Archive for January, 2009

Panasonic to Fire 560 People After Closing Plants

Panasonic is another important name in the photography business. It looks like the camera maker is also willing to cut jobs, but not as many as Kodak will. Panasonic will fire only 560 people after two plants in Asia will close down. Let's not forget that Panasonic is struggling too. It had it's first net ...

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Kodak to Fire 4,500 People

Should we be worried about Kodak's future? The company will be firing 4,500 during 2009. It has reported a Q4 loss of $133 million. No wonder the executives are trying to recover some of that by cutting jobs. Kodak reported sales of $2.433 billion which is a 24% less than Q4 2007. Digital sales were ...

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Widest Megapixel Lens from Fujinion

Providing better coverage is a must as far as keeping track in the surveillance of particularly defined areas today. Thanks to Fujinion, a newly developed wide three-megapixel varifocal lens is bound to help in putting more juice towards the need for safer and wider surveillance cameras by most companies and people today. Designed specifically for ...

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LG KE850 Prada Camera Phone

LG Electronics offers another candy bar phone, the LG KE850 Prada. Measuring 3.9 by 2.1 by 0.5 inches, this camera phone is set for release by March 10 of this year. Like Apple’s iPhone, the KE850’s many features are accessed via a large touch screen instead of the conventional keypad and soft keys. The flash-powered ...

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Panasonic 64GB P2 Card Released

Panasonic camcorder owners looking for larger storage space in preserving their videos are bound to love this new P2 card from Panasonic. This new reusable 64GB P2 card can hold more than five hours of DVCPRO footage (356 minutes), more than two hours of DVCPRO50 or AVC-Intra 50 recordings (128 minutes) or more than an ...

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Panasonic Lumix FS-25 Digital Camera

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Panasonic, the maker of world-class electronic and digital products, has announced the latest addition to its LUMIX FS-Series of digital cameras with Panasonic Lumix FS-25 Digital Camera. Featuring a 29mm wide-angle LECIA DC VARIO-ELMAR Lens, this new digital camera sports a 3.0-inch intelligent LCD. Lumix FS-25 is a 12.1 mega pixel digital camera ...

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Casio EX-S5 Digital Camera

Casio Exilim EX-S5

The Casio Exilim EX-S5 Digital Camera is the entry level camera in Casio’s release of four new Exilim digitals: the S5, the S12, the S270, and the S400. The Exilim S5 is a basic point and shoot camera with a sleek look, and a lightweight, compact, easy-to-carry and use design. The S5 comes with a ...

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Casio S12 Camera

Casio Exilim EX-S12

The Casio Exilim EX-S12 is one of four new Exilim cameras that Casio is releasing for spring sale. Only 3.7” wide x 2.1” high x .6” thin, the EX-S12 camera features a 3X optical zoom and a crystal clear 2.7-inch LCD monitor. The 12.1-megapixel resolution creates crisp, precise digital photos.  The Casio EX-S12 records HD ...

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GigaPan Epic Imager Available for Purchase

Remember that extraordinary Inauguration 1,474 megapixel photo? Remember the GigaPan Imager that was used in order to take all those photos which were later combined to make the giant photo? Well that device is called the GigaPan Epic and it was released for the general public. It will work with most of the current point-and-shoot ...

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Nikon D700 Can Shoot Video Now

You haven't bought your DSLR camera to shoot video, did you? It wasn't even possible until just now. A russian site has released a program that will let any Canon Liveview owners record video with their DSLR. And most importantly for Nikon fans, Olivier Giroux, a Nikon hacker, played with the software to make the ...

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