News archive for November 1999
Nov30
Toshiba today have announced a new TFT LCD display which
packs 1024 x 768 (XGA) into a display just 6.3" diagonally. This gives
this amazing little display a dot pitch of 0.13mm (almost twice as fine
as most quality computer monitors) and rivals print quality output. Why
should we care? Well.. two reasons, firstly the resolution of LCD's on digital
cameras can increase and secondly what an excellent portable presentation
platform for digital camera images!
Nov24
PC
Watch: Sharp have restyled their digital camera "Internet View Cam"
coming as it does now in a new blue case with the addition of an AV connector
(for playback on TV's / VCR's) and support for big 64MB SmartMedia cards
it can record up to 2 hours of MPEG4 video @ 320 x 240 or stills at 640
x 480. And the divergence continues... The price? 60,000 YEN (US$540).
Nov23
Delkin
are now shipping their largest capacity flash memory CF type II card, a
224MB whopper. We covered this story originally back on the 27th July when
they announced shipment of an 80MB card, now with this much larger capacity
224MB card it begs the question who needs a microdrive? Erm anyone looking
for cheaper storage, this baby retails at $999, a 340MB microdrive is around
$500...
Nov22
As you may have already guessed I wasn't lucky enough to
attend Comdex this time (it's only a 20+ hour flight away too..) However
with their normal efficiency the Japanese site PC Watch have summed-up the
newsworthy digital camera offerings from Comdex (it ain't much).
Nov16
Nov15
Nov13
Imaging
Resource have just posted their review of the Olympus C-2500L (a camera
I'll be reviewing soon), they said "Olympus has clearly "raised the
bar" for performance in high-end digicams with the C-2500L. The image quality
is exceptional, the design strong and user-friendly, and the range of application
via the optional accessory lenses and the FL-40 dedicated flash unit excellent....
Nov12
Doing some catching up I note that DC Resource have posted
reviews of the Kodak DC280 and Olympus D-450Z. I've had a busy week this
week and have had only a few hours to devote to the site however there'll
be two reviews next week and another a couple of weeks after that.
Nov10
Nov8
So-net's DCX webzine have posted initial results of the
difference between images taken as JPEG FINE and CCD-RAW then converted
using "Nikon Capture" (an optional accessory package for the D1
which allows you to use the CCDRAW mode of the D1).
Kazuhisa Nishikawa likes the Nikon D1, and has posted a
gallery of photographs of Yumi and Tama, this time his comments are: "Nikon
D1 was used for all the shooting, custom settings were "Contrast: LOW",
AF+AE Lock, 2fps. An IBM Microdrive was used for storage, JPEG FINE mode
(about 1:4) was chosen for storage offering up to 250 images on one battery."
Nov6
Thanks
to a reader for this item, details of the Coolpix 950 firmware 1.2 update
which were included on the CD-ROM which came with his new 950 (which was
pre-loaded with 1.2). Seq Xfer bug fix, support for larger CF cards, new
sensitivity operation and improvements of LCD brightness.
UPDATE: NikonTechUSA post PDF file.
Just received an email from the editors at Megapixel.Net
to say they've just published their November edition which has reviews of
the Toshiba PDR-M5, Sony DSC-F505, Ricoh RDC-5300 and Agfa ePhoto CL30.
They also have some new articles on a newbie's look at digital photography,
the wide angle adapter for the Fuji MX2900 and new features in Photoshop
5.5.
Nov5
If you're an owner of a Japanese model Nikon Coolpix 950
you can download and install this firmware update for the Coolpix 950 (for
details of what's updated see the previous news article).
Nov2
This
is actually the second MiniDisc digicam from Sony, the first was only release
in Japan and didn't do terribly well.. I saw an article on this a few days
ago on a Japanese site but was waiting for a US press release. Well, it's
here so you can get the low down. The good news? The MD Data2 discs can
store 650MB of data and you can get an optional Ethernet connector for the
camera. The bad news? It's aimed more at the MPEG2 fans as it only has basic
resolution, oh and the camera's priced at US$2,299.
Nov1
