NEWS CATEGORIES:



NEWS ARCHIVE >>
SOFTPEDIA REVIEWS >>
MEET THE EDITORS >>
Home / News / Tags / digital photography

Stories about: digital photography


More: next 50 >>

Lexar Media Intros New Professional CF 600x Memory Cards

Lexar Media is a world renowned vendor of memory products, including memory cards for professional users and high-performance, NAND Flash-based storage solutions such as USB sticks. On that note, the company has just announced the debut of its new Lexar Professional 600x CompactFlash (CF) card, a storage solution aim...

20 October 2009
11:07 GMT

Nikon Unveils Its Long-Rumored D3X DSLR Camera

We've been hearing rumors regarding Nikon's D3X, the successor to the company's famous (and very successful) D3 model, for the past couple of weeks, but it would seem that this "mystery" DSLR has finally become official, Nikon officially announcing its availability just in time for photographers to mak...

1 December 2008
05:21 GMT

Skyla Memoir, a Digital Photo Frame with Built-In Scanner

The concept of digital photo frame has become quite widespread and popular over the past couple of years, since most people have already replaced their old film cameras with digital ones. However, what is there to do with all those old photos taken over time? Simply forget them in some dusty old scrapbook or photo al...

18 November 2008
02:00 GMT

ViewSonic Intros Two 8-Inch, Touchscreen-Controlled Digital Photo Frames

Since the Christmas shopping spree is almost here, consumer electronics manufacturers from all around the world are scrambling to come up with certain products that will still manage to draw the customers' attention, despite their desire to spend less on gifts this year. And that's also the case with ViewSo...

11 November 2008
04:45 GMT

New Sanyo ALBO Digital Frame Is Retro, Supports Wi-Fi, Infrared

Digital photo frames are a relatively "young" concept, but since the market is already filled-up with such products, manufacturers are trying to diversify their approach to this segment in order to make their offer more attractive. And that's also the case with Sanyo's latest announcement, the HNV-M70 ALBO ...

28 October 2008
16:01 GMT

Sony Adds 10-Inch and 8-Inch Models to S-Frame Series of Digital Photo Frames

While Sony's experience in the field of digital photo frames is not a particularly vast one, the Japanese company has got all it takes to roll out some pretty high-end and, much like all Sony products, expensive products of this type. Now, that's not necessarily the case with the latest addition to Sony...

24 October 2008
16:01 GMT

Turn Your Video-Capable DSLR Into a Full-Fledged High-Definition Camera

It would seem that, with the arrival of the Nikon D90 and the Canon 5D Mark II, the world's most important manufacturers of Digital Single-Lens Reflex cameras have ushered in the age of high-end digital cameras that can also shoot high-definition videos. However, while having their merits, the videos shot with D...

24 October 2008
16:01 GMT

Parrot's New Specchio Digital Photo Frame Doubles as Mirror When Switched Off

Since the competition on the digital photo frame market has reached some pretty high levels (although the actual sales are not exactly as high as some of the manufacturers might have expected), the only way in which one device can differentiate itself from all of its other competitors is to provide some unique elemen...

24 October 2008
02:26 GMT

James Bond Goes Digital: the Minox Digital SpyCam

Remember all those spy movies in which secret agents used to take quick photos of top-secret documents with some ultra-small cameras, often disguised within some type of mundane object? Well, at least part of those devices were Minox, a brand of ultra-small photo cameras that have been used both on set and in real li...

20 October 2008
08:22 GMT

Digital Foci Rolls Out Image Moments 6 Digital Photo Frame

The popularity of digital photo frames has literally skyrocketed over the past couple of years and for this reason we shouldn't really be surprised by the huge number of such products that arrived on the market during this period of time. Moreover, pretty much each new model is touted by its manufacturers to be ...

7 October 2008
03:53 GMT

Photo Viewing in HD Made Easy: the HDMI 1080P Digital Photo Viewer

Digital cameras, even the advanced amateur or semi-pro ones, have reached such a level of quality that they can shoot photos which look simply amazing, especially when in the hands of a skilled photographer. However, viewing the respective photos on a HDTV's screen might prove a bit tricky, since users have to s...

3 October 2008
11:01 GMT

Fujifilm Intros Four New SD Cards, Including 16GB SDHC

It's quite a well-known fact that modern digital cameras are now capable of taking shots at very high resolutions (which, unfortunately, occupy quite a hefty amount of space), while camcorders capable of shooting in High Definition and storing the videos onto flash memory cards are already pretty mainstream. Tha...

