Samsung has the desire to be one of the front runners in the digital camera market. With Sony directly in their sights Samsung’s line of digital cameras in particlular the Digimax V700 according to Trusted Review is a “good camera” at a very resonable price. In fact Trusted Review shared that the Digimax V700’s competitors, the Sony DSC-P200 and the Olympus C-70Z are driven by electronic components made by Samsung.
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From the monthly archives:
April 2005
In 2003 Canon’s Rebel EOS-300D forever changed and raised the standards of the DSLR market. Since then others like Nikon have been wooing consumers with strong competition like the Nikon D70. With the release of Canon’s Digital Rebel XT they have once again raised the bar and set the pace in the DSLR market.
The new Rebel XT is not only smaller and faster it has several new features the folks at DCViews take great care in pointing out.
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Imaging resource has updated their March review of the 7.1 megapixel Olympus C7070 Wide Zoom*. Imaging resource indicates they liked the protoype C7070 but now after getting their hands on the production model they share their positive impressions.
*Super wide angle lens, with 4x optical zoom, equivalent to a 27-110mm lens on a 35mm camera.
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PicScout Ltd and Digimarc Corp Press Release
PicScout and Digimarc Partner to Enhance Image Tracking Combined offering to deliver dramatic improvements in image monitoring on the Internet.
[PicScout Web site]
[Digimarc Web site]
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Even though Sony reported fourth quarter losses they polished off the year with net profits totaling US$1.5, soaring to more than double the electronic heavy hitters reported 2004 earnings. Sony indicated sales in the digital camera, flat panel TV and SCD rear projection areas have been positive. They also indicated sales have hit the skids in the CRT television and portable audio markets. Opting on the safe side Sony expects net profit for the 2006 to decline because of company restructuring.
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Z-Cyber recognized that photographers around the world did not like carring around extra memory cards to store all those digital images. They have provided an answer to the solution with the Zling Photo-Wallet Storage device. The Zling Photo-Wallet is small, palm-sized, self-powered, portable storage device, designed to provide the digital camera user with a quick means of unloading, uploading, or coping all the pictures/video/MP3s and other data, stored on camera memory cards…on location. Once uploaded to the Zling Photo-Wallet, the memory card can be erased and is once again ready for use in the camera.
[Z-Cyber Web site]
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Samsung has introduced the advanced SPP-2040-2020 Dye Diffusion Thermal Transfer photo printer. Samsung indicates you can quickly print a picture taken with a digital camera without using a PC. The SPP accepts memory cards directly from the digital camera. Through the use of D2T2 “Dye Diffusion Thermal Transfer,” Samsungs new printer provides a quality of print that matches professional photo shop prints.
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Newcomers to the digital camera market Sweex announce a new model the DC6020. The DC6020 has a native resolution of 3.3 mega-pixels (or 6 interpolated mega-pixels), has 2x optical and 2x digital zoom, records video at 320×240 resolution, has a 1.5 inch LTPS TFT screen, and comes with 16MB of onboard memory. It takes its memory in the form of SSD and MMC cards and runs off a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, hooking up to your machine with USB 1.1.
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