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Gear we use: Photo Transfer app – getting photos and video from iPhone to iPad

If you liked iMovie on the iPhone, you’ll love if on the iPad. The only problem: how to get your photos and video from the iPhone to the iPad. Why Apple didn’t homebrew a solution into the iPad is beyond us but thankfully, the developers behind the Transfer app did. Apple expects you to transfer more »

Flickr eclipses 5 billion photo uploads

This morning photo sharing giant Flickr surpassed the 5 billion photo mark as reported by Media Culpa. According to the site’s numbers, Flickr is pacing around a billion uploads a year from users over a three year span. Flickr hit it’s one millionth upload back in October of 2004 and it’s first billion sometime between more »

Google’s Street View: On your trike, get set, go!

Everyone and their brother has heard of Google’s Street View program, I am sure. It allows you to virtually tour all kinds of places as seen from the street. But now, according to a post on Google’s official blog site, they have expanded where they can virtually take you to visit. Their latest development, Street more »

PENTAX brings the latest to their K line with the compact and rugged K-7

Pentax has a new toy in their K line and it’s worth a second look. It’s the Pentax K-7. Compact, rugged, with a whole new body design, the 14.6 megapixel DSLR may be all new and improved, but it still works with every Pentax lens out there.

Pentax is designing this one with an obvious push towards serious photographers who know their way around a camera, but don’t want to necessarily pay the uber-high end ticket price of a professional DSLR system.

Canon has a new compact photo printer at a price to match – just $99

Anyone that knows photography knows the name Canon. So it is only logical that the company that brings us great cameras also brings us printers to print the photos we shoot. Adding to their compact printer line; Canon is introducing the latest in their SELPHY line, the SELPHY CP780.

The CP780 has some nice improvements over its predecessors. Its image quality is better. It’s faster. All nifty perks obviously. It has nice big buttons that you don’t need a doctorate to be able to figure out how it works. It comes with a 2.5-inch LCD display on top so you can see what you are printing. It fixes any nasty red eye automatically.

The printer also features a Portrait Image Optimizer. What this does is uses a Face Detection technology which identifies and optimizes faces and skin tones of subjects. Now, while previous SELPHY models also had this technology, Canon has really tweaked it so that the color correction to try to bring realistic tones and colors.

Free Fridays: Free custom photo book from Snapfish

I’d rather not tell you how I found this exclusive deal that will save you $29.99, but I can tell you to thank Oprah. It seems odd to talk about her again after doing so a couple of weeks ago when she was pimping out the Kindle reader from Amazon. This time, Snapfish.com was on more »

Photography Guide Part II: Now where do you go with all those photos?

So, you’ve found and purchased the camera that is just perfect for you. (If you haven’t, check out The Gadgetell guide to finding a camera) You’ve been been playing with it, experimenting with it, and taking a ton of shots. Now what? Well, there are quite a few options if you want your work seen or even sold.

There are lots of places on the ‘net that allow you to post your photography work. Of course, there is the well known flickr, which seems to be used by everybody and their brother to post everything from little Johnny’s 4th birthday party to girls showing off their ass-ets, to some photos that really do have photographic merit. But, if you are looking to have your work seen and critiqued by other photographers, you may want to look into some other sites as well.

Read about all the options you have to get your work seen and even get paid for your photos after the break.

Spiff up your MySpace photo with Pixisnap mosaics and Polaroids

Looking for something to set you apart on MySpace? Need a funky-fresh, dressed to impress photo? Head on over to Pixisnap and use there free service to create your very own mosaics and Polaroid images. The site is just a web application so there is no downloading. Getting images to look cool is super easy. more »

G10: The latest in the Canon Powershot line

I’m a firm believer it’s pretty hard to go wrong with a Canon. So, I was curious to see how the latest in their G-series measured up to its predecessor, the G9. It seems as though they did pretty well.

Canon’s latest in their Powershot family is the G10. It has some changes from the G9, although some of the problems that existed with the G9 are still present. But, if you are looking for a good prosumer camera, without a “pro camera” price tag this one just may fit the bill nicely.

So what separates it from the G9? Keep reading.

Fujifilm’s 3D camera is just the tip of the iceberg

Photographers have been messing around with 3D photography for years. It just hasn’t been a nice and easy, already developed for them, consumer-friendly, point and shoot 3D camera they were using to take the photos. Some photographers were rigging up their own cameras to get the effect, some doing it in post-processing. Some, used much less user-friendly four lens cameras that did exist out there, just not with the best picture quality.

Fujifilm is hoping to remedy all of that with their development of their 3D camera. The way it accomplishes the 3D effect is to use two lenses and two sensors. The lenses are about 6 to 7-cm apart, which is the width between the average person’s eyes. These lenses and sensors take different pictures from different angles simultaneously. Then, it combines the different pictures to create one image that is displayed on the camera’s 2.8-inch, 230,000 pixel LCD screen.

Read more about 3D cameras after the break.