Memepool introduced me to camera tossing at Flickr, where there’s even a group for those who are willing to risk their camera for a chance at a shot of streaky lights. But not everybody tosses in the dark, it’s turned out to be a a new fad in self-portraiture.
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Posted October 21, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Photoblog, Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: blur, blurry picture, blurry pictures, camera, camera killer, camera toss, camera tossing, cameratoss, cameratossing, dangerous (to your camera), fad, flickr, memepool, photo, photos. One Comment.

DefenseTech reported on the FireFly, a disposable camera that can be shot from the M203 grenade launchers used by US land forces. The cameras fly 600 meters in eight seconds, wirelessly sending pictures back to the soldier’s PDA. Now they’ll know what’s over that hill or around that corner.
Not that soldiers don’t need this sort [...]

Posted August 9, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Blink, Technology. Tags: ballistic, camera, defensetech, disposable camera, firefly, grenade, grenade camera, grenade launcher, grenade launchers, ground forces, m203, military, point and shoot, point n shoot, soldier, soldiers. Be the first one.

At least that’s the only thing a person can conclude from the stories at Copyfight earlier this week. This post reports on two stories where the photo services concluded that the photos to be printed were too good to have come from an average customer. Upon trying to order prints of her child, one Ofoto [...]

Posted June 9, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Copyrights & Intellectual Property, Technology. Tags: camera, canon, copyright, copyrights, gallery, legal, legal trouble, ofoto, photo, photo services, photofinishing, photograph, photography, professional images, unintended consequences, wal mart, wendy seltzer. One Comment.