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Japanese camera manufacturers shipped a total of 7.28 million units in July 2007, up 34.7 percent over the same month last year, indicating a surging popularity of digital SLRs, according to CIPA, the Camera & Imaging Products Association. In dollar terms, the July shipments were valued at $1.323B, up 24.4 percent. DSLRs alone shipped 581,522 …
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Toshiba is the latest entry into the digital photo frame derby, throwing its hat into the ring with its DPF7XSE model, a stunning looker with a 7-inch TFT display. Toshiba’s photo frame has 256MB of built-in flash memory and is ready to take in more with its card reader for SD, MMC, CompactFlash and Memory …
Hong Kong’s free port may be one reason why it was among the first destinations of the just-released Canon EOS 40D. One of the first buyers was Roland Lim who posted a review of the new camera on his Word Press blog site. The poor guy’s website reeled under tremendous traffic and his host server …
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PicturesOnGold.com is holding its first ever Hottest Wedding Picture contest with over $1,000 worth of prizes up for grabs. The contest is free to enter on their website, and is based on the viewer’s votes. Each visitor to the site can vote once per day on the photo they think is the hottest wedding picture …
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Neocamera.com reviewed the Canon Powershot S5 IS zoom camera and found it to be a good camera overall, with generally good image quality. But shooting above ISO 400 reveals noise beyond acceptable. Here’s their take on the Canon S5: “The Canon Powershot S5 IS is a good ultra-zoom digital camera with some small improvements over …
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Canon Marketing Philippines has launched “Smile 7107,†a photo contest to showcase the beauty of the archipelago. 7,107 is supposed to be the exact number of islands in the Philippines, not counting those that disappear in high tide. The contest is open to all amateur and professional photographers who own or use Canon digital cameras. …
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This guy has been hobnobbing with just about everybody who’s somebody, but nobody knew him. Until now. Tan Chade-Meng’s name has made it to New York Times for his gallery of photos with world celebrities who visited the Google campus in Mountain View, CA. You see, the guy works there and every time a public …
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There’s a very special photography show coming up on Friday, September 7, which aims to perpetuate the fine art and craft of traditional photography; yes, the one that uses black and white films, and silver gelatins and real darkrooms, not digital. That’s also the craft perfected by the likes of Ansel Adams, Margaret Bourke-White and …
There used to be a funny story about a clueless soul who wanted to scan his document by putting it up against the computer monitor. Today, this is becoming reality. Sharp Corp. says they have developed a new display technology that features a touch screen LCD with scanning function. You literally put your document up …
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The Parrot Photo Viewer 7†is a Bluetooth-enabled digital photo frame that can receive photos from your Bluetooth mobile phone or PC, no wires needed and no memory cards too. This photo frame can store and display up to 500 photos in its 64MB internal memory. Parrot says you don’t even have to resize your …
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