Home

Haunted Happenings in Salem, MA (Halloween 2008)

AlwaysValerie — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:08:06 +0000

The Salem Liberties - Scary Business

Please visit AlwaysPhotographing.com to see our collections of Salem, MA Halloween Photos taken during 2008 Haunted Happenings events featuring Mamadou and Debra Crosby's Talent Quest (sponsored by Liberty Tax of Salem, MA)

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Pentax Introduces Waterproof Digital Camera

AlwaysValerie — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:20:08 +0000

PENTAX Imaging Company has announced the PENTAX Optio W60 compact digital camera. Lightweight and fully waterproof, the Optio W60 features 10 megapixels and a 5X zoom lens with 28mm wide-angle capability. The enhanced design of the Optio W60 allows the camera to operate up to 13 feet underwater for two hours and at extreme temperatures well below freezing.

Other important features and modes of the PENTAX Optio W60 include a High-Quality Movie mode with HD resolution up to 1280 x 720 pixels (comparable to a 720p HDTV at 15fps) as well as Auto Picture mode, fast Face Recognition, Smile Capture, Blink Detection, an Underwater Movie mode, High Sensitivity Digital SR mode that automatically adjusts the sensitivity up to ISO 6400, and an LCD monitor with a 170 degree wide-angle view and Anti-Reflection coating to reduce glare.

The PENTAX Optio W60 will be available in July 2008 for US $329.95.

Learn more about the Pentax Optio W60.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

WiFi Enabled Cameras Thwart Thieves!

AlwaysValerie — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:48:51 +0000

When thieves stole Alison DelLauzon's camera while she was on vacation in Florida, she was able to retrieve her lost photos and her camera thanks to her Eye-Fi wireless-enabled SD memory card. The card sent her photos and photos of the thieves to a photo-sharing service when it came in range of a wireless network.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Final Shots of RFK Remembered at 40th Anniversary of Assasination

AlwaysValerie — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:01:26 +0000

On the eve of the fortieth anniversary of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, photographer Harry Benson remembers his thoughts in the moment:

He didn’t hear the gunfire, but when he heard the scream, Harry turned on his heel with his camera already halfway to his face. “This is what I came into the business for,” he thought, repeating it like a mantra in his head. “Don’t mess up now. Mess up tomorrow if you have to. This is history.”

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Omnivision Technology Enables 8 megapixel Camera Phones

AlwaysValerie — Tue, 27 May 2008 12:04:52 +0000

OmniVision Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OVTI), the world’s largest supplier of CMOS image sensors, today launched its OmniBSI™ architecture, a novel sensor design that uses backside illumination (BSI). OmniBSI enables improved image quality on increasingly miniaturized chips.

BSI methodology involves turning the CameraChip™ sensor upside down so that it collects light through what was previously the backside of the sensor, providing the most direct path for light to travel into the pixel. BSI technology affords a much larger aperture size, which allows for lower f stops, facilitating the development of better performing camera modules with superior camera performance.

OmniVision is currently demonstrating an 8 MegaPixel, OmniBSI CameraChip sensor, and expects to start sampling first products before the end of June.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

No Time to Catalog your Photographs?

AlwaysValerie — Tue, 27 May 2008 02:43:36 +0000

As is so often the case with technology, if you wait long enough, it will become unnecessary!

A team let by MIT researchers has discovered that software is able to identify many common subjects in images that have been compressed to a very small size.

Deriving such a short representation would be an important step toward making it possible to catalog the billions of images on the Internet automatically. At present, the only ways to search for images are based on text captions that people have entered by hand for each picture, and many images lack such information. Automatic identification would also provide a way to index pictures people download from digital cameras onto their computers, without having to go through and caption each one by hand. And ultimately it could lead to true machine vision, which could someday allow robots to make sense of the data coming from their cameras and figure out where they are.

Read a synopsis of the research: MIT helps develop new image-recognition software

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

The New York Times "Covers" Blogging

AlwaysValerie — Mon, 26 May 2008 22:04:11 +0000

Emily Gould shares "What I gained — and lost — by writing about my intimate life online." Read the lengthy and controversial article featured on the cover of yesterday's New York Times Magazine: Exposed

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Blogging for Profit

AlwaysValerie — Mon, 26 May 2008 20:47:36 +0000

According to a recent Chicago Tribune article by Ann Meyer, "Entrepreneurs find creating and running Weblogs or developing them for others to use as a marketing tool can be profitable."

Read the article: Blogging paying off for a few

Original post blogged on b2evolution.