Monthly Archives: January 2007

Nikon UK has announced the lineup of their seminar speakers for this year’s Focus on Imaging to be held at the NEC in Birmingham Feb. 25-28. Inspiration and technology will be the key topics for the speakers who will include Steve Davey who will talk on travel photography and Martin Shann on time lapse and …

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BenQ today unveiled its E610 and C610 digital cameras aimed at the consumer market. “The BenQ DC E610 and C610 are perfect options for users looking for a convenient way to enter the digital photography market,” said Conway Lee, General Manager for the BenQ Digital Media Business Group. The BenQ DC C610 is a 6-megapixel …

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Diversion Web Publishing today formally announced DivShare, reiterating their invitation for the public to join their new file-hosting site that provides a free, unlimited place to store and share photos, documents, and almost every other type of file. We cast a wary eye on DivShare last December when they first surfaced, noting that their business …

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University of Rochester researchers are developing a new way of storing data. Instead of encoding it in binary bits like in today’s computers, the scientists are using the photon. They have succeeded in encoding an entire image’s worth of data into a photon, slow the image down for storage, and then retrieve the image intact. …

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This report from Taiwan really piques our curiosity. It mentions a price cut for 10-megapixel cameras from Pentax and Samsung but did not mention what camera models are affected. In the 10-MP lineup Pentax has the Optio A20 compact and K10D SLR, while Samsung has the GX-10, S1050 and NV10. Of course it would be …

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For those of us who have awakened only to digital cameras and only vaguely remember that people used to shoot pictures using film, the rangefinder maybe a bit of a mystery. But for people steeped in the tradition, the rangefinder touches the soul. There were no computers then, and most people used ‘instamatic’ cameras to …

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Ricoh Corp. has released its GPS-ready digital camera for outdoor location-based photography or geo-imaging. The Ricoh 500SE features an integrated precision GPS module that records the geographic location of images at the time of capture. Waterproof and shock-resistant, the camera boasts of a ruggedized build quality that the company claims has been tested in the …

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A £10,000 prize (about $20,000) awaits the overall winner of the search for the Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. The contest is open to amateur and professional photographers worldwide and aims to find the most striking and original nature photography in the world. Deadline for submission of entries is on March 30. Now …

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MediaStreet touts its eMotion PMP-DVD as a complete mini Media Center for watching movies, listening to music and viewing favorite photos on-the-go. The device is small and portable; it fits comfortably in the palm of your hand while viewing its 3.5-inch flip-open LCD screen. The eMotion PMP DVD player can playback virtually every format media …

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The photo-sharing Phanfare website is allowing coders to play around with its application programming interface (API), giving software developers among its subscribers and the public a chance to extend the functionality of its user interface. Phanfare has already created a few sample widgets such as a badge that can pull newest the images into a …

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