Well it was just a matter of time for the Open Source visionaries to come up with an Open Source Digital Camera (Frankencamera) and a team at Stanford University is doing just that. This camera will revolutionize the digital camera industry and change the way we take pictures.
Imagine a camera that could actually allow you to compose, preview and shot in HDR? Or image a Camera that allows you to change the focus point after the picture has been taken. How about a camera that will allow you expose one half of the picture at f/2.8 and the other half at f/5.6?
According to the Experts at Stanford University, these are some of the features you will be able to get with the Frankencamera. Marc Levoy, professor of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering and graduate student Andrew Adams photographed below with the open source camera.
The camera runs Linux, and its metering, focusing, demosaicing, denoising, white balancing, and other post-processing algorithms are programmable. The current version takes Canon EOS lenses.
Here’s a video of the Stanford team explaining some of the possibilities of this Open Source Camera (Frankencamera)
My good friend Todd Rapparport of Rapparport Design knows that I’m always looking for better and faster ways to test my web designs on different web browsers specifically Firefox (Mac/Win), Internet Explorer (6.0/7.0/8.0) and Safari (Mac/Win) and when he came across Adobe’s BrowserLab he immediately sent it to me and I’m sold on this free Cross-Browser testing tool.
The product looks mature and it has Adobe’s signature clean and sophisticated look and feel. It allows you to switch from each of the browsers rendering by simply selecting the browser from a drop-down list. It also allows you to see your design on two different browsers side-by-side.
I know this tool will not solve Internet Explorer compatibility issues but at least it will allow me to quickly compare my design’s behavior on each of the popular web browsers.
I came across the blog of my friend John Saddington “Human3rror” and I was impressed with the Digital Business Card Wordpress theme he has created. The theme is not only clean and trendy, it allows you to link and display your profiles from several social networks.
The Wordpress theme is easy to install and configure. You can choose which social networks to display and the profile to display when your visitors click on the social network icon. You can visit and download the Free Wordpress Theme from his blog.
Speaking about social media icons, Komodo Media has a ridiculously rad set of cool social media icons for free.
…and did I mention that these icons are all for free? Download the Free Social Network Icon Set directly from Komodo’s website.
Nowadays every professional photographer has a Digital Darkrom where we adjust our photographs, some more than others but most of us have Photoshop as part of our workflow.
A couple of days ago, a customer asked me to add rain to one of the shots we took of a model and since it hasn’t rain lately around Huntington Beach I started looking for a solution to add the rain to the model scene and I came across this fantastic Photoshop Tutorial at psd tuts+.
I was amazed by the great video tutorial by Andrew Gardner. He takes you through the whole process step by step to create the scene below.
Well it was just a matter of time for the Open Source visionaries to come up with an Open Source Digital Camera (Frankencamera) and a team at Stanford University is doing just that. This camera will revolutionize the digital camera industry and change the way we take pictures. 
