The UK gives you a brand-new way to infringe copyright with pictures
Harry Marks on his website Curious Rat:
From Amateur Photographer:
Photographers who compose a picture in a similar way to an existing image risk copyright infringement, lawyers have warned following the first court ruling of its kind. UK souvenir maker Temple Island Collection Ltd has won a ruling against New English Teas which it had accused of breaching copyright by using a photo of a London bus on its packaging.
Stupid and terrifying.
This opens up a whole new dimension of ways for businesses to hamper each other, for crooks and copyright trolls to make money and a world of pain for the courts.
This was pretty much my initial reaction after the Event yesterday, just check the post below this one.
It hasn’t changed much since then, but after reading up on the iPhone 4S and all the improvements, I think it’s more than a worthy upgrade.
Most nerds, tech pundits and the likes won’t recognise this for what it is, but the consumer won’t care. The improved camera alone will sell this to millions of people. Bringing the iPhone on par with the iPad 2 in terms of raw processing power is another thing consumers will only realise when they pick up an older iPhone or any Android device and experience the sluggishness of the UI in general.
(via Dead Silence - Comixed - 4 panel comic strip (yonkoma or 4koma))Computer Scientists Create 'light Field Camera' Banishing Fuzzy Photos
If you’re interested in photography at all, this ‘new’ technology should have you excited.
It’s really promising technology which might completely change the way we take pictures.
(via Instapaper)
I still wouldn’t want to cross him.
Odd, isn’t it?
Amazing photograph
Padlock Ranch Horse, Montana. Photograph by William Albert Allard, National Geographic.
This summarizes all Marlboro commercials ever made, without the smoking.
Great photo.
iPhone 4 wallpapers by fiftyfootshadows
One of my favourite photographers, John Carey, just updated most of his wallpapers to take advantage of the iPhone 4’s Retina Display. I strongly suggest you check it out.
This is a quick preview of Camera+ version 1.2 for the iPhone.
The app, which came into being through a collaboration of the talented photographer Lisa Bettany and the programming geniuses of tap tap tap, is the best one I’ve used so far and now it’s being improved even further:
The video shows the ability to separately set the focus and the exposure of a shot on the iPhone. As of right now, the point of focus, is also used to determine the exposure of the scene, which can be detrimental sometimes.
To some it may look like overkill to add a feature like this to something that is essentially a snapshot camera, but to me it is very welcome.
