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Anyone who has hired a graphic designer or other Apple geek today might wonder why it’s all gone a bit quiet. If the bewildered employer asks, they might get told anything but the truth, which is that the designer is too busy wetting himself—a ‘herself’ will likely be much less distracted—over Apple’s new Next Big Gizmo to recycle any second-rate, wishy-washy design right now, sorry.
It’s the iPad’s fault.
The iPad is a whopper iPhone without the Phone, a pumped-up netbook computer without a physical keyboard (though one can be docked on), an eBook—sorry, iBook—reader and something that an awful lot of people are going to accidentally drop on their polished concrete floors because they bumped their elbow on the arm of
—Chris Noble, 27 January 2010
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Not too long ago, on a website very close to this one (this one), Mark Noble waxed lyrical about Olympus’s brand new high-end compact shooter, the E-P1, which was inspired by its classic old high-end compact shooters, the PEN series.
Surprisingly, Olympus have just mothballed the E-P1. Welcome, the E-P2. (It’s as if Olympus sent out the E-P1s and then realised the factory had missed off a few things.) Aside from a couple of fancy and useful-looking focussing features, the major upgrade is the addition of a port on the back, just below the hot-shoe, that enables plug-in gadgets such as the new, included, digital external viewfinder (shown above, top), which can be used at any angle up to 90
—Chris Noble, 10 November 2009
THE E-P2 WILL BE ON THE SHELVES IN JANUARY AND WILL SET YOU BACK AROUND US$1099, UK£850 OR €949
THE GXR WILL BE AVAILABLE AT SOME POINT FOR ANYONE WHO INVESTED IN BETAMAX IN THE LAST TEN YEARS
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Gizmon, a Japanese camera company that makes add-on lenses for various compact cameras, have just released two new external lenses for the iPhone. There’s a fisheye and a wide/macro lens which both use a magnetic attachment to connect on top of the built-in iphone lens. Prices start at £23 for the wide/macro and £45 for the fisheye.
—Lee Basford, 06 November 2009
A Leica the iPhone camera is not, but on the fly it can make for some great images, especially with the newly added focus points of the 3Gs model and a few apps to polish a turd. My favorite polishers include Camera Bag and Old Camera. Both are filters which aid in turning otherwise lifeless, flat photos into something a bit more magical. Old Camera gives users a selection of monochromatic options, while Camera Bag has everything from Lomo and Holga looks, to 70s style color. Are iPhones the new Polaroid cameras?
—Jared Souney, 21 July 2009
Owners of the ground-breaking Canon EOS 5D Mark II will be buttons-at-the-ready on June 2nd. Not shutter-buttons though, download buttons: Canon have paid heed to owners and have written new firmware which will give much more manual control over the camera’s already amazing, but not that flexible, full HD video-shooting capabilities.
—Chris Noble, 29 May 2009
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