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While overall consumer tech spending slowed last year, digital photo spending grew by 11.2 percent in 2006, according to Photo Marketing Association (PMA) Marketing Research. This covers spending in major photo categories — digital cameras, digital printing, photo books, calendars, greeting cards, posters, and other custom items, as well as, home digital printing consumables. Accroding …
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Fujifilm USA announced today its new Frontier Lite chemical-free photofinisher, designed as an affordable dry lab solution for new operators of photo printing shops. “Frontier Lite helps new photofinishers enter the market with a system that requires a lower capital investment and easy operation,†Fujifilm says. Dry photo lab operation is ideal for supermarkets, drugstores, …
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Camera maker Vivitar announced today its five new models that the company will be showing at PMA 2007 in Las Vegas. Topping the list is the Vivitar 6200W, a 6-megapixel number that has been ruggedized with rubber armor and waterproofed to a depth of 30ft. It also has 2.0″ color LTPS LCD display, 16MB built-in …
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Major imaging players Fujifilm, Kodak and Minolta – who jointly own the Everplay Standard – have appointed the Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA) to manage the Everplay specification. The Everplay Standard is an initiative of Fuji, Kodak and Minolta to ensure compatibility of digital photos and videos across a broad range of consumer electronic products. …
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Corel Corporation and Lexar Media Inc. are offering the full version of Corel Paint Shop Pro for free download to buyers of select Lexar Professional flash memory cards, while the full version of Corel Snapfire Plus (Standard Edition) will be available for download free of charge with purchase of select Lexar Platinum II and Standard …
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What is there to explain about Vibration Reduction? A lot, it seems, that Nikon thinks the topic needs its own website. But of course it’s a sound marketing idea to highlight what sets you apart from those who offer Shake Reduction or Image Stabilization or simply blur reduction by upping ISO settings. They may seem …
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Kodak has a new 5-megapixel, 2.2 micron CMOS image sensor – the KAC-05010 – targeted for mass-market consumer applications in the high-volume digital still camera and mobile phone markets. The KAC-05010 image sensor, in the 1/2.5 format, promises improved image quality, lower noise and excellent color reproduction with its Kodak PixeLux technology, an architecture that …