For megazoom shooters, the Nikon Coolpix P80's 18x zoom, 27-486mm-equivalent f/2.8-4.5 lens likely sits at the top of the list of the P80's attractions.
Whether human or camera, it's always hard following in the footsteps of a popular sibling, and the near-universally well-liked Canon PowerShot SD850 IS is a harder act to follow than most.
Way back in 1888, Kodak popularized the hobby of snapshot photography with its famous slogan: "You press the button, we do the rest."
Hewlett-Packard recently released its Officejet H470 Mobile Series, an update to its line of portable inkjet printers. The models range from $224 to $314, which isn't cheap, considering the majority of home inkjets cost less than $100.
With its 14-megapixel CCD, flip-up LCD, sensor-shift image stabilizer, and built-in wireless flash controller, the feature-packed Sony Alpha DSLR-A350 seems like a cornucopia of photographic goodness for the budget shopper.
Canon's 1Ds series of cameras exists in a class of its own.
When you build the follow-up to a hot camera, how do you turn up the heat? When Nikon shipped the D200 a couple of years ago, its combination of speed and photo quality blew away the limited competition, and provided a powerful, relatively inexpensive alternative to Nikon's then top-of-the-line D2X.
Sony changed quite a few details, inside and out, between last year's H5 and this year's megazooms, the Cyber-shot DSC-H9 and DSC-H7. An f/2.7-4.5 31mm-465mm 15x supersedes the 12x zoom on last year's, and the resolution kicks up a notch from 7 to 8 megapixels. Say goodbye to AA batteries and hello to a proprietary lithium ion.
HP's Photosmart M537 is the archetypal budget camera. It's not particularly large or small, it doesn't look terribly shiny or sleek, and it doesn't have any notably unique features.
One of the best reasons to consider a megazoom is the fact that you get a big zoom range in a small package, so you don't have to carry around huge SLR lenses and, more importantly, you don't have to pay the huge prices for those SLR lenses.
For megazoom shooters, the Nikon Coolpix P80's 18x zoom, 27-486mm-equivalent f/2.8-4.5 lens likely sits at the top of the list of the P80's attractions.
Whether human or camera, it's always hard following in the footsteps of a popular sibling, and the near-universally well-liked Canon PowerShot SD850 IS is a harder act to follow than most.
Way back in 1888, Kodak popularized the hobby of snapshot photography with its famous slogan: "You press the button, we do the rest."
Hewlett-Packard recently released its Officejet H470 Mobile Series, an update to its line of portable inkjet printers. The models range from $224 to $314, which isn't cheap, considering the majority of home inkjets cost less than $100.
With its 14-megapixel CCD, flip-up LCD, sensor-shift image stabilizer, and built-in wireless flash controller, the feature-packed Sony Alpha DSLR-A350 seems like a cornucopia of photographic goodness for the budget shopper.
Canon's 1Ds series of cameras exists in a class of its own.
When you build the follow-up to a hot camera, how do you turn up the heat? When Nikon shipped the D200 a couple of years ago, its combination of speed and photo quality blew away the limited competition, and provided a powerful, relatively inexpensive alternative to Nikon's then top-of-the-line D2X.
Sony changed quite a few details, inside and out, between last year's H5 and this year's megazooms, the Cyber-shot DSC-H9 and DSC-H7. An f/2.7-4.5 31mm-465mm 15x supersedes the 12x zoom on last year's, and the resolution kicks up a notch from 7 to 8 megapixels. Say goodbye to AA batteries and hello to a proprietary lithium ion.
HP's Photosmart M537 is the archetypal budget camera. It's not particularly large or small, it doesn't look terribly shiny or sleek, and it doesn't have any notably unique features.
One of the best reasons to consider a megazoom is the fact that you get a big zoom range in a small package, so you don't have to carry around huge SLR lenses and, more importantly, you don't have to pay the huge prices for those SLR lenses.
The Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 is nearly identical to the QuickCam Pro for Notebooks Webcam, except for the fact that it's a better fit for laptops. This $99 desktop Webcam is larger than its laptop sibling, but its flexible, two-hinged stand works equally well resting directly on your desk or atop your desktop's LCD or your laptop's screen.
