My pal Paul Skidmore’s post over at Macgasm is a must-read if you are serious about taking photographs with your iPhone.
Category: Photography
New Gemini Photo Archive
As someone who downloaded the entire GRIN collection, I am super excited about this new photo archive.
The Gemini missions don’t get nearly enough attention, in my opinion.
The Canon PowerShot G1 X
The Fading of Kodak
Michael Hiltzik at the LA Times:
The Rochester, N.Y., company said it had $862 million in cash on hand as of Sept. 30, but at the rate it’s losing money from operations (more than $70 million a month), that hoard would barely last a year. As for future revenue, it’s banking heavily on winning patent lawsuits against Apple and the maker of BlackBerry phones.
On the Set of ‘Return of the Jedi’
These photos are amazing. This really makes you realize just how crappy all the CGI in the trilogy really is.
via @mhedge
Classic Photographs in Lego
iPhone 4S Sent to Space
Thanks for the tip, Josh!
Jobs’ Hero
Christopher Bonanos at The New York Times:
In the memorials to Steven P. Jobs this week, Apple’s co-founder was compared with the world’s great inventor-entrepreneurs: Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Alexander Graham Bell. Yet virtually none of the obituaries mentioned the man Jobs himself considered his hero, the person on whose career he explicitly modeled his own: Edwin H. Land, the genius domus of Polaroid Corporation and inventor of instant photography.
Instagram 2.0.1 Hits App Store
The best iOS photo app just got better.
Instagram’s Backend
Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger:
With more than 25 photos & 90 likes every second, we store a lot of data here at Instagram. To make sure all of our important data fits into memory and is available quickly for our users, we’ve begun to shard our data—in other words, place the data in many smaller buckets, each holding a part of the data.
Tech stuff aside, those numbers are staggering to me. (If SQL and UUIDs get your juices flowing, read the whole post.)
ISS Time-Lapse Video
Instagram v2.0 Launched
Clarity and detail with every shot. By far, the most requested feature from both pros and amateurs alike, we’ve increased our photo size from 612x612 to 1936x1936 on the iPhone 4 (1536x1536 on the iPhone3GS). You’ll capture beautiful moments in all their detailed glory
Also on tap: new filters, a new live preview feature and optional borders. Instagram is one of my favorite iOS apps, and this update — mainly the size increase — may let it replace Camera+ on my iPhone’s homescreen.