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That stands for Consumer Electronics Show, a convention of the latest in gadgets of all kinds, but best of all: cameras.
You’ll find booths for everything from Hello Kitty to Nikon, Fuji, and Polaroid.
Because all the sensor sizes, f-stops and long-winded terminology* start to melt into a foggy photo haze, we rounded up and broke down the most noteworthy camera stories from CES!
p.s. Our pals at the New York Institute of Photography want to help you become the best photographer ever. You can take their classes on your own time from just about anywhere!
Polaroid
What’s new? The Polaroid Z340 and the SC1630 Smart Camera.
Like many Polaroid fans, we weren’t sure how to feel about the shift from analog to digital.
Polaroid must’ve read our minds because they’ve kicked the look of their Z340 back a couple of decades, and we like it.
You may have seen Chase Jarvis demolish a Polaroid Land Camera and a point-and-shoot in a blender.
Figuratively, that’s what this camera is — a delectable digital analog smoothie. It’s got an old school Polaroid look, but shoots digital photos and spits them out via a built-in Zink printer.
We don’t think Eddie Land could ever have predicted this one, but it’s here! Polaroid’s made a smart camera that looks and works an awful lot like a phone yet isn’t one.
It’s a 16MP camera that runs Android, meaning you’ll be able to edit your photos in-camera, connect to Wi-Fi and play with your fave photo apps.
Tamaggo’s 360 Camera
What’s Tamaggo with you? We didn’t know what a Tamaggo was either, but we found out it’s something cool!
Sleeping Face Recognition lets you take sneaky photos of sleeping people. It recognizes sleeping faces and automatically turns off the flash and beeping sounds!
Face ID lets you save 12 faces and will prioritize your favorite mugs when focusing & exposing.
High-sensitivity sensors that can shoot at ISO 3200 — shooting in low-light will look a lot better than with past models.
This wrist remote is straight out of Miami Vice. Or Knight Rider.
Besides cuffing your wrist with gadgety badassery, it lets you control your GoPro when it’s mounted to not so easy to reach places. Say, on top of your head or in a shark cage, for example.
Oh and BTW, you can control 50 GoPros at once with a single remote.
A maniacal laugh would go really well with all that photo power.
You might call him the X100‘s just-as-dapper younger brother.
It’s Fuji’s new mirrorless! What makes this one shine is its large 16MP sensor and the fact that it has an interchangeable lens mount (with 3 lens options) — something the X100 and X10 were missing.
Fuji claims its sensor rivals Canon’s 5D Mark II with essentially no noise at ISO 6400. They’re also planning on releasing a Leica M-mount adapter, so you can pair it with ultra-sharp Leica lenses.
And then die happy.
Let’s not forget that retro rangefinder body. Hawt.
Perhaps an audible YEEE projected from behind your monitor upon reading the news of Nikon’s latest DSLR…and no one’s judging you for it because they did it, too.
The D4 is indeed Nikon’s newest, and it’s an awesome beast of camera.
A full-frame 16.2MP sensor and 204,800 ISO means you can capture photos in incredibly dim light. Plus, it’s equipped with a 3D Matrix Meter III, a really long name for its ability to measure light and color very precisely.
It’s going for $6,000, but it’s as good as it gets when it comes to Nikon DSLRs.
