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A day at the Las Vegas Neon Boneyard with the Polaroid Snap camera

As a child of the ’80s many of my memories were made with polaroid pictures — lots of instant family photos, huge grids of them pinned to the wall of my dorm room. The Polaroid of my youth stopped making film in 2008, though by then I had largely moved on to digital and medium format film photography. There are many twists and turns to the Polaroid story between then and now, but the device securely has a place in my heart. So while The Verge was in Vegas for CES I jumped at the chance to try it out, and I knew the perfect test shoot location.

Fujifilm’s X-Pro2 is finally here

It’s four years since Fujifilm kicked off its X-Series range of mirrorless cameras at CES 2012 with the X-Pro1, and it’s hard to believe that we haven’t seen a new version of that camera since. Although Fujifilm has provided multiple firmware updates, and the camera has attained as close to classic status as any digital body can do these days, it’s very long in the tooth at this point. But the wait is over: today Fujifilm is announcing the X-Pro2, which goes straight to the top of the X-Series line.

The DSLR-style X-T1 is what got a lot of people to notice Fujifilm’s cameras, but the X-Pro2 returns to the series’ rangefinder-influenced roots. It features an updated hybrid optical and electronic viewfinder, as seen on its predecessor and…

The Fujifilm X70 is a smaller, wider, and cheaper X100

Fujifilm’s rangefinder-style X100 range is now three models deep, each of which have been among the best possible options for great image quality in a compact, fun-to-use package since the original came out in 2011 — they make particularly excellent travel cameras. Today, Fujifilm is releasing a new camera that emphasizes and reinforces those aspects of the X100’s appeal: this is the X70.

The X70 keeps the same 16-megapixel APS-C X-Trans II sensor as the current X100T, but the body size has been dramatically reduced. Although the trademark hybrid viewfinder is gone, replaced by an optional hotshoe optical unit that Fujifilm warns is likely to be pretty expensive, the control scheme of an aperture ring around the lens with dials for…

Panasonic’s Lumix CM1 cameraphone gets a new version without the phone

With a 20-megapixel 1-inch sensor and a 10mm (28mm-equivalent) f/2.8 lens, Panasonic’s Lumix CM1 has the most technically capable camera on any phone out there. But would you really want it as your main device over an iPhone or Galaxy Note? Maybe not. With that in mind, Panasonic has just announced the CM10, a new version of the CM1 that strips out the phone functionality to make for an ultra-connected Android camera with LTE capability.

That’s really the only major difference here: the CM10 has the same 15mm-thick (21mm at the lens) body with a 4.7-inch 1080p display, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, and a Snapdragon 801 processor. It does, at least, run Android 5.0 Lollipop out of the box, whereas the CM1 launched with KitKat. Panasonic…

How Fujifilm’s cameras and lenses are Made in Japan

“Made in Japan.”

It’s seen as a badge of quality inside and outside the country, as well as an indicator that you’re probably paying a bit more. But what does it actually mean? When Fujifilm, a company that proudly etches “Made in Japan” onto almost all of its mirrorless cameras, invited me to its Taiwa factory in Sendai last week, that was the main thing I wanted to find out.

Watch the beautiful nightmare of ads invading your dreams

Every advertiser wants to get under people’s skin and communicate with their basest desires. But no advertiser has ever done it quite so unnervingly as this short video from the Dutch Studio Smack. It deconstructs all of the famous branding implements used by Coca-Cola and recompiles them in a series of subtle, subversive hints reminding us of the brand. There’s the snow-white polar bear, the familiar curvaceous white lines on a crimson background, and all those delicious bubbles. It’s meant to represent a dystopian future where we might have “branded dreams,” and its most frightening aspect is that it’s actually rather gorgeous and, without ever mentioning the brand in question, conveys an overwhelmingly positive impression of it.

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Leica’s newest camera can go underwater

If you’ve ever shelled out a few thousand dollars (or more) for a Leica, you’ve likely kept it far away from pools, lakes, or even puddles. That won’t be a problem with the company’s newest camera, though.

Announced today, the Leica X-U is waterproof, shatterproof, and costs just under $3,000. The X-U can be submerged up to 49 feet, and is made to withstand other extremes, too. Leica’s winterized it and dust-sealed it, meaning you can bring the X-U just about everywhere you were afraid to bring any Leica you’ve ever owned.

Ready or not, smartwatches are coming for the mainstream

Last year was a great year for smartwatches: Apple launched its watch expected Apple, Samsung introduced its first watch with a round screen, Pebble adds three new models to its line, and a whole bunch of companies launched watches running on the platform to Google’s Android. This is not to mention the litany of portable devices which won the features ‘smart’ without launching a platform of smartwatch\r full.

This hive of activity made no smartwatches to the level of smartphones in terms of sales or popularity, but it offers them at the forefront of the technology conversation. Even if people are not buying, they speak to their subject and written about them and ask questions on their subject. Ready or not, the smartwatches are…

Kickstarter is launching an app for Android

Kickstarter finally publishes an application for Android, launches the software on the Google game shop today. The app will allow users to browse and projects back, just as they do on the web and has a number of features for highlighting the campaigns, including a diet activity combining updates on projects supported by users and their friends. There is no way for the creators of the project manage their campaigns using the application unfortunately, but Kickstarter promises that this functionality is coming “soon”.

AT&T’s CEO says Tim Cook shouldn’t have any say in encryption debate

AT & T director general Randall Stephenson do not think that the CEO of Apple Tim Cook should make decisions long term around encryption that could ripple throughout the technology industry. “I don’t think that it is the decision of Silicon Valley to whether encryption is the right thing to do,” he told The Wall Street Journal in an interview Wednesday. “I understand the decision of Tim Cook, but I do not think that it is his decision to take, said Stephenson.” “” I personally think that it is an issue that should be decided by the American people and the Congress, not by the companies. »