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Samsung is certainly not hurting for point-and-shoot digital cameras but the company is beefing up its lineup anyway, slipping the Digimax D103 out the door without too much fanfare. This one’s apparently exclusive to the U.K. for now, boasting an increasingly common 10 megapixels, along with a 3x optical zoom, and a 2.5-inch LCD on the camera’s backside (check out a shot of it after the break). The D103 will also let you take full VGA MPEG-3 video at 30 fps, and will give you ISO settings all the way up to ISO 1000. No word on price, but it appears that it’s available now.
[Via Photography Blog]
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You know, if you really have to carry flash memory around, why not bundle it into something useful like a lego, swiss army knife, or plate of rancid sushi? Sure, Sunyang DNT’s Volvox is just another webcam with built-in flash; 512MB of it in fact, with an integrated 0.3 megapixel camera capable of a 640×480 resolution at 30fps. Not bad if you’re toting an older laptop lacking a cam in the bezel. Regardless, we’ve certainly seen worse attempts at convergence. The Volvox is yours for 55,000KRW ($59) with 1GB and 2GB models expected this January. The perfect gift for Aunt Mulva.
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Last BenQ graced us with a new shooter, it was the X720, with its 7.2 megapixel CCD and 2.5-inch LCD. This time though, BenQ’s introducing its new cousin, the X710 — it comes with 3x optical zoom, a “Super Shake-Free” mode, a larger 3-inch screen and sensitivity up to ISO 4000 in movie mode and ISO 1200 in still mode. So basically, it’s very similar to the X720, except this one has, um, a bigger screen. We’ll assume that means the X710 will cost a bit more, but seeing as how we never got any pricing info on the first one either, you’ll have to wait until BenQ gets its act together to find out for sure.
[Via LetsGoDigital]
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Look, we don’t want to know how you’re going to use a 34x optical zoom on a camcorder, just know that such a beast is now available. That’s right, JVC’s latest consumer camcorder — the GR-D750 — brings what JVC claims to be a “world’s highest” optical zoom to the game. It also packs more mundane features such as recording to miniDV in 16:9 or 4:3 formats, a 2.7-inch LCD, and the low-light shooting capabilities JVC is known for. As a member of the “baby movie” series, we guess that zoom is meant to keep tabs on the the robots we use to babysit our kids and light the menorahkinaratree. However, we’ll have to wait for ‘em to hit Japan first, starting mid-January for an expected ¥50,000 or about $425.
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While we’ve got robots that can sniff out faux wine, and cyclops cameras that distinguish between humans and blow-up dolls (saywha?), Dr. Andy Harvey’s latest invention could actually prove useful in battle and on the operating table. Although he hasn’t tied the latest rounds of DIY artillery to this technology, the camcorder-styled machine can reportedly “distinguish the world’s best camouflage from real foliage,” not to mention its ability to “spot buried landmines” and “hidden enemies.” Developed in Edinburgh, the imaging machine could be toted by soldiers to tip them off to unusual patterns in the grass (like carefully painted iRobots) before they come too close, as it can supposedly “identify 30 times more colors than the human eye.” Interestingly, it is possible that the technology could eventually be used to “detect forms of cancer that are currently hard to pick up.” While £800,000 ($1.56 million) have already been invested by the Department for Trade and Industry and QinetiQ, we don’t imagine this project slowing down anytime soon, and it looks to be just one more reason we ought to simply let robots do all the fighting, anyway.
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Premier should just start reselling its designs to ho hum resellers rather than spending the loot to brand its own products, as it seems to be the object of desire for companies like
Ricoh and
Voigtlaender. Nevertheless, Germany’s own has
rebadged the DM6365 and slapped a Vito 65 logo on it, but didn’t bother tweaking the specs. Touting a 3.48- x 2.17- x 0.75-inch enclosure, this compact features a played-out six-megapixel CCD sensor, 2.5-inch LCD monitor, 32MB of internal storage, SD slot, 30fps movie mode, 3x optical zoom, built-in red-eye reduction, USB 2.0 connectivity, and PictBridge compatibility. Per usual, Voigtlaender manages to pack a humdrum feature set into a fairly overpriced package, with the Vito 65 coming in at a less-than-attractive €199 ($265).
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Fujifilm is apparently in the mood for spewing out much-anticipated launch details today, as both its face finding portable and S5 Pro DSLR are getting tagged with a US release date and price. The Z5fd has added the “face detection” moniker since we last saw it, but keeps the same 6.3-megapixel sensor, metal enclosure, trio of color schemes, 2.5-inch LCD monitor, i-Flash (flash that adapts to the environment), and “Blog Mode,” which will automatically resize your photos for easy web posting while maintaining the original biggie. On the DSLR side, the FinePix S5 Pro is getting all official too, touting a 12.3-megapixel Super CCD SR Pro sensor, the company’s own RP Processor Pro for “smoother tonality,” ISO up to 3200, film simulation mode, and the obligatory face finding technology to boot. So if you’re looking for a pocket-friendly digicam to come your way next March, the Z5fd will be landing for $229, while the upscale S5 Pro would make a lovely Valentine’s Day gift if you’re down with the $1,999 pricetag.
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Oh, Sigma. First you get us all excited with a tantalizingly over-the-top teaser site for your flagship SD14 digital SLR, then you officially announce the camera with the usual fanfare at Photokina, only to delay the launch date by a few weeks shortly thereafter. Now, you’re throwing our digital camera-loving hearts for a loop once again, announcing that the camera’s been pushed back all the way to March 2007, blaming the delay solely on an unspecified “issue” that can only be remedied with a hardware fix. We’ll give you this one more chance to get it right, Sigma, but there’s only so torment much we can take.
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We’ve already seen plenty of these little guys, but Panasonic has finally busted out its first AVCHD cameras in Japan, and announced launch dates and pricepoints for a US release. Just in case you need a little refresher, AVCHD is that fancy new HD format joint-developed by Sony and Panasonic that allows for recording to solid-state storage and DVD discs. Panasonic’s release covers both of those abilities, with the HDC-SD1 featuring an SDHC slot for recording of around 1 hour of 1080i on a 4GB card, while the HDC-DX1 does mini-DVDs, at about 40 minutes a pop. Both cameras feature 3CCDs and 5.1 surround sound recording via 5 built-in mics. We should be seeing these things stateside in March, with the HDC-SD1 going for $1,500 and the HDC-DX1 for $1,400.
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