Panasonic Unveils Touch-Screen LUMIX Digital Camera
HULIQ, NC
Panasonic announces the LUMIX DMC-FX500, the company’s first digital camera with a 3-inch touch-screen LCD – also featuring a 25mm ultra-wide-angle Leica DC lens, 5x optical zoom and 10.1 megapixels.
With a dual control system using both touch-screen and joystick operation, the ability to record High Definition (HD) video and advanced Intelligent Auto technologies, the FX500 packs innovative features and intuitive design, helping consumers enrich the digital photography experience and take better photos.
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March 24th, 2008
Panasonic Announces Touchscreen Digital Camera With HD Video
Wired News
The touch user interface is slowly creeping into every relevant gadget and Panasonic is getting into the game by releasing a touchscreen-operated point-and-shoot camera today. The Panasonic LUMIX FX500 will feature a 3-inch LCD touch UI allowing you to touch-adjust aperture and shutter settings, and even set the focus and exposure frames in the middle of a recording.
There’s also a new Easy Organization feature where you organize your pictures by touching a picture thumbnail to select, and then an onscreen keyboard pops up so that you can title each picture. That is much better than waiting after upload them to the PC. (more…)
March 19th, 2008
Nikon connects its new S51c camera to the net with Wi-Fi capability, but are its photos worth uploading?
infoSync World, Norway
The Wi-Fi functionality in Nikon’s Coolpix S51c just might be an evolutionary step for point-and-shoot (perhaps all) cameras, but it isn’t quite intuitive yet. Too bad, because it’s otherwise the camera’s best feature: for a $250 MRSP, the image-quality is average at best and the video-quality outright mediocre, and curiously Nikon’s software bundle includes a multi-image panorama utility but no basic editing-software. For users who crave the immediacy of Wi-Fi uploading, the S51c may fit the bill, but others could do better for less money. Release: September 2007. Price: $250. (more…)
March 18th, 2008
In era of gadgets, old ways are still best
People’s Daily Online, China
The simpler, the better.
In preparing to cover this year’s two-week legislative meeting, the newspaper I work for asked Wang Wenlan, a veteran photographer, to give writers a crash course on how to snap pictures for those occasions when our photographers are not immediately available.
“All you need is a foolproof camera, which allows you to do your work conveniently, without distracting or offending the subject,” Wang said.
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March 17th, 2008
Canon Digital Ixus 900 Ti
PC Authority, Australia
The “Ti†in 900 Ti means this Ixus boasts a titanium shell and, despite its elegant looks, it feels almost bulletproof. It’s a regular Canon at heart, though, so if you’ve used a Digital Ixus before you’ll instantly be at home. Newcomers may find it takes a few outings for the controls to become second nature, but once you’ve acclimatised to the system it’s consistent and responsive.
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March 17th, 2008
Canon Expands Digital Elph Series
PC Magazine
Canon announced three new PowerShot cameras on Wednesday with improved face detection and a new Intelligent Anti-Blur system.
by David Gussman
Canon today announced three new updates to its already outstanding Digital Elph camera line: the PowerShot SD890 IS, SD790 IS, and SD770 IS. All models feature 10 megapixels, include a new Intelligent Anti-Blur system, and improved face detection. The main differences can be found in body design, but I expect similar results and image quality from each. (more…)
March 14th, 2008
Panasonic DMC-FZ18 digital camera review
Pocket-lint.co.uk, UK
13 March 2008 – When I first prized the FZ18 from its box, two things, the small size, and the rather uninspiring plastic build struck me. Even turning the thing on, which is a fleet affair, takes less than a second and the enormous zoom range on offer does not make itself apparent at first. This is because the impressive lens only protrudes an inch at the full 504mm end of the zoom; at the wide end, the lens protrudes less than a quarter of an inch. (more…)
March 13th, 2008
CeBit 08: Samsung Shows off Cameras
Techtree.com, India
We reported about Samsung’s myriad announcements at CeBit 08. The company has also showcased two of its newer digital cameras. Here’s looking at them…
The one, the GX-20 — a DSLR fitted with a high-quality APS-C size (about 23.4 x 15.6mm) 14.6 mega pixels CMOS image sensor, and the other, the NV24HD — a premium HD compact digital camera. (more…)
March 10th, 2008
Camera makers to ride retail gravy train
Business Standard, IndiaÂ
Suvi Dogra / New Delhi March 10, 2008
With increasing disposable incomes and rising consumer awareness for genuine products, camera makers are bullish on the Indian market. Canon India, for example, hopes to generate 50 per cent of its revenue target of Rs 1,000 crore from cameras alone in 2010.
 The company plans to take the retail route for ensuring stronger sales. At present, the company expects over 30 per cent of sales to come from retailers such as Home Solutions, Vishal, Spencer’s. (more…)
March 10th, 2008
It pays to think big with digital camera sensors
Guardian, UK
I’ve just bought a new digital SLR camera, my old one having failed, and bee reminded just how fast these things change. I went for a Nikon D40 for £25 (after cashback), which is less than half what I paid for my first digital camera, a Olympus Camedia compact. One thing hasn’t changed: buyers still have to negotiat the pixel inflation problem. In my case, this meant choosing a D40 that records si megapixels (6MP) rather than the newer D40x, which offers 10MP (more…)
March 6th, 2008
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