Buy a Digital Camera

Digital picture frames were a big item last Christmas.

Synchronoss Update Enables More Wireless Devices (BillingWorld)
Synchronoss has announced the latest version of its platform, ConvergenceNow Plus. It allows a new line of emerging devices to become wireless enabled. That includes media players, digital cameras, mobile computers, mobile internet devices and mobile navigation devices, among others.

Apple iPhone 3G overtakes RIM’s BlackBerry (PC Advisor)
But Nokia still leads smartphone market Apple’s iPhone 3G has surged passed Research In Motion’s (RIM’s) BlackBerry to become the second best-selling smartphone in the world, according to research firm Canalys’ Q3 rankings. Apple also edged out Microsoft in smartphone OSs, the report said. A record high 39.9 million smartphones were shipped globally in the July through September period, up 28 …

Review: Digital frame shows pictures from phones (Washington Post)
NEW YORK — Digital picture frames were a big item last Christmas. This holiday season, there will be an innovation on store shelves: a frame that can receive and display pictures straight from cell phones, (almost) no matter where they are.

Apple Camera Raw Update 2.3 Adds New Nikon Models (The Mac Observer)
Apple released Digital Camera Compatibility Update 2.3 late on Tuesday. The update added Nikon D90 and Coolpix P6000 compatibility to Aperture 2 and iPhoto ‘08

A Fred’s-Eye View: The conquered challenges his conqueror to a rematch (Velo News)
Fellow Boulderite Brandon Dwight greeted me at the final finish line of last year s La Ruta de los Conquistadores with a chilled bottle of Imperial in one hand and a digital camera in the other. The cold booze momentarily soothed the numerous aches and pains I had accrued during the four-day, 250-mile race from Costa Rica s Pacific to Caribbean coasts. The photo Dwight snapped well, that s …

Shop Black Friday for digital gear deals (USA Today)
Despite what you see in stores right now, the Friday after Thanksgiving begins the traditional Christmas shopping season. It’s called Black Friday to mark the day retailers make profits and are “in the black.” It’s also the day for extended shopping hours, crowded stores and deeply discounted prices.

Equipped with AF-S NIKKOR 18-105 mm VR image stabilization lens, D90 digital single lens reflex (D-SLR) camera captures still images with max JPEG burst rate of up to 4.5 fps and HD movie clips at 1,280 x 720 with sound at 24 fps max. It utilizes CMOS image sensor with 12.3 effective megapixels and EXPEED(TM) image processing system. Other features include 11-point AF system with scene …

Taiwan market: Canon unveils eight digital cameras, aiming at 20% market share in 2008 (Digi Times)
Canon, on October 28, debuted eight new digital cameras, ranging from high end to entry level, for launch in the Taiwan market. Cannon is aiming at a total market share of 20% this year, according to Canon Marketing (Taiwan).

Western Digital WD TV (cnet.com.au)
Western Digital comes to the media streaming party with a product set to shake.

WD TV(TM) HD Media Player Brings Digital Media Collections to the Big Screen (Broadcast Newsroom)
LAKE FOREST, Calif. , Nov. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — WD(R) (NYSE: WDC), the world’s leader in external storage solutions, today introduced a simple way for consumers to play their stored digital content on their HDTV in Full- HD 1080p resolution.

NZ’s Best Young Film Makers Celebrated (Scoop.co.nz)
Free screenings for Cut! 08 National Secondary Schools Short Video Competition awards are now scheduled. This screenings celebrate the work of New Zealand’s best young filmmakers, and offers a great chance to spot the leading directors of the future.

