Zoom-in Online

I am of the camp who believes the megapixel craze has gotten a bit out of hand. Particularly when it comes to consumer point-and-shoot cameras, many companies market on the basis that the more megapixels they provide, the better the camera. The reality, however, is that most point-and-shoots are just too small to effectively translate all those megapixels captured into a better image. The greatly informative website 6mp argues that for most cameras this size, 6(ish) is the magic number, meaning relatively lower numbers of megapixels are best handled by smaller sensors, creating optimum results. Today I came across this article on Sony's soon-to-be-supposedly-anachronistic 7mp Cybershot W120 model. 

This is too cute, I just had to post it! The artist deserves much credit for such a wonderful creation, so if anyone has his/her information please leave a comment and I'll update the post.

TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions.

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Tonight (January 8th), the Hasted Hunt Gallery (cleverly named for owners Sarah Hasted and W.M. Hunt) in Chelsea opens what looks to be a great exhibit — Contradictions in Black and White, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. It'll be worth the trek in the cold weather, I promise!

In this series of photos from Madrid's Plaza Mayor, photoblogger Francois-Noel Masson includes images of statues with photos of mimes (1 2 3

While you were busy milking Zoom In Online for all it's worth (scientific studies say it's a lot, by the way), you may have missed some other great film related content available on the web. Here's a roundup of just some of it:

Check out this awesome photo by Joshua Lott. Joshua is a freelancer who makes all kinds of great pictures, and recently covered the presidential campaign. He also started a new photoblog last month — the cleverly named lottsafotos. I love this photo of two dolls on a phone wire, taken in DUMBO, Brooklyn.

Brands of the World is a website that contains logos of the most famous brands in the world in EPS format, readily available and free to download — so now you can finally make that evil Colonel Sanders wheatepaste you've always been talking about.