Tag: Digital camera
Canon launches the 'optically powerful' Digital IXUS 970 IS camera
Canon has introduced the Digital IXUS 970 IS, claimed to be the most optically powerful Digital IXUS to date – with 5x optical zoom.
Sony intros Cyber-shot S730 compact digital camera
Sneaking in past the remains of the Christmas turkey comes Sony’s latest Cyber-shot offering. The S730 compact digital camera (not to be confused with Samsung’s offering with the same model number) offers 7.2 megapixel image capture, 3x optical zoom lens, high sensitivity ISO 1250, multi-point autofocus mode, macro settings, self-timer, flash, a 2.4-inch colour LCD screen with wide viewing angle and on-screen function guide.
Sony shows off Odo Twirl 'N Take camera prototype which generates its own electricity
My, how our Hippyshopper editor Abi must be positively green with envy right now she wasn’t able to spy this Sony eco-friendly digital camera this week at the Eco-Products 2007 Eco Style Fair over in Japan.
Not exactly known for their green initiatives, Sony showed off a digital camera prototype which generates…
Shiny Video Review: Gary reviews his Canon camera's free 16MB memory card
Perfect viewing for a lazy Friday afternoon skiving at work is this video Gary did by himself, locked away in his work office down in Brighton. Frustrated with the free 16MB-capacity memory card his new Canon camera came with, he recorded possibly YouTube’s most humorous…
BenQ show off DSC T800 slim eight megapixel digital camera
BenQ has unveiled what it claims to be the slimmest eight megapixel camera with touchscreen, measuring 14.9mm at its thinnest part, and offering a three-inch LCD screen. Other features include picture resolution up to 3,264 x 2,448 pixels, a…
Triops – a throwable, 3D digital camera, for rough & tumble photography
The bad news is it’s orange and so very ugly that you’ll be more than happy to dispose of it. It’s just a concept piece at the moment, designed by Franziska Faoro and entered into the BraunPrize 2007 design competition.
Shiny Video Preview: Ash looks at Sony's DSC-200/S digital camera at IFA
Still rolling out the videos from IFA last week, this one shows our very own Ashley Norris with Sony’s new DSC-200/S digital camera, complete with a Smile Shutter mode to help ensure beaming smiles in all your photos. All together now – cheese!…
Sony unveils α700 digital SLR camera
Sony has announced its new α700 digital SLR, aimed at serious photo enthusiasts and semi-professionals.
It features a 12.24 megapixel (effective) Exmor CMOS sensor, which, according to the press release, “utilises cultivated CCD imaging and original Column A/D conversion technologies to deliver high-speed and high-picture quality”. Right…
Apparently this means that analogue-to-digital conversion uses dedicated converters located close to each element array on the sensor itself, reducing noise, and further complemented by on-chip noise reduction after digitisation.
Sony’s BIONZ processing engine then performs further RAW noise reduction, before compression and encoding.
Zink announces camera/printer hybrid and standalone printer
Zink, an American company we’ve been hearing a little about in recent months, has finally confirmed two of their first products they’ll be launching shortly, and I must say, I’m sceptical as to whether they’ll be successful or not. Previous companies such as Fujifilm and Olympus have tried converging cameras and printers together, and not made much of a splash in the market…