Tag: CANON

DSLRs have seen dramatic price drops over the past few years, and their capabilities continue to improve. For under $800, you can get HD video, quality sensors, and enough megapixels to satisfy any spec-obsessed gadget fan. It's a great time to get into DSLR photography, and lenses are just as important as the body you buy. If you're new to Canon, or are interested in moving on from the stock kit ...

For the Canon PIXMA's new ad campaign, Dentsu London (which helped to create those amazing 3-D iPad light paintings) has devised a way to photograph droplets of paint reacting to sound. In conjunction with biochemist Linden Gledhill, Dentsu stretched a membrane over a speaker, dropped a few colors on it, vibrated the paint with a single audio frequency, and shot the whole thing on a spinning rig ...

Think of how much you love your iPhone. Now picture it with a Canon EF 70-200mm strapped to the front end. Did your heart just well up? 'Cause ours didn't. Yet, for Apple fanboy Jeremy Salvador, the idea of pimping out his iPhone with an adaptor to fit any Canon EF lens seemed too good to pass up. After buying an Owle iPhone mount, he decided that its array of built in excessiveness was not ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/06/09/snls-top-10-greatest-fake-tech-commercials/'; Share Despite the dozens of iconic characters 'Saturday Night Live' has spawned over its 35 years, the most consistently funny and memorable moments have come from its hallmark spoof ads. After striking comedic gold in its very first season with a sketch about Mel's Char Palace, SNL's writers soon ...

Shooting video with digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) cameras like the Canon 5D Mark II, 7D and T2i can produce some pretty fantastic results -- as a quick tour around Vimeo, or a viewing of films by Vincent Laforet or Philip Bloom will illustrate. But high-quality video doesn't shoot itself, and achieving superb results with a DSLR isn't as simple as pressing "record." Not only do you need to ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Step away from the ADD-riddled world of tweets and pokes with longform.org, a curated list of the best long reporting, analysis and fiction on the Web. [From: ...

Two brothers have discovered a way to get close-up photos of African wildlife without risking life or limb. According to Wired, Will and Matthew Burrard-Lucas rigged a Canon EOS 400D camera to a remote-control buggy, and cruised it around Tanzania. The boys have even chronicled the adventure, which saw its share of excitement, on their blog. Will and Matthew took a basic four-wheeled robotic ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Whether you're looking forward to an unveiling of a new design or more discussion of Twitter's business plans, you can catch all the coverage from the Chirp conference ...

Share Canon's elegantly executed Digital Rebel T2i is one of those rare gadgets that inspire admiration and affection in a way usually reserved for humans. The T2i is a big upgrade from its predecessor, the Rebel T1i, which lost out to Nikon's D5000 when Switched recommended a beginner SLR (single-lens reflex) last summer. The new T2i incorporates a sensor nearly identical to Canon's popular ...

ICANN, which governs the world of Internet domain names, has relaxed the rules governing the issuance of top level domains (TLD) such as ".com" and ".net." The new rules allow individuals and companies to purchase a custom TLD, and Canon has decided it wants to be among the first to grab a piece of the pie. The camera king has announced that is has applied to purchase the TLD ".canon." This would ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Hack n Mod shows you how to take a clunky gadget scratched from months of abuse to a sleek, brandless futuristic device with just a few simple polishing tips. [From: ...

Sick of of transferring all those photos from your iPhone or iPod touch to your computer whenever you want to print? A new, free app from Canon, which was launched today, will cut out the middleman, making it easier to turn digital image albums into glossy photos. According to Digital Photography Review, the Easy Photo-Print App allows users to wirelessly print photos from the devices mentioned ...

While cloning is still in its infancy, the Canon corporation is doing the next best thing to genetically reproducing departed species: virtually recreating them. According to DVICE, the global imaging company, which has also designed a virtual aquarium exhibit, is developing a museum show in Chiba, Japan called "Dinosaurs -- Miracles of the Desert." Wearing virtual reality goggles, visitors to ...

Not to be outdone by Sony, Samsung, or FujiFilm, Canon has unveiled nearly a dozen digital cameras bound for the US ahead of March's PMA. Of the ten, the big guy is that 10 megapixel SX1 IS we originally heard about last September, which sports 1080p Full HD movie mode and a built-in HDMI connector. Not too far off is the SX200, SD970 and the already-leaked SD960 / SD780, which all record 720p ...

In theory, at least, we already knew that the Gigapan Imager was capable of some amazing things. This, friends, is proof. David Bergman strapped the device and his Canon G10 onto a rail at Barack Obama's inauguration and snapped 220 images. After giving his MacBook Pro 6.5 hours to compile a two gigabyte image, he hosted it up on his Web site for people to zoom around on. We'll caution you -- ...