Slidestrap: a simple and stylish camera strap
I’m not a great fan of the strap that came with my camera. For a start, who wants to walk around advertising their camera make and model to all and sundry? It’s a siren to wannabee muggers that I have...
View ArticleEmber looks to light up iPhone photos
In December last year we featured a Kickstarter project called Lightstrap, which aimed to bring better lighting to smartphone photos. About a week into the campaign, Brick and Pixel, the team behind...
View ArticleLifePrint, a wireless, social photo printer is looking for a Kickstarter start
Portable printers, wireless printers, and smartphone-connected printers aren’t anything new, but LifePrint is looking to bring something new to the market. It’s seeking Kickstarter funding for its...
View ArticleStretcher Prints: making art from old plastic bottles
What can you make from 140,000 already used plastic bottles? I have a pencil that once upon was a plastic bottle. (It says so on it.) Probably quite a few of those. Or a gajillion combs. They seem to...
View ArticleGetting back to basics at the Silverhill Darkroom
The Silverhill Darkroom is a community darkroom based in Hastings, East Sussex, that is looking to provide affordable facilities to anyone living its environs. As well as providing members and...
View ArticleLensbaby turns to Kickstarter to fund a selective focus iPhone lens
There’s already an array of additional lenses to augment our mobile phones, and quite a few of them have their origins in Kickstarter, too. There are telephoto and fisheye lenses that screw on or clip...
View ArticleClick, snap, hang: showing off your prints with Fotobit
You’ve created a stream of several hundred, maybe even thousand, Instagram images that you love. There are landscapes and portraits and birthday cakes and bumble bees and holiday photos and you’re...
View ArticleLensbaby adds an Android option to its Kickstarter campaign
When manufacturers and purveyors of not-quite-toe-curlingly-expensive optically fun lenses Lensbaby launched a Kickstarter campaign to bring a Sweet Spot selective focus lens and companion app to...
View ArticleMBLOK: a cross-platform memory cube for many devices
One memory across multiple devices that doesn’t involve the cloud? I think I could be tempted by that idea. It’s precisely what MBLOK is attempting to achieve via a Kickstarter campaign that launched...
View ArticleDo you have your Rihanna yet? The digital Diana camera
If you’ve not already pledged your money to Cyclops Cameras’ Digital Diana Camera Indiegogo campaign, there’s still time—it ends on 15 July—and there are still cameras available—250 of the 1,000 units...
View ArticleGlowing in the light of Cubee: the illuminating photo cube
How often do you print your photos? How often do you place your printed photos on display? I bet you should do it a bit more often. Image sharing platforms are great, but there’s something special...
View ArticleGoing back for more with Easy-Macro’s latest Kickstarter campaign
If at the beginning of last year you’d asked me if one of the best $15 that I’d spend in 2013 might’ve been on a macro lens attached to an elastic band to use in conjunction with your smartphone, I...
View ArticleHow flashes are less and less likely to kill you
If you’re up to date on your photography history, you’ll be aware that some of the stuff we used to have to do to get artificial light was basically the same as setting off fireworks next to your...
View ArticleElog.io: putting names to pixels permanently
There are billions of images floating about the Internet, we all know that. Anyone who’s ever shared an image on Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, or any other social platform has an understanding of how...
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