Archive for November, 2007

Rocky Nook’s newest publication, The Nikon D80 Dbook, is the ideal companion for anyone who wants to get the most from their Nikon camera. With 620 digital pages in Acrobat format, you will discover the fundamentals on all aspects of the digital image creation process: digital photography basics, taking pictures, image optimization, lenses, accessories, and much more.
Rocky Nook Dbooks go well beyond the Nikon camera manuals and are well organized, beautifully illustrated introductions to digital photography with the Nikon system.
The Dbooks offer clickable examples and digital images that explain before-and-after situations and clearly illustrate the individual stages of the processes involved. Navigation is easy with the built-in hyperlinks or the detailed index and Acrobat search functions. Rocky Nook Dbooks make reading just as exciting and interactive as digital photography itself. High-resolution RGB images help to illustrate subtle differences and effects that would hardly be visible on a printed book page.
Rocky Nook Dbooks also include a handy booklet for use on the road, which is filled with practical overviews of your camera and menu options.
The Rocky Nook Dbook series is a must for all serious amateur, semi-professional, or professional photographers who want to get the most out of their Nikon equipment, and who strive to produce impressive, polished, digital images.

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  Ricoh Caplio RR770m a new entry-level digital camera and successor to the Caplio RR750 predecessor. The RR770 features a 7.1 megapixel CCD image sensor, a spacious crystal-clear 3.0-inch color TFT-LCD monitor, 32 MB of internal memory, and you can add SD Cards for more storage. The trim, compact black body of the RR770 measures 94.5mm x 60.0mm x 29.1mm and weighs only 140grams, so it sits lightly in the palm of your hand and is easily carried in pocket or purse.

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If black colored products are your thing, Casio will put on the market a new color, black for its compact 8.1Mpix camera which supports SD and SDHC cards, has 11.8MB of internal memory, ISO1600, records video in VGA using H.264 codec at 30fps, and weighs only 149g.

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As clever as it undoubtedly is for someone to have stuck a spy camera inside a hairdryer, I have to admit to being a little bit perplexed by this gadget. I mean, it’s not the most flexible of spy cameras, is it, given that it’ll only really be useful to you in those scenarios where it’s plausible for a blow dryer to be present. Still, I guess if you want to spy on people at your local hair salon (and probably get arrested in the process), this should be your espionage tool of choice.

It has a 1/4" color Sony CCD image sensor, 380 lines of resolution, 3.7mm wide angle lens and an additional 2.4 GHz receiver - and there’s even an x-ray vision version available which will allow you to beam images up to 1500 feet. Just don’t let anyone try to dry their hair with it, because that seems to be the one thing it can’t do.

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You’ve barely finished swallowing that bite of turkey and stuffing when BAM! the onslaught of Christmas crap begins. We feel your pain, but the Senario digital photo frame Christmas-tree ornament might actually be cool enough to justify the whole holiday spirit thing. This festive ball has an embedded 1.5" display and enough memory for a 50-picture slideshow. Unfortunately, Mac lovers are out of luck since the frame only supports Windows 2000, XP and Vista. You can snatch one up from Wal-Mart for about $30.

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Continuing its trend of pushing out evolutionary — rather than revolutionary — digital cameras, Ricoh has just introduced the new Caplio RR770, a model barely distinguishable from the now two-generations-old RR730. Just as the move from the 730 to the RR750 brought with it little more than a minor resolution bump, the 7.16 megapixel RR770 improves upon its predecessor by simply upgrading the LCD to a 3-incher — but retaining the ho hum 3x optical zoom and limited scene selections of Caplios past. Price and release are currently shrouded in mystery, but don’t expect to spend much more than $250 on this unremarkable shooter.

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We’ve got a strange feeling that digiframes are going to be relatively hot this holiday season, but maybe the sudden rash of offerings are just coincidentally launching weeks before Black Friday. Regardless of the reasons, EDGE Tech is hitting us up with a 12-inch version of its own, which features a decent 800 x 600 resolution, USB connectivity, support for AVI, BMP, JPEG, MPEG1/2/4, WAV and WMA files, and flash card inputs that play nice with SD, MMC, Memory Stick, MS Pro, CompactFlash and Microdrive. It shouldn’t shock you to hear that this piece also handles automatic slideshows and can even sing back via the integrated stereo speakers, and while there’s no option for WiFi here, it’ll only run you $129.95 after rebate.

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It’s hip enough that you have a brand new Kodak EasyShare but when the makers are offering cool accessories to match the cam, it’s hard to ignore. Kodak introduced its new M-series EasyShare cameras recently and is offering hip stuff like fashion wrist and neckstraps for its cameras. There are a variety of bead shapes and colors for the straps, including red, pink, silver and black. Each bag includes a compartment that will house the camera, plus slide-in holders for SD cards. The larger ones also sport a pocket for mobile phones. Apparently Kodak is hoping to capture the tweens for their accessories market.

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Samsung has developed the world’s first 64 Gigabit flash memory chip - using its 30-nanometer (nm)-class process technology. This flash memory device represents a major leap forward at a time of exploding demand for flash as the main storage medium in computing and multimedia applications. Sixteen 64Gb chips can be combined to make a 128 GB memory card that can store 80 DVD resolution movies, 64.000 quality JPEG images or 32,000 MP3 files. Samsung expects to begin production in 2009…

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Zeiss has introduced a new line of lenses aimed at the industrial and scientific sectors but certain to appeal to a certain section of the photographic community with their high performance and retro styling. Zeiss has chosen to release these new optics with Nikon’s F-mount as this is "the most commonly used standard camera adapter in the technical area". The first available designs will be the 25mm f/2.8, 28mm f/2 and 35mm f/2 with more to follow. Aside from the rather fetching satin chrome finish and locking screws for focus and aperture, this premium line is also sealed against dust ingress and water spray. Prices and availability have not yet been announced but don’t expect them to be cheap. Click through for a peek at the Distagon T* 2.8/25 ZF-I.

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