Olympus Stylus Tough 6010 Rugged Compact Camera

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

The Stylus Tough 6010 was announced by Olympus as a new rugged compact camera. The camera is designed to be waterproof up to 3 meters, freeze proof up to -10 degrees and shockproof up to 1.5 meters. Coming with a 12MP sensor, the 6010 is also equipped with a 2.7″ LCD with Tap Control, 3.6x zoom lens and enhanced with Dual Image Stabilization as well as built-in ‘Magic’ filters. It’s expected to hit the stores in July 2009.

Kodak Unveils ZI6

Monday, June 21, 2010

Kodak Unveils ZI6 Pocket Video Camera 

 

Kodak has entered the Pocket Video Camera with the launch of ZI6 pocket camera which may be the one of the best so far. It is affordable, small in size thus allowing users to take videos anywhere without the hassle of large camcorders. It can take videos in HD and can even upload it to sites such as Youtube with the provided software.
http://www.techlivez.com/2008/07/kodak-announce-zi6-pocket-video-camera/

Samsung CL65 / ST1000 Digital Camera

Thursday, April 22, 2010

DESC: The Samsung Dual LCD Digital Camera lets you see every scene in a completely and exciting way. Just use the front LCD screen, and set up the perfect shot with you in it, time after time. A host of top-ranked features and technologies, from the lens to the user interface, turns this camera into a true must-have. And the small, handheld size makes it easy to take it with you everywhere you go.

Fuji FinePix S5200

Toeing the line between point-and-shoot and digital SLR is the Fuji FinePix S5200. It's larger and heavier than the average pocket-friendly point-and-shoot, but just the right size if you like to use a long lens and have more control than the typical weekend snapshooter. Its 10X optical zoom and 5.7X digital zoom give you a total of 57X total zoom range. Intuitive controls on the body allow you to set up shots quickly without navigating through menus.

Kodak EasyShare Z740

If you want to shoot close-up subjects and still enjoy the simplicity of a point-and-shoot camera, consider the Kodak EasyShare Z740, which gives you a powerful 10X optical zoom. If that's not enough, there's also 5X digital zoom for a total of 50X zoom capability. The exclusive Kodak Color Science Chip gives your pictures vibrant color even under difficult lighting conditions. Choose one of 16 shooting modes to get your perfect shot, whether it's a beach scene or a self-portrait.

Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-P200

Small camera; big LCD. The compact Sony DSC-P200 is only 4 inches wide, 2 inches high and 1 inch deep but has a high-resolution 2-inch LCD so you can instantly enjoy viewing and sharing photos. It also has a robust 7.2-megapixel CCD and a quick auto-focus, 3X optical zoom lens to help bring your subject closer. Pre-flash metering sets exposure and reduces red-eye for great flash shots. You can also shoot in movie mode, recording as much as your selected Memory Stick can hold.

Canon PowerShot A610

If you don't really need 7.1 megapixels, you can save money with the Canon PowerShot A610, which has the same features as the A620 but only 5 megapixels. That's still plenty for most people to zoom, crop and print richly detailed photos as large as 8 by 10 inches. Like the A620, the A610 offers 4X optical zoom, a 2-inch LCD and a number of shooting modes to make picture-taking simple, even if you're a novice.

Canon PowerShot A620

Packing a host of features into an easy-to-use, compact point-and-shoot, the Canon PowerShot A620 is tops in its class. This high-performance camera has a 7.1- megapixel CCD and customizable shooting settings that let you decide how much control you want and how much to leave on automatic. Its large 2-inch LCD screen has a grid option to help you line up and center your subject. You can also shoot movies up to 1GB in high-quality video mode or up to 60 seconds in fast-frame mode.

Digital Camera Basics

Let's say you want to take a picture and e-mail it to a friend. To do this, you need the image to be represented in the language that computers recognize -- bits and bytes. Essentially, a digital image is just a long string of 1s and 0s that represent all the tiny colored dots -- or pixels -- that collectively make up the image. (For information on sampling and digital representations of data, see this explanation of the digitization of sound waves. Digitizing light waves works in a similar way.)

If you want to get a picture into this form, you have two options:

• You can take a photograph using a conventional film camera, process the film chemically, print it onto photographic paper and then use a digital scanner to sample the print (record the pattern of light as a series of pixel values).
• You can directly sample the original light that bounces off your subject, immediately breaking that light pattern down into a series of pixel values -- in other words, you can use a digital camera.

At its most basic level, this is all there is to a digital camera. Just like a conventional camera, it has a series of lenses that focus light to create an image of a scene. But instead of focusing this light onto a piece of film, it focuses it onto a semiconductor device that records light electronically. A computer then breaks this electronic information down into digital data. All the fun and interesting features of digital cameras come as a direct result of this process. 

Cool Facts

• With a 3-megapixel camera, you can take a higher-resolution picture than most computer monitors can display.
• You can use your Web browser to view digital pictures taken using the JPEG format.
• The first consumer-oriented digital cameras were sold by Kodak and Apple in 1994.
• In 1998, Sony inadvertently sold more than 700,000 camcorders with a limited ability to see through clothes.

How Digital Cameras Work

Digital cameras focus light onto a semiconductor to create a digital image.

In the past twenty years, most of the major technological breakthroughs in consumer electronics have really been part of one larger breakthrough. When you get down to it, CDs, DVDs, HDTV, MP3s and DVRs are all built around the same basic process: converting conventional analog information (represented by a fluctuating wave) into digital information (represented by ones and zeros, or bits). This fundamental shift in technology totally changed how we handle visual and audio information -- it completely redefined what is possible.

The digital camera is one of ­the most remarkable instances of this shift because it is so truly different from its predecessor. Conventional cameras depend entirely on chemical and mechanical processes -- you don't even need electricity to operate them. On the other h­and, all digital cameras have a built-in computer, and all of them record images electronically.