30 September 2008
01:43 GMT

Store and Access Your Digital Photos at Warp Speed

Although memory cards have reached impressive sizes nowadays, they can still prove not to be enough for some photographers, who take thousands of shots at maximum resolution during a single session. And if the respective session happens to be somewhere in the wild, a portable photo storage solution could be the thing...

29 September 2008
02:17 GMT

Lexar Pushes Speed Of Its CF Cards to 233X

It looks like Lexar has had quite a lot of surprises in store for this year's Photokina. After announcing the launch of a Kodak-branded SDHC card and adopting Eye-Fi technology for one of its own cards a short while ago, the flash memory manufacturer has just announced a significant improvement to its Profession...

24 September 2008
15:21 GMT

Lensbaby Lenses Can Be Bent, Help Photographers Be More Creative

The Lensbaby company (formerly known as Lensbabies) launched a couple of years ago a series of creative, bendable "distorting" lenses, which were targeting mainly those people closely interested in special-effect photography. However, after two years of providing pretty much the same lineup, the company decided ...

23 September 2008
16:51 GMT

Fujifilm Ushers in 3-Dimensional Digital Photography

The possibility of shooting, viewing and printing photos in 3 dimensions might have seemed like stuff taken out of SF movies up until now, but the truth of the matter is that this concept is a lot closer to reality than we think. And that's because Fujifilm has just introduced at Photokina a very innovative real...

23 September 2008
11:51 GMT

Samsung Briefly Teases Us with 10x Zoom HZ1 Compact Camera

Since every major name on the digital photography market is launching (or has already launched) a new product for this year's Photokina, it was expected from Samsung to do the same. However, the Korean company's announcement is not exactly a fantastic one. No, we're not talking about some megapixel-bur...

23 September 2008
10:50 GMT

Firmware Update Doubles Transfer Speeds of Eye-Fi Wireless Memory Cards

We've recently informed you that Eye-Fi had entered a partnership with Lexar, the latter adopting the former's wireless technology for one of its own cards. However, that hasn't stopped Eye-Fi from updating its offerings, and the company has just announced at Photokina that it will make some enhancemen...

23 September 2008
10:22 GMT

SmartParts Introduces World's Largest WiFi Digital Photo Frame

It's not the first time SmartParts introduces a very wide digital photo frame, but it would seem that the company has taken things a bit too far this time. And that's because the newly announced SP3200WF model has a diagonal size of no less than 32 inches, which makes it larger than most PC monitors or even...

23 September 2008
06:28 GMT

Leica Crams a Whopping 37.5 Megapixels in S2 Professional DSLR Camera

Although it has introduced several new cameras and lenses and it has also updated an older model before the actual start of Photokina, it would seem that German company Leica still had one heck of a "rabbit" in its magic hat. And that's because the high-end digital camera manufacturer has just shed light on its ...

23 September 2008
05:21 GMT

Pentax Introduces K-m (K2000) Entry-Level DSLR Camera

Over the past few weeks, you've been able to see just what some of the biggest names in digital photography have planned for this year's Photokina show. However, one name was missing (Pentax), but it seems that the company's not about to let this major event go by without launching a new product, so th...

22 September 2008
04:32 GMT

Meet SX1 IS, First Canon PowerShot to Feature a CMOS Sensor

We've talked on several occasions about Canon's rather unusual habit of making a large number of announcements in single day, followed by long periods of inactivity. And, once again, the company has proved that old habits die hard, since it came up with a very large number of cameras, targeting various mark...

17 September 2008
15:51 GMT

Canon Releases Two New Digital ELPH Cameras, the PowerShot SD990 IS and SD880 IS

Even if the "cherry" on today's cake of announcements from Canon was represented by the EOS 5D Mark II, the company has also unveiled several other devices, targeting, however, other market segments. Two of these products are the PowerShot SD990 IS and the SD880 IS compact digital cameras, which combine a fashio...

17 September 2008
13:11 GMT

Canon Adds New G10 Bridge Camera to PowerShot G-series

The old saying "When it rains, it pours" seems to be one of Canon's favorite mottos, since the company doesn't really feel "content" until it floods the market with a large number of products, all in one day. And that's exactly what happened today, when Canon rolled out quite a few interesting cameras ...

17 September 2008
05:33 GMT

Canon Finally Launches the Full-Frame EOS 5D Mark II DSLR Camera

Ever since Canon's EOS 5D arrived on the market back in 2005 and proved its worth, photographers have been waiting to see what its successor would look like and what innovative features it would provide users with. And now, the company has finally decided to put an end to all that waiting and officially announce...

