Today's Best SLR Camera Web News

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Browsing the internet today, I found the best SLR camera news. Cool stuff about upgrading your iPhone’s camera, a camera gun, a monkey photog, and more.

Check out these cool posts and share them with your friends.

When an iPhone and a dSLR lens meet

The iPhone 3GS has a 3.2-megapixel fixed-lens camera and that seems to satisfy most users, but not Bhautik Joshi. The engineer with ILM Research took apart his Apple handset and retrofitted it with a couple of optical drive lenses, then stuck a few PVC pipes to accommodate his 18-55mm Canon glass.

Digicam gun takes point-and-shoot seriously

This campy SLR camera gun is, quite literally, that. The Aimat is a squirt-gun-looking digital camera that you, well, point and shoot. Conceived by designer Franziska Dierschke, it’s a concept device and not for sale–and for good reason. We can’t imagine packing this piece through airport customs or even any sensitive area for that matter.

Orangutan takes photos, shares them on Facebook

She’s like the Ashton Kutcher of the ape world: an orangutan in the Vienna Zoo now has a Facebook fan page to showcase the photos she takes with a digital camera. The orangutan, named Nonja, uses a Samsung ST 1000 point-and-shoot that automatically uploads the photos.

Phone photo quality interests Google, Microsoft

Want something more sophisticated than a megapixel count to judge a phone camera? Two tech titans have joined an effort to offer a better guide.

With an eye to the future, try raw photos today

Using my then-new SLR in 2005 and 2006, I photographed everything from my new son to otherworldly canyons we visited in Utah. The only problem: the photos were taken only in JPEG format.

JPEG is fine as far as it goes, and indeed for most folks it will suffice. But having rediscovered my enjoyment of photography in the digital era, I wish I’d used the raw image format that comes with SLRs and higher-end compact cameras.

Stay tuned to this blog for more Best SLR Camera news.