This week Sony has brought on a collection of new devices including the lovely NEX-5R digital camera, a successor to the NEX-5N. This device bring a fast hybrid AF as well as wi-fi so you can share your shots instantly with a collection of apps. And yes, there are a bunch of apps you'll be able to download and work with directly from your camera for full featured forward-thinking action!
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Sony NEX-5R revealed with video demo
Sony Action Cam revealed to take on GoPro
This week at IFA 2012 we've gotten a glimpse at a brand new Sony-made camera made for high-energy recording - the Action Cam. This device works with a 16 megapixel sensor (Exmor R), wi-fi connectivity, and is popping up for an amazing $199. See if you can match that, competing action camera warriors!
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Nikon D600 full-frame DSLR tipped for September
It appears that the next generation in inexpensive high-quality cameras may be right around the corner as a report this morning has the Nikon D600 set for a September release. This camera will bring full-frame DSLR action to your mitts for somewhere around $1,500 USD, cutting the price of Nikon's current full-frame DSLR the D800 in half. How fabulous would it be for you to only have to drop less than a couple K for a camera that's quite close to the quality you, up until now, had to drop $3 grand on?
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Curiosity Mars descent gets 1080p video
What you're about to see is a collection of photos taken by NASA and constructed into a video with extremely high definition by a fellow by the name of Daniel Luke Fitch. This guy is a visual effects producer for Altitude-FX that simply did what noone else took the time to do - took all the photographs that NASA's Mars mission had sent back at full resolution while it was landing and turned them into one massive video. The video runs at 15 frames per second, that being just about 3 times the speed of the actual landing according to the space between photos from NASA.
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Pentax launches new X-5 super zoom digital camera
Pentax has announced the launch of a new camera with seriously high levels of zoom. The new digital camera is called the X-5, and the camera has enough zoom to get users up close to whatever their subject is. The camera offers a whopping 26x optical zoom covering a focal length of 22.3 mm to 580 mm in 35mm equivalent.
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Nikon COOLPIX S800c Android camera gets video demo
If you're not quite sure what the Nikon COOLPIX S800c Android-powered camera is all about, you're not alone - that's why Nikon has created a simple-to-swallow demo video for your convenience. This video has the same nerd on both sides of a black line, busting out a COOLPIX S800c in one instance to take a photo of a stray parrot perched on a porch, and a nondescript smartphone in the other. The point here is to show how it's simpler to take photos with a camera running Android than it is to use a smartphone running the same OS.
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Nikon CoolPix S800c Android camera sample shots released
This week the Nikon Android camera has been revealed, and the manufacturer is certainly not being shy about sharing its abilities in sample media form. This device brings on telephoto zooming, high-resolution video as well as photos, and wi-fi connectivity so you can share your photos and video instantly. And what's best is the camera works with a variety of apps via the Google mobile OS Android!
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Instacube hits Kickstarter aiming to show off your Instagram feed
Digital photo frames have been around for a long time and have proven to be very popular. There are a few digital photo frames out there that have Wi-Fi connectivity allowing them to show photographs from social networking sites such as Facebook and others. Some these frames even have their own e-mail address so you can e-mail a photograph directly to the frame for a loved one to view. A new project on Kickstarter called the Instacube reminds me of a web connected digital photo frame made specifically for Instagram.
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Nikon Coolpix P7700 and S01 appear for Autumn pocket shooters
This week the folks at Nikon are bringing on the heat with not just an Android-powered smart camera, but two more pocket cameras as well. With the Coolpix P7700 you'll find that a $499 camera can bring on a beastly set of specifications starting with a massive 1/1.7-inch 12.2 megapixel BSI CMOS sensor. The Coolpix S01, on the other hand, will run just $179 for a 10 megapixel CCD sensor-toting camera with a 2.5-inch touchscreen interface.
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Canon brings on two new PowerShot digital cameras for zoom action
The folks at Canon have introduced two new zoom-friendly units in the SX500 IS and the SX160 IS, both of them PowerShot cameras for the common photo-loving user. Yuichi Ishizuka, executive vice president and general manager of the Imaging Technologies & Communications Group for Canon USA noted that these two units are made specifically to bring on fabulous optical zoom - and that's what you're going to get!
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Canon builds 80 millionth EF lens
Canon is one of the biggest names in the photography industry and offers a number of digital cameras and camcorders. The company's products range from high-end, very expensive professional-grade DSLR cameras to cheap nearly disposable point and shoot cameras for beginners. Canon has announced that it's celebrating a new milestone in the production of its EF lenses.
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New Mars photos add to 130 photo Curiosity panorama
The Curiosity rover sent to the planet Mars earlier this month has been snapping photos since it first set down upon the surface, creating now a 130 photo panorama of the crater in which it currently resides. Here we're seeing some surprisingly sharp photos taken with the cameras which we learned about last week, each of them lovely in their own respect. As the Curiosity rover travels through the Gale Crater it will continue to create individual shots as well as a larger panorama - one at first, then more as it moves through its environment.
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