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It’s not a portable media player that can entertain you on the road, but the Digital Foci Photo Safe does its job very well of providing you a reliable storage for your photos. Photo Safe is equipped with a 40GB, 80GB, or 120GB hard drive so you can keep snapping away and never worry of …
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Winners have been announced in the 64th Pictures of the Year International competition, which is currently being judged at the University of Missouri. Magnum photographer Christopher Anderson and staff photographer Tyler Hicks of the New York Times have emerged top winners in the POYi contest. Hicks emerged as Newspaper Photographer of the Year for his …
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Ricoh Company Ltd. today launched the new 7.24-megapixel Caplio R6 digital camera featuring a 7.1x optical wide zoom lens (28–200 mm in 35 mm camera format) packed into a slim body just 20.6 mm at its thinnest point. The new Caplio R6 is equipped with true CCD sensor-shift vibration correction system that eliminates blur due …
Olympus Imaging Corporation today announced the expansion of its E-System by launching two new DSLRs, four new lenses and a new teleconverter. But where is the successor to the flagship E-1 digital SLR? Not yet ready for prime time obviously. Olympus however indicated that the yet unnamed successor to the E-1 DSLR “will make its …
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Smartparts Inc. today announced two digital picture frames capable of storing up to 2,000 photos in their 128MB internal memory. The picture frames, with 10.4†and 8.4†viewable screens, do the trick by creating copies of original pictures and resizing them to suit the size and resolution of the screens. The frames come with Smartparts’ …
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Olympus took the wraps off two new digital SLR cameras today, both featuring ten megapixels and a live view mode. The live view mode is a feature borrowed from the successful E-330 which demonstrated that even DSLRs can benefit from a live preview of the image being composed, especially with an articulated screen. The new …
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Olympus announced today its newest Stylus 780 digital camera, touting technologies borrowed from the company’s next-generation DSLRs such as the TruePic III image processor for superior image quality with truer-to-life color and the new Shadow Adjustment Technology which enables users to preview and capture details that are hidden within shadows – intended for outside shots …
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Today’s digital cameras boast of high (some very high!) ISO settings to be able to shoot in low light conditions or to help in counteracting blur by jacking up shutter speed and dialing in a higher ISO sensitivity. Some are quite good at it, but most do this at the expense of letting in more …
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We got an inordinate number of page hits when we posted the news about the Olympus SP-550 UZ, giving us a hint that it was destined to become a popular camera. Well, PopPhoto.com has gotten hold of that camera and put it through its paces. They examined the SP-550 UZ minutely and held it up …
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The DXG-Roadster Portable Media Center is the Swiss Army knife of consumer electronics. It is a 5-megapixel digital camera that can also shoot and record video, a game pad for playing video games, a music player for MP3 and WMA tunes, a voice recorder and an FM radio tuner (What, no TV? no phone?). All …
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