GoPro launches HD Hero2 helmet cam, with live WIFI streaming coming soon

More awesome hardware for the GoPro team, as the extreme camera of choice for most broadcasters, I can’t wait to see what they can do with the new one (especially the new WIFI streaming edition coming this winter!)…

The HD Hero2 competitively boasts that it’s twice as powerful its 2009 predecessor, the original HD Hero. The new helmet cam promises to capture 1080p 16:9 footage from atop your sweaty noggin at both narrow (90-degree), wide (170-degree) and medium (127-degree) angles, and can snap up to ten 11 megapixel photos per second.

The camera’s mini-HDMI port, composite out, USB, SD card and HERO ports will help you share the spoils of your spills when your adventure ends — at least until this winter, when GoPro’s WiFi BacPac promises to enable live broadcasting and camera control over WiFi.

via Engadget.

Sony’s up coming NEX-7 24mp SLR hybrid

 

Here’s Sony’s latest hybrid compact/SLR style camera, the NEX-7. Interesting to see how that OLED viewfinder performs and how the battery hold up under all the electronic demand…

As you know the NEX-7 will feature the same A77 24 Megapixel sensor and a 3 million dot OLED EVF (it is not a hybrid viewfinder!). It has the Zeiss 24mm f/1.8 attached (but that is also a prototype). The camera should cost around $1.200.

via sonyalpharumors

Hasselblad’s $45,000 monster 200px camera

 

Hasselblad have out done themselved again with their 200 megapixel, $45,000 monster camera…

The H4D-200MS actually ships with a 50 megapixel sensor and uses multi-shot technology to produce a 200MP image. A piezoelectric motor slightly moves the sensor while the camera takes six images of a scene. It takes about 30 seconds to capture and stitch the six pictures into a 600MB, 200MP image.

via Gizmodo.

Sony’s Super 35mm sensor equipped NEX-FS100

Holy cow, this camera looks a beaut…

The NXCAM HD that Sony teased last November is what you’re gawking at right now, which is either the pro alternative to the NEX-VG10 or the far-more-affordable PMW-F3, depending on whether you typically tote camcorders or tend to shoot professional film. Either way, $5,850 buys you a Super 35mm sensor that shoots 1080p60 content at up to 28Mbps to SD, Memory Stick (or an optional 128GB SSD) or output uncompressed 4:2:2 footage over HDMI, monitoring the lot on a swiveling 3.5-inch LCD display.

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Greater than the sum of its parts

What would it look like if you tripped and with a Pentax Spotmatic F camera in hand, and it somehow smashed neatly into its most basic components? Artist Todd McLellan gives us an idea by taking one apart, neatly arranging it on a table, and photographing it in a style similar to Carl Kleiner’s IKEA baking book shots.

via Gizmodo.com

Nikon P300 low light shooting pocket camera

Another contender to the low light pocket shooting camera category, this on from Nikon packs an iso 3200 sensitivity (no word on noise produced whilst doing it though) and a f1.8 lens on it’s widest setting (equivalent to 24mm on a 35mm camera)…

The P300 pairs a 12.1-megapixel backside-illuminated CMOS image sensor (which picks up more light than a standard CMOS sensor) with a fast f1.8 lens. Max ISO is 3200. And it shoots 1080p video at 30fps.

It’s also got a new easy panorama mode seemingly borrowed from Sony’s pocketcams, creative filters like faux fisheye and a built-in HDR mode that combines multiple shots at different exposures in camera to create HDR shots.

via Gizmodo

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