
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
When in the field it's crucial to have enough storage to keep all of your photographs. Normally when you want a ton of storage you have to carry around an external hard drive along with a plethora of different SD cards. Luckily, Lexar is doing what they can to ease the pain having just announced today 128GB ...
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March 15th, 2011 | Posted in Storage | Comments Off

We carry on with our look at digital photo frames by checking out the Toshiba DMF82XKU. It's going to cost an arm and a leg as digital photo frames go, but there will be plenty to recommend it.
The Toshiba DMF82XKU is an eight inch digital photo frame that comes with memory card capability as well ...
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December 1st, 2010 | Posted in Digital Photo Frames, Other Brands | Comments Off

SanDisk, Sony, and Nikon are planning on proposing a new memory card format that "ditches the PATA interface in favor of the PCI Express serial interface".
This would allow cards to achieve data transfer rates of up to 500MB per second to allow storage capacity to beyond 2TB. This combines a "high-speed data ...
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November 30th, 2010 | Posted in Nikon, Sony, Storage | Comments Off

Transcend has recently released a new set of SDXC - Secure Digital eXtended Capacity - cards which now have 64GB of storage capacity, and is already available for pre-order at $190.
The new Transcend SDXC memory cards are able to provide a transfer speed up to 25MB/s, comes with a Class 10 rating, and besides the ...
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November 3rd, 2010 | Posted in Storage | Comments Off

While having a capable camera is obviously the most important part of a photographers collection, such devices are useless if you don't have anywhere to store your photographs. Sure, many cameras feature built-in storage but one of the most effective ways of saving your pictures is on a memory card.
Toshiba and Panasonic have just taken ...
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September 7th, 2010 | Posted in Memory, Storage | Comments Off

Today's camera review is a little on the unusual side, because today, we don't just have another Sanyo camcorder, but rather, a full Sanyo camcorder kit, complete with a variety of extra components.
We start with the Sanyo Xacti VPCZH1 camcorder, which offers a 30x optical zoom and augmenting 50x digital zoom, a three inch LCD ...
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July 12th, 2010 | Posted in Camcorder, Sanyo | Comments Off

Lexar has just announced today via their Facebook page that they will be holding a new sweepstake entitled Take the Next Shot.
This sweepstake will have users uploading their favorite photograph to the company's Facebook in addition to a 15 word caption. After they've done that all they need to do next is click the like ...
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July 8th, 2010 | Posted in Canon, Nikon | Comments Off

Kingston has just notified us of their brand new, SDXC UHS-1 Call 10 memory card. This card is capable of holding up to 64GB and transferring that data at a rate of 60MB/secnd read and 35MB/s write.
However, according to DigitalCameraReview, SDXC can theoretically reach 300MB/second read/write in the future as the technology developers.
Kingston says the ...
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June 3rd, 2010 | Posted in Memory | Comments Off

LG has a couple of digital photo frames in its fold and among them include this sleek and stylish LG F802N digital picture frame. It comes with the usual integrated USB and multi-memory card support that will provide you various storage options to show off photos via its 8” screen at 800x600 display resolutions.
Other ...
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June 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Digital Photo Frames | Comments Off