Kickstarter

Radian is a Kickstarter project that aims to bring a simple, powerful, and above all else, affordable, time-lapse panorama controller to your gear bag. While the project has a long way to go before being fully funded, the amount of control these things offer should be enough to please even the most demanding shooter. Since it interfaces directly with Android and iOS devices, the settings are managed via an app rather than directly through the Radian itself.

Last October we covered Custom SLR's plans to develop the M-Plate, a Kickstarter-funded universal tripod mount — a project which has now come to fruition. Custom SLR has officially released the M-Plate, and it's up for order on their store for $74.95.

The Trigger Happy Camera Remote is a cunning Kickstarter funded project which will let you control your SLR from your smartphone or computer, giving you a more elegant way of shooting time-lapses than many of the options on the market. The remote is a cable which snakes from the headphone port of your device and connects to your camera, and is controlled by an app that'll run on iOS, Android, and probably even some desktop OSs.

Photographer Dennis Manarchy is working on a project that is mind-blowing in scale, a 35-foot camera that produces two story tall prints, all in an attempt to capture some of the forgotten and evaporating societies of the United States. The project is called Vanishing Cultures, and Manarchy is raising funds through Kickstarter in what can only be described as a Herculean effort.