With matte black finishes, prominent, blue-ringed lenses, and unusual touch sensor controls, Samsung's style-minded NV cameras are pretty hard to miss. Sitting at the top of the NV heap is the NV11, a 7.7-ounce, 10-megapixel camera that strikes just the right middle ground between the high-resolution, 3x zoom-equipped NV10, and the much bulkier 7-megapixel, 7x zoom-equipped NV5 and NV7 OPS.
With the exception of its admittedly sleek-looking design, there's not a lot to differentiate the ultracompact Fujifilm Z5fd from a crowded field of budget competitors. Granted, it does come in an eye-melting raspberry red and a sophisticated mocha brown in addition to basic silver.
The HP Photosmart A826 is the first standalone snapshot printer we've seen that truly attempts to bring the in-store photo kiosk experience into the home. The printer's large size and extra large touch screen make using it a pleasure. And the fast print speed and wealth of features make it easy to produce a variety of prints.
Nowhere is the line between still cameras that capture movies and video cameras that take stills fuzzier than in the ambiguous market segment occupied by the Sanyo Xacti VPC-E1.
Size matters in electronics, and smaller often tends to be better. Thick, heavy gadgets fit poorly into pockets, feel uncomfortable to carry around, and simply aren't sexy.
Sharing a perch at the top of Sony's HD prosumer camcorder line, the Handycam HDR-SR7 manages to combine a raft of cutting-edge capabilities without forgetting that its primary function is capturing high-quality HD video.
Samsung's NV7 OPS simply confounds me: for a company to clearly have spent a lot of time working on a novel but quite usable new interface, but implement it in a sluggish camera that produces noisy, overprocessed photos just seems, well, wrong.
It's hardly Harvard, or even the University of Phoenix. But Walt Disney is getting into the education business.
Casio made its name in the digital camera world with its ultraslim Exilim Card cameras, and thin cameras - such as the Exilim EX-Z75 (part of the Exilim Zoom series) -- remain one of the company's specialties.
Affordable digital cameras have finally broken the 10-megapixel barrier. Business 2.0 Magazine picks three that will satisfy even the pickiest photographer.
"It's like a James Bond backpack!"
Canon's PowerShot A550 is a simple, inexpensive 7-megapixel camera, and that's all it wants to be.
Adam Baer spends his days testing and reviewing the latest gadgets for travelers who like to put something extra into their suitcases at vacation time.
General Electric and General Imaging Co. announced Tuesday that the two companies will team up to design, manufacture and distribute a line of GE-branded digital cameras.
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Ah, the memories that a photo album can evoke. Here I am with my first digital camera, the Apple QuickTake 100, along with a serial cable and the Macintosh portable I had lugged up a 12,000-foot mo...
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THE DIGITAL CAMERA MARKET IS TRICKY THESE days. On the one hand, there are models so small they've earned the nickname "credit card" cameras. But an opposite trend has also been showing up at the l...
SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - Kodak can't go digital fast enough. And there's a company that could speed that process up: SanDisk.
Hewlett-Packard has announced it is launching self-service photo printing kiosks in retail locations in a bid to reach consumers where they shop, giving the company a physical presence in the retail photo market for the first time.
ASK CANON CEO FUJIO MITARAI to explain how he turned a floundering Japanese electronics maker into one of the world's most profitable technology giants, and he's apt to tell you about an Internal Revenue Service auditor named Greg. It was 1966, and Mitarai had been put in charge of accounting at Canon's new U.S. subsidiary. In its first year the venture reported a profit of just $6,000, a sum so paltry it aroused suspicion at the IRS. After scouring Canon's books for a month and verifying that its U.S. earnings were every bit as meager as claimed, Greg, the agency's lead auditor, offered Mitarai some free advice: Deposit your accounts receivable in the bank, close the company, and go home.
