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Mike Pasini of Imaging Resource says it’s easy to make friends with the Casio EX-Z1000. In a nutshell, he says it’s a very well-designed, capable camera with only a few minor quibbles. What are the quibbles? Well, the 3x zoom which seems a little short. But Mike says this is easily compensated by a digital …
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Jeff Keller of the Digital Camera Resource Page (DCRP) has put his hands on Samsung’s stylish NV10 compact camera and came up with a mixed bag of findings. Keller says Samsung got some hits and some misses with the NV10. The pluses: it’s a very well built and very stylish compact with a large high-res …
Do you own a Casio EX-S770? Because that fashion camera needs a new trip to the seamstress for a fix. Casio has released a firmware update for the EX-S770 which debuted in August. Firmware version 1.01 fixes what Casio says is a minor bug- a thin black line that occasionally appears at the bottom of …
LG Electronics has unveiled a new PMP (portable media player) at the just-concluded Korea Electronics Show in Seoul. It’s got good looks, a 2.4-inch LCD screen, 4GB capacity and a strange name: &37, or simply &. This beauty touts a mobile XD engine (what is that?) and brushed aluminum body. Good battery life too: 24 …
Sandisk made money this third quarter with some $751-million flowing into the company’s coffers. Of that amount, $103-million is net income, which is actually 4% down compared to a year ago, due mainly to dropping memory prices. The average price of memory chips has dropped 25% in Q3 compared to Q2; year-on-year, the drop has …
With all the digital imaging power of Adobe Systems, Inc., why do they have to gobble up Serious Magic? Because the acquisition strengthens Adobe’s leadership position in video software—for both video professionals and consumers. It’s not magic, it’s business. With video blogging up there in money heaven, it makes business sense for Adobe to fortify …
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Fujifilm already has a very good camera in the 6-megapixel FinePix F30, released in February. But to reach a broader mass market, Fuji made a little brother to this marvelous compact and released it as the FinePix F20 in July, priced lower but retaining the F30’s major features that matter for a good point-and-shoot camera …
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Now that you’ve got your spanking brand-new digital SLR, what do you do with it? Why, shoot pictures, of course! But you’re just a point-and-shooter, Antonio, how can you take really good pictures? Not to worry, grandmama, I have Ken Milburn’s book “Digital Photography Expert Techniques”. I can be an expert too in just a …
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The Sony MICRO VAULT ‘Midi’ range has been available for a while now with capacities of 512MB, 1GB, 2GB, and 4GB. Next month, Sony is coming out with an 8GB USB stick in the series, in their bid to offer their customers bigger storage capacities. But of course, Transcend and a few others have already …
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I thought these were bags to stuff your gears into when you go watching a solar eclipse? No, Antonio, these are bags made by a company called Eclipse Solar Gear, and you take these bags with you when you go out shooting pictures in the boondocks. You charge your batteries with these bags by solar …