17 September 2008
03:11 GMT

Leica Updates M8 Digital Rangefinder Camera with M8.2 Version

Leica's digital cameras are quite well-known for their very high level of quality (after all, they're handmade in Germany), but also for their extremely high price tags. And that's also the case with one of the latest models released by the company, namely the M8.2 rangefinder, which adds a few interes...

16 September 2008
15:01 GMT

Leica Announces D-LUX 4 and C-LUX 3 Compact Digital Cameras

Leica has been a household name in optics and photography for many years, so it's no wonder that, just like most of the other major players in the industry, it is preparing its "bag of goodies" for Photokina. Over the past few days, the company has made quite a lot of announcements, one of the most interesting b...

16 September 2008
08:01 GMT

Leica Unveils World's Fastest Aspherical Lens, Three Other Prime Lenses

Everyone knows only too well that Leica is more of a luxury brand, providing high-end products especially for those for whom money isn't exactly an object. And that's also the case with the latest few lenses released by the company, which provide some top-of-the-range features, but at the same time sell for...

16 September 2008
05:46 GMT

Casio Rolls Out the Speedy Exilim EX-FH20 Digital Camera

Since one of the most important annual events in digital photography, Photokina, is just around the corner, the biggest names in this particular segment are coming out with all sorts of new models or updates to previous ones. We've already seen Panasonic, Sony and Canon do it, and now Casio has also come up with...

16 September 2008
02:48 GMT

ATP's GPS PhotoFinder mini Makes Geo-Tagging Easy

Geo-tagging has become quite popular nowadays, since it allows users to create "photo-routes" of their journeys, and at the same time it enables them to share the exact geographic locations where they've taken certain photos. Several devices that help photographers attach precise latitude and longitude values to...

3 September 2008
07:11 GMT

Canon Takes Wrapps Off Four New PowerShot Compact Digital Cameras

It's not the first time that Canon chooses one particular day for launching a huge number of products, and the company seems to have done it again. Thus, beside the EOS 50D DSLR, Canon has also introduced four new PowerShot compact digital cameras, namely the PowerShot A1000 IS, A2000 IS and SX110 IS, as well as...

26 August 2008
13:26 GMT

Canon Launches the EOS 50D DSLR Camera

Rumors regarding the EOS 50D have been "floating" around the Internet for quite a while now, the most important confirmation being a more or less "accidental" leak on Canon's Chinese website, a few days ago. However, Canon has finally decided to put an end to speculations and officially announced the launch of E...

26 August 2008
04:18 GMT

The New Olympus Stylus 1050 SW Can Be Controlled Just by Tapping It

Compact digital cameras equipped with touchscreen displays are not exactly something very new, but what happens when the amateur photographer is trying to shoot something in very difficult conditions (as for example, in winter, while wearing gloves)? Generally, the results are less than satisfactory, but that will ce...

25 August 2008
14:31 GMT

Casio's New Exilim Cameras Let You Apply Make-Up to People's Faces

Looks like the digital camera manufacturers are quite keen on rendering Adobe Photoshop obsolete, at least at the mainstream consumer level, since more and more companies are including in their products all sorts of advanced image processing technologies. These technologies are meant to produce very clear images, whi...

20 August 2008
08:46 GMT

Sony Unveils the Super-Slim, Colorful Cyber-shot T77 and Cyber-shot T700 Digital Cameras

Although the summer holiday season is almost over (unfortunately), it would seem that various manufacturers of digital cameras are decided to keep our interest levels up. So, following Nikon's announcement regarding the P6000, Sony has also unveiled two new Cyber-shot models, the T77 and the T700, designed espec...

8 August 2008
03:22 GMT

Nikon Embeds GPS and Ethernet Modules in New COOLPIX Series Flagship, the P6000

Following some more or less disappointing financial results for Q1 posted yesterday, the Japanese company Nikon has decided that it's about time to boost its sales and launched no less than 6 new models, most of them targeting especially mainstream photographers. The new digital cameras are all members of the CO...

7 August 2008
09:01 GMT

Ricoh's GX200 Digital Camera Brings 12 Megapixel CCD and Other Goodies

Ricoh's Caplio GX100 digital camera was never a simple "point and shoot" device, as it incorporated a few features that really differentiated it from the rest of consumer-level digital cameras. And since this model was getting kinda old (it was launched around 1 year ago), the company has decided that it was abo...

24 June 2008
08:34 GMT

Mio Launches GPS Navigation Device with Built-In Digital Camera

As you've been able to read in our review of one of the devices from the Moov series, the Moov 330 Europe, one of the most important technologies included in the new devices from Mio is NavPix, which allows users to navigate through... photos. And in order to take full advantage of this technology, the company h...

