This isn't exactly 15 minutes of fame (more like 10 seconds) but a chance to get noticed nonetheless. Kodak is letting people email an image with a caption to their billboard in Times Square, New York. Instructions here. You can send pictures to Kodak now, but it could take up to 24 hours to get approval, so do it now if you're heading into NYC and want to see your face (or that of a loved one) on the big screen. (Photo via Kodak)

I thought the 7MB files coming off the Sony Alpha A850 were big, but they've got nothing on the photo created by the photographers in Germany. Using the Canon 5D Mark II, they snapped (with the help of a robot) 1,665 individual photos and stitched them together into a 26-gigapixel image. Here's a video showing how it was done: Pretty neat. [Hat tip: PhotographyBlog]

Samsung Electronics Company and Eastman Kodak have agreed to negotiate a patent dispute settlement and technology cross licensing. Samsung has also agreed to make a nonrefundable payment to Kodak this year that will be credited toward its future royalty obligations to Kodak. The amount of that payment was not disclosed. The companies are now negotiating the terms of a settlement of Kodak’s patent infringement claims against Samsung that were filed in November 2008 with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). The companies will jointly pursue the dismissal of Kodak’s claims once a definitive settlement agreement and a cross license have been...

If you, like me, love photographs of the Earth as captured from outer-space, you may occasionally wonder just which camera gets the honor to ascend to the heavens to take those celestial snapshots. Through the years, a number of manufacturers have had the honor and it appears that Nikon's D3S will be pressed into service by NASA for extraterrestial duty. NASA is picking up 11 DS3s and seven 14-24mm lenses. I guess the recession really is over.  According to Nikon: The D3S digital SLR cameras and AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED lenses ordered by NASA will be carried on the Space Shuttle...

Sticking with the theme of iPhone apps, Epson announced yesterday that they're getting into the game too. This one's a free app dubbed iPrint and it lets iPhone and iPod touch users print wireless to several Epson wireless printers (the Artisan 810 and 710 and the WorkForce 610, among others).  Nothing earth shattering, but a cool way to connect if you happen to own both an Epson printer and an iPhone.

There's a saying in photo circles, "the best camera is the one you have with you." For a lot of us, that means that our cell phone is often our best camera. With the iPhone, you not only get the camera, but the growing universe of creative applications designed to enhance or share your images far and wide. Starting today, we'll be profiling a few interesting digital photography apps for the iPhone. Today's spot-light, Comic Touch, from Plasq. This $2.99 app lets you transform your iPhone pics into mini-cartoons. You can add thought and talk bubbles, as well as add...

My skepticism has (not surprisingly) made no impact in the on-rush of digital frame/printer combos. Now it's Epson's turn to try their hand in the form of the PictureMate Show. This 4 x 6 printer sports a 7-inch digital display (800 x 480 resolution). The $299 printer/frame combo boasts 270MB for storing photos, a remote control, and 12 slideshow options. I think it's a great idea to slap a huge LCD display on, well, anything. And this product strikes me as more of a printer-frame combo than vice-versa. Which means the "digital frame" portion of the device is really a way...

The Onion, as always, pitch-perfect: With the holiday shopping season officially under way, millions of consumers proceeded to their nearest commercial centers this week in hopes of acquiring the latest, and therefore most desirable, personal device. "The new device is an improvement over the old device, making it more attractive for purchase by all Americans," said Thomas Wakefield, a spokesperson for the large conglomerate that manufactures the new device. "The old device is no longer sufficient. Consumers should no longer have any use or longing for the old device." Added Wakefield, "The new device will retail for $395." Able to remain operational for...