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The Weirdest and Most Wonderful Digital Cameras From the ’90s
The ‘90s might be best known for 16-bit gaming, Tamagotchis, and the earliest flip phones, but I remember it as a decade where we got to watch digital cameras go from expensive tools for professional photographers to devices accessible to the average consumer — complete with an awkward teenage phase where companies were willing to…
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Canon’s New HDR Camera Sensor Can Capture Multiple Exposures In Just One Shot
For now, there’s really only one way to capture an HDR image when lighting conditions vary wildly across the frame: you take multiple shots with different exposures, and then assemble a final composite using the properly exposed areas from the various images. But that could soon be on the way out, with a new Canon…
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Researchers Invent a Privacy-Preserving Camera That Only Captures What You Want
Privacy is an obvious concern now that everything from smartphones to smartwatches to even smart glasses has built-in cameras. Banning covert cameras is never going to happen, and digitally altering images for privacy reasons is a real pain. So, researchers at UCLA are instead working on a radical new kind of camera that can selectively…