Here are a couple of videos I enjoyed during the last months. Innovation is probably one of their common factors.

Toshiba Timesculpture Advert [YouTube]

If A Song Could Get Me You [YouTube] – Marit Larsen [MySpace]

One of the first videos shot with the MK5ii. By Vincent Laforet and his team.
Riverie [Vincent Laforet blog]

2008 Pop-songs in single mix [YouTube] – United State of Pop 2008 – djearworm

(Via Lifehacker)

A Year in Two Minutes [YouTube] – Eirik Solheim

Link: Eirikso.com Photo/screenshot: Eirik Solheim (Also check out A year in 40 seconds [Vimeo])

Originally I read about the review comparing some camera-phones to consumer digital cameras at Slashdot which the UK branch of CNET has titled: Camera combat. The review has already caused some debate, and the question still remains whether camera phones could replace standalone cameras.

The results do definitely make you wonder.
In my opinion it depends on how you will use the camera. Here is a pro-camera phone example: Capturing the moment while you are out and about. I believe that the accessibility of camera phone would surpass the extra burden of having to always remember to bring another camera with you.
Although if you are interested in quality or do have in mind of printing pictures you take, you should invest in some better optics that are not squeezed to fit inside an already slim phone.

The camera that many have commented looks like some kind of cool futuristic weapon. Its cool design is not very surprising, considering the camera is being developed by Jim Jannard, the founder of Oakley (Source: HD Cinema Group).

RED dubs its RED ONE camera UHD, Ultra High Definition, a fair title with its whopping 12 Megapixels. Red can record up to 60 fps in RAW or 2 x over-sampled HD in 4:4:4 or 4:2:2. The camera was announced almost a year ago (Ref. Gizmodo), but RED has only recently gone public with pricing.

The actual body is cheap (picture above), only $17,500, however it’s useless without pricy accessories. HD4Indies has more on pricing.

These printable and foldable lens hoods (Free, Foldable Lens Hood) have been circulating the net for the past couple days. I have been skeptical, but when Photojojo chose to run the story, I thought I would give them a try after all.

Now I believe that a lens hoods feature is to help block sun rays from causing lense flare or glare. (More about Lens hoods at Wikipedia). So these printable lens hoods should serve there purpose the question is how effective, if at all, this would be. The instructions suggest you attach it to your camera with an elastic band. I still have to find some scissors and try it on one of my lenses.

From a shallow point of view, I wonder how serious people would take a photographer who arrives with a bunch of paper attached to a lens?

Canon launches a new consumer mini-HD-camcorder: Powershot TX1. Following their Powershot line from the digital still-cameras this camera features 7.1 megapixel for still shots and 720p HD footage.
The HD capabilities are still very mediocre, comparable to that of Panasonics (My mention: Consumer HD(V)-Camcocrder?) and Sanyo (Engadget review). An advantage with Canon’s is that it has an optical-stabilized lense, something that at least Sanyo’s is missing.

Picture copied from dpreview.com

If you want to call it a limitation or not, the 4GB SD card will give you 13 minutes of 1280×720 resolution (at 30fps).
For a more indeapth review checkout the review over at Digital Photography Review.

(Via Engadget)

Canon HV20 a $1100 HDV camcorder reviewed t hdvinfo.net. Some of its nifty features include: HDMI, 4-channel audio and 10x HD Lens w/ Super Range Optical Image Stabilisation. Canon’s 2.96 megapixel 1/3-inch CMOS sensor provides native 1920×1080 resolution.

Also found some lines written on the HV20 over at HD for Indies. And yes it will really boil down to what you need it for, with this 1/3 inch sensor you can’t have anything close to the quality of its big brothers, hence note the word consumer.