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Cameras are currently available from many different consumers. Add to that the number of smartphone manufacturers building high quality cameras into their latest offerings the options are virtually endless. However, in terms of traditional camera manufacturers which do you think consumers are fine paying the most for? According to research firm MyProductAdvisor: Nikon.
The firm recently ran a ...
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November 20th, 2011 | Posted in business, dslr, Nikon | Comments Off

Pentax has long been a major player in the camera world with offerings from actual cameras to lenses alreayd on the market. However, it seems that on October 1st Pentax will no longer exist as a single entity instead being absorbed by Ricoh. The reason we say this is because it was just announced that ...
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July 4th, 2011 | Posted in business, Pentax, Ricoh | Comments Off

Here's something that might affect photographers and all those who purchase memory cards in Canada: the Canadian Private Copying Collective, a copyright group, wants to tax all memory cards sold in the country in order to protect copyright holders like the music artists. They're pushing for a tax of $0.50 for 1GB of storage (or ...
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May 17th, 2011 | Posted in business, Memory, News | Comments Off
Nikon started making cameras way back in 1948, but the company has been making lenses for decades earlier. Now the oldest known Nikon camera, a Nikon I with the serial no. 60924 will be auctioned off, with the price starting at $100,000 at the Westlicht Photographica auction in Germany, and they expect the camera to ...
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April 7th, 2011 | Posted in business, Nikon | Comments Off
Due to the tragic earthquake and tsunami in Japan, which has left thousands dead, even more missing, and doing hundreds of billions in property damage, camera makers Nikon and Canon have shut down their DSLR camera and lens plants, Canon shutting down the plan in Utsunomiya, where over a dozen workers were injured, and Nikon ...
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March 15th, 2011 | Posted in business, Canon, Nikon | Comments Off

Sony's recent acquisition of a chip plant from Toshiba will be used to increase Sony's overall image sensor output two fold. The new factory, which used to make Cell processors for the PlayStation 3, will be transitioned to make image sensors used by Sony and many others. Sony already produces image sensors used by Nikon ...
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December 27th, 2010 | Posted in business, Sony | Comments Off

Anyone who's into photography and creative design for sure knows about Adobe and their countless products, chief of which is Photoshop, loved by many photographers (and those into photo retouching). Now for the first time, Adobe has reported quarterly earnings of $1 billion, which it earned for the fourth quarter of the 2010 fiscal year, ...
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December 21st, 2010 | Posted in business | Comments Off

Apple has released a new update for its Mac OS X operating system which improves digital RAW compatibility. The new update adds support for several new cameras, including Nikon D7000, Nikon Coolpix P7000, Canon PowerShot G12 and a few more.
The update is for Aperture 3 and iPhoto '11. You can read the full release ...
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December 20th, 2010 | Posted in business, dslr, News | Comments Off

Ordering your McDonald’s Happy Meal in the future can rack in various thoughts but if this vision by Frog Design is to be considered, we may yet see augmented reality be integrated into this fast food chain’s services.
Augmented reality is slowly creeping in and having a touch screen type of an interface when placing ...
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May 12th, 2010 | Posted in business, Cool Products, Scanners | Comments Off

YouTube has recently started a new feature which allows the user to turn on closed captions. It isn't available on every video, and it is beta.
It is very obviously in beta too. You should see some of the hilarious combinations of words that they can come up with. This is ...
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March 9th, 2010 | Posted in business, Uncategorized | Comments Off