In the realm of creative photography nothing is more intriguing than the pinhole camera. There have been many design approaches utilizing various household items but none that we’ve seen thus far even come close to this particularly creative and useful design - The Panorama Pinhole Camera.

This baby uses 120mm medium format ROLL film which means you can take multiple shots without the bothersome task of opening and reloading after each shot as is the case with most pinhole designs. Just take your shot, advance the film and take your next shot. When you’re done take your roll of film to your favorite photo processing outlet and prepare yourself for some pretty amazing pictures.

Oh, this pinhole design is built completely from scratch so you do not need to scavenger parts from other cameras.

This is one of the BEST DIY projects we’ve stumbled across in a long time!

You can find the full PDF tutorial here.

For those like me that love text effects and have the courage to admit it, here’s a thorough guide to the best 80 text effects available on the web.

This guide includes 78 Photoshop tutorials and 2 impressive collections of Photoshop Actions, plus 3 books on the subject.

These text effects are the most creative, unique, complex, wild and fun of all effects I’ve ever seen. These actions were created for Photoshop 5 and 6 but they should work in newer versions. There are a lot of actions to download!

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Casio, Inc. and its parent company, Casio Computer Co., Ltd., announced the release of two new digital cameras with the cutting-edge EXILIM Engine 2.0 image processing module.In conjunction with the release of these cameras, Casio, Inc. announced their agreement with YouTube to include a unique YouTube Capture mode and bundle software to provide ideal settings for recording, storing and uploading video on the company’s newest EXILIM digital cameras — EX-S880 and EX-Z77. This agreement represents an effort by Casio, Inc. to directly engage the YouTube community by simplifying the process of creating and sharing videos.

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The first 12-megapixel camera I ever used was the Canon EOS 5D which cost a cool $3,500 USD. That D-SLR uses a full-frame CMOS sensor, one of the two currently available. Because the imager is the size of a frame of 35mm film, there’s no digital factor impacting interchangeable lenses so your favorite 28mm is still a 28, not 42mm. The pictures delivered by this pro-grade D-SLR are amazing, magical as some of my confreres in the imaging press reported. With that larger-size chip, the pixels are much bigger, so there’s very little digital noise. Now, just a few years later, Sony has introduced a $399 USD 12MP CCD point-and-shoot digicam. Realize this is a totally different camera than the 5D and about the only thing they have in common is the gross number of pixels. The Sony chip is much smaller so the pixels are crammed together making noise the inevitable result. Still it is a 12-megapixel camera and--with 10MPs so commonplace-- DigitalTrends.com just had to give it a test drive. This is what we discovered.

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The first 12-megapixel camera I ever used was the Canon EOS 5D which cost a cool $3,500 USD. That D-SLR uses a full-frame CMOS sensor, one of the two currently available. Because the imager is the size of a frame of 35mm film, there’s no digital factor impacting interchangeable lenses so your favorite 28mm is still a 28, not 42mm. The pictures delivered by this pro-grade D-SLR are amazing, magical as some of my confreres in the imaging press reported. With that larger-size chip, the pixels are much bigger, so there’s very little digital noise. Now, just a few years later, Sony has introduced a $399 USD 12MP CCD point-and-shoot digicam. Realize this is a totally different camera than the 5D and about the only thing they have in common

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