Posts Tagged “photography”

One of the coolest little products I saw at CES was the Webbie HD camera from Sony. While I’m not a fan of the name (the manual calls it the Mobile HD Snap which is much better), this pocket sized tapeless cam shoots 30-frame HD video at either 720P or 1080P. It’s clearly targeted to those wanting to upload clips directly from the memory stick to YouTube. Even the name suggests that it captures web-quality video. But it DOES shoot in HD. So what’s the down side?  What’s the quality really like? Read… »

Advent Calendar’s are a nice way to count down to Christmas. Here’s a really cool one at the Boston Globe’s Big Picture site. You’ll have to check in there each day as a new picture is added daily.  Enjoy!

We recently took a family vacation to the Disneyland resorts in California. It had been a few years since I had been there. One of the changes is that now when you have your picture taken by a Disney photographer they hand you a PhotoPass, which is a card the size of a credit card that gives you access to the photo via that newfangled thing called the www – or world wide web. Later, log into DisneyPhotoPass.com, sign up, and enter the code on the back of the cards that you collected throughout your stay. Then you can order products with your photos printed on them, add Disney logos to the pictures, or buy them as digital assets – including reprint rights.

So let’s get right to the good and bad of this service, and I’ll toss out some advice for future Disney visitors: Read… »