Archive for the 'Canon' Category

It doesn't seem to be a good time for any company dealing exclusively with cameras due to the emergence of high powered cameras included within smartphones. We've already seen Kodak file for bankruptcy protection and it seems that Canon may be in trouble as well. Earnings reports were recently released for the company and it ...
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January 30th, 2012 | Posted in Canon | No Comments

Looking for a new printer, or three? Well, my dear friend, today is your lucky day. Canon has just came forth to announce three new all-in-one printers that fall into their Pixma line up dubbed the MG2120, MG3120 and MG4120. Before we get started, make note that the MG 2120 will retail for $69.99, the ...
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October 21st, 2011 | Posted in Canon, printer | Comments Off

Canon has come forth today to announce their latest compact digital camera dubbed the IXUS 230 HS. This camera features a 2.1 megapixel back-illuminated CMOS sensor coupled with a 3-inch LCD display. Other features include a lens capable of 8x zoom, wide-angle imagery and "Intelligent" image stabalization software. Of course, in this day and age ...
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August 23rd, 2011 | Posted in Canon, compact digital camera | Comments Off

Some of you might be familiar with the Canon Scoopic 16M, which was apparently "the cat's meow in TV news cameras in the early 1970's" and it was quite easy to use.
As you can see, someone has given the camera a very interesting mod-job. Yeah, someone decided to give it a gun ...
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May 31st, 2011 | Posted in Canon | Comments Off

We love when high end, expensive gadgets and gear, including cameras, are taken apart so we can see all the intricate bits and pieces inside and how they work, and the best way to show that is to have a perfect, clean cross section of the apparatus.
Take a look at the above Canon 1Ds ...
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May 20th, 2011 | Posted in Canon, Cool Pictures | Comments Off

Anyone can take apart a camera, or rather, anyone can try and take apart the camera -- putting it back together is a whole other ball park. In order to do so, you need to know where exactly all your parts are and how they go together.
Photographer Kelly Hofer took apart his Canon PowerShot ...
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May 18th, 2011 | Posted in Canon, Cool Pictures | Comments Off
The video above shows an aperture on the Canon 18-55 mm moving when a photo is taken -- recorded with at 120 frames per second, and yet, the aperture is still too fast to see exactly how it works. The video is almost hypnotic. If you want to see a slower version, at 240 frames ...
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May 3rd, 2011 | Posted in Canon, Cool videos | Comments Off

We close out a week of looking at camcorders with a pretty big name in the camcorder--indeed, the camera industry--and check out the Canon FS400. Will this one hold up to Canon's long-time standard for high quality shooting?
The Canon FS400 offers up a 37x optical zoom (with supplementary 2000x digital zoom), a 2.7 inch LCD ...
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April 29th, 2011 | Posted in Camcorder, Canon | Comments Off

I think we all know that our camera, even the one on our phone, stores all of its pictures in a convenient digital folder that can be accessed via USB. So why not have USB drives that look like cameras?
What you are seeing here may look like a miniature version of the Canon EOS ...
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April 18th, 2011 | Posted in Accessories, Canon | Comments Off
The Nikon vs Canon debate and war goes way back, decades before any of the new tech wars, like Microsoft vs Apple, PlayStation vs Nintendo. The Nikon vs Canon debate has been going on since the 1940s and 1950s, and it's still going strong in the digital era today.
What we in the video above ...
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April 10th, 2011 | Posted in Canon, Cool videos, Nikon | Comments Off