Digital Cameras
Netcom releases pan, tilt and zoom IP camera for AUD$3200
Broadband equipment specialist NetComm has released an affordable highly advanced IP camera with Pan/ Tilt/ Zoom capabilities and full Web-based digital server capabilities - making it possible to deliver high quality video streaming over Ethernet and the internet. The NS4540 is an outdoor, all-weather surveillance and monitoring solution, and has a capabilities set which make it suitable for a broad spectrum of applications for business and residential users, while delivering unprecedented ease of use and management at an affordable price - AUD$3179 Read More
Casio ceramics makes world's smallest optical zoom camera
Casio has announced the release of the world's smallest digital camera with an optical zoom (2.8X), the EXILIM CARD EX-S100. The camera and its lens owe their exceptionally compact packaging to another world's first - the application of ceramic lens technology providing a great advance in optical quality with even greater strength than glass. The EX-S100 will be available in October 2004 at an RRP of US$400. Read More
CasioTransparent Ceramic Lens technology reduces zoom lens size
Casio has developed the world's first lens using transparent ceramics. This breakthrough will make it possible to make zoom lenses for cameras which are much smaller. The technology is expected to find its way into the next generation of Casio's thin Exilim card-size digital camera and continues the major push in technological development to find better methods of creating smaller, thinner cameras. Read More
Olympus limited edition Ferrari Digital Camera
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Olympus has announced the Ferrari Digital Model 2004, the second in the Ferrari Digital Model 2004 series of Olympus cameras to be officially sanctioned by Ferrari. Based on the all-new Olympus AZ-1 compact digital camera, the aluminium body is finished in Ferrari Red and is graced with the famous 'Prancing Horse' logo. Read More
Epson R-D1 - the world's first rangefinder digital camera
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Epson, which does digital image processing really well, has teamed up with Cosina, which has developed outstanding original optics technologies in the production of camera lenses, and they have created a digital camera which looks and feels like a vintage film camera, even though it's capturing 6 megapixels per shot. Oh, and it can be used with Leica L- and M-mount lenses. Read More
Canon releases world's fastest professional digital camera: EOS-1D
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Canon Australia has announced a new flagship professional digital SLR camera - the EOS-1D Mark II - featuring an 8.2-million effective-pixel CMOS image sensor and the world's fastest continuous shooting speed of approximately 8.5 frames per second (fps) for a burst of up to 40 consecutive frames. Read More
New Nikon Digital Cameras
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Nikon has released details of several significant digital cameras and products; an 8-megapixel, 8x zoom Coolpix 8700; an 6.1-megapixel D70 digital SLR camera with interchangeable lenses and the COOLWALKER MSV-01, a 30GB portable image storage device. Read More
Versatile Underwater Camera
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The Underwater Cam from Swann records up to 4 hours of sub-marine action to a depth of 16m in colour and connects to camcorders, TVs, VCRs, portable monitors and LCD Screens with AV inputs. Read More
Nikon D70 Digital SLR
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Nikon have announced the upcoming release of the new D70 interchangeable-lens digital SLR camera. Being developed concurrently with a DX Zoom-Nikkor lens that will become its standard zoom lens, details are still scarce on the exact specifications of the D70, which is due to reach Australia in Autumn 2004. Read More
Siemens 4X zoom camera phone
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Siemens has added 4X zoom capability to its latest camera phone. The multimedia equipped ST55 includes 5-way joystick navigation, TFT 65,000 colour screen and "compose your own" polyphonic ringtones along with the inbuilt, zoom enabled, 120 x 160 pixel VGA camera. Read More
Official 007 Digital Camera
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Saturday November 8, 2003: What kind of digital camera do master spies choose? We're not sure about current CIA procedure but the JB1 gets the nod from spies of the celluloid variety, having claimed the title of official James Bond 007 digital camera. Read More
Sony's 5-megapixel ultra-compact camera
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Saturday October 25, 2003: The "World's Smallest" title in the arena of digital still cameras has a very short shelf life these days, but Sony has staked its claim with the Cyber-shot DSC-T1 ultra-compact camera. At 2cm and 6cm tall, the "Worlds smallest 5-megapixel camera" features advanced auto-focus and auto-exposure options... Read More
Hasselblad H1 named Best Professional Product at TIPA Awards
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Friday September 26, 2003: The Hasselblad H1, a 645 format camera that incorporates an interchangeable film and digital back system, has been named Best Professional Product at the prestigious TIPA (Technical Image Press Association) European Photo and Imaging awards. Read More
4-megapixel compact digital to join Pentax Optio range
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Tuesday September 23, 2003: The Pentax OptioS4 digital compact offers 4.23 megapixel image capture, shutter release time lag of 0.01 sec, a wide range of shooting modes and 3X optical zoom in a compact aluminium body, but it's the extra touches often overlooked in compact digital cameras, including continuous shooting, voice recording and image zoom integrated into the optical viewfinder, that distinguish the Optio S4. Read More