Filed under: Digital Cameras , Displays , Misc. Gadgets , Home Entertainment You know you’ve heard it from two lovebirds in junior high: “we’re not going out, we’re just talking.” In a completely bizarre way, that’s about the best way we can sum up what’s apparently going on between Panasonic and Sanyo Electric. According to an unnamed company official “familiar with the …

Panasonic’s Micro Four Thirds Lumix DMC-G1 reviewed: only knock is the price (Engadget)
Filed under: Digital Cameras The question has been on your mind since we first got wind of this so-called ” Micro Four Thirds ” concept back in August: how will it stack up? Now that Panasonic’s Lumix DMC-G1 is filtering out to the world, we’re able to kick back and digest a mammoth review of this here camera thanks to the fine folks at Digital Camera Resource . Without going into …

Newark joins Heath in considering traffic cameras (This Week Licking County)
Like Heath city officials, Newark leaders now are considering traffic cameras to ticket motorists who run red lights and speed through intersections.

Diamond in the rough (FSView)
In a small, strip mall officewith walls covered from carpet to ceiling in various music awards and platinum records, the FSView & Florida Flambeau sat down with Tallahassee s best-kept secret, TJ Chapman, to discuss the art of breaking records and the endangered state of the modern DJ, amongst other things.

Guy Gear: Camera Bags (AskMen)
Guy Gear: Camera Bags Does your camera compete with your dog because it never leaves your side? Do you sleep with your camera on one side and your girl on the other? Do you see everything at 35 fps?

Taiwan market: Canon unveils eight digital cameras, aiming at 20% market share in 2008 (Digi Times)
Canon, on October 28, debuted eight new digital cameras, ranging from high end to entry level, for launch in the Taiwan market. Cannon is aiming at a total market share of 20% this year, according to Canon Marketing (Taiwan).

A Sanyo acquisition for Panasonic would not significantly impact Taiwan-based digital camera makers (Digi Times)
While media reports are indicating that Panasonic will acquire Sanyo’s digital camera business operation, sources in Taiwan’s digital camera industry noted that any deal would not have too much of a negative impact on Foxconn, Altek, Ability Enterprise and Asia Optical, the top four Taiwan-based ODM/OEM makers of digital cameras.

Get the best in digital pics (Tavistock Times Gazette)
DIGITAL cameras are now the norm but how do you get the best pictures out of them? Some of the answers can be found in a course run by Tavistock Camera Club. The club s digital photographic course has already run before, and is now returning by popular demand.

Guy Gear: Camera Bags Does your camera compete with your dog because it never leaves your side? Do you sleep with your camera on one side and your girl on the other? Do you see everything at 35 fps?

DEP asking anglers to submit best shots from around state (Stamford Advocate)
Going fishing this fall? Take your camera with you. Fall is a great time of year in Connecticut, as the weather cools and the landscape of the state turns into a tapestry of vivid colors.

Sheriff’s office goes digital in probe of Castle Rock wreck site (The Daily News)
A remote-controlled airplane carrying a digital camera made its local debut as an investigative tool this week.

Get the best in digital pics (Tavistock Times Gazette)
DIGITAL cameras are now the norm but how do you get the best pictures out of them? Some of the answers can be found in a course run by Tavistock Camera Club. The club s digital photographic course has already run before, and is now returning by popular demand.

Concord Camera to liquidate (Miami Herald)
Hollywood-based camera seller Concord Camera announced it will cease operations after it was unable to find a buyer for the money-losing business.

Church hosts digital photography workshop (Northwest Herald)
McHENRY The Alliance Bible Church in McHenry is conducting a free digital photography workshop Tuesday.

New Right and Left Angle Orientations for Right Angle Camera Link Cable Assemblies from Intercon 1 (Centre Daily Times)
The Intercon 1 division of Nortech Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:NSYS), a global leader in the supply and manufacturing of Machine Vision analog and digital video cables and assemblies based in the United States, introduces Right and Left Angle orientations for Right Angle Camera Link cable assemblies.

Something wonderful has happened to digital cameras in the past few years. They’ve become enough of a commodity for manufacturers to start acting a little silly in their quest to find some new feature to set their hardware apart from everybody else’s.

