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Category: Gadget

  • Outex

    Outex

    If you like to take adventure photography and think that GoPro or other action cameras can not do enough but don’t want to spend more than what your DSLR camera cost for underwater housing, Outex is the answer.  It may sounds like a birth control product brand and works almost the same but it’s the coolest DSLR camera gear to protect the camera from water, mud, snow or dust in reasonably affordable price :)). It envelops any major DSLR and lenses brand like Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Sony, Sigma, Tamron etc.  To do a split level water photography will be very handy if you have the right lenses and Outex set for that as an alternative to expensive camera housing.

    Although you can use Outex for underwater photography up to 10m deep, it is not designed for scuba diving as its not  supporting the pressure. And to be able to use it underwater, it has to be installed properly. When you purchase from their website, it will be directed to which camera and lenses are you using so it will fit them properly. It’s an exciting new gear for adventure photography.

    Here are some photos of this Outex from many sources:

    Outex
    Outex

     

    Outex
    Outex underwater

     

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    Outex

     

    Outex Split Level Photography
  • Bullet time effect – Still cameras array – Time slice

    Bullet time effect – Still cameras array – Time slice

    I first thought about bullet time camera effect when watching Red Hot Chilli Peppers live at Slane when Kiedis jumped and the camera panned from one side to other. I could never think about the logic how the hell they do it with only one camera or software effects. The camera panning must be super fast to create that sort of motion, I thougth. Then I found out that Bullet time camera effect is what they used, its a scene created when a frozen motion is panned using gazillion of camera set up around the object.

    Here are some example of amazing examples beside the most famous one, Matrix movie bullet time scene and they are not the first time to use this technique:

    Time-Slice Films Demo Reel 2009 (Featured above)

    The Gadget Show – Bullet Time / Time Slice Shot – Suzi Perry

    Really Bend it Like Backham

    The 30 GoPro Bullet Time Rig – K.Flay Music Video Mini-Doc

    LA Times: Explained

    Rip Curl: and behind the scene

    Time Slice with Wuon Gean Ho

    A Moment In Time

    On Smash Live – Behind The Scenes – GoPro Array Drum Shoot

    My GoPro Array

    My GoPro Array from Marc Donahue on Vimeo.

    So You Think You Can Dance – Time-Slice Moments

    Legendary surf photog Larry Haynes films GoPro athlete @alanaRblanchard with the GoPro array

    Larry Haynes and @alanaRblanchard
    Larry Haynes and @alanaRblanchard
  • Lytro Light Field Camera

    Lytro Light Field Camera

    Have you ever been disappointed by your camera, or more to yourself for taking a rare opportunity photo but out of focus? I have :D. No software can fix that problem at the moment until recently new invention came up with LYTRO.

    Meant to shot me,not the bridge
    Meant to shot me,not the bridge :D. It will be different story if it was shot with Lytro.

    Its a light field camera that can be used by anyone and no need to worry about the focus. Simple words, shoot now focus later. They just started shipping the new product to their first buyers on 29 February 2012. This brilliant invention captures a photo with a large depth of focus so with only using their software, we can choose or change the focus as we please. By uploading to their gallery, we can even play around with the focus by clicking the point where you want it to be focused. I can imagine now the problem like my picture above will be gone soon with DSLRs applying this technology.

    Lytro Light Field Camera
    Lytro Light Field Camera

    Here are some photos that you can play around with the focus. The picture is not live in this blog because wordpress.com doesn’t allow iframe embedding, but if you click below images and go to the link, you can play around with it and see what I mean.

    Click image to see live photo
    Click image to see live photo
    Lytro
    Click image to see and play around with focus. Wait until its fully loaded
    Lytro Camera
    Click to see and play around with focus.
    Lytro
    Click images to see Lytro camera result.