2013-05-13
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2013-03-18
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“A view of Command Post at Headquarters, Strategic Air Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Omaha, Nebraska where television facilities send up-to-the minute information to help Commands.” Circa February 1961
Nice polar map.
2013-03-14
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Conclave results for adjacent popes, by NBC Today via Sascha Pohflepp.
Edit: the first photograph is actually of John Paul II’s funeral, rather than Benedict’s election, but there is one rogue phone camera in the bottom corner, so it still looks as if it’s the availability of technology, not the type of event, that dictates the difference in camera usage.
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2013-02-28
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The San Francisco-based company wants people to contribute their own live video feeds from wherever they are, in order to knit together a network that shows what traffic patterns are like, if a parking spot is available on that block, and whether that park is crowded today.
2013-02-19
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The most exciting is “Zoe” mode (from which the camera gets its name). Zoe lets you take full-resolution videos while simultaneously taking full-resolution still photos in burst mode. Shoot a video and the camera is taking photos for you.
“We invented a way of dual-path encoding where we would shoot still and video simultaneously with no data loss,” Whitehorn says. “We wouldn’t drop data yield down at all. We would bring in full-resolution video and full-resolution stills at the same time… What that means is you have this living asset, that moment will be alive — you can always scrub that moment and get that perfect smile.”
This is by far the most useful addition to a smartphone camera. You can return to a video and literally scroll through the images, select one and save it to your camera roll or share it. Instead of pulling a low-res screenshot, you can pull a full-res photo of the exact moment you want.
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Cameras, 2012. From the accompanying activities for The Radical Camera at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco.
2012-11-18
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Campaign 2012: The Story in Photos from In Focus at The Atlantic (via iamdanw)
Photograph: David Goldman/AP.
2012-08-30
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Michael Zhang at Petapixel: Apple Moves One Step Closer Toward Location-Based Camera Disabling (via)
U.S. Patent No. 8,254,902, published on Tuesday, is titled, “Apparatus and methods for enforcement of policies upon a wireless device.”