Puppies Make Great Subjects For Digital Photography (Turks.US)
Ever since digital photography came to rise, one of the nicest subjects used were puppies. Naturally, dogs have a talent when it comes to picture taking. Perhaps it is the way they move that they are considered one of the best subjects in digital photography.

Arts Lead: By Any Other Name - Bruce Checefsky Shows Camera-less Photography At Shaheen Gallery (Cleveland Scene)
By Douglas Max Utter “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose,” famously chanted Gertrude Stein in her 1913 poem “Sacred Emily.” Elsewhere, Stein explained that she liked simplicity, “but simplicity produced by complication.” She could have been talking about so-called camera-less photography, especially as it begins to be practiced now in the digital age. Practitioners of that oxymoronic-sounding …

Ritz Camera Centers launches automatic photo uploads at RitzPix.com (InternetRetailer.com)
The new digital photo service from LifePics Inc. automatically uploads digital photos from consumers computers to RitzPix.com, where Ritz Camera customers can modify, store and e-mail images as well as order photographic prints through a Ritz Camera store.

Best new feature for photographers in Adobe Photoshop CS4 (ZDNet)
With all the important digital camera releases already announced last month at Photokina, PDN’s PhotoPlus Expo passed by fairly uneventfully in New York last week. One of the highlights for me (besides the little camera-laden Olympus three-wheelers cruising around the city) was seeing the new Adobe Photoshop CS4 in action.

Amazing Video With a Still Camera (New York Times)
As I ve noted in my column , the latest trend is for digital S.L.R. cameras like the Nikon D90 to add hi-def video recording, and the results are spectacular.

Taiwan market: Canon unveils eight digital cameras, aiming at 20% market share in 2008 (Digi Times)
Canon, on October 28, debuted eight new digital cameras, ranging from high end to entry level, for launch in the Taiwan market. Cannon is aiming at a total market share of 20% this year, according to Canon Marketing (Taiwan).

Toshiba Q2 Drops 99% On Weak Chips (InformationWeek)
Toshiba’s 99 percent plunge in quarterly profit indicates a slowdown in the global economy that is muting demand for NAND flash memory chips used in music players such as Apple’s iPod and digital cameras.

Greater-than-HD camera maker RED will unveil a major new direction for its upcoming Epic and Scarlet cameras on November 13th, company chief Jim Jannard says in a new update on the company’s strategy. While not detailing the changes, the executive describes the new programs for the video cameras as “incredible” and believes many will call the changes a “scam” based on the capabilities of the new …

World Zombie Day leaves bloody trail (Portland Tribune)
A zombie melee caused minor damage in downtown Portland on Sunday afternoon, as several hundred zombies lurched through the downtown core, stopping traffic and smearing blood on plate glass windows. Bystanders gathered to watch, snapping photos with digital cameras and cell phones. There were no …

Finding a gold mine in digital ditties (International Herald Tribune)
Joel Moss Levinson has won over $200,000 in money and prizes for his homemade corporate commercials.

Take your best shot at Post-Dispatch’s Travel Photo Contest (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Did you take your camera on vacation this year? If so, now is the time to give us your best shot. The Post-Dispatch Travel Photo Contest will be accepting entries through Nov. 28. The rules and directions for submitting a photo are on the entry form.

Decades After the Jingle Lady, a Gold Mine in Digital Ditties (New York Times)
Using off-beat humor and a cheap video camera, Joel Moss Levinson has won over $200,000 in money and prizes for his homemade corporate commercials.

Unfaded memories (Contra Costa Times)
Digital slowly overtakes analog as the best way to preserve pictures, video

Panasonic, the leading global manufacturer of consumer electronics, has announced that it has recently launched its latest line-up of digital and video cameras in the Gulf in a move to enhance its position in a regional consumer electronics sector that is expected to achieve Dhs18.35bn in sales in 2008.

