Archive for the 'Non-Digital Cameras' Category

How Many Security Cameras At the Winter Olympics?

The answer:  It's over one thousand.  And feel free to read that just like Vegeta from Dragon Ball Z would. Vancouver police have set up a massive network of security cameras all over the city in a bid to catch any and all potential miscreants, be they terrorist, protester, or otherwise threatening the Winter Olympics. And ...

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Frozen Kodak To Dethrone Sir Edmund Hillary?

Let this serve as both a testament to the sheer power of the photograph and an incredible endorsement for Kodak, because this is going to blow your MIND. Back in 1929, a couple guys named George Mallory and Andrew Irvine took a run at climbing Everest, but it's commonly held that they didn't make it, clearing ...

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Jefferson Parish Red Light Cameras In Trouble?

The word out of Louisiana is that Jefferson Parish (a parish down there is roughly the same as a county anywhere else) is looking to get rid of its red-light cameras because they're so tainted they practically steam.  Check THIS out, from nola.com: Redflex Traffic Systems of Phoenix, Ariz., arranged to pay Bryan Wagner, a former ...

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Cameron Renting Out Miracle Avatar Cameras

Remember when we told you about those sweet camera rigs that James Cameron designed that allowed him to do such a bang-up job with Avatar? From the look of things, they're about to become the new standard of camera technology all throughout Hollywood. Interestingly enough, Cameron developed the 3D cameras using largely his own money, a rare ...

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Mansfield Ohio Nixes Traffic Cameras, Cites What The People Want

Whoa. Mansfield, Ohio, you got a whole new reason to smile today.  Seems the city council turned down, and unanimously, no less, a proposal to install red light cameras in the city. Redflex, one of those camera companies that seems to be travelling the country looking for municipalities poor and / or desperate enough to install the ...

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Maybe This Is Why They Don’t Like Speed Cameras In Phoenix

I may not like speed cameras, I may want them gone pretty much everywhere I hear about them, I may think they do absolutely no good for anybody but desperate state budgets, but even I think this is going way too far. In Arizona, apparently, someone took potshots at a van containing a speed camera and ...

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St. Cloud, Florida, Turns To Axis Cameras For Safety

The city of St. Cloud in Florida has recently inked a deal with Axis Communications for a series of network cameras to replace its analog systems, and use them in their water treatment and wastewater treatment plants to help improve safety at the plants. The deal called for a set of AXIS 233D Network PTZ (pan/tilt/zoom), ...

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Baltimore Speed Cameras Issue Huge Tickets In Six Weeks

Wow, where do I get a piece of that action? Seems that the recently installed speed cameras out in Baltimore have made the state a passel of bucks. Eighty-eight hundred speeding tickets were issued by speed cameras in their first six weeks of operation in Baltimore, and considering that each ticket netted the state forty bucks, it's ...

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Polaroid Film Camera Partially Made of Wood

Man, if you ever wanted a throwback in camera design, then do I ever have a winner for you. It may come as a shock to us here in the digital camera universe that Polaroid is actually planning to release an instant film camera, just like they used to way, way back in the day.  Called ...

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Ghost Hunting Video: Ghost From A Hospital

Now, the interesting thing about ghost hunting video is that it's so very subjective.  But sometimes things crop up that can't be explained away, and either way, it definitely falls into the category of "cool pictures." The video is in Japanese, and they'll take great pains to show you what it is they're looking at by ...

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