5 June 2008
07:56 GMT

cenOmax Intros Ultra-Portable Digital Photo Frame

"Ultraportable" seems to be just about the most popular design concept in electronics nowadays, probably due to the fact that users tend to spend a lot more time on the road and require small and lightweight devices, which they can carry around just about everywhere they might go. And that's exactly the case wit...

5 June 2008
02:04 GMT

Asus' UFOTO UF735 Digital Photo Frame Doubles as a Secondary PC Display

You might say that digital photo frames have already become mainstream and they've gone beyond the level of cool novelty. You're probably right, but the fact of the matter is that we still see some pretty interesting and innovative releases in this field, much like the UFOTO UF735 Digital Photo Frame from A...

2 June 2008
02:00 GMT

Introducing Microsoft's ShutterSpeed

Microsoft's ShutterSpeed is a show focused on digital imaging and photography offered through Channel 10. An initiative aimed mainly at enthusiast and hobbyist photographers, ShutterSpeed will deal with a variety of aspects from basic photographic principles to the equipment needed and even to storage, sharing a...

19 May 2008
05:55 GMT

12,616-Lens Digital Camera to Take 3D Photography to the Next Level

Film fans might remember cameras with two, three and even four lenses (like the Nishika N8000) that gave photographers the possibility to create the so-called 3-D images, and while software is also used with today's digital cameras to create such images, the latest invention from a team of Standford researchers ...

25 March 2008
07:41 GMT

Pandigital's Kitchen HDTV/Digital Cookbook/Digital Photo Frame Is One Cooky Device

The kitchen has been the busiest place in any home for hundreds of years, so it's no wonder that all sorts of more or less useful and more or less crazy gadgets designed particularly for this space have recently hit the shelves. And one such product is Pandigital's Kitchen HDTV/Digital Cookbook/Digital Phot...

14 March 2008
09:56 GMT

CeBIT 2008: Liquid Image, the Underwater Goggles with Built-In Digital Camera

Underwater pictures are a dream for quite a lot of digital photographers, but also one of the most interesting memories one can bring back home after a scuba-diving holiday. However, most people are not looking for a high-quality, noise-free photos, so they'll be quite happy with the device you're about to ...

12 March 2008
05:31 GMT

Kingston Also Rolls Out a New SDHC, "Just" 16 GB Though

Since all modern digital cameras require a memory card for storing photos, memory card manufacturers are also tightly connected to the digital photo industry and thus to PMA2008. So, it's actually no wonder that some of the respective companies, including here the people over at Kingston, used this opportunity i...

1 February 2008
13:41 GMT

SanDisk Boosts SDHC Lineup, Reaches 32 GB, 50 Percent Faster Access Speeds

Every major name in the industry (well, at least from those segments related to digital photography) is making some sort of announcement nowadays, as they can't simply leave PMA2008 go by without taking advantage of this golden marketing opportunity. And one of the latest to join this announcement frenzy is SanD...

1 February 2008
02:10 GMT

Sony Throws Two New Digital Photo Printers Out Into the Wild

Looks like Sony's on yet another release "frenzy", as it keeps pumping out various digital photography-related products almost on a daily basis. And among all sorts of new cameras, digital photo frames, etc., the Japanese company has also rolled out two new portable digital photo printers, which allow users to p...

31 January 2008
12:46 GMT

Sony Goes Into the Digital Photo Frame Business with Three "S-Frame" Models

As you might know from several of our previous articles on the subject, Sony has come up with quite a few surprises for this year's CES and PMA. However, it would seem that the Japanese company is not happy with simply allowing users to take very high quality photos, but it's keen on getting into just about...

31 January 2008
02:04 GMT

Transcend Rolls Out a 32GB 133X CompactFlash Card

Although most professional photographers would rather pack several 4 GB CF memory cards than a single, large capacity model (for fear of possible breakdowns), the most important manufacturers of such storage products keep pumping larger and larger versions on the market, probably in a competition among themselves rat...

21 January 2008
13:06 GMT

JOBO Unveils Massive Lineup for PMA 2008

Although PMA 2008 (PhotoMarket Association's International Trade Show) is scheduled to start in around two weeks' time, some of the exhibitors have already started to make several announcements regarding what visitors should expect upon entering their booths. And that's also the case with JOBO who'...

16 January 2008
11:36 GMT


More: next 50 >>

Windows tabGames tabDrivers tabMac tabLinux tabScripts tabMobile tabHandheld tabGadgets tabNews tab

SUBMIT PROGRAM   |   ADVERTISE   |   GET HELP   |   SEND US FEEDBACK   |   RSS FEEDS   |   ENTER NEWS SITE   |   ENGLISH BOARD   |   ROMANIAN FORUM