Pentax Plans On Handing Pink Slip To 300 Workers: Tokyo Stock Exchange - Pentax recently told its investors that over the next two years 300 jobs will be cut to compensate for losses in its digital imaging division. Pentax announced that the employee cuts as well as other reduction measures will save the camera manufacturer $1.6 million by the spring of 2007 to the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
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May 2005
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New Sensor Prevents Blinking In Digital Images: Japanese developer Masahide Kaneko have developed an image-analysis system for digital cameras that eliminate blinking. Kaneko’s system gets around the blinking problem by taking 15 frames in 0.5 seconds after the shutter button is clicked.
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LookWow Announces PC Based Image Editing Software: Today LookWow Inc., a web-based image editing service announced LookWow 3.1, the company’s first PC based product. With head shots as the main focus LookWow gives users the ability to enhance a photo. “Along with the success of our web-based service, our users have been asking for their own personal version of LookWow,” said David Kramer, Co-Founder of LookWow. He added: “We’ve a solution that gives users the ability to use LookWow anytime they choose”.
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HP’s Snapfish Dramatically Drops Prices Of Digital Prints To As Low As 10 Cents Each: HP announced today that its Snapfish online photo service is making a dramatic reduction in price by offering 4 x 6 inch prints for as low as 10 cents each. HP has announced this significant price reduction just in time for summer vacationers to take advantage of this new print cost.
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Canon Bug Erases All Images On DSLRs: Canon acknowledged that because of a bug in the EOS-1Ds Mark II and EOS-1D Mark II under “certain circumstances” causes the camera to hang and all images erased. If you shoot in JPEG+RAW mode and hit the Display button immediately after shooting, the display goes white, the camera locks up and you lose all images in the buffer.
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NHJ Releases Ultra-slim D’zign S501 Digital Camera: Today (Japan) NHJ announced the release of the new D’zign S501 ultra-slim 5.1 megapixel digital camera. The S501 is 100×53x25mm and has 16 MB of internal memory. Looks like it’s only USB 1.1 though.
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Kodak Easyshare Picture Viewer Available Soon In U.S.: Kodak has announced the credit card-sized “digital photo album” will soon be available in the US market and will retail for $149. The device stores up to 150 digital pictures and sports a 2.5-inch LCD viewing screen. By placing the viewer on the new Kodak Printer Dock, pictures can be printed in as little as 90 seconds.
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Pixort Digital Image Organizational Tool Released: Digital shooters need to archive and organize large numbers of images. Pixort has announced an affordable/free tool for reviewing, comparing, sorting and culling photographic image files. [click to continue...]
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