UPDATED: The excellent Picture Information Extractor
now supports Nikon Coolpix 950
August 24
Thanks to one of my readers for sending in this tip
To quote: "Olympus raises the bar with 2.1 million
pixels, unparalleled exposure control, and a great user interface!"
The Japanese magazine D# Dreamarts have published a
low-light shot comparison between various cameras on their website.
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.
Those guys over at PC Watch in Japan get to play with
all the best toys!! Note that these samples are from "beta"
cameras.
People have been reporting a problem with the discussion
forums over the "NEW" tag. Here's how to resolve this.
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.
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.
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.
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:
Ever wonder WHY manufacturers drop the price of
products?... hmmm.
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.
Digitalkamera.de report on the new products coming from
SanDisk
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.
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."
Samsung Electronics is seeking to extend its dominance
of the memory market to flash but it has made little progress so far
as a supplier of that technology for hot MP3 audio players.
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.
Just posted: The latest addition to our ever growing reviews database comes the Nikon Coolpix 700. The fixed lens "little brother" to the Coolpix 950 doesn't disappoint on image quality, portability, and most importantly value for money.
AGN Hardware have done an interesting preview on the
IBM Microdrive
Fuji's new MX-2700 storms into the Japanese market.
The Japanese PC-Watch and German DigitalKamera website
have yet more pictures of the Oly C-2500L
Pretec
Electronics Corporation, the creator of CompactModem(TM) and Compact
I/O(TM) card, will be demonstrating the 160MB CompactFlash(TM) (CF+)
card, the highest capacity CompactFlash(TM) memory card available
in the world today, at Microsoft Windows CE Developers Conference
on June 6-9 at Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado.
UPDATE: Sneak preview: Kodak DC200 plus, DC240 &
DC265 specifications
Not much digital photography news these last few days,
but February proved to be an important month for this site.
PC Watch report on the Japan Photo Exposition 99
PC watch report that the Toshiba PDR-M4 will be on the
Japanese market at the end of May at a price of ¥89,800 (about
US$700). [updated]
CeBIT: The World's Highest Capacity CompactFlash Card
After a slight slog I've translated the Japanese Olympus
C-2000Z "before you buy" FAQ. There are some facts in here
which may be of interest to prospective purchasers.
An interesting article by Dirck Halstead, a Whitehouse
journalist who uses the Pro70.
Apologies for my absence, and D# Dreamarts update their
digital camera comparison shots. News on the Pro70 vs. 950 article
A few years ago, the memory-card market for digital
cameras was up for grabs as competing formats fought for industry
acceptance. Today, it's much less of an issue, as CompactFlash cards,
introduced by SanDisk Corp. in 1994, are now used in more than 70%
of all digital-camera designs, according to International Data Corp.
PC
World have posted a short article on the pros and cons of the two
top condenders, to quote: "Although some of the latest digital
cameras are small enough to fit in your shirt pocket, their prices
may bore a hole through it. Svelte new models from Nikon and Olympus
deliver beautiful, ultrahigh-resolution images, but each of them carries
a hefty $999 price tag. "
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