced a new fixed-lens camera, the X Vario. Featuring what Leica calls an "unusually large" sensor, an 18-46mm fixed lens, and a 3-inch display, the $2,850 camera is aimed at people that want high performance in a compact body. Unfortunately, putting Leica's PR aside, the X Vario's spec sheet tells a very different story. There's nothing unusual about its sensor — it's a 16.2...

Samsung's Galaxy S4 Zoom official: 16-megapixel cameraphone with 10x optical zoom

Jeff Blagdon June 12, 2013 04:05 am
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Samsung is taking the wraps off its new Galaxy S4 Zoom variant today, the latest in a series of spinoffs for its flagship handset. The phone features a 10x optical zoom lens in front of its 16-megapixel CMOS sensor, with a Xenon flash for adding some extra light to your images.

Like we'd heard last week, the newest S4 has a 4.3-inch qHD (960x540) Super Amoled display and 1.5GHz dual-core processor, runs Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, and supports LTE. Predictably, it's big and heavy, at 208 grams and 15.4 millimeters thick — nearly double the thickness of the original Galaxy S4. It is, however, measurably slimmer than last year's Galaxy Camera, Samsung's first crack at adding an Android interface to a consumer point-and-shoot. Photographically speaking, things look similar between the two: both devices shoot at the same resolution and max...

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Adobe releases Lightroom 5 for $149

Jeff Blagdon June 10, 2013 12:01 am
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Adobe has just released Lightroom 5, the latest version of its professional photography software for OS X and Windows. If you’ve been taking part in the Lightroom 5 beta you already have a good idea of what to expect, but just to recap, lossy DNG Smart Previews let you work on your RAW images...

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Latest Dropbox beta now lets you import your entire iPhoto library

June 6, 2013 01:14 pm
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Dropbox has made photo syncing and backup a major part of its service over the last year or so, and now the backup service will get a lot more useful for those who use iPhoto. A new beta for the Dropbox desktop sync software was just released and one of the included new features is the ability to import photos straight from your iPhoto library. The software is smart enough to make folders out of your albums and events, so your photos will be just as organized in Dropbox as they are on in...

Using Google Glass: on a hiking trip, completely offline

June 3, 2013 02:30 pm
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Hiking with Google Glass

I like the woods. I like the quiet, the green — especially as the summer tunes up and Manhattan starts dripping. And even in New York, the woods are closer than you think. Beacon Mountain is about 60 miles north of the city, only a little over an hour on the Hudson line from Grand Central. That means I can leave my apartment at nine and, even after missing a train or two, be in the woods by noon. I try to make the trek each summer,...

Bell Labs creates a lensless camera that's always in focus

June 3, 2013 10:53 am
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One day, cameras may be able to capture less data but produce images that look just as good as a traditional photo. Bell Labs is the latest to attempt such a feat, and it's doing so while eschewing another major camera standby, the lens. The laboratory has developed a single-pixel camera that only uses a series of transparent openings to capture its image, without any glass to direct the light. The system uses a technology called "compressive...

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