EIEF 2006

The Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival wrapped up on Tuesday evening after two days of thought provoking discussions of important topics affecting the games industry right now. Unlike the more famous games conferences, such as the now defunct E3, TGS…

Nikon D80 – a high end digital SLR for the consumer market

Those of you who’ve just splashed out on a Nikon D70 should probably avert your eyes. This upgrade from Nikon offers 10.2mp (up from the D70’s 6mp), a 2.5-inch screen (up from 2-inch), a broader ISO range (100-1600) and all kinds of in-camera editing fun for consumers including red eye removal, D-Lighting (one of Nikon’s Coolpix features that lets you improve the lighting of a shot after you’ve snapped it) and image overlay. You can shoot up to 3fps for 100 shots and it’ll fire up in 0.18 seconds.