RF Central Features RFX-CMT-II 2 GHz and 5.8 GHz Camera Transmitters At HD World 2008 (Broadcast Newsroom)
DMN Newswire–2008-10-22–RF Central, a brand of The Vitec Group, and a leading digital microwave technology provider, showcased its RFX-CMT-II camera-mounted transmitters in both 2 GHz and 5.8 GHz at HD World 2008. While the 2 GHz unit is designed for live ENG news and sports broadcast applications and the 5.8 GHz unit is geared for live sports stadium and arena coverage as well as license free …

Dubai Electronics Show Marks Official Launch of GE Digital Cameras in Middle East (Centre Daily Times)
General Imaging, the worldwide exclusive licensee for GE digital cameras, is continuing its global expansion with a strong move into the Middle East.

Vintage Camera Lenses Make for Cheap DSLR Lenses [Digital Photography] (Lifehacker)
The photography enthusiasts at weblog Photojojo detail how to use a vintage manual-focus camera lens with your DSLR camera for a fraction of the cost of newer auto-focus lenses. There’s not really…

Adobe Lightroom 2.1, Camera Raw 5.1 now available [u] (MacNN)
Adobe today announced updates to Photoshop Lightroom and the Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in. Available immediately as free upgrades for Lightroom 2 and Photoshop CS4 users, the releases provide added raw file support for 15 digital cameras including the Nikon D90, Nikon D700, Canon EOS 50D and Canon EOS 1000D. The Lightroom 2.1 update also includes improvements to Photoshop integration, Web module …

Richard Crouse & Associates Acquires Second Intergraph(R) Digital Mapping Camera (Centre Daily Times)
Richard Crouse & Associates, an aerial photography and remote sensing company with offices in Maryland and South Carolina, has acquired a second Intergraph(R) Z/I Imaging Digital Mapping Camera (DMC(R)) to better accommodate client demand for high-quality digital images. The company purchased its first DMC in 2007 and completed several successful image capture projects with the camera in …

Mamiya’s DL28 digital camera system is slightly cheaper than you’d think (Engadget)
Filed under: Digital Cameras We know you want a pro-friendly medium format digital camera — so do we — but they’re awfully expensive, aren’t they? You might have to think about dropping as much as $30,000 one of these babies if you’re the discerning type, but Mamiya is trying to convince you that you can save a few thousand dollars and still get results. Enter the DL28 digital …

The photography enthusiasts at weblog Photojojo detail how to use a vintage manual-focus camera lens with your DSLR camera for a fraction of the cost of newer auto-focus lenses. There’s not really…

Nikon D Series Digital SLR Cameras Receive J.D. Power and Associates Award Two Years in a Row for Customer Satisfaction (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
For the second consecutive year, Nikon D Series Cameras rank “Highest in Customer Satisfaction with Digital SLR cameras,” according to the latest “J.D. Power and Associates 2008 Digital Camera Usage and Satisfaction Study.”

Synchrotech’s CFMulti adapter brings Eye-Fi support to CF cameras (Engadget)
Filed under: Digital Cameras , Peripherals , Wireless , Storage Been longing for Eye-Fi support in your Sony a350 ? Or any CompactFlash-lovin’ camera, for that matter? Meet Synchrotech , your new best friend. The company famous for making incredibly useful adapters has just pumped out its latest stroke of genius, the CFMulti. As you’d expect, this card fits into traditional CF slots …

Heath considers installing traffic cameras (This Week Licking County)
Heath officials are asking an Arizona company to study the installation of red-light cameras at intersections within the city.

Memories aren’t fading, they’re just going digital (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
Sometimes, in the decades after he came home from World War II, it seemed as if the movie camera was surgically attached to Christoffel Teeuwissen’s hand.

TI Beagle Board aimed at Indian innovators (CIOL)
BANGALORE, INDIA: Texas Instruments recently introduced the pocket-size, USB-powered Beagle Board based on TI’s OMAP3530 applications processor, which features an ARM Cortex-A8 core, 2D/3D graphics engine and high-performance TMS320C64x+TM digital signal processor (DSP) core.

