This
long awaited comparison article is now complete and available online.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
Canon
U.S.A. today announced the immediate availability of the HyperPhoto
System, a fully-integrated digital photo production system. Offering
the finest photo-quality output on the market today with 1,200 dots
per inch (dpi) resolution, HyperPhoto transforms negatives and transparencies,
reflective art, and digital media into calendars, postcards, stickers,
composites and other creative mediums.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
VuePrint
7.4 is now available for downloading. If you previously paid $40.00
to register VuePrint, then this is a free upgrade. (Now with improved
Canon CRW import and Nikon Coolpix 950 support).
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
The Japanese magazine D# Dreamarts have published a
low-light shot comparison between various cameras on their website.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
Increased Quality and Lower Prices Enhance Mass Market
Appeal for Digital Cameras, IDC Says. Worldwide Digital Camera Sales
Will Approach 4.7 Million Units in 1999.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
World's
Smallest and Lowest Power Color VGA Displays for Ultra-Portable
Electronics Products (read also digital cameras). This
would facilitate LCD driven viewfinders which would finally give
you an SLR-TTL view of the image you're taking.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
The Imaging Application with Ink, Voice and Text Annotations
for the latest version of Windows CE on the Palm-size PC and Handheld
PC Pro Devices.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
Fuji
surprise us all and announce two new and very interesting digital
cameras. The 2900Z (top) sports a 2.3Megapixel CCD @ 1800 x 1200
whilst the 1500 (bottom) is a 1.5Megapixel CCD available in a
variety of colours.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
This
just in from the Nikon Europe support site (thanks to John Edgecombe
for spotting this one). This camera is capable of Aperture/Shutter
priority exposure mode and is fitted with a connector for an external
flash unit. This allows the E-950 to be used in conjunction with studio
flash units.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
Those guys over at PC Watch in Japan get to play with
all the best toys!! Note that these samples are from "beta"
cameras.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
The
latest addition to the galleries is this set of photographs taken
yesterday at the Singapore Botanical Gardens. The gallery is "Mixed"
meaning that there are images taken with both the Kodak DC265 and
Nikon Coolpix 950.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
The Tokyo Business Show '99 was held between 18th and
21st of May. They have brief report on the Canon A50, Ricoh RDC-5000,
Epson CP800 and an interesting digital camera add-on for the Cassiopeia
from Casio.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
Panasonic
(Matsushita) just announced the Coolshot II which features a 1.3 megapixel
CCD (1280x960) and TWO CF card slots, interestingly this camera supports
an optional plug-in CF format USB interface.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
People have been reporting a problem with the discussion
forums over the "NEW" tag. Here's how to resolve this.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
SanDisk
Will Supply Panasonic With MultiMediaCards for New Panasonic Digital
Video Camera: Removable, Reusable Flash Memory Card Allows Video Camera
To Also Function As A Digital Still Camera
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
Toshiba has developed a new IC package that's as thin
as a piece of paper. Toshiba has plans to use the technology to make
higher-capacity flash memory storage cards by next year, and claims
it can open the door to new applications. . By the first half of next
year, Toshiba plans to ship samples of a 1-Gbit SmartMedia card which
uses four stacked 256-Mbit flash devices.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
Infotrends: The robust digital camera market is starting
to change the face of photography in America, according to a new forecast
report from InfoTrends Research Group, Inc. Digital camera unit sales
will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 38% through 2003, reaching
over 6 million units in North America. In 1999, revenues will grow
35% to nearly $1.2 billion.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
New
CF cards from Lexar won't need CF card readers, they'll only need
the US$20 Lexar JumpShot cable and a USB enabled PC/iMAC: "Lexar
Media Launches New Line of High-Speed, USB-Enabled CompactFlash Digital
Film Cards for Digital Cameras. New CompactFlash Cards Capture High-Resolution
Images Quickly; Provide Fast, Hassle-Free Photo Transfer to Desktop
Computers Via the USB Port With Lexar JumpSHOT(tm) Cable; Cards Guaranteed
to Work With CompactFlash Cameras"
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
15
June 1999, 20:00 Tokyo Time:
The anticipation has been carefully
built over the last six months, ever since the 950 was announced
we also knew about Nikons "unnamed digital SLR", more
recently Nikon USA's website stated "exciting news coming"...
Well now it has a name, and we have all the specs!
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
PC
Watch and their professional photographer Yamada post a preview of the new
Nikon D1 Digital SLR. Most of the notes in their preview seem to be based
around the Nikon Japan launch.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
Steve
has just posted his own user review of the Olympus C2000Z, which I will
be reviewing within the next month (please stop asking me to review it
by email, the delay was due to poor communication with Olympus Singapore).
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
Sony
Japan announce new black coloured DSC F-55KB (known as the F-55 outside
Japan). No other specification changes are made and the camera is
noted for release in "July 1999" at 10,000 YEN more (~ US$82)
than the older silver coloured camera.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
Unity
Digital have an interesting product in the new ProPower NiMH Battery
pack which retails for US$99.95, it provides 2450mAh of power
for digital camera users in a small neat rechargeable pack.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
Nikon
show off the D1, Sony show the D770 and new black coloured DSC-F55,
Olympus show the C-21 (small!), Fuji show the MX1500 and MX2900, Toshiba
show the M4 and Epson the CP800. Iomega slice a PC Card Clik! drive
in half!!