Ask Canon CEO Fujio Mitarai to explain how he turned a floundering Japanese electronics maker into one of the world's most profitable technology giants, and he's apt to tell you about an Internal Revenue Service auditor named Greg. It was 1966, and Mitarai had been put in charge of accounting at Canon's new U.S. subsidiary. In its first year the venture reported a profit of just $6,000, a sum so paltry it aroused suspicion at the IRS. After scouring Canon's books for a month and verifying its U.S. earnings to be every bit as meager as claimed, Greg, the agency's lead auditor, offered Mitarai some free advice: Deposit your accounts receivable in the bank, close the company, and go home.
Retail sales this weekend will be crucial as the holiday shopping season heads into what looks to be a nail-biting finish for the most important sales period of the year.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Saying goodbye to an American icon isn't easy.
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First it was the video recorder, now it seems the 35mm camera is heading for extinction on high street shop shelves, to make way for more popular digital models.
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The way that iPods, digital cameras, DVD players and the Xbox supposedly flew off the shelves, you'd think that consumer electronics had banner holiday sales.
Sure, digital cameras eliminate trips to the one-hour photo mart, with its chemical fumes and lack of adequate parking. And they let you erase snapshots immediately, scrapping the misfires that in ...
Two years ago, many investors were ready to write off Eastman Kodak.
POLITICIANS ARE FOND of asking, Are you better off now than you were four years ago? Well, let's see. The last time we endured a photo- finish presidential election, we weren't at war, gas cost les...
Eastman Kodak is focusing on the top spot in the digital camera market after being widely regarded as the latecomer to the party. But its late push into the business may have some unintended consequences.
Don't be so quick to toss out your old PCs, fax machines or digital cameras -- office supply retailer Office Depot is partnering with Hewlett-Packard to offer recycling of one electronic product a day for free all through the summer.
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It's a classic theme of geek tragedy: A distraught mortal shakes his fists at the gods because he's just spent a thousand bucks for a fancy piece of digital gear, only to discover that a much bette...
Thinking of getting mom something special for Mother's Day but want to move beyond the typical fare?
Our gadgets just keep getting smaller, faster, cheaper and better. Cell phones now have color screens and take pictures. Cameras have gone digital and can fit into an Altoids tin. MP3 players easil...
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If a picture is worth 1,000 words, when it comes to digital photography, more than a few of those words will be vulgarisms for most consumers. Sure, digital cameras have many advantages over their ...
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Digital cameras are selling well, but camera phones are doing even better. Big gains in Asia have pushed global shipments of camera phones beyond those of regular digital cameras for the first time...
A stylish young woman sitting next to me at my favorite Tokyo sashimi joint whips out her digital camera and takes a picture of her boyfriend's fatty tuna. I can't take my eyes off her camera. It's...
Late fall is always a deliciously happy time for technology fans, the season just before the holidays when consumer electronics companies come out with their latest gizmos and gadgets. You may thin...
Around 40 years ago, the cameras that pros used--single-lens reflex numbers with interchangeable lenses--finally fell within a hobbyist's budget. Suddenly, the streets of Rome were overrun by folks...
It's hard to convince people that the Canon EOS Digital Rebel is a serious camera when you're drooling, grinning like a fool, making little "ooh, ahh" noises, and fondling its body like a mother c...
Better. Faster. Sleeker. Cheaper? In the world of technology, time, it seems, brings better and better deals to consumers.
Last April, Kodak hired 58-year-old Yusuke Kojima to revive its digital camera business. A marketing legend at Olympus who made the category a worldwide hit with the 800,000-pixel Camedia, Kojima c...
Better. Faster. Sleeker. Cheaper? In the world of technology, time, it seems, brings better and better deals to consumers. Cell phones get more multifunctional (it's a camera, a personal digital as...
There's a lonely spot at your local camera store: the section of counter with the point-and-shoot film cameras. "We take them out and dust them and place them back on the shelf," says a clerk at a ...
Which digital cameras are best? It depends on how you want to use them. There are four basic kinds.
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PLASMA: IT'S A GAS Prices for these wide-screen, superthin TV sets are still inflated, but they're falling rapidly. Should you watch or wait? Here's the skinny on Hitachi's new 42-inch dazzler.
Technology and fashion are two industries that don't often intersect. Tech products may have added some style of late, but it's not as though proper decorum dictates that you use only a white PC be...
