Sony Invests In Smartphone Image Sensors

Sony will be raising US$1 billion for the productions of its next-generation ‘stacked CMOS’ image sensors at its Nagasaki Technology Center.  Sony will be building a plant that will produce 60,000 wafers per month. The announcement includes ¥45bn already committed in the company’s capital expenditure plans in May 2012. Sony’s stacked CMOS design makes for better sensors because it puts the sensor circuitry for each pixel behind the photo-sensitive...

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Photographer Gives Advice On How To Be Better

Here’s a write up from Steve Giralt, a photographer from Miami, in which he tells photographers that you have to push yourself to be better. “ There are so many things to do and never enough time to do them. You talk about starting that new personal photography project, about updating your website, or wanting to call those prospective new clients. You know that these things need to be done if you are to succeed and you really want to do them....

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Photographer Creates ConditionOne, A 180-Degree Video Player

There’s a pretty cool app available for the iPad and iPhone created a by a photographer. Danfung Dennis is a photographer who covered the conflicts in war-zones such as Afghanistan and Iraq. He was even nominated for an 2012 Academy Award for his work called “Hell And Back Again”, a documentary on the war. Now he has created ConditionOne, a video player for the iPad and iPhone that offers a full 180 degree view, allowing the user to pan or tilt the device to look around inside the video. Here’s the full report from TechCrunch: “ So...

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Schneider Kreuznach Makes Lenses For Mirrorless Market

Schneider Kreuznach announced that the company will be making camera lenses for mirrorless systems. The company has even released images of the proposed 14mm F2.0 lens for the Micro Four Thirds system. This move allows Schneider to enter the independent lens market that builds autofocus lenses for mirrorless systems, following the launches of lenses for Micro Four Thirds and Sony NEX from Sigma and a NEX 18-200mm from Tamron. The lenses will...

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Sigma Reveals Latest Macro Superzoom Lens

Sigma revealed its latest Macro superzoom lens – the compact 18-250mm F3.5-6.3 for APS-C DSLRs. This latest Sigma lens has a new design and it’s smaller than the existing lens. It has a ‘Thermally Stable Composite’ (TSC) construction. Sigma said the TSC is a material currently used exclusively by brand and ergonomically designed to cut down barrel expansion or contraction with extreme temperature variation. The Sigma Macro superzoom lens is priced...

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Nikon Reveals Lens for Full Frame Cameras

Nikon revealed its latest lens – the AF-S Nikkor 24-85mm F3.5-4.5G ED VR. It’s a relatively affordable, stabilized, variable aperture standard zoom lens for full frame cameras. The latest Nikkor lens is designed to commemorate the Japanese company’s 70 millionth Nikkor lens since 1933, and the 30 millionth silent-wave motor lens since the system’s introduction in 1996. This Nikkor camera lens for full frame cameras may lead the way to the rumored...

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SHAW F1-XLR NIGHTSTER

EXCLUSIVE Harley’s evergreen Sportster is probably the world’s most commonly modified bike. So it’s hard to create anything truly original. But the AMD Championship-winning workshop Shaw Speed & Custom has pushed the boundaries once again with this Nightster-based custom, the F1-XLR. This time, inspiration comes from 1920s Harley-Davidson board racers—with the classic Shaw recipe of old meets new. And if the smoky grey paintwork...

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MOTO GUZZI BY KAFFEEMASCHINE

Axel Budde builds the cleanest, coolest Moto Guzzi cafe racers around. This is his sixth build and the best yet, fresh out of his workshop in Hamburg. Kaffeemaschine #6 is based on a 1980 Le Mans frame and was commissioned by the British motorcycle racer Brian Cowan, who wanted a high-performance Guzzi for the European vintage race scene. Cowan’s brief was simple: the bike had to be fast, finished in red and silver, and have cast wheels....

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YAMAHA YZ250 FLAT TRACKER

Modern race bikes leave me cold, but vintage machinery gets my motor running. It’s mostly because you can actually see the bike with older machines, rather than a garish mish-mash of graphics fighting for your attention. This clean, sharp-looking Yamaha YZ250 flat tracker is a case in point. It was built by Italian Lorenzo Buratti, who wanted to go racing without breaking the bank. So a YZ250 two-stroke was a wise choice. “There...

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DEUS KAWASAKI W650

Here’s the latest machine from the Australian headquarters of Deus. Called “Gicleur”, it’s one of the most stylish Kawasaki W650 customs we’ve ever seen. Gicleur is French for “jet”, and it’s a critical part of an espresso machine: the nozzle that governs the water that flows through the coffee. According to Deus, the W650 has been “given a double shot of top shelf components”. These include a custom performance exhaust, one off...

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NORTON COMMANDO MK III

It’s hard to improve on the Norton Commando. But Bill Becker, creator of the lovely Aermacchi Sprintwe featured a little while ago, has taken the iconic British motorcycle to a new level. Bill bought the Commando on eBay as a project bike with a rebuilt motor and powder coated frame. Everything else was in a state of disassembly and arrived in three boxes. “That was OK with me,” says Bill. “My intent was to build a cafe racer based on a 1970s...

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BMW R80 “DARK LAW”

In Europe, the spotlight on new wave custom builders tends to fall in France, Spain and Italy. But Portugal is coming through the ranks quickly. We’ve already featured the Triumph Thruxton built by Maria Motorcycles of Lisbon, and now we have this classy BMW R80 from Ton-Up Garage of Matosinhos. “We want to bring back the spirit of motorcycles from a few years ago,” says Ton-Up’s Pedro Oliveira, “and the design that made that...

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MOTO MORINI SETTEBELLO

In Italian, “Settebello” is idiom for “seven of diamonds”. And this little 175cc Moto Morini is a real diamond, packing a surprising punch from its four-stroke single motor. This was during happier days for Moto Morini, when it enjoyed huge competition success after WWII. Built for privateer racers as well as fast road riders, the Settebello could keep up with most of the 250s of the day. Engine output peaked at 16.5 hp—at a heady 8,500rpm—...

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Zenvo ST1 2010

         The Zenvo has just released the first official images and final details for the ST1, a brand new supercar from a brand new manufacturer that will join the ranks of the automotive world's elite should it make its production date of early next year. It looks to compete with the likes of Pagani, Koenigsegg, SSC and Bugatti for the fastest and meanest cars in the world.          ...

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