Monthly Archives: January 2007

For a good weekend read, our friends over at LetsGoDigital have published their review on the Olympus PT-E02 underwater housing for the E-330 digital SLR. Their report, written by underwater photographer Karin Brussaard, is very well made, if only for the sharp pictures illustrating the use of the housing and, more importantly the photos of …

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Can you scan 2,000 photos yourself? Yikes, that could take forever, if you could finish at all without your arms giving up first. That’s why there’s ScanMyPhotos.com, launched by California-based photo retailer 30 Minute Photos Etc. They’ll do it for you for $100. “From Shoebox To CD,” that’s their slogan, because they’ll scan all the …

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onOne Software says their Genuine Fractals v.5.0 is now available as a public beta and anyone interested may participate as beta tester by registering at http://labs.ononesoftware.com/. The Genuine Fractals software is used to increase the resolution of a digital image to be able to print larger pictures without degrading the quality of the resulting image. …

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Only five days to go before the January 31 deadline of the Olympus-sponsored British Underwater Image Festival (BUIF) photo contest. There’s more than £10,000 (about $20,000) worth of prizes for underwater photographers and videographers who will join the contest. BUIF will be held March 16-18, 2007 at the Birmingham NEC as part of the Go …

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Samsung has introduced its own version of a very tiny hard drive, with a single 1.8-inch platter that spins at 4200RPM, but packs 60GB of storage capacity. Samsung says it’s a world’s first but Seagate actually made their own similar announcement last January 7. But whoever is first matters less than the fact that it …

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Personal Computer World of UK says the Fujifilm FinePix F31fd’s touted face detection technology works well in detecting faces and the resulting photos are good overall. But there’s some niggle about how it goes about with its ISO settings. First, Fujifilm makes much of the camera’s ability to shoot at ISO 3200 although noise inevitably …

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KFE Japan’s Exemode DC567 digital camera does not offer much: 5 megapixels, fixed focal 44.7mm F3.2 lens, 2-inch TFT LCD monitor and SD-Picture Card storage, plus movie recording capability of only 12 fps. But look at the price: $82. And the weight: 80g (camera only). That’s why they call this an entry-level camera. KFE made …

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The “SW” in Olympus Stylus 770 SW’s name stands for Shockproof and Waterproof but the company has also added freeze-proof and crush-proof as additional attributes of their new digital camera. We haven’t really tested it yet so we’ll just have to take their word for it, for now. But if its predecessor, the 725 SW, …

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The Hasselblad H3D-31 sells for $25,000 and for its price alone it must be high-end, not to mention that it appears to be a very well made 31-megapixel camera. But calling it a digital SLR, as the Hasselblad company likes to call it, may be debatable. Some would grumble, like PDNonline, who says that while …

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The Konica Minolta brand is alive and well, thank you, and it is holding its “Connect for Growth 07” conference in New Orleans. Now, there’s an apt metaphor for you, Konica Minolta and New Orleans, both reconstructing and rising from their respective storms. The Konica Minolta we’re talking about here of course is the same …

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