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DXG USA has unveiled its DXG-110 compact, which the company touts as the first 10-megapixel digital camera to break the $200 price barrier. At $170, the DXG-110 boasts a 10MP CCD sensor (with up to 12MP image resolution), a large 2.5†high-resolution TFT screen, 3X Zoom, 30 FPS of VGA video with sound, digital voice …
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Cosina of Japan introduces the Ultron 40mm F2 SLII Aspherical lens and the Nokton 58mm F1.4 SLII, both carrying the Voigtländer brand. The new lenses will be available for the Nikon and Pentax DSLR mounts. The Ultron is a pancake design comprising six elements in five groups including a double-aspheric element and high-refraction glass. The …
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Yashica was a Japanese camera company which had its heyday when your daddy was young. It was bought by Kyocera in 1983 and was told to stop making cameras in 2005. On All Souls Day, November 2, 2007, it came back from the dead and showed a few promising compact cameras (digital, this time) at …
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The Asus HR-0205T HD DVD drive is touted to be the quietest of its kind. Asus says it hums along at 21.1dB for single layer HD-DVD discs and 23.7dB for dual-layer DVDs. Compare that with the 26dB standard noise level for a notebook PC hard drive. The HR-0205T is a read-only unit (no HD DVD …
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Photon 1.0, according to Green Volcano Software, is a high-performance, digital image viewing and sorting application for Mac OS X. “By taking advantage of all the latest hardware, including the new Intel multi-processor systems and latest-generation graphics processors, Photon’s highly optimized imaging engine can quickly scan and sort through large sets of high resolution photos,†…
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Mike Tomkins writes, “If pricing and simplicity are your main goals in a camera and you don’t do a lot of low-light shooting, the Samsung L700 could fit the bill. For quick daytime snapshots that aren’t likely to be printed to large sizes, the results are generally quite acceptable. If you’re looking to exercise much …
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RICOH has posted firmware updates for its compact digital camera models Caplio R6 and Caplio R7. The new firmware (Version 1.45) for the Ricoh Caplio R6 fixes a bug with the operation of the lens retracting unit, while Firmware 1.25 for the Ricoh Caplio R7 addresses some issues with direct printing in PIctBridge mode. It …
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Douglas Software has the Camera Module for Windows, Version 1.0.0, a new photographic tool to calculate various optical equations such as depth of field or hyperfocal distance. It’s supposed to solve optical equations such as angle of view for selected lens and film format combination, depth of field, including near focus, far focus, total depth …
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Olympus UK is offering a £100 cashback promo on the E-510 DSLR. Hey, that’s two Benjamins in US currency. Is Olympus America following suit? The UK promotion applies to E-510s purchased between today and December 31, 2007. Buyers of the Olympus E-510 have to fill out an online claim form, print it and send it …
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Stephen Shankland writes, “For a computer, dealing with color is just another math problem. And Microsoft wants to change the way your PC counts.†The company has developed a color space–a way to encode colors as numbers a computer can process–called scRGB. If the company succeeds in getting it to catch on, the technology could …
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