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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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Filed in archive Software
by John Mello on August 31, 2007
Although I'm a hopelessly U.S.-centric person, I still find it engaging from time to time to gauge the opinions of those outside Uncle Sam's borders about what they consider stellar products....
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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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Camera phone snappers can now upload photos directly from their mobile-if it can run Java applications-to their Facebook page through a service called PeerMe. The uploading tool announced by the...
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Many Windows users like computer horror stories. Maybe it's because so many of us who use the infernal operating system have so many of our own tales of woe to tell, although most of us don't...
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by John Mello on August 29, 2007
Posting photos to the Web has its merits, but it has its demerits, too. One of them is unauthorized use of your images once you float them in cyberspace. To protect their intellectual property...
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If you want to break out of the boilerplate rut of photo sharing sites like Flickr, Photobucket, Webshots and such but are daunted by HTML and its variants, the folks at JAlbum are making it easier...
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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 27, 2007
Batchimage.com has just released an updated version of its image processor for Windows called Batch It! Pro. The application lets you perform a number of useful operations on batches of photos. Here...
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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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If you like snapping shots of snapdragons or any other flowers, you may want to submit your best work to 1-800-flowers. The e-tailer has launched a contest to get ideas for its next "Fields of...
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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 23, 2007
In the eyes of Internet goers, Canon is the best manufacturer of digital cameras, according to a survey conducted by professional pollster Ipsos Insight. Among the 15 brands offered as choices to the...
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A new scanner from Epson America announced yesterday is loaded with features to make a photo snapper smile. The Perfection V500 Photo scanner ($249.99) uses LEDs instead of fluorescent lighting to...
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If you're looking for pointers for taking better pictures or for an online photo community to exchange information, you may want to take a gander at Nikon's Digital Learning Center on Flickr....
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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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Despite Kodak's best efforts, many shutterbugs don't think twice about the paper on which their photos are printed. Even if you're producing prints with an inkjet printer, you can give...
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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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