The solidly built, black metal camera fits in your coat pocket (not, alas, shirt or pants), and yet it takes pictures whose color fidelity, clarity, detail and freedom from "noise" rivals the output of entry-level digital S.L.R.'s.
The Waylens Horizon is essentially a conical, dense metal camera replete with optics, onboard processing power and battery.
Nokia is also consciously styling its budget devices like its smartphones — dressing them in the Lumia range of distinctive colours (cyan, magenta, yellow, black and white in the 301's case) — as well as borrowing other Lumia design touches, such as the metal camera plate on the rear to draw attention to the 301's 3.2 megapixel lens (as seen below).
The prototype he came up with was made of metal (hitherto cameras were hand-built, often exquisitely, with hardwood).
Moreover, its sharp black-and-chrome design keenly recalls an even earlier model, the Technika Medizin, which made its debut in 1936 as the German company's first all-metal folding camera.
Like their Depression-era predecessors, the modern robbers seem to be counting on some simple facts of life in small towns, where metal detectors, cameras and security guards are not ubiquitous and the sheriff may be clear across the county when the call comes.
Today's prospectors carry some combination of a laptop, palmtop, metal detector, digital camera, cellphone, satellite-based navigation system and three-dimensional topographical mapping software.
These rises helped to offset a decline of 2% special interest magazine circulation revenue for titles including Metal Hammer, Digital Camera and Total Film.
"It's your gold," said Mark Cutifani, the chief executive of AngloGold Ashanti, the mine company, as a stone-faced police officer stood guard over a mound of gleaming metal and the camera lights flashed.
Coinages such as "group selfie", "groupie", and even "ussie" have been suggested for selfies containing multiple people, but even among people who use selfie sticks (extendable metal poles with camera mountings) they haven't caught on.
As the doctor lifts the fetus across to a table and places it in a metal dish, the camera pans and a portion of a white blanket with pink and blue stripes can be seen at the side of the camera frame.
