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If you’re a beginning photographer who wants to bite into food photography, here’s a good place to start. Chef Jean-Louis Vosgien of Saint Tropez is graciously sharing his tips on how to shoot culinary photographs. He says the LCD screen in today’s digital camera is a great tool, making it a lot easier for shooting …
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Casio has updated the firmware for the Exilim EX-Z700 (top photo, above) and EX-70 (bottom) to provide support for the new high capacity SDHC memory cards that currently tops out at 8GB. The new firmware (Version 1.01) will enable the EX-Z700 and EX-Z70 to accept SDHC cards with capacities of 8GB and beyond. Firmware is …
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DivX Inc. and Pentax Imaging Co. have jointly announced the DivX certification of the Pentax Optio A30 digital camera. This is the sixth camera in 18 months from Pentax to get the certification. DivX-certified products have undergone a test to ensure compatibility and interoperability with other DivX devices specifically on video creation and playback. The …
Japan’s Y-E Data has unveiled the YD-8G20 self-service photo terminal to enable customers to print their own digital pictures in stores. The basic system consists of a CPU, card reader, TFT monitor and direct thermal printer. The CPU specification varies from a Intel Celeron 2.5GHz to Pentium4 2.8GHz with DDR of 256MB up to 1GB, …
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Micron Technology has expanded its line of imaging sensors with a pair of high-definition CMOS sensors for digital cameras and camcorders. Its new 5-megapixel MT9P401 sensor, pictured above, is designed for hybrid cameras that capture both high-resolution still photos and high-definition video. Micron says this 1/2.5-inch sensor can capture HD video at 60 frames per …
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The Mustek PF-D800 is a compact and stylish digital picture frame with an 8-inch liquid crystal display (LCD) and various picture playback modes. You can set the slideshow to display photos one after the other or randomly using different transition effects and speeds. The PF-D800 has a built-in multi-format card reader that can read all …
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We know how hard it can get to view a laptop outdoors; the glare just makes it quite impossible to work sometimes. Well, the IT Helper has a simple yet effective solution to eliminate outdoor glare, the Comp Shade (pictured above). It’s made of high-density but lightweight plastic that completely blocks glare and it’s easy …
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Here’s a new camera from Casio, the Exilim EX-Z11 which offers 7.2 megapixels, 3x zoom, 2.6-inch LCD and Anti Shake DSP in a stylish brushed metal body. The EX-Z11’s Anti Shake DSP combines with its Auto Macro and Quick Shutter functions to reduce the incidence of blurred photos due to hand movement while shooting, or …
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If you’re quite perplexed with the complexity of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Apple Aperture or Apple iPhoto, Light Crafts is offering to simplify that by offering a visual way to edit photos. LightZone enables users to retouch and enhance photos in a simple and natural way, without the need to learn a new editing language or …
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myshare, pictured above, is an affordable network storage solution that offers the ability to share music, photos, printers, USB drives and files for shared access over a home network or over the internet “easily, securely and reliably.†It is the first offering in a line of network storage products by Hammer Storage; the 1-terabyte (1TB) …
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