There is now a gorillapod for the heavier SLR cameras equipped with zoom lenses. The new gorillapod SLR-Zoom weighs only 8.5 ounces but can support an SLR or even a camcorder weighing 6 pounds. The gorillapod is a line of flexible and lightweight tripods with bendable legs that can be attached to poles, rocks and …
Monthly Archives: November 2006
MIT Develops Wireless Power Source
A non-radiative energy method for wirelessly powering consumer electronics, including mobile phones, laptops, and cameras has been developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They say this has the potential of automatically powering our household appliances without wires someday. The MIT techspeak says: “The idea of automatic recharging of consumer media devices is …
Samsung Makes Slimmest Mobile LCD Screen
It’s just 0.82mm thick, no thicker than a credit card and is said to be the world’s slimmest liquid crystal display (LCD) panel today. Samsung was able to produce the thin LCD by redesigning the light guide plate subassembly and the glass substrate, which accounted for most of the LCD module’s thickness. At the same …
Kingston DataTraveler Secure Privacy Edition
Kingston has finally decided on the price tag for its Data Traveler Secure Privacy Edition USB stick, so instead of coming out in January as scheduled, it is now immediately available. The prices: $59 (512MB), $87 (1GB), $157 (2GB) and $334 (4GB); not as eye-gouging as feared, but still on the high side. Kingston says …
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REALVIZ Stitcher 5.5 Unlimited DS
Realviz has announced its Stitcher Unlimited 5.5 DS (“Double Shot”), which offers the ability to automatically stitch even 2-shot fisheye photos, such as those made in the IPIX format. The company said Stitcher is a professional-level application, used by thousands of professional photographers, architects, multimedia and 3D artists worldwide, and enables the creation of wide-angle …
Canon Tops US Q3 Camera Sales
Canon topped the list of camera sales for the third quarter in the U.S., according to research firm IDC. Q3 figures showed Canon shipped 6.8 million digital cameras, 19 per cent of all units sold. Sony came in second with 15 per cent, while Kodak took third place with 13 per cent. Nikon is fourth …
myfabrik File Storage & Sharing
It is an online file storage service essentially, with file sharing thrown in for good measure. myfabrik offers to serve as a conduit for large files and personal media, and this could be of use to photographers who just want to have a secure storage online, or collaborate with other photographers. But myfabrik has broader …
eStarling Wireless Digital Photo Frame
Send email to my digital photo frame? Yes, because that’s one of the ways you can upload photos to eStarling’s first RSS-enabled Wi-Fi digital photo frame. You can also send your Flickr photos via an RSS feed; and for even more convenience, you can shoot photos with your mobile phone then e-mail them directly to …
E029 Urs Recher
In this BONUS edition of LightSource, Bill and Ed talk with Urs Recher, product development advisor and internal advertising photographer for Broncolor.
Tamron Announces Photo Tilt Winners
Tamron has announced the winners of their “It’s a Wild World†2006 Photo Contest, which received over a thousand entries from all over the US. The contest was open to any original photograph prominently including an animal, wild or domestic, that was taken with a Tamron lens. The Grand Prize went to John Beveridge of …