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SaveHuelux: Randy Halverson’s Night-Sky Time-Lapse
From the site’s film archive: Randy Halverson’s Huelux is a time-lapse of night skies, storms and changing light filmed in 2013 in South Dakota,…
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SaveOlympus OM-D E-M10: 2014 Launch Overview
Archive: January 29, 2014. Olympus introduced the OM-D E-M10 as a compact Micro Four Thirds camera with a 16-megapixel Live MOS sensor, TruePic VII…
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SaveFujifilm X-T1: 2014 Camera Launch Overview
Archive: January 2014. Fujifilm launched the X-T1 mirrorless camera with a 16.3-megapixel APS-C X-Trans CMOS II sensor, a high-resolution OLED electronic viewfinder and weather-resistant…
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SaveDream: Motivational Video for Creators
This archive post shared Dream, a motivational video credited by YouTube to Mateusz M. It reflects a moment when the site encouraged artists to…
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SavePhase One IQ250: The 2014 CMOS Digital Back
Archive: January 2014. Phase One announced the IQ250, a 50-megapixel CMOS digital back for medium-format cameras. Its sensor was 44 by 33 mm, and…
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SaveNeil Leifer’s Overhead Muhammad Ali Photograph
On November 14, 1966, Neil Leifer photographed Muhammad Ali and Cleveland Williams from above the ring at Houston’s Astrodome. Leifer wired a remotely triggered…
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SavePortrait: Donato Sansone’s Surreal Short Film
Portrait is a 2014 surreal short by Donato Sansone, also known as Milkyeyes. The original Vimeo page currently loads. Its grotesque imagery may be…
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SaveHasselblad H5D-50c: A 2014 CMOS Announcement
Archive: January 21, 2014. Hasselblad announced the H5D-50c, a 50-megapixel medium-format camera using a CMOS sensor. The company said the change from the H5D-50’s…
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SaveFujifilm X-T1: A January 2014 Prelaunch Glimpse
Archive: January 2014. This post captured an early image and rumors of Fujifilm’s X-T1 before the camera’s formal announcement. The old estimated $1,800 body…
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SaveAnimals In The Womb
Animals In The Womb Peter Chinn used a combination of 3D ultrasound scans, nano cameras and computer graphics to create these truly astonishing embryonic…
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SaveBeauty: Rino Stefano Tagliafierro’s Animated Art Film
Beauty is Rino Stefano Tagliafierro’s 2014 animated art film. The original Vimeo page and the filmmaker’s film page currently load. The original film and…
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SaveGoogle’s 2014 Smart Contact Lens Glucose Project
Archive: January 2014. Google’s research group introduced a prototype contact lens intended to read glucose levels in tears. At the time, Google stressed the…
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SaveLunch atop a Skyscraper
Lunch atop a Skyscraper You know that incredible black and white image of the construction workers eating lunch on an crossbeam? It has become…
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SaveSony FDR-AX100: The 2014 4K Handycam Announcement
Archive: CES 2014. Sony introduced the FDR-AX100, a compact 4K Handycam with a 1.0-type back-illuminated Exmor R CMOS sensor. Sony’s 2014 announcement described XAVC…
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SaveHorizon App: A 2014 Mobile Video Preview
Archive: January 2014. Horizon was an app designed to record a landscape-orientation video even when the phone was tilted. The original introductory video still…