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Photographer Nick Wesson experienced the power of the Internet first hand this past weekend after he managed to track down the subject of a photo he found in a thrift store camera — in a matter of hours. Wesson is a photographer and camera collector based in North East England. On Saturday, he was browsing through a local thrift shop when he came across a Pentax Spotmatic with a roll of undeveloped film still loaded in the camera. A Pentax Spotmatic After purchasing the camera, curiosity got the best of him, so Wesson removed the film and t ook it to his local Asda (a super market chain owned by Walmart) to have it developed. When the film was returned, most of the shots were ruined by light leaks and deterioration, but a few of them showed pictures that had survived the years. A couple of them showed a young boy and girl. Upon closer inspection, Wesson noticed that they were both wearing sweaters that read “Dornoch Pirmary School”: Dornoch is a school in the Scottish Highlands — about 7 hours and 356 miles away from Wesson’s home and the thrift shop where the camera was discovered. Poking around on the web, Wesson found a Facebook page for Dornoch Primary School that was set up by parents of Dornoch students. The page only has 69 “Likes,” but Wesson went ahead and posted the photograph anyway. His note read: Hi. Apologies for posting on here but thought the best place to start. I’ve just bought a camera from a charity shop in Guisborough in NE England. It had a film in it so out of curiosity, I got it developed. It’s been in the camera some time so there were some faults but it had photos of children wearing Dornoch Primary School jumpers. One of the pictures is attached. I wondered if people could share the picture and if anyone knows the people in the pics, I’d be happy to forward the pictures on. Two hours after the post was made, a woman named Sarah Richardson left a couple of comments on the post. It turns out the little girl in the photograph is all grown up now! What!!! That is nuts!! Yes that’s me in my younger days… I’m phoning my mum now! [#] Hi Nick, thanks very much for posting on here, I have absolutely no idea how the photos ended up in a charity shop in England! I can’t seem to find your Facebook profile on here but if you PM me I can give you a forwarding address for the photos. It just shows you the power of Facebook- 2 hours and you found the people concerned! Thanks again! [#] Wesson tells us that he’s now in touch with Richardson and is planning to investigate how the camera ended up so far from its original home. Image credit: Pentax Spotmatic by AndysRollei

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Our friends and collaborators over at DxOMark have recently been looking into how lenses score on specific cameras, and the latest model they've examined is the Nikon D600. In a three-part article published at the end of last week, they investigate how 70 lenses from Carl Zeiss, Nikon, Samyang, Sigma, Tamron and Tokina measure up on the D600's 24MP sensor. The article also compares how given lenses score on the D600 compared to the 36MP D800 and 24MP D3X. Click through for links to the three parts of the article.

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Resident Evil: Revelations launches this week and Capcom has promised some DLC. It starts on June 4 with the Resistance and Enhancement sets for 160 MS Points ($2), each including six different weapon upgrades. Then, on June 11, Capcom will issue two additional characters for use in Raid mode: Rachel Ooze and Lady Hunk. Each character costs 240 MS Points ($3). Resident Evil: Revelations is a remake of the 3DS game bearing the same name launched by Capcom in early 2012. Bridging the story between Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 5, Revelations follows series regulars Jill and Chris, and takes place aboard a derelict cruise liner called the SS Queen Zenobia. A free demo has been available to all on Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U and Steam since last week.Gallery: Resident Evil: Revelations (5/20/13)Continue reading Resident Evil: Revelations DLC characters, upgrades outlinedResident Evil: Revelations DLC characters, upgrades outlined originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 20 May 2013 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments

Google recently unified its various chat services into one last week with the announcement of Hangouts at Google I/O. This will allow you chat with friends like a normal IM client, but it also integrates Google’s video chatting capabilities. However, if you use Google Voice religiously, you might have noticed that outbound calls from the desktop have been disabled, but Google says that this will come back in the near future. Google’s Nikhyl Singhal confirmed the news today, and said that while Hangouts disables some Google Voice features, they will come back in a future update, as well as full Google Voice functionality at some point. Singhal says that “Hangouts is designed to be the future of Google Voice, and making/receiving phone calls is just the beginning.” However, you’ll still be able to use Google Talk in Gmail (where you’ll be able to make Google Voice calls) until Google add full Google Voice support to Hangouts. This is certainly good news for avid Google Voice users, and it gives more hope to the service, as Google hasn’t been focusing on it all that much recently. Google+ Hangouts is available for Android, iOS, and Chrome for desktop users. With the new service, you’ll be able to message and video chat with other users over different platforms. The video calling feature works a lot like FaceTime, but instead of it being exclusively on iOS, users can make quick video calls to any platform, including iOS to Android, or even Android to desktop. Google already seems to have a whole heep of features that they’re wanting to add to Hangouts in the future, including the possibility of SMS integration, allowing you to use Hangouts as your default SMS client. It’ll be interesting to see what Google brings to the table, but in the meantime, you can pick up the new app for free on Android or iOS right now. VIA: The Verge Story Timeline Google Voice app update fixes SMS reliability issue, hints at something new Google Voice search hits Chrome with Hotwording: "Ok, Google" Google+ Hangouts video chat faces FaceTime-like AT&T block [UPDATE] Google+ Hangouts to integrate Google Voice “soon” is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear. © 2005 - 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.

Quote: The 3DS classic comes to Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U and PC! Play as Jill Valentine, Chris Redfield and a cast of new characters as they unravel the mystery of the Queen Zenobia cruise liner. With scarce ammo, tight corridors and countless monster roaming the ship, longtime fans will enjoy this return to horror. Click on the headline to watch the trailer.

On this day in tech history, Kinetoscope, an early motion picture exhibition device developed by Edison Labs, was first publicly displayed.