Category: Digital Cameras
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Flickr Gives Customers Ability to Add Notes to Photos as Metadata
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFlickr Photo with Notes Attached: John Cloninger added notes to a photo that he posted on Flickr. I took a screenshot of the photo and cut it down to accentuate one of the notes. Followthis link to view the complete photo. My friend John Cloninger used his Flickr account to publish…
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Canon Powershot A510 Announced as Successor to A75
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCanon USA announced the Canon PowerShot A510 yesterday as a replacement for the inexpensive PowerShot A75 that has been one of the most popular digital cameras at Amazon.com for most of the last year. The A75 has been a good performer in the 3.2-megapixel range and the A510 seeks to build…
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Salon Calls Flickr “The Friendster of Photo Sites”
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSalon published a really good article about the many uses of Flickr, the on-line photo sharing site that I’ve been using for the past 10 days. The article points out some interesting statistics: 176,000 members, 2.2 million photos, growing at a rate of 30,000 per day, 82 percent of those photos…
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Accessing Dave Aiello’s Public Photos on Flickr
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Home Office in Snow: One of the photos I uploaded to Flickr for Operation Gadget readers to look at. [ Photo: Dave Aiello ] Earlier this week, I promised that I would point to my Flickr account when I had some digital camera photos to share with the public. The…
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Trying out a Flickr Pro Account
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAlthough Operation Gadget has its own Coppermine Photo Gallery, I wanted to find a different web-based solution for casual photo sharing. I decided to give Flickr a try, uploaded a few test photos, and invited my wife, my sister-in-law, my mother-in-law, and my sister to view the photos. Anyone can have…
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Kodak Steals CES Spotlight with Wireless Digital Camera
Reading Time: < 1 minuteKodak EASYSHARE-ONE: Killer design, WiFi-capability, big screen, lots of built-in memory. [ Photo: Kodak ] The International Consumer Electronics Show begins tomorrow in Las Vegas and Kodak has taken the early lead in the race for media attention. The company that previously made digital cameras for non-gadget people rocked the media…
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Good Tips Provided for Troubleshooting Digital Camera Images
Reading Time: 2 minutesDavid Cardinal recently wrote a useful article for PC Magazine called Troubleshooting Your Images. In it he tries to address some of the most common flaws in digital photos that some digital camera users repeatedly experience: blurry images, pixelated or grainy images, images too dark or light, and poor color. Cardinal visits…
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First Photos from My Canon PowerShot A95
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCanon PowerShot A95: My new 5-Megapixel digital camera. See more of the first photos I took with it. [ Photo: Dave Aiello ] I uploaded the first small series of photos taken with my new Canon PowerShot A95 digital camera. I actually uploaded these photos shortly after I posted the story…
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Unpacking My Canon PowerShot A95
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCanon PowerShot A95: My new 5-Megapixel digital camera. See more photos of the box unpacking. [ Photo: Dave Aiello ] December 23rd was a fun day at the Home Office. I received my Canon PowerShot A95 digital camera from Amazon.com. I started unpacking it right away and took a couple of…