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This is what happens when a drone interrupts your Christmas date

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As reported on Engadget. by Aaron Souppouris You’re on a date at TGI Friday’s, casually sipping your discount cocktail, trying to ignore the disappointed look on your partner’s face as they attempt to cut into their overcooked steak. As if this situation wasn’t awkward enough, the smooth sounds of the Billboard 100 playlist are interrupted by a high-pitched whining. A lone quadrocopter hovers above, dangling a collection of stale mistletoe leaves. Looking to make the…

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Photography Tech

The beautiful blueprints for Fujifilm’s camera of the future

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As reported on The Verge. By Sam Byford The inside story of how the excellent X-T1 came to be “If I want to play my favorite song, I want to choose my favorite guitar,” says Fujifilm designer Masazumi Imai. “It’s the same with cameras. If I want to take a photograph of something important to me, I want to choose a special product.” Photography has been around for close to 200 years and, despite the best…

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Photography

Reboot: these stunning still-life photos will take you back to the future

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As reported on The Verge. By Sean Hollister Jim Golden takes pictures of products, sometimes all by themselves. Other times he assembles incredible collections of everyday objects and antiquated technologies into stunning spreads, like this painstakingly placed array of retro video game systems. Golden’s latest project is called Relics of Technology, and it’s a bit of both. Collecting bits and pieces of obsolete technology like floppy disks and Betamax tapes, he’s assembled some into pleasing patterns like his previous work.…

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Mobile Photography

Oppo Find 7 is the world’s first phone that can take 50MP photos (video)

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As reported on Engadget. BY RICHARD LAI We’ve seen the teasers and we’ve seen the leaks, so it’s about time to see the real thing. Oppo has finally unveiled the Find 7 in Beijing just now, and as promised, this Android 4.3 device really can take 50-megapixel photos! But as with many things in life, there’s a catch here: the sensor is actually a 13-megapixel Sony IMX214 CMOS, so it’s a software trick. Still, the results we saw earlier were surprisingly good,…

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Military Photography

Can You Spot the Snipers Hidden in These Photos?

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As reported on Wired. BY JAKOB SCHILLER ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT SIMILAR GALLERIES People Around the World Pose With Everything They Eat in a Day Photographer Captures the Grace of Waiting at Heaven’s Door The Decline of Rural America, Captured in Replicas of Decaying Homes Mesmerizing GIFs Show Cities Passing From Day to Night The Drama of an Entire Film, Collapsed Into One Frame The Surreal Grandeur of San Francisco’s Little-Known Salt Fields 1 / 21 Sniper…

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Imagery Photography

Panasonic’s 4K-ready Lumix GH4 priced at $1,700, ships in late April

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As reported on Engadget. BY RICHARD LAWLER Panasonic promised it would deliver a GH mirrorless camera capable of recording 4K video for under $2,000, and now we know just how far under that is. The Lumix GH4 camera body and its 16MP CMOS Micro Four Thirds sensor will cost $1,700, while the optional YAGH pro audio/video interface unit is available for an extra $2,000. The pre-order listings on Panasonic’s website currently show an estimated ship date of late April. EOSHD.com confirms the same…

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Culture Photography

Camera lowered into deep ocean trench finds unexpected creatures

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As reported on The Verge. By Rich McCormick Scientists have taken their first look into the previously unexplored New Hebrides deep-sea trench in the Pacific Ocean. At the bottom of the trench — a depth of more than 23,000 feet (7,000 meters) — they found a surprising group of creatures, unlike those found in other deep trenches around the world. The expedition was carried out by the University of Aberdeen’s Oceanlab team, in association with New Zealand’s…

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Photography SmartPhone

Dual-lens smartphone cameras are coming, and this is why we want one

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As reported on Engadget. BY SHARIF SAKR One camera. Two separate lenses. That’s the conundrum raised by leaked images of HTC’s forthcoming M8 smartphone, which is rumored to bring some interesting new imaging features that go far beyond mere 3D. But what could those features be? For an answer, we turned to a startup called Corephotonics, which is currently pitching precisely such a dual-lens concept to smartphone makers. The company’s representatives told us that they’re not behind the specific module in the M8 —…

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Hardware Dev Photography

A closer look at the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera

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As reported on Engadget. BY STEVE DENT Okay, that’s it. You’ve had enough of highly compressed video codecs that crap out on detailed shots and make decent color grading a pipe dream. Now that Blackmagic’s $995 Pocket Cinema Camera (BMPCC) is RAW-ready, isn’t it time to make the jump to higher bitrate video? Perhaps. The company’s latest pint-sized weapon does produce magnificent images using a downsized version of its first Cinema Camera sensor, yes. But it’s not quite as…

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Photography Tablet

Sony add-on will let you graft a giant camera to your tablet

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As reported on Engadget. BY JON FINGAS Whether you like it or not, tablet photography is here to stay — it’s only fair that slate owners get a fair chance at taking nice pictures. Sony certainly thinks so, since it has unveiled a new mount, the SPA-TA1, that attaches its QX lens cameras to tablets. The peripheral isn’t just for small devices, either; it includes six adjustable arms that accommodate larger hardware, like the Xperia Tablet Z and VAIO Tap 11. Sony ships…

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