BluePhone “Personal Tech Experts” Offer Consumers Fast and Easy Way to Resolve Problems With Computers and Digital … (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
The average American household owns at least two computers and a growing number of digital devices, including everything from PCs and Macs to digital cameras to printers and scanners to wireless routers and media servers.

AT&T Wants All Gadgets to Have Internet Connection (Through AT&T, Natch) [At&t] (Gizmodo)
AT&T has started up a new division solely tasked with devising internet-connected gadgets instant upload digital cameras, web-enabled dog collars that’ll tell you where your pooch is at all…

TRENDnet, a best-in-class wired and wireless networking solutions brand, today announces the launch of two advanced enterprise class Internet security camera surveillance software suites — TRENDnet VortexIP Lite and TRENDnet VortexIP Pro.

Select the right compact camera case (The Montana Standard)
Innovations and developments in digital photography have made photography in nature more affordable and easier for amateur photographers especially with digital point-and-shoot cameras.

Canon ships 100 millionth compact digital camera (Zawya)
Dubai, UAE, 13 October 2008: Canon Middle East Canon Middle East is pleased to announce that the company has shipped its 100 millionth digital compact camera. To mark this milestone in popular photography, a special colour variation model will be launched in the near future.

BluePhone “Personal Tech Experts” Offer Consumers Fast and Easy Way to Resolve Problems With Computers and Digital … (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
The average American household owns at least two computers and a growing number of digital devices, including everything from PCs and Macs to digital cameras to printers and scanners to wireless routers and media servers.

Hamilton Community Schools considers additional cameras for buses (The Holland Sentinel)
School bus security cameras usually focus on the children, but a week after a Hamilton Community Schools bus driver was fired from his job and arrested for an alleged sexual assault of a student, the school district is looking at adding video cameras to cover the driver s seat and student entrance in its school buses.

On Thursday, Sling Media pushed out its latest innovation — the SlingCatcher. The SlingCatcher lets customers watch online video from a diverse spectrum of sites on the Internet, including network television venues like ABC.com, video content sites like Hulu.com and CollegeHumor.com, community video sites like YouTube, and even online movie rentals from popular services like Netflix.

New Chips Poised to Revolutionize Photography, Film (Wired News)
New professional-grade digital SLRs equipped with high-definition video features stand on the forefront of a revolution for film and photography.

Samsung full digital camera line up steals the limelight at Gitex Technology Week 2008 (AME Info)
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, a leading provider of cutting edge technology in the consumer electronics industry, introduced at Gitex Technology Week 2008 four new compact models of Digital Cameras including the NV100HD, NV9, and GX20 Joining the company’s growing array of advanced digital imaging solutions, these four new digital cameras bring new technologies to the industry.

Samsung full digital camera line up steals the limelight at Gitex Technology Week 2008 (AME Info)
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, a leading provider of cutting edge technology in the consumer electronics industry, today introduced at Gitex Technology Week 2008 four new compact models of Digital Cameras including the NV100HD, NV9, and GX20 Joining the company’s growing array of advanced digital imaging solutions, these four new digital cameras bring new technologies to the industry.

Keeping up with phone, camera charger (Abilene Reporter-News)
How many times have you hooked up your cell phone to its charger, only to go out the door without it? Ever charge up your digital camera battery for a special event, get there with the camera and sadly find out that the battery is sitting at home on the counter … still charging?

Coax FireWire flavor connects digital-device clusters (Embedded Systems Programming Magazine)
Home networking is a simple moniker that can mean far too many things. Today, consumers need an entertainment network that links the digital-media devices in the home and that works with legacy IP-centric home networks.

How about some Samsung? (Manila Standard Today)
Just because we re a country obsessed with mobile phones, it don t matter if there s a million of them in the market. We continue to buy them and the companies continue to manufacture them.

Camera combo devices not a one-stop solution (MSNBC)
Do you even have to buy a digital camera anymore? It depends on your needs, but the answer for most of us is yes if you want good-quality photos.