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Polaroid’s new camera is here. The Z340, features an onboard Zink 3″x4″ printer, an LCD viewfinder, and a 14- megapixel sensor. It can print also print pictures in around 30 seconds, giving you a smudge-proof and water-proof print. One cool thing about it being digital is that you can choose what you print without wasting paper on a bad picture.

One drawback may be the price, which is $299.

Available now at Polaroid.com

via techradar

This week, Lytro finally unveiled to the world their light field camera, a revolutionary camera/software system that captures the entire light field, not just a single plane of light like your SLR. The revolutionary thing about this camera is their “living pictures” capability which allows the photographer and the viewer the ability to change the focus of the photo after the fact. Since you’re capturing all the light, there isn’t the shutter delay or auto-focus problems so you can instantly capture the picture you want and worry about the focus later. This is something I’d definitely like to play with.

Here’s a video explaining a little bit about how you interact with the photo experience:

Here’s a cross-section of the technology (slightly larger than true size). Alot of people have wondered what resolution this camera is capable of and it’s a little vague, (measured in millions of light rays), but Petapixel has estimated the size of the sensor to be similar to that of the fujifilm X10 camera.

There are two basic models of the camera the 16GB version (red) $499 and the 8GB version (blue, grey) $399. While this is a consumer version of the camera, features like this may be something we see in all kinds of cameras in the future. The Lytro is set to ship in early 2012.

Here’s a hands on look:

Via @laughingsquid and @petapixel

Here’s a glimpse at Paris-based designer Charlie Nghiem’s Rotor Digital Camera concept which features a column of rotor dials you use to control the camera instead of actual buttons. The major downsides of a design like this could be the accidental change of mode if you have large fingers or the accidental pocket mode change you’ve likely experienced on so many point-and-shoot cameras.(You pull the camera out to quickly get a shot and after the moment is gone you’ve realized you were shooting in the wrong mode.) Regardless, it’s nice to see some fun design out there on the interwebs.

Via Designboom + laughingsquid

After messing around at his desk with some extra memory cards, Photographer David Dvir found himself with an idea to create probably the most elaborate photography-gear-infused Rube Goldberg machine ever. Reminds me a bit of that Honda Cog commercial from a few years back, but it’s still awesome!

Here’s a look at what it took David and the 2dPhotography crew to put it all together.

Found via 3exposure.com & @photogearlust

Leica makes some of the world’s most renown hand-crafted lenses and cameras, here’s a look at how the magic lenses are made.

Via TheDonutProject

While taking inspiration from the great Braun Nizo Super-8 cameras of old, the cool kids at Image Mechanics in Australia are cooking up what seems to be a cool new Super-8 inspired Nizo App for iPhone. While there isn’t really any info on their Teaser site, there are a lot of fun components that you can drag around and play with.

Lomography does it again with today’s release of the fun new marine-inspired La Sardina Series. The four new 35mm cameras, El Capitán, Fischers Fritze, Sea Pride and Marathon all feature a 22mm wide-angle lens and have multiple exposure capability utilizing the MX setting. At $99, the El Capitán and Fischers Fritze feature Lomo’s new flash, Fritz the Blitz, which has 3 power settings (a huge improvement from their previous flashes). The Sea Pride and Marathon are available flash-free for a sweet $59.

When we received the teaser sardine can last week we couldn’t have imagined that the cameras themselves would be sardine can replicas. Nice job Lomo!

Here’s a cool short documentary about photographer Darren Samuelson and his giant 6′ DIY billowed camera filmed by Matthew Sultan. Darren goes into great detail on his GreatBigCamera blog about his journey of building and shooting with a camera that takes 14″ x 36″ X-Ray film.

Here’s a look at some of Darren’s Camera’s results:

Visit Darren’s Sites:
DarrensGreatBigCamera.com
DarrenSamuelson.com

via NOTCOT

The wait is over and the new mystery camera, the LC-Wide from Lomography’s LC-A legacy has just been revealed. The LC-Wide features a 17mm Minigon glass lens with three shooting formats: full (36 x 24mm), square (24 x 24mm), or half-frame (17 x 24mm). In half-frame mode you’ll be able to get up to 72 shots on a standard 36 shot 35mm roll. While the LC-A has been with us analogue lovers for 27 years, they’ve never updated the in-camera lens until now.

The LC-Wide box ($389) comes loaded with several classic Lomo books, a shutter release cable, 2-rolls of film and more. For and extra $24.99, you can pick-up a instant back and skip the trip to the photolab. This is a great update to Lomography’s classic LC-A family and you can’t go wrong with a little splash of red on the front. Get yours today.

We were excited to run across what we hoped was an actual product in production, but turns out to be an elaborate hoax. Someone really needs to make this though. Here’s what they claimed:

The RE-35 Digital cartridges would fit most of your old 35mm cameras you’ve been neglecting for years. Utilizing built-in flash memory the cartridges could save high resolution jpegs/ RAW and would be available in 4, 8, 12mp sizes. After shooting you’d be able to connect to your computer via USB.

The elaborate hoax was designed by Rogge & Pott. They created RE-35 cartridges, packaging, website,  as well as The RE-35 Tradeshow video.

Don’t get us wrong, we love film, but having a product we could use in all of our different 35mm cameras would be really cool.

Found with help from @patrickrodwell. Learned about the hoax from photography guru @jeremycowart. Thanks for crushing our dreams Jeremy.