Tag: Digital camera
Sony Panoramic Digital Camera concept: will it work?
Sony has mocked up the concept of an automatic panoramic digital camera, designed by Hye-Jeong Yang.
In principle, it works by setting it on a level surface, angling it, and then letting it rotate through 360 degrees to take the panoramic photograph.
In theory, it can store pics and video to a memory card – but of course a concept can do anything.
More importantly is whether it will actually work. One commenter claims that “If it is designed to make panoramas then it should spin around the nodal point (well entrance pupil) of the lens to avoid parallax. Unless I’m missing something then this design is inherently flawed.”
The design doesn’t look quite right to me, though it’s a great concept. What do you reckon? Additionally, as there’s no real model, there are no sample photo either. Guess we’ll have to still to tripod and stitching software for the moment.
Samsung G600 camera phone will launch in partnership with Truprint
Samsung has announced that its G600 Camera Phone, which we previewed last month, will launch in the UK in partnership with the Truprint brand.
EU camera tax to hit top-spec models
Get ready to pay the cheese-eating pen-pushers in Brussels an extra 4.9% for the privilege of owning a decent camera soon, thanks to the EU giving the go-ahead for a new tax on digital cameras that are also capable of recording top-quality video.
The video recorder tax already exists – its charged on recording gadgets already…
HP Photosmart R937 digital camera flaunts its 3.6-inch touchscreen
HP has just unveiled nine new digital cameras for the summer season, with the pick of the bunch being the Photosmart R937. It’s an eight-megapixel cam with 3x optical zoom and a whopping 3.6-inch touchscreen.
If Nikon made a 360-degree panorama-cam…
It might look something like this. Designer Ye Chen is responsible for the concept product, which sadly isn’t actually being made by Nikon. Not yet, anyway. He’s billed it as the Coolpix 360, with the big innovation being a rotating head that would allow you to take full 360-degree photos.
Panasonic to launch DMC-FX100 12.2 Megapixel wide-angle compact digital camera
Panasonic has announced their DMC-FX100, the latest addition to their Lumix range of compact digital cameras.
It boasts a 12.2 megapixel CCD and is equipped with a specially designed 28mm wide-angle LEICA DC VARIO ELMARIT lens featuring f/2.8 brightness and a 3.6x optical zoom. It features seven elements in six groups, including an extra-high refractive index aspherical lens. and four lenses with five aspherical surfaces to generate high optical performance.
DXG's DXG-589V: it's the first digital camera with games!
We’re used to the idea of phones that do everything, but digital cameras? Surely they’re best sticking to shooting still pics and videos? Not in the view of DXG USA, which has just announced the DXG-589V, a five-megapixel camera that can also play games.
Video Preview: Sony T100 Cyber-shot digital camera
Crumbs. Sony’s only gone and taken all its whizzy digital camera technology, and crammed it all into one well-proportioned Cyber-shot cam. Eight megapixels, 5x optical zoom, and facial recognition tech make it a powerful device, while its ability to store shots in HD means they won’t look rubbish when you bore delight friends with a slideshow on your big-screen telly.
Pentax announces DivX certification for Optio A30 digital camera
Pentax has announced that their recently launched Optio A30 digital camera has received DivX certification, meaning that users can create their own movies using the camera and have them play back on any of the 70 million DivX Certified consumer…
