The Photo Marketing Association (PMA) says more prints are being made from digital photos, and more digital cameras are being sold this year. It said the total volume of digital prints grew 65 percent through the year ending June 2006, with retail printing accounting for 44.3 percent of the printing volume. Digital camera sales are …
Monthly Archives: October 2006
Is Microdia The Fastest Card In Town?
Microdia has added a new ultra-fast line of flash memory cards – the XTRAPRO II. Aimed primarily at professional photographers, the XtraPro II cards offer breakthrough speeds of 300X, capable of achieving maximum read/write speeds of 45.0 megabytes (MB)/second. This could well be a world record of sorts as of this writing. A data transfer …
M-Rock Camera and Camcorder Cases
M-Rock is offering photographers travel bags that help protect their precious DSLR cameras and expensive lenses. M-Rock said their well designed and fully functional camera bags offer triple protection with hugging rain-flap, zipper and front buckle. Known as “tough on the outside and soft on the inside,” M-Rock bags offer ultra soft felt lining and …
Wolverine ESP PMP Offers Multimedia Convergence
Now, here’s a portable media player that does everything: it can store and view 60,000 digital photos or 240 hours of video and 40,000 songs, plus it can record TV programs and FM radio too. Wolverine Data’s ESP Professional Portable Media Player comes in 80GB and 120GB versions and features a 3.6-inch TFT LCD display. …
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Kodak EasyShare Photo Printer 350
Kodak has announced the new EasyShare Photo Printer 350, a compact dye-sub printer that has a USB connection for printing 4×6-inch photos from a PictBridge-enabled digital camera or computer. It also supports Bluetooth for printing from camera phones and other wireless devices. The printer comes equipped with a Kodak color cartridge and photo paper starter …
Fujifilm MP-300 Printer Improves Infrared
Fujifilm is coming out with this compact and truly portable photo printer so small it can sit comfortably in your hand. The Fujifilm MP-300 mobile printer is PictBridge compliant so that means it can print directly from your camera or mobile phone without using a computer. The amazing thing is you can actually print without …
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Agfa Is Back with 3 Compact Digicams
Agfa resurfaced last week at the Photokina 2006 with an offering of three compact digital cameras aimed at the consumer market. The company has introduced the three compacts as the AgfaPhoto DC-633xs, DC-630x and the DC-533, but Agfa is not really developing digital cameras at this time, they just bought a license to put their …
Mitsubishi DPS Click 5000: Click and Print
No noxious fumes here, and no mess. This digital photo finishing system brings a powerful and affordable solution to the photo processing market. While it’s intended mainly for retailers, it is ideal too for event photographers who want to print pictures onsite. The Mitsubishi DPS Click 5000 is a fully integrated photo finishing system featuring …
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Hasselblad H3D: Quality for Your Money
This is the world according to Hasselblad: the world has adopted digital SLR photography, but there is no camera out there right now that has the image quality and flexibility required by the most demanding professional photographers. Only Hasselblad can provide this DSLR. Enter: the Hasselblad H3D. With it, the company hopes to position itself …
Polaroid Pink Cams To Battle Breast Cancer
Polaroid is offering four pink digital camera models in support of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. The Polaroid P&S models are available in pink, light pink and magenta colors. All have 16MB of internal memory and will take in all sizes of SD cards. The a520M model has a 5.1-megapixel sensor, a 2-inch LCD screen, …
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