Category: camera

Exclusive: Snapchat Hackers Friend 4 Million Users [And show their work to the CEO of Snapchat]

Young hackers Ash Bhat and Ankit Ranjan just hacked into Snapchat, and friended 4 million users. After getting their project up and running, they showed it to Evan Spiegel, CEO of Snapchat. We talked to Ranjan, who gave us the whole story. According to Ranjan, Bhat came into the HackTech hackathon at Caltech thinking “I want to piss off a company”, and because of the...

Apple’s Touching Holiday Ad Was Shot Entirely on An iPhone 5S

As they say, “the proof is in the pudding”. Apple showed off the iPhone 5S’s camera in one of the more brilliant smartphone ads of all time, “A Harris Family Holiday”, an ad launched yesterday, set to Judy Garland’s “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”. The ad was a family holiday montage shot entirely on an iPhone 5S – a standard iPhone 5S. Complete...

iPhone 5S Camera features

iPhone 5S Camera is Insane – All about The iPhone 5S Camera

The iPhone 5S has just been unveiled (shipping September 20th), and perhaps the most amazing feature (other than the fingerprint scanner) is the camera. Apple put a lot of thought into it, and dramatically increased the quality of photo and video in every way. I’d qualify this as a point-and-shoot camera killer (past phones have severely dented it, but they’ve never crushed the market...

Digipod Turns SLRs and Film Cameras into Digital Cameras

A new wild product has popped up on crowdfunding site, Indigogo. The product, Digipod, turns old cameras, like the classic Minolta sRt 201 SLR into fully digital cameras, using nothing more than a pod inserted into the film slot. Even more incredibly, the pod costs a mere $200. In order to produce this, they need a minimum of 200,000 pounds (around $300,000) in donations....

Canon EOS Rebel T4i vs Canon T5i- The Difference

Canon just launched their EOS rebel T5i (700d), and it has some big differences from their previous rebel models, the T4i (650D) and T3i (600D) that you should know before looking at buying any DSLR. Sensor Changes: Canon has indicated that minor sensor enhancements have been made, but the resolution of 18 Megapixels that we’ve seen since the T2i has been left untouched on...