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by John Mello on October 17, 2007
Along with its new lime green point-and-shoot camera, Olympus also announced yesterday the latest model in its "E" line of digital SLRs. Olympus claims that its new 10 megapixel E-3 ($1699)...
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by John Mello on October 16, 2007
One product trend that I find irritating these days is the desire of camera makers to liven up their offerings with perky colors. Olympus, in my mind, took this annoying drift to a new level today...
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by John Mello on October 04, 2007
Face recognition is all the rage these days in digital cameras, but Sony appeared to have taken the technology to the next level with its "smile shutter." The technology is supposed to...
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by John Mello on October 02, 2007
Along with an advanced compact digital still camera, Pentax introduced yesterday a very slim standard DSC model, the eight megapixel Optio V10 ($249.95). Scheduled to hit the shelves this month, the...
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by John Mello on October 02, 2007
Pentax pulled the wraps off a new 12-megapixel (MP) compact digital camera yesterday. The new Optio A40 ($299.95) expected to reach the market this month is loaded with features, including three...
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by John Mello on September 25, 2007
Having trouble inducing your photo subjects to laugh? Try pulling out the SoccerCam the next time you snap a frame. Makers of the unit, Mustek, of Irvine, Calif., have taken a 2.1 megapixel digital...
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by John Mello on September 24, 2007
Since Apple introduced its awesome iPhone, the popularity of touch-screens has zoomed. BenQ is taking advantage of that popularity with its latest digital still camera (DSC). Its new DSC T800 eight...
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by John Mello on September 06, 2007
If the snafus of camera makers over the last week have proven anything, it's that once the cat's put back in the bag, it isn't long before it's out again to stay. Within hours of...
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by John Mello on September 05, 2007
Reports emerged today of a new Sony digital SLR, the A700, expected to be released within weeks. News of the new camera apparently broke at a Web site operated by the company in the UK, but the...
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by John Mello on September 01, 2007
One of the hottest new technologies built into digital cameras now is face detection. With it, a bytecam can detect the faces in a photo and make sure they're properly exposed and focused in a...
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by John Mello on August 31, 2007
It was difficult for even the most jaded digital camera watchers to keep their jaws from dropping today at IFA 2007 in Berlin when Casio revealed a prototype of a digital still camera that can capture...
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by John Mello on August 30, 2007
If you want to know what satisfies consumers, chances are J.D. Power and Associates can tell you. It has built a business on finding out what corporate America's customers want and telling the...
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by John Mello on August 30, 2007
Christmas is still months away, but for digital camera buffs, now is the season to be jolly. Camera makers are introducing new byteboxes in batches. The latest to do so is Nikon, which lifted the...
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by John Mello on August 28, 2007
An eagle-eyed blogger at Digital Camera Resource spotted a new version of Kodak's EasyShare Z712 IS (photo above) at the Rochester, N.Y., imaging company's Web site on Sunday, but apparently...
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by John Mello on August 27, 2007
Scott Adams has made many of us laugh with his Dilbert strip, and, no doubt, his Dilbertcam prompted a chuckle or two this weekend, but Scott's camera idea is no laughing matter for the thinkers...
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by John Mello on August 26, 2007
You never know where a far-out tech idea will be birthed. Scott Adams of Dilbert fame, for example, cooked up a lulu this weekend. He wrote in his blog that he'd like to see a digital camera with...
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by John Mello on August 26, 2007
If you're interested in cutting edge technology, you may want to check out the Side-By-Side column at DCViews that compares the Sigma SD14 digital SLR with the Fuji S5 Pro. What's so unusual...
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by John Mello on August 24, 2007
Olympus settled into the ranks of Fuji and Panasonic this week with the release of its own digital camera, the SP-560 Ultra Zoom, with an 18x zoom that's the 35mm equivalent of a 27-486 zoom....
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by John Mello on August 24, 2007
At one time big zooms meant big cameras, but that rule of thumb has become as relevant as flat earth theory. A case in point is the Optio Z10 introduced by Pentax this week. The eight megapixel...
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by John Mello on August 22, 2007
Prompting smiles from subjects has been a major exercise for photographers since people began snapping pictures, but it hasn't been until now that a camera maker has tried to do something about...
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by John Mello on August 21, 2007
Canon announced a slew of new products yesterday, including the much-anticpated 40D "prosumer" digital SLR. The company has made some significant improvements in this camera over its...
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by John Mello on August 20, 2007
A launch date for Canon's new replacement for its 30D digital SLR has been set, or has it? This weekend, Amazon.com posted information on the new model 40D stating that the camera would be going...
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by John Mello on August 17, 2007
BenQ recently released an attractive 10-megapixel compact digital camera with some interesting features, like an automatic face tracking function to ensure that the mugs in a photo are properly...
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