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Center Cam A Middle Screen Webcam

Most webcams are fixed at the top of the screen which makes you look up and that means you are not really looking directly into the eyes of the viewer for Zoom or other teleconferencing meeting. The Center Cam is a new webcam that resides in the middle of the screen...

Photomicrography With A Smart Phone

Photomicrography With A Smart Phone

You can create photomicrography with a smart phone and nearly any inexpensive microscope. You do not need any accessories or additional gear. Dr. Annie Morrison shows how she does it freehand with only a smart phone and a microscope. No other gear is needed. It takes...

Canon Cams As Amazing Webcams

Canon Cams As Amazing Webcams

Are you disappointed with the quality of your webcam in Zoom meetings? Even if you pay attention to the lighting, background and composition, you webcam may look like a toy camera. There's a new option that lets you make your camera a webcam thanks to the EOS Webcam...

Best Action Cam GoPro Hero7 Black

Best Action Cam GoPro Hero7 Black

The GoPro Hero7 Black shoots 4K/60p video. And it now has great image stabilization. GoPro has added native live-streaming so you can live stream to Facebook without third-party tools. You can use WiFi or cellular service to run a 720p live stream on Facebook. YouTube...

Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K

Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K

The new Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K or PCC4K is a spectacular video camera with excellent 4K video quality in RAW or ProRes. It has a beautiful 5-inch full HD touchscreen with a surprisingly simple interface. This is a Micro Four Thirds system that has a...

Canon Rebel With 4K Video

Canon Rebel With 4K Video

Canon has a new EOS (Electro-Optical System) Rebel DSLR camera that shoots 4K video and weighs less than a pound with battery and SD card. The SL3 camera (also known as the EOS 250D) is comfortable to hold with a good build quality and has a 24.1-megapixel APS-C image...

To Rent or Buy

With the constant dizzying introduction of new and better cameras and video gear, owning gear can be a real challenge. The danger is that it can lose its value before you have made the final payments. Or that your income from this gear will not meet your projections....

NASA Camera Melts

NASA Camera Melts

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on May 22, 2018 started a bursh fire which melted this Canon 5DS camera. The blast of the actual rocket launch was a quarter mile away. The blast did not melt the camera, but the brush fire...

4 Inexpensive Slow Motion Cameras

4 Inexpensive Slow Motion Cameras

Slow motion footage is created by running a video camera at at faster rate than the normal 29.97 frames per second. The amazing Phantom VEO 710 camera can shoot 1 million frames per second. This makes one second last more than nine hours! And it comes with a price -...

Affordable 6K Cam Kinefinity Mavo

Affordable 6K Cam Kinefinity Mavo

Two new large format cinema cameras, the Kinefinity Mavo and the Mavo LF, will be compared to the ARRI, Sony, and RED large format cameras. Produced by the Chinese camera company, Kinefinity, these cameras offer 6K resolution at affordable prices. Kinefinity Mavo Tech...