Pentax announces smallest, lightest digital SLR to date
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Friday August 22, 2003: PENTAX has announced the upcoming release of the smallest, lightest digital SLR camera to date - the *ist D. Capturing 6.1 effective megapixels,the *ist D is equipped 22 user-adjustable custom functions, sophisticated autofocus system, 1/4000-second high-speed shutter and is compatible with existing PENTAX 35mm format interchangeable lenses and accessories. Read More
FinePix S5000 Zoom digital SLR
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Friday August 15, 2003: The new FinePix S5000 Zoom incorporates 10x optical Fujinon zoom lens and advanced features such as full manual exposure control, continuous shooting and the ability to capture 26 second 320 x 240 pixel movies - including sound - at 30 frames per second . Read More
High-speed Digital SLR captures 8 Frames Per Second
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Friday July 25, 2003: Nikon's new D2H professional digital SLR camera is capable of continuously shooting 8 frames per second at full resolution, buffers up to 40 JPEG images and incorporates Wi-Fi capabilities for 802.11b wireless transmission of images... Read More
Totally new digital SLR system from Olympus
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Friday June 27, 2003 Built from scratch with a new 5-megapixel CCD and dedicated interchangeable lenses designed specifically to match the performance requirements of digital imaging, the E-1 professional digital SLR camera from Olympus promises outstanding mobility and superb image quality. Read More
Kodak Easy Share DX4330
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Digital Cameras have long made the transition from novelty gadgets to everyday consumer items and now that the "wow" factor has subsided, functionality, usability and attention to detail are in demand in addition to mega-pixel performance. Kodak's Easyshare DX4330 is designed to meet many of these challenges... Read More
Latest EXILIM features 3X optical zoom
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The latest addition to Casio's EXILIM range of ultra-compact digital cameras - the EX-Z3 - represents a significant performance boost on previous models. With a 3.2 megapixel CCD (compared to the 1.24 and 2.0 megapixel EXILIM cameras introduced in 2002), a 3X optical zoom lens and enlarged LCD monitor... Read More
Hasselblad H1
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The H1 caters for both digital backs and film magazines and features an electronic user interface that communicates with lenses, film magazines and the viewfinder of the Kodak 645-format digital camera backs... Read More
Kodak leads the Photokina digital charge with 16 megapixel SLR
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The 2002 Photokina Trade Show held in Cologne, Germany from September 25-30 has brought with it a flood of groundbreaking photographic imaging releases... Read More
11.1 Megapixel Canon
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Canon Australia has finally announced the launch of the the world's highest resolution digital camera - the EOS-1Ds. Featuring the world's first full frame 35mm CMOS sensor with 11.1 million effective pixels, the EOS-1Ds is truly comparable with 35mm film cameras and is hence suitable for a range of professional uses including studio, commercial, photo journalism and fashion photography. Read More
Nikon Coolpix 5700
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Also aimed at the advanced amateur or semi-professional photographer, the highend Nikon COOLPIX 5700 SLR-style digital camera captures 5.0 effective megapixels - no longer the biggest on the market, but when the maximum image size of 2,560 x 1,920 pixels enables larger than A3 size, how much more do you need? Read More
Sanyo video-clip digital camera
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Sanyo's VPC-MZ1 Series Digital Camera uses internal correction filters and an algorithm known as "Real Time Interpolation" to produce 3-million pixel detail from its 2- million pixel CCD Read More
Casio EXILIM
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At just 11.3 mm thick, 88 mm wide and 55 mm high, and weighing in at only 86g - not counting the battery and memory card - the Casio EXILIM is the world's smallest and lightest digital camera. If you manage not to lose this tiny point and shoot - hold a few credit cards back to back and you'll get a feel for the size - it will produce images of 1.31 million pixels with up to 4X digital zoom. Read More
Nikon Coolpix 2500
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Punching above its weight in terms of high-quality digital imaging, the compact, retractable design of the Nikon Coolpix 2500 features a 3X zoom lens that produces an impressive 2.0 effective megapixel image. Read More
BenQ's tiny 300mini digital camera
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Mini is the optimum word as far as this new digital camera from BenQ is concerned - just a tad bigger than a box of matches and weighing just 49 grams, the 300mini captures video as well as still photos and can double as a PC camera for online conferencing. Simple to operate - even with one hand - and as inconspicuous as you could wish for, the 300mini fits neatly in your pocket or a bag and includes a strap so that it can be worn around the neck. Read More
Sony F707 Digital Camera
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March 21, 2002 People with ten thumbs and an IQ equivalewnt to their shoe size can take amazing pictures with this camera. It also takes very high resolution five megapixel images (2560 x 1920) and it takes pictures in the dark without a flash due to its infrared capabilities. Check out what we did with it. Read More
