Joseph S Wisniewski

There is simply no way for a case as extreme as the foreground lights in the second picture to look natural. The human visual system doesn't work that way. If the foreground lights were important,...

@BBQue, ever hear the saying "cats are Satan's eyes and ears"?

@berleconi, yes, you can do it with a round diaphragm that gets darker to the edge. Problem is, you'd need a bunch of them. Soligar (remember them) made such a thing decades ago. Except, instead of...

If true?

If true?

Remember the "sapphire screen" that the Apple fanboys dreamed up?

How about the wireless charger with the 15ft range (can you say "death ray"? Sure, you can)

The iPhone 7...

Something I've always worried about with fingerprint readers.

I like my fingers: I'm really quite attached to them.

They make gadgets like that which clamp on to the phone.

What would impress me from a phone maker is a couple of factory stock mag mounts, one for accessories over the existing camera, one for...

> Removing the fingerprint reader would be an important step to make the edge-to-edge display possible

Or they could just do what LG and rising star Huawei do and put it on the back of the phone.
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The lens blurs each background (or foreground) element in direct proportion to how far that element is from the plane of focus.

In order to do that with software, you need a complete 3D...

Nikon recalled the battery from one of my cameras because it was starting fires.

Did your reading teach you the difference between UV-A, UV-B, and UV-C? UV-C: Germicidal UV lights use UV-C, 200-280nm. That's too short a wavelength for low-cost UV lenses or unmodified cameras, ...

My personal recipe is to overdevelop 30% in D-76, and if it's too thin (light), hit it with a chromium intensifier (because I'm not stupid enough to try a mercury intensifier, even though it ...

Fascinating! I had been wondering what you were up to these days. Thank you very much for posting this.

Magic batteries are dpReview's favorite filler piece. So many of them over the last decade, and always emphasizing the fast charge aspect. Not a single one has ever made it into production.

Fuel...

My dad has a complete collection of Popular Science going back to the 40s. How wrong some of those predictions were is fascinating...

Oops.

Looks like Lee Jay beat me to this by about four hours. ;)

Well, there is the little detail of tungsten being about the most expensive to process non-radioactive element.

> Why consumers have accepted this I have no idea.

Weatherproofing, waterproofing, styling, etc.

Now, why consumers accepted it from Apple, who brought it to us without weatherproofing or...

Oh good grief, not the "charge in seconds" inanity again.

“you could charge your mobile phone in a few seconds and you wouldn’t need to charge it again for over a week,”

My S7 has an 11.1...

Yes. It's pretty much necessary. I can't see how one would screen consistent, uniform filters over a microlens  surface. Partially. But you gain a lot back in terms of mathematical gain. Big ...

Indeed, it does. "3D object reconstruction" is just a very small aspect of the field of photogrammetry, and there are those that insist it isn't photogrammetry at all. I don't go that far, but the ...