On the one hand, it sounds ridiculous to say that film cameras are heading for extinction. Tens of millions of film cameras will be sold this year, compared with seven million or so digital cameras...
When I was a boy, my grandfather gave me a few shares of Eastman Kodak. I never got a chance to talk to him about it, but I'm sure his thinking was, "Taking pictures is a great business. People wil...
I've fallen in love with shutterfly. But it's a tragic affair. My heart aches for what I cannot have.
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Nikon's new Coolpix 775 point-and-shoot digital camera is a marvel of big-picture quality in a small, lightweight package that's easy to carry around. Although it lacks some of the more advanced fe...
We loved the Nikon CoolPix 990 digital camera for its innovative swiveling-lens design, its impressive 3.34-megapixel image quality, and its nice balance of point-and-shoot simplicity (for beginnin...
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I'm beginning to wonder if I should have invested in Ceiva. I had the opportunity about a year ago, but I didn't even tell my partners about it. Ceiva had all the hallmarks of the kind of deal they...
Early adopters of digital cameras often became surly adopters. That's because the first models were expensive and rarely performed as well as those $10 disposable cameras sold in drugstores. But in...
There's no question that a central appeal of digital photography consists of the ability it gives you to, say, zap a photo to a friend electronically or post it on your private Website. But even th...
Digital, digital, digital. When it comes to cameras, it's all you hear about these days. Yes, it is amazing that you can see your photos instantly and then delete the ones that make you look...well...
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It's time for the family picnic--time to do your duty. While everyone else is eating, drinking, and generally having a great time, you take photos. On Monday you drop the film at the drugstore; on ...
You know that a product has reached the mass market when you can find it in a drugstore. That's the case with digital cameras, which now show up on retail racks between the antacids and the razor b...
When my grandsons Patrick and Spencer were baptized the other day, I wasn't able to be there. But photographs of the event soon turned up on the Internet, courtesy of a daughter who until a year ag...
Anyone with drawers or shoeboxes full of old snapshots will understand all too well the advantage of storing photos on a computer drive or CD-ROM. When you want them, they're only a few mouse click...
When the time came for heir apparent David to go to work for his father, Arnold, all was tense in the kingdom. "I told David he would have to push me off my throne," says Arnold, proprietor and rul...
The Web is a no-shopping zone. A lot of my venture capitalist peers will be upset with me for saying that, because they have invested lots and lots of money in so-called Web shopping companies.
RIO 500 MP3 PLAYER Despite its pirate reputation, MP3--Internet software for downloading free music--is on its way to ubiquity. Diamond Multimedia's portable player, the best, lets you choose the a...
That family photo on your desk sure looks a bit dated. Billy does look cute in his Little League uniform, but isn't he heading off to college this fall? I know; you could replace it with another sh...
Digital photography is cool, but cameras are expensive and temperamental, scanners take up too much space, and a good color printer costs a lot of money--putting digital photos on paper requires mo...
The last time I checked out digital cameras, they were little more than high-priced toys. A year later they're even more fun--but now they're worth the price. A dozen models priced below $1,000 del...
Iomega, the company that brought you the Zip storage drive, has never been given to modesty. But even by Iomega standards, its recent introduction of a new product was something to behold. At the L...
Whether freezing a moment in sports history or capturing a child's first birthday, photography has long relied on chemical technology to capture an image on film. Now, photography is undergoing its...
As if Kodak's George Fisher didn't have enough problems. Over the past few weeks, his earnings tanked, his stock self-destructed, and he has been forced to announce layoffs numbering in the thousan...
I remember when my father brought home his first Polaroid instant camera. It was a thrill when he snapped a picture and pulled out the film. The kids would fight over who got to hold the film's cov...
My first camera was a Brownie Hawkeye, and it was easy to use. All I had to do was click the shutter and wind the film. Actually, being 7 years old at the time, I often forgot to wind the film, whi...
POLAROID is pouring champagne, and with good reason. The 50-year-old company is recovering from a serious midlife crisis. Consumers had grown disenchanted with instant photography, and Polaroid sal...
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