Here’s a great video showing the mirror and shutter mechanism in a Canon DSLR. The action begins 60 seconds in.

Keep in mind that the entire real-time duration of the mirror swinging up, the shutter coming down, the exposure, the shutter coming back up and the mirror swinging down is .213 seconds.

Great find, Tom!

My favorite camera store, B&H Photo Video, is one of the first businesses participating in having virtual tours of their stores via Google’s Street View technology.

If you look up B&H Photo Video on Google Maps, you can step inside.

via Wired.com

What’s the big deal with SOPA & PIPA, you ask?

Here’s the big deal.

Do something about it.

Ever since I was introduced to wine glasses and champagne flutes, I’ve always tried to make them sing a tone (maybe after a few drinks).

The Glass Duo takes this up a magnitude. I didn’t even realize this was a thing until I saw this on YouTube and saw the great swathes of related videos.

Awesome stuff.

So what kind of camera do you have? How fast can it shoot? 1/4000th of a second? 1/8000th of a second? Pshaw. What do you think of a camera that can shoot 1/1,000,000,000,000th of a second? That’s so fast that it can capture light traveling in slow motion!

MIT researchers have created a new imaging system that can acquire visual data at a rate of one trillion exposures per second. That’s fast enough to produce a slow-motion video of a burst of light traveling the length of a one-liter bottle, bouncing off the cap and reflecting back to the bottle’s bottom.

via MITnews

What an amazing feat of handcraftsmanship!

via BoingBoing

I approve the use of auto-tuning in these brilliant videos.

Thanks for the link, Angelo!

The Princess Bride Cast Reunion

Happy 25th Anniversary to one of my favorite movies of all time… all time!

via io9

(image from GETTY)

Thank you, Steve, for being a pioneer in marrying design and technology.

via CNN