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Around The Horn
9 May 2014
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Nokia's Partinen drafted by Apple, the socially redeeming virtues of blur, a Waterlogued image by Harold Davis and hacking the NX300.
- Steve Dent reports Apple just hired one of Nokia's PureView camera experts. That would be Lumia engineer Ari Partinen, who starts in June. Mix in Future iPhones may use optical image stabilization to create 'super-resolution' images and stir the pot.
- Weary of sharpening everything? Karlo de Leon gives you Five Reasons to Fall in Love with Blur.
- In Impregnable, Harold Davis uses Waterlogue to render the Pont Valentre as a watercolor.
- In a blog post on his site, Georg Lukas discusses hacking the NX300, not to be confused with the just-announced NX3000. He notes the NFC tag is writable so you can replace it with a URL (among other things) just by touching the camera to an NFC-enabled smartphone. He also discovers the NX300 is running an unprotected X11 server, allowing him to control the camera's LCD.
More to come...