Monthly Archives: July 2009
Pandigital Launches Clear Line of Photo Frames in Europe
Pandigital has announced the European release of its PanTouch Clear line of digital photo frames, which claims to deliver a dramatic new design marked by creating the perception of ‘floating’ digital images. Measuring just a third of an inch in terms of thickness, these frames are the thinnest on the market, the company said. The …
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Lexar’s Crucial Unveils New Solid State Drives
Lexar Media has announced a new generation of solid state drives (SSDs) with faster speeds and bigger capacities. The latest line includes the 256GB Crucial M225, pictured above, which boasts 250MB/sec read speed and a 200MB/sec write speed. The new SSDs use a SATA 2.0 (3Gb/s) interface and feature MLC NAND flash components housed in …
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Kingston Announces 256GB DT300 USB Flash Drive
Heard of the $1000 thumb drive? Kingston‘s new DataTraveler 300 USB Flash drive is available now in the UK and Europe for about £566 or $924 and it carries a massive 256GB of storage capacity. The new USB drive reads up to 20MBps and writes up to 10MBps of data, and comes with support for …
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2009 TNT Magazine Travel Writing and Photography Awards
There is a call for entries to the 19th Annual TNT Magazine Travel Writing and Photography Awards for UK residents. The London-based magazine said the awards carry over £5000 worth of prizes. This year’s competition consists of two sections: Travel Writing and Travel Photography. The latter includes 3 categories: People, The Natural World and Your …
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Firmware Version 1.25 Available for Ricoh GX200 Compact
Ricoh’s firmware update, Version 1.25, for their GX200 compact camera aims to fix an issue where the orientation information may be incorrectly recorded on images taken using the camera’s long-time exposure function. The other problem it fixes is the camera’s playback zoom, which could sometimes lead to the position display window appearing incorrectly. This problem …
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Rollei Redbird Film for the Photographer Who Sees Red Always
Whatever they said about film being dead, here comes a new one: the Rollei Redbird 135mm negative film. It’s not your normal film, though; creatives who use this film can control how red dominates the overall picture. The Rollei Redbird film accentuates red more than any other colors because the red layer in the emulsion …
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Olympus to Release 12MP Tough-6010 in Asia in August
Olympus has refreshed its Mju Tough-6000 ruggedized compact camera and called it the Mju Tough-6010. Just like its predecessor, the new Tough-6010 is waterproof up to a depth of 3m or 10ft, shockproof from drops of up to 1.5m and freezeproof to minus-10 degrees Celsius. New is its 12-megapixel sensor, up from 10 megapixels in …
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Is Your Nikon D5000 Malfunctioning?
Nikon USA has issued a service advisory regarding the power switch of the Nikon D5000 digital SLR camera. Some electronic component in the power switch did not meet factory specifications, Nikon admitted, and the company is now addressing the issue. They are apparently still tracking which units are actually affected and they promised to publish …