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Santa’s Slide Show Christmas ornament

By Reece Bailey Schofield on Tuesday, Nov 13th 2007 No Comments

This was inevitable… With the huge popularity of the LCD picture frames last holiday season. Christmas Trees around the globe will now glow with LCD goodness all season long.

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Kodak EasyShare V1253

By James Allan Brady on Wednesday, Oct 31st 2007 7 Comments

This camera is pretty amazing for a point and shoot, it cranks out 12 megapixels, that’s pretty good even by DSLR standards. But there aren’t interchangeable lenses, and this thing only has a 3x optical zoom, all that hype for such a let down.

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Sure you can record video in 720p and take 12MP stills, but in order to view them on your TV you either have to offload them to an HD optical format for viewing on an HD optical disc player, or you have to buy one of their docks. There is also a 3.1-inch LCD on the back, with reportedly easy to navigate features and menus.

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Early adopters of Canon EOS-1D Mark III should soon be able to get their cameras fixed

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Oct 18th 2007 No Comments

Wow, you think you iPhone early adopters had a reason to complain? Think again, try buying a $4500 DSLR that comes with a screwed up focus.

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Well, the good news is, they finally fixed it, and you can now call 800-828-4040 and give the kind people on the other end your serial number and then as soon as they get the parts in they’ll call you so you can get your camera fixed, presumably for free. The parts should be in soon, possibly within the next two weeks.

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New Olympus DSLR coming tonight

By James Allan Brady on Tuesday, Oct 16th 2007 No Comments

NEWS 10756 0ef875f23ef8a77c50845ac1cf627b5f Nothing is really known at this point other than the fact that Olympus is releasing a DSLR tonight at midnight. Everything else is pure speculation.

It could be the E-1 successor. It could be the E3 that some journos that weren’t supposed to write about it have been buzzing about.

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Nissan 2007 Mobile Office

By James Allan Brady on Tuesday, Oct 16th 2007 No Comments

Somehow I don’t think this is what Luda’ had in mind when he said “Roll Out”. The back of this fairly appealing vehicle rolls out to expose a lot of underwater photography gear, as well as a mobile office on the inside.

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Speaking of niche markets, anyways, the downside is the two are exclusive, you can’t keep the scuba gear tucked away and just use the office, you have to roll the back out in order to gain access to the office part. Overall it looks pretty amazing for a concept, or more likely proof-of-concept car.

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GE H855 digital camera available in pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Oct 4th 2007 No Comments

HSN or the Home Shopping Network is selling these cameras in Pink and is giving a portion of the proceeds to Susan G. Komen to work towards a cure for breast cancer. They are being sold online all month and will be sold on one of their channels on October 20th.

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Now, onto the specs, which aren’t all that bad for a company I haven’t seen since the last time I went and bough light bulbs. It has a 5x zoom and an 8MP resolution, that’s a pretty good start for any point and shoot.

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Flip Video Ultra released for your voyeuristic pleasure

By James Allan Brady on Wednesday, Sep 12th 2007 No Comments

These cameras really are amazing for what they are, essentially they are designed for someone, likely between the ages of lets say 12 and 30 to record their stupid stunts or whatever on camera in a format for near instant YouTube upload. The new Ultra series has different colors and integrated software for uploading to one of many video sharing sites.

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There is also some very basic software for editing and cataloging. On top of that there are one-click email transfers of the clips. Oh yeah I mentioned different colors and didn’t tell you what they were, they are, black, white, purple, orange, and green.

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Casio Exilim, Fastest Digital Camera in the World, So Far

By James Allan Brady on Sunday, Sep 2nd 2007 No Comments

So Casio released the specs, and apparently some hi res shots, but most of the specs can be learned just from the photos. Apparently its destined for the Exilim line.

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What makes it the fastest digital camera? Its amazing ability to capture still images at a lightning quick 60 full resolution shots per second, hopefully that means there is a burst mode as I can’t push a button 60 times in one second. It can also capture video at VGA res at 300 frames per second!

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Nikon COOLPIX P5100 and P50

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Aug 30th 2007 No Comments

First, the P5100 is an upgrade from the P5000 by about 2MP, the P5100 has 12MP and with the new EXPEED chip can reach ISO 3200. There is also better 12-face face detection and a mode dial that has 15 presets. There is a flash hotshoe, and a 3.5x optical zoom lens with optical stabilization, and apparently there are adapter lenses for telephoto and wide-angle shots.

Nikon COOLPIX P5100

The Nokia P50 is dialed down a little bit from the P5100, it still does a decent 8.1 megapixels. The image stabilization is done electronically this time though. The improved face detections and the 15 preset mode dial are inherited though. It also receives a lens with a slightly longer focal length, it comes with a 3.6x zoom lens.

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Sanyo Xacti DMX-HD1000 World’s Smallest 1080p Camcorder

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Aug 30th 2007 1 Comment

Sanyo’s latest is a real beauty, and it shoots 1080p video too. It records in either MPEG-4 AVC or H.264 formats.

Sanyo Xacti DMX-HD1000

There is also a generous 10x optical zoom. They 2.7-inch LCD folds out (from where?) and allow you to view what you are shooting. You can also use the cam for 8MP still shots.

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