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Samsung Launches the New NX Mini Smart Camera – The Perfect Selfie Camera!
Samsung Electronics announced today the launch of the NX mini, a slim and light interchangeable-lens camera. The portable and stylish design of the NX mini combined with its image quality means you can capture special moments in stunning detail. With NFC and Wi-Fi capabilities, you can take impressive shots that you can then share quickly and easily with your friends straight away. With its slim and light interchangeable-lens, the NX mini is the ultimate way to capture life on the go. Weighing only 158g (body only) and sporting an ultra slim (22.5mm) design, the NX mini can easily slip into almost any pocket or bag, yet still provide the results…
MPLS Mobile Photo Juror Results!
We are delighted to publish the juror results of the MPLS Photo Center call for entry. Karen Divine the Juror expressed… ‘It’s very exciting to have the opportunity to Juror the Mobile Photo Competition for Mpls Photo Center. As those of us know who have been playing with Mobile Photography for years, it can mimic any kind of photographic process from alternative to multi-layers as in Photoshop, to beautiful single image street photography and portraits. We received a wide variety of imagery and techniques so I decided to select work that represented different genres and styles, from single images to heavily apped work. The submissions were wonderful, revealing great talent…
Apple Updates Most Affordable 9.7-inch iPad with Retina display – Drops iPad 2
Apple today announced iPad with Retina display replaces iPad 2 as the most affordable 9.7-inch iPad at $399/£329 for the 16GB Wi-Fi model and $529/£429 for the Wi-Fi + Cellular model. The fourth generation iPad features the amazing 9.7-inch Retina display, the Apple-designed A6X chip, ultrafast Wi-Fi, a 5MP iSight camera which also captures 1080p HD video, a FaceTime HD camera, and support for LTE carriers worldwide,¹ all while delivering up to 10 hours of battery life.² iPad with Retina display comes with iOS 7, featuring hundreds of great new features, including Control Center, Notification Center, improved Multitasking, AirDrop, enhanced Photos, Safari, Siri and iTunes Radio. To order at the Apple Store,…
Mobile Journalism – New Column Opening Soon on TheAppWhisperer.com
There are as many dimensions to mobile photography as their are traditional photography and that’s all good! To that end and coming from a Journalistic viewpoint as that is what I am in combination with being a Portrait Photographer, we have decided to open a new section within theappwhisperer – this will focus entirely on Mobile Journalism. The BBC as well as many other media outlets have supplied smartphones to many of their field reporters. It’s not all about photography, it’s about filming and recording too. It’s a huge area and one that we are going to fully embrace to ensure that you are kept up to the minute with…
Fourteen Female Photographers You Should Know Right Now…
PhotoShelter have put together a great article, highlighting fourteen outstanding female photographers and their work. Of course, this list is not exhaustive, we could add plenty more – specifically female mobile photographers that you should know now. Nonetheless, the creativity, style, ingenuity and integrity of these photographers is second to none. Perhaps, the one that hits home most to me, is the the work by New York based Sara Naomi Lewkowicz. ‘Sara rose to prominence with her domestic abuse essay in Ohio entitled “Shane and Maggie” while pursuing a Master’s degree at Ohio University. Like Donna Ferrato’s work from a generation prior, Lewkowicz bore witness to the often hidden violence…
iOS Photography App – Fast Camera – Temporarily Free Today
Fast Camera is just that, fast, the developers describe it as ‘lightning fast’ – perhaps – not sure how you measure that but it can shoot up to 1,200 pictures a minute. It’s a good solid, stable app packed with features including timelapse video, stop motion, timer and stealth mode. Usually Fast Camera retails for $4.99/£2.99 – click here to download for free.
Dragon Dictate 4 for Mac Giveaway – Each Worth $199/£124
Dragon Dictate for Mac, version 4 – the most powerful, accurate and personalised voice recognition software for the Mac available on the market today. Dragon Dictate for Mac, with convenient, customisable features, makes it easier and faster than ever to dictate and edit text and to control desktop and web applications, simply by speaking. Dragon Dictate for Mac has improved accuracy with new and improved speech recognition technology, and now features the ability to transcribe text from any single speaker’s pre-recorded audio file, combining both voice recognition and transcription offerings into one powerful product. We have several copies of this to giveaway, either digital codes or boxed and wherever you…
Global Roll Out of LG G Pro 2 Kicks Off in Asia
LG Electronics (LG) today announced the start of sales of G Pro 2 in the Asia Region in markets including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Philippine, Vietnam and Indonesia among others. The device was first introduced to a global audience at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last month where the smartphone was well received for its innovative UX features, superb display and advanced camera functions. “With its 5.9-inch Full HD IPS display, versatile camera functions and user-oriented UX features, we expect the LG G Pro 2 to make a strong impression with Asian customers.” said Dr. Jong-seok Park, president and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company. “Asian consumers have…
iOS Photography App – CameraBag 2 – Temporarily Free Today
CameraBag 2 is a hugely popular packed with features. ‘CameraBag 2 is hi-fi, because it’s built on the same 32-bits-per-channel Analog Engine that powers CameraBag 2 for Mac/PC, designed for professional photographers. This means your photos retain their smooth color gradations even when they’re heavily edited’. Uusally CameraBag 2 retails for $1.99/£1.49 but today it’s free, click here to download.
‘Impossible’ Interview with ‘Elegia’
We’re delighted to be working closer with The Impossible Project team as we continue to branch out and expand our reach with all things related to mobile photography. Analog post-processing of mobile images is becoming more and more popular and we’re going to make sure our readers are fully briefed on this very exciting development. The Impossible Project is in many ways leading the way, but there is also a growing community of mobile artists and photographers experimenting with other analog post processing techniques in an attempt to make their mobile images stand out even more, in galleries, magazines and the like and we have viewed some outstanding images and…
