Posts by Gareth Powell on PHOTO.BLORGE
February 9, 2009
Panasonic’s Lumix DMC-FX48 has a 25mm ultra-wide-angle Leica DC lens which you can use with an optical — not digital, which has no relevancy — zoom. That’s as if you had picked up a Leica MR and had the same features you would be shooting roughly between 25mm to 125 mm. Cartier Bresson would have married the camera on the spot.
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January 27, 2009
Samsung has announced the HZ10W (how do they think of these romantic names?) which is a pocket-sized (depends on the pocket) 10.2 megapixels digital camera that boasts a 10x zoom lens that starts at a wider-than-usual 24mm if you can think in 35mm film terms. Some of us would be happier without the zoom and just have the wide lens. If it had a rangefinder I would marry it.
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January 27, 2009
A new law is being suggested in the United States that if a camera on a cell phone takes a shot it must make an audible noise.
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January 27, 2009
Note the camera has a Web browser as well but that would have made the headline too long.
Sony, a company that is currently going through a worrying period, has announced the first Wi-Fi digital camera with a Web browser.
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January 27, 2009
They say you can be neither too rich or too slim. Missed out on both.
But the new Casio Exilim, which comes eight years after that emaciated camera’s first model, is very slim AND is very rich in megapixels.
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January 24, 2009
First know that the copy you make of a DVD or indeed a CD, is fragile compared to a company recorded disk. Never, ever think of it as a way of permanently storing information. It is not.
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Posted in Digital Camera, video | 1 Comment » Posted by: Gareth Powell
January 21, 2009
Kodak Easyshare M863 is for people who just want to take pictures. They would prefer them to be better pictures. Pictures with good color. Pictures which they will be proud to show. But they do not want to mess around with a lot of technical gubbins. Point the damn thing, press the button and another moment with the family is recorded for posterity.
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January 20, 2009
Snapter lets you use your digital camera as a scanner and create a .pdf file. If you do not have a scanner then it is possibly a must.
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January 19, 2009
Australia’s Kogan Technologies announced its Agora Android phone, two models of which it has been pre-selling for $268 or $200 (US dollars), announced it would not be shipping, as promised, on Jan. 29.
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