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
Canon have posted english releases of their version
2.4 TWAIN drivers for the Powershot series of cameras (350, 600, A5,
A5 Zoom, A50, Pro 70). This release does seem to do some extra processing
when importing CCDRAW images.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
A little background on the microdrive: When two IBM
designers started tinkering around in a motor-research project five
years ago, they weren't planning to create a new form factor around
1-inch disks. After all, the industry hadn't embraced a smaller disk-drive
format in more than a decade.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
Firstly Epson announce the new Epson PhotoPC 650 which
is a 1.09 megapixel USB (using Lexar's new JumpShot CF cards) for
less than US$350! Secondly they officially announce the PhotoPC 800
(2.1 megapixel) in the US at US$699.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
It's
not often I make mention of online galleries, there's just so many
of them out there, but I'm always impressed by photographers who can
take basic equipment and produce something beautiful. Mark Czerniec
posted a link to his site on our Samples and Galleries forum, all
his shots were taken with the fixed-focal-length Nikon Coolpix 700
and are a perfect example of how it's possible to take excellently
composed, exposed colourful and interesting photographs without big
lenses, manual features and all that fluff.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
Rob
Says: "Thanks also to those who took the time to send an email
explaining their thoughts about and experiences with the D1. Among
those was Mike Deluca, US Product Manager for Digital Capture at Kodak.
Mike forward a detailed document responding to a number of the assessments
I made of Kodak's pro digital cameras in the D1 report. As I'm sure
that prospective purchasers of pro digital cameras in the next few
months are as keen as I am to understand Kodak's current offerings
and how they measure up to the D1, I've excerpted Kodak's document
below, framed by my comments in response. Be warned, this is highly
technical stuff. To ensure fair representation of Kodak's position
I've posted it largely unedited."
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
As
an update to our previous D770 information sheet we now have all the
details on the Sony DKC-FP3 digital camera which is aimed more at
the professional end of the digicam market and features an IEE1394
(FireWire) connection.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
Casio have announced the introduction of:
QV-8000SX (1.3 megapixels, 8 x optical
zoom)
QV-2000UX (2.1 megapixels, 3x optical
zoom)
and officially announce a camera we've known about for a while
QV-5500SX
(1.3 megapixels, fixed focal length lens).
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
PC
Watch today in their Macworld update posted the first pictures of
the Casio QV2000UX, specs and pictures inside.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
The
always-there-first PC Watch website has the exclusive again, this
time sample shosts from Kodak's first 2 megapixel digicam the DC280J.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
DC
Resource have had their hands on the interesting Fujifilm MX-2900,
and although this is still a pre-production model it's the first
US model review yet.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
PC Watch Sales Charts:
In Japan, not much changes in the digital camera sales charts, Fuji
still dominate the top ten sales chart with no less than four cameras,
Olympus C-2000Z still at the top of sales and the Sony DSC-F55 is
still popular along with the Olympus C-900Z (D400). And of course
the Coolpix 950 in short supply...
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
Toshiba
today announced their OEM 2 x 256Mbit SSFDC SmartMedia (64MB),
this will be the largest SmartMedia card announced to date and
brings SmartMedia part of the way to catching up with CompactFlash
(Type I).
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
Stumbled
across this excellently written Nikon D1 (Professional Digital
SLR) report by John Henshall, a recommended read for anyone interested
in the Digital SLR which is likely to completely shake up the
diigtal camera market.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
Phew! - Welcome to the new single paged (no frames)
Digital Photography Review. It's been a long job but I've finally
converted all the previously framed pages in the site to non-framed,
in the process I've streamlined alot of the back-end database
design and associated scripts.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
Nikon finally release the updater for Windows! It's
been a long wait for most NTSC Coolpix 950 owners, Nikon mysteriously
published the firmware updated for Mac way back but withdrew the
Windows updater. Here are the official list of bugs fixed in this
release:
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
Much
to my displeasure Imaging-Resource have posted a review of the
Kodak DC280 a full two days before my NDA allows me to release
my complete review, I've had a DC280 since early July on an extended
loan and review and am only allowed to publish that review after
the 14th.. Looks like a communication problem between Kodak Singapore
and Kodak US.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
Just
posted: Our latest digital camera review, the Kodak DC280 Zoom.
The DC280 Zoom fits into the new Kodak line of digital cameras
just below the recently announced DC290, the DC280 has a 30mm
- 60mm (2x) zoom lens, 2.3 megapixel CCD and a host of built-in
features designed to satisify the medium-level digital camera
enthusiasts.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
Ever wonder WHY manufacturers drop the price of
products?... hmmm.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
Sony
have posted yet another picture of their upcoming 2.1 megapixel,
Swivelling 5x Carl Zeiss zoom lens, MemoryStick storage digicam.
Now we can see its size, in this picture the user is holding it
with the lens swivelled 90 degrees upwards, looking DOWN onto
the LCD. This picture also seems to reveal that the object on
top of the lens is a pop-up flash (see the hinge).
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
EXCLUSIVE:
Once more we can bring you the inside information on a new digital
camera release, this time the much awaited Sony DSC-F505. Loosely
based around the DSC-F55 this digital camera has had an interesting
marketing campaign over the last few days, just a few minutes ago
I received a confirmation of specifications and the name DSC-F505
for the camera.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
Addonics
Technologies will begin shipping next week a lightweight (4.5
oz.) plug & play Compact Flash Card reader that uses the USB port
to provide an easy, inexpensive and high speed way to transfer
digital images or data to a PC or iMac.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
Sony
US have also announced the DSC-F505, here's the official word.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
Matsushita Electric, SanDisk
and Toshiba Agree to Join Forces to Develop and Promote Next Generation
Secure Memory Card
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
The latest and potential most useful addition to the
site is this complete digital photography glossary, dive in, browse
around and maybe you'll learn a little.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
Macro experiments with a Canon PowerShot Pro 70 and
an old 37mm video 2 x telephoto lens.
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
Nikon Japan have posted the first official Nikon Coolpix
950 samples
Published: Aug 24, 1999 at 04:00:00
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