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Best Digital Photo Organizer? [Hive Five Call For Contenders]

Category: Science/Tech | Posted by laraib 1516 days ago

Editor: In an attempt to answer the most frequently asked question we get—"Which solution is the best?"—today we're launching a new feature series called the Hive Five. Once a week we'll put out a call for contenders looking for the best solution to a certain problem, where YOU tell us your favorite tools to get a job done. A day later, we'll report back with the top five recommendations and give you a chance to vote on which is best.

The transition from film to the digital world means we can take pictures until our shutter finger blisters over without worries about cost. The upside is that while you were once limited to 24 pictures per roll of film, now you can now fit hundreds of images onto one reusable memory card; the downside is figuring out how to manage all those pixels once they're on you read more »

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Category: Science/Tech | Posted by laraib 1507 days ago

You might think your consumer-model Canon digital camera can't pull off the kind of fancy shots and tricks that make you stop and look on Flickr—until you unlock your camera's potential with the Canon Hacker's Development Kit. The completely reversible firmware upgrade, available for models running the DIGIC II or DIGIC III platforms, speeds up fast shutter modes (from 1/1,600th of a second to 1/60,000th!), allows for time-lapse photography and other scripted shots, unlimited interval shooting, better HDR pics, and much, much more. Wired's How-To Wiki has a handy guide and introduction to the CHDK, available at the link below. I lack a Canon to try out the CHDK, so let your fellow readers k read more »

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Stitch Photos Into Panoramas with Free Software [Feature]

Category: Science/Tech | Posted by laraib 1500 days ago

You can get decent photos out of a standard, consumer-grade digital camera, but a little post-processing can turn them into fantastic wide-angle landscapes. You don't need to be one of those people who can explain the concept of lateral chromatic aberration to get truly eye-catching digital pictures. With a few shutter clicks and some free, cross-platform software, you can easily mesh standard digi-cam shots into true landscapes, fix one photo's deficiencies with another, and create layered photo collages. Let's take a look at how to use the free, open source application Hugin to make two basic kinds of panoramas.

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A digital camera that embeds EXIF data in its pictures (that's basically all of them)
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Take Psychedelic Pictures with Your iPhone [IPhone]

Category: Science/Tech | Posted by laraib 1401 days ago

Wired's How-To Wiki demonstrates how to exploit the iPhone's unusual shutter to take distorted photographs. The trick? Just twist your camera as you're taking a picture. The reason? The iPhone uses a CMOS sensor, which more or less "wipes" the shutter across the sensor like a scanner rather than the circular aperture of a traditional camera. The iPhone's CMOS scanner seems to be a bit slower than, say, the CMOS sensor on your Canon camera. Therefore, as the camera is recording the image, any changes over that small but significant amount of time are recorded. Taking a psychedelic photo is actually just as easy as it sounds (works better in bright sunlight), but read on for a quick video demonstration.