Is OBSBot's Tail Air the Goldilocks Live-Streaming Camera?

Beyond the desk and fancy backdrop of the average TV studio broadcast, there is a set of giant cameras, each with a technician behind it, panning to follow movements on set. In the era of everyone-as-a-broadcaster, OBSBot’s Tail Air offers a way to achieve a bit of that high production value without the high production crew price tag.

The Action Live Streaming Camera I Used for Inaction

OBSBot's Tail 2 Shines in Filming with Mobility Issues

I’ve reviewed a lot of technology over the years, always aiming to use it as intended. In the case of the OBSBot Tail 2, life had other ideas. What do you do with an action-ready, live streaming camera when you can barely move?

A Look at the Weeylite Sprite 20 Light Kit

The Impressively Light Lights for Photo and Video

If you are new to photography or videography, it is easy to overlook the importance of lighting in producing truly great results. Advances driven by machine learning photography from Apple and Google are seriously reducing the utter necessity of lighting in many situations, but if you are aiming for the best quality video, pushing your live stream into pro territory or leveraging light for artistic photography, lighting gear is your friend. And an affordable set from the maker of Viltrox lenses is a really good way to get started.

The Canon EOS EF-M

This looks exactly like the sort of exciting compact bodied interchangeable lens camera that I have been hoping to see from Canon. While there may end up being disadvantages to using a full APS-C sized sensor in this body with regards to how small the EF-M lenses can be made, the fact that this camera shares a sensor with the EOS Rebel T4i also makes it a theoretically more capable than most of its peers. Assuming that the production version fixes some of the bugs that the press ran into with the early samples yesterday, I think this could prove to be a camera that any Canon EF system user will be mightily tempted by.

Intriguing

Engadget reports,

C-Mount lenses (commonly used on 16mm film cameras) have already found a bit of new life on Micro Four Thirds cameras thanks to adapters, and it look like the compact lenses are now also found another fan in the form of Japanese camera manufacturer Kenko. It's now showing a new compact camera that will apparently accomodate C-mount lenses directly, and be available in Japan this summer for [yen] 32,000, or about $370 (it's not clear if that includes any lenses).

A new camera line with a not new mount. Intriguing.

Plenoptic is Plenty Intriguing

Mike Prospero reports on something intriguing from Adobe.

After giving a brief demonstration during the keynote address at Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference, Adobe went into more detail about computational photography using plenoptic lenses, a method of taking pictures so that any part of a photo can be brought into focus after the fact.

My camera wants one.

Photo Labeling

Dennis Powell writes:

The old cliche is that a picture is worth a thousand words. Sometimes it is. But experience suggests that most of the time a picture without a few words is not good for much.

So true.

Photo Fun

I went through the last few years of my photos tonight, gathering some pictures my mom wanted for a project. One of the joys of digital photography is just how easy going through photos can be. It was fun revisiting a lot of happy memories from the past few years.

It is amazing how just a few photos of a given moment or event can bring so many other details back in mind. In many ways, a picture truly is worth a thousand words.

Getting Organized

After years of letting my digital photo collection get out of control, I've spent today organizing it. I have a ways to go, but I've managed to at least bring some order to my 60,000+ photos. It feels great to see them in some semblance of order.

Photo Milestones

I put cameras through their paces. My last camera, a Sony DSC-H1 12x superzoom, has taken well over 23,000 pictures in the last two years or so that I've owned it. I made the jump to a Canon DSLR about six months ago, and my EOS 40D has now served up 6,400 images of its own. Even my iPhone has taken 305 pictures during its last year of service. In all, iPhoto catalogues 43,715 photos and 276 movies for me.

I was talking to a friend who spent years as a film photographer and he remarked what a milestone it was to pass 5,000 photos on a camera back in the film era. It is amazing to think just how different things are now. I have a jar of old film that never was developed because of the cost of developing 35mm or APS film (especially the latter). Now, it hardly costs anything to take pictures. I've been taking most of my shots as of late in Raw so that I can submit them to a stock photography seller who said he would try to sell them for me. Assuming my camera lasts just 100,000 shutter cycles with me saving every image in an approximately 10mb Raw file that is then stored on my primary hard disk and an external backup drive (courtesy of Time Machine), I figured the total cost of taking and storing photos comes out to just over a penny a shot. That's with the photos backed up even! Remember how much double prints used to cost?

A penny per shot, camera wear and tear included, and almost all of that very small cost is from the cost of storing the photos. What a marvelous era it is to be a shutterbug!