This adorable Pico projector concept which comes hot on the heels of Nikon’s more standard-looking S1100pj projector camera. The Pico, envisioned by René Wooram Lee, combines form and function in its anthropomorphic design: its blue “eye” is a projector lens and its greenish “eye” is the camera lens. The center smile is actually a...
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With a select few companies currently dominating the digital camera scene, less popular brands are forced to come up with creative ways to capture market share. One possible way is to introduce esoteric features that most consumers would have absolutely no use for, and that’s exactly what Casio seems to be doing with its...
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Today, Canon Japan’s Image Communication Products head Masaya Maeda said that Canon is working on a smaller version SLR to be released in the near future. In an interview with Reuters, Maeda said the idea behind the small SLR is that it could compete with Nikon’s future mirrorless system and other existing EVIL systems...
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The replacement to Nikon’s COOLPIX S1000pj, which already has a unique projection mode to display still photographs, is rumored to move beyond the stills and into video. French photography magazine, Chasseur d’Images, reports that Nikon might even take it a step further by including a video input which will allow the camera to function...
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Someone spotted a wild version of Sony’s upcoming EVIL camera, the NEX3, at a pub in Asia recently and anonymous sent the photographs to the blog Sony Alpha Rumors. This comes just a week after an iPhone 4G prototype was found in a California bar, purchased by gadget blog Gizmodo for $5,000, dissected, and...
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The new Samsung ST550 (aka TL225) features dual LCDs - a touch screen at the back, and a 1.5" screen at the front for self-portraits etc. The ST550 features a high resolution 3.5" 1,152k pixel touch screen, a 12 megapixel sensor, a wide angle 4.6x optical zoom lens (27mm...
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Legendary lens manufacturer Zeiss has announced new compact primes and zoom lens both aimed at the cinema market. I believe planet5D is the first to show video shot with the new zoom! I was able to put the new 15.5-45mm zoom on my Canon EOS 5D Mark II and I shot some video with...
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GeekStuff4U are selling the new Chobi Cam Mini Digital Camera - it's a 3 megapixel camera that also records 1280 x 960 pixel video at 30 fps as AVI movies, it also features a MicroSD card slot, and voice recording. How small is it? It measures 4.4 x...
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Here are the results of last week’s poll:
Around 50% of you have made at least some money from photography, even though a previous poll found that only about 12% of our readers are professional photographers.
This week’s poll has to do with the future of compact (AKA point-and-shoot) cameras. For many people, camera phones provide...
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Amazon UK are selling the Samsung ES15 for £49 - the 10 megapixel camera has a 3x optical zoom lens, 2.5" LCD screen, and it is available in black or pink. You might also want to have a look at the Panasonic Lumix FS7 which is available...
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