Posts Tagged ‘camera’
Charlotte and the Crystal GD-900 Camera & M-Toy
August 19th, 2009 by Dave@LGUK
We asked a real-life teenager to take a look at the camera & M-Toy functionality of the new LG Crystal GD-900.
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Flee Digital Cam – aerial shots without risking your cameraphone!
July 10th, 2008 by Dave@LGUK
Via TechDigest comes this lovely bit of Bluetooth hardware - the Flee Digital camera. It's a camera equipped with Bluetooth that you can throw into the air and take lovely aerial shots, which it sends back to your mobile via Bluetooth before returning to ground undamaged:
It reminds me of the great photos you can see on the Camera Toss blog or Flickr pool. While the camera might not match up to your cameraphone's quality it saves risking the poor thing if you drop it. That said, if your phone's tough enough to stand up to it then it might not...
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Here’s a toast to the Viewty
June 25th, 2008 by Dave@LGUK
Toast rarely makes it into the headlines - a mundane yet underrated aspect of life, it largely goes unnoticed and uncelebrated. Until now, that is. Yesterday Simon over at Digital Lifestyles went over to the RCA to meet Freddie Yauner, inventor of a CO2-powered supertoaster, who broke the Guinness World Record for the world's highest-popping toaster - an impressive 2.6m. Simon took along his LG Viewty and so managed to capture the toaster's awesome popping power at 120fps - check out the video below:
The slices of toast quite clearly manage to go well above 2.6m, and in fact could well...
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Helen (and Loki) play with the Secret’s video camera
June 13th, 2008 by Dave@LGUK
It's Friday so here's our weekly video. They say never work with children or animals - but in this case they're wrong. Loki the husky couldn't have behaved better as she performed brilliantly for the camera, while we took some slow-motion footage of her to demonstrate the LG Secret's 120fps video camera. Check it out:
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Secret camera show
May 30th, 2008 by Dave@LGUK
Last week I gave the LG Secret's casing and features a bit of a heavy-handed look - this week it's Helen's turn, as she gets to grips with what's inside and what makes it tick. She's taken the camera and photo editing functions on the phone's camera:
A YouTube video's not the best way of showing the pictures we took, so we've provided the originals here on this blog for you to have a look at - here's the shot of Homer being rapidly pursued by his friends, alongside the negative version of it:
And here's the macro shot Helen was talking...
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Viewty – a quick look at the camera
November 6th, 2007 by Dave@LGUK
As I've said once or twice before, we're really proud of the camera features on the new Viewty - but we thought it would be best to let the camera speak for itself. So here's a nice outdoor shot demonstrating the Viewty's capability, against a competitor's dedicated 5MP camera:
Competitor cameraViewty
As you can see, the blue in the sky comes out a lot clearer, and the midtones in the tree are a lot more distinct with the better contrast. The Viewty is also great in low-light conditions:
Competitor cameraViewty
The colour is brighter, despite he gloomy conditions, and the lines more distinct.
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The history of digital cameras
November 2nd, 2007 by Dave@LGUK
Over at Crave there is this fantastic pictorial history of the digital camera - from cameras that recorded onto analogue tape (like videos), to the first true digital handheld cameras, and then the advances in miniaturisation and storage which means we have cameraphones today. We've come a long way since this prototype from Kodak way back in 1975:
A really interesting story - but it misses once crucial detail. What was the first digital photograph of? It's amazing that we have the world's first ever photo still to hand from over 180 years ago, but not the first digital one from...
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Viewty – 120 frames per second high speed recording
November 2nd, 2007 by Dave@LGUK
One of the unique features the Viewty offers is 120 f/s video recording and this flipbook style animation neatly demonstrates it. The Viewty will record at 120 f/s and when played back at the standard 30 f/s the action appears in slow motion. You can see the difference between normal speed and 120 f/s slow motion playback in the video. This feature is great if your planning on recording sports, or indeed any kind of action shot and there have already been a few simple experiments that show what the camera is capable of.
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