Category: Digital Cameras
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Plummeting Prices Make Repairing the Old Digital Camera a Questionable Proposition
Reading Time: 2 minutes I bought a Canon PowerShot A95 in December 2004. Over its life my wife and I have taken hundreds of pictures with it, and it’s been well worth the $325 we paid for it. A couple of weeks ago my wife took the PowerShot A95 with her to the American Academy…
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Kodak Apparently Giving Up on Uniquely Designed Digital Cameras
Reading Time: < 1 minute I was really disappointed when I read the extent of Kodak’s restructuring announcement earlier today. The deal to outsource “certain camera design and development functions” to Flextronics sounds like the end of the Kodak tradition of innovation in the consumer-oriented camera market. It’s one thing to outsource manufacturing to a…
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Nikon 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 DX Superzoom is Super According to Thom Hogan
Reading Time: 2 minutes Thom Hogan wrote a great review of the AF-S Zoom-Nikkor ED 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G IF DX VR. That’s a Nikon 18-200mm Superzoom lens to you and me. This is a great review because Hogan goes into great detail about why it’s so unusual for a camera manufacturer to ship a great all-purpose…
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Kodak EasyShare V570 Looks Good to Popular Photography
Reading Time: < 1 minute Popular Photography and Imaging recently published a useful review of the Kodak EasyShare V570. The V570 is a compact camera with a unique dual lens / dual imaging sensor image capture mechanism. According to the article: Kodak’s dual lens design is useful. For example, if you combine the ultra-wide, fixed…
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Great How To on Pro Cycling Digital Photography
Reading Time: < 1 minute A new cycling blog called Spare Cycles has published an excellent how to article called Shooting cycling photographs with a Canon Digital Rebel. The author is a novice cycling photographer with a Canon Digital Rebel 300D who shot photos at a several stages of the Amgen Tour of California. He…
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Men and Women Differ in Digital Camera Preferences
Reading Time: < 1 minute Martin O’Donnell pointed out an article by Dave Gussow of the St. Petersburg Times that talks about a number of new developments in the digital camera and photo printing businesses that were publicized at PMA 2006 earlier this month in Orlando. The main focus of this article is that digital…
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Which Memory Card Should I Get for My New Digital Camera?
Reading Time: 3 minutes This Chistmas, my father and my sister-in-law both received digital cameras as gifts. My father got a 5-Megapixel Nikon Coolpix 5600 and my sister-in-law got the 4-Megapixel Nikon Coolpix 4600. This was an interesting coincidence, because the cameras were purchased independently by different people. In my sister-in-law Mary’s case, she received…
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Using the Nokia N90 to Film Ice Hockey
Reading Time: 2 minutes Last Saturday, Scott Shalom, Bill Maurer, and I officiated a men's college ice hockey game between Drexel University and Villanova University in Philadelphia. I thought it would be interesting to see how Nokia N90 video clips of a hockey game would turn out, so I lent the camera phone to my…
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Canon Powershot A610 Ranked Highest Among Sub-$300 Digital Cameras by The New York Times
Reading Time: < 1 minute The New York Times published an article by David Pogue called Digital Photos Even a Miser Can Enjoy. In it Pogue and a group of 20 friends rated the images produced by 12 cameras priced at under $300. According to the article: The {Canon Powershot} A610’s photos were top ranked…