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Ricoh had a hit back in the late 1990s with its GR1 compact film camera. Like the new GR, that camera had a fast f/2.8 wide-angle lens in a body that could fit into any jacket pocket. Like Ricoh’s more recent GR Digital cameras, the new GR sports a sensor instead of film. But with the drop of the word “Digital” from the model name comes a move to an APS-C-sized CMOS sensor that has about 8.6 times the surface area of the 1/1.7-inch CCD sensor found in its predecessor, the GR Digital IV.

VSCO has made a name for itself through Lightroom film packs, plugins, and a critically lauded iPhone app. Now, the VSCO Cam iPhone app is set for a mammoth overhaul, which will not only make it free, but apparently be a major advancement over the previous version.

Memory cards fail. It's just one of the things that they do. But, a Japanese company called Amulet is now marketing a memory card with built-in RAID functionality. You might recognize the term RAID from your hard drive backup solutions. Usually, it involves two drives in a single enclosure, each writing the same redundant data, so if one fails, the other lives and you don't lose all your data.

The Olloclip is an extremely popular 3-in-1 lens clip for the iPhone that gives you fisheye, wide-angle, and macro all in one little device. And now the folks behind Olloclip have announced a freebie companion app for iOS. While most of what it offers are standard camera app features, there is one new tool that sounds interesting.