Is it possible for a company with legacy holdings and a history of owning a narrow sales channel to evolve into a thriving digital enterprise? Kodak, which filed for bankruptcy protection today, isn't alone in trying to navigate an analog to digital transition. READ»
When consumer digital photography was invented, a technological sea change occurred. The little grains of silver that had created images for 100 years were now replaced by ephemeral "bits" and "pixels."
So why is everyone trying ...READ»
In the age of iStuff, we all idly dream of casually coming up with a hit app idea and making a mint off it. MetaLab designer William Wilkinson is one of the few people who have actually accomplished this.
Inspired by the wildly ...READ»
You know how people sometimes say that jazz is the only truly American art form? Animated GIFs are like the jazz of the internet: they could only exist, and be created and appreciated, online. That said, PopTart Cat is not exactly on ...READ»
As digital cameras have outgrown their bulky origins and continued to miniaturize, some photographers and cinematographers joke that soon the "camera" itself will disappear, leaving just a lens with a chip and a screen on the back of ...READ»
Usually the digital camera in your smartphone can snap reasonable pics in good lighting, but the image quality is too sucky for photo enthusiasts. Enter InVisage Technologies to right this wrong--their funky new camera tech uses ...READ»
We love technology here at Fast Company. And we're big on design too. Which is partly what makes RED's digital cameras quite so awesome, since they mix the two exquisitely. And the newly official RED Scarlet may even change the DSLR ...READ»
The 2009 Nobel Prize for Physics has just been announced, and instead of rewarding some esoteric, hard-to-fathom theoretical physics work, it's gone to pioneers in two fields close to tech-lovers hearts: Fibre-optics and digital ...READ»
Back in February, rumors of a 12-megapixel Samsung smartphone surfaced. I was totally down on the device, worried about how badly the idea could go wrong. Now the SCH-W880's surfaced, and it appears to have allayed nearly all my ...READ»
Despite Nokia's global success it's performance in the U.S. market has been lackluster. Can the arrival of the N86 to America, with its Symbian-smartphone and 8-megapixel-camera powers help turn that situation around?
The phone was ...READ»
Leica's just announced via a YouTube video that it will introduce new Leica cameras on September 9. As if that PR maneuver wasn't confusing enough, get this: Leica's event is scheduled for the same day as Apple's iPod launch gig. ...READ»
This is one of those ideas that's been kind of inevitable. It will be kind of useful, but it's still dreadful all the same: Sony's launching a new digital camera dock/monopod that'll automatically snap all your party ...READ»
Nikon just refreshed its D300 digital SLR camera into the D300s, with 720p video-shooting powers, a quieter shutter and in-video auto-focus. It's neat and all, but it has us wondering where else can next-gen DLSRs go?
The D300s is ...READ»
Two new steadicam-like grips designed for the iPhone have surfaced. Beyond their immediate utility, the fact they exist drives home an interesting point: Low-end digital cameras should beware--the iPhone is about to steal your ...READ»
A new rumored cameraphone from Samsung seems at last to be taking digital camera/cellphone crossover devices in the right direction: The M8920 has a proper three-times optical zoom instead of a low-quality digital ...READ»
Among all the iPhone's glorious attributes, its weakest link is its camera. As well as being slow, and just 2-megapixels in resolution, it only takes photos that called be called okay at best, and extremely blurry at worst. But ...READ»
Canon's Digital Rebel cameras have always been hard-hitters among entry-level DSLRs, but Canon is poised to sew up the market with its new T1i--a camera that's a clear response to Nikon's D90. Primarily, it's because the T1i not ...READ»
In today's fascinating "reveal" of the next-gen 3.0 software for the Apple iPhone, one feature was totally ignored: Video recording and playback. It's a glaring omission from an otherwise impressive set of announcements. Why ...READ»
I've railed against the pointless war for more megapixels in digital cameras before: photography is about how best to capture light and including more densely-packed, tinier pixels just doesn't make sense. It seems that someone in ...READ»
It's the run-up to photography tradeshow PMA 2009, so we can expect a pile of new digital camera news: Standing out among the new releases today is Samsung's TL320. It's a point-and-shoot compact device, much like many others, but ...READ»
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