German engineer Johannes Heberlein has created a handy little photo accessory that should appeal to a lot of first time film photographers. It’s called the Lime One, and it’s a compact and intuitive light meter that you attach to your camera’s hot shoe.
If this sounds familiar, that’s probably because Heberlein isn’t the first to think of popping a tiny external light meter onto a film…
A Teardown of the Sigma fp Mirrorless Camera
October 7, 2020
Since making is debut in July of 2019, the Sigma fp has gained notoriety as a very capable camera despite its mixed reviews. The decidedly lowercase ‘fp’ is Sigma’s first full-frame sensor.
The fp was released the same year that all other major camera manufacturers…
One of Andy Warhol’s personal Polaroid SX-70 Land Cameras, a camera the artist used extensively at the height of his career in the 1970s, was just auctioned off by Heritage Auctions for a whopping $13,750 earlier this week.
Finding a working, used Polaroid SX-70 isn’t…
Cryptic Studios interview: Surviving Atari, working with Wizards, and a changing business model
October 7, 2020
Cryptic Studios is entering its third decade in the massively multiplayer online game market, where it started (like everyone else) in paid subscriptions before moving on to the free-to-play model.
In that time, CEO Stephen D’Angelo has seen the company grow from working on one game (City of Heroes) to now maintaining three MMORPGS: Champions Online (Cryptic also owns the pen-and-paper IP after…
Some of the best Nintendo Switch games are discounted today
October 7, 2020
If you just got a Nintendo Switch, or are still looking for ways to get your own, you should check out some of the deals happening on a few of the best games available for the system. Best Buy and Amazon are offering them, and this time, games that rarely see a price drop…
The 2021 Volvo XC40 Recharge and the 2021 Polestar 2, two new electric vehicles from the Volvo-Geely company, got their official EPA ratings today — both hitting over 200 miles of range.
Both vehicles already had WLTP ranges, but the European standard is known not to be…
Edison Mail has had a busy year with the release of the new OnMail email service, and with their latest release, the app is gaining a new feature for iOS 14. Like many other email apps, it’s now possible to set it as the default email client on iOS once you update to the latest version from the App Store.
Support for changing the default browser and email applications is one of the many…
How to change your Instagram app icon on Android and iOS
October 7, 2020
To help celebrate its 10th birthday Instagram has added all of its classic icons within a secret menu that lets you revert to some of the classic app icons of yesteryear.
As part of the latest Instagram update for Android (and iOS), a new hidden menu has appeared within…
Health Records on iPhone now available in UK and Canada
October 7, 2020
Apple has announced that the Health app can now display Health Records on iPhone for those in the UK and Canada.
Health Records was first launched in the US back in 2018, allowing healthcare providers to make their patient records available to the patient in Apple’s Health…
Tesla batteries deployed in Vermont have saved local electricity ratepayers about $3 million this year alone, according to the local electric utility.
Green Mountain Power (GMP), a relatively small electric utility operating in Vermont, was one of the earliest adopters of Tesla Powerwall.
It has been leading the deployment of Tesla Powerwalls with 2,000 units deployed to date and it has…
