DPNow has published an interview with Toshiyuki Terada, SLR Product Planner Chief at Olympus. Main takeaways are that Olympus is positioning the mFT PEN Digital as just another step up from P&S to the Four Thirds E-system DSLR, future DSLRs will feature HD video and Olympus is working on improving continuous AF on the PEN digital cameras.
Read the interview at: DPNow.
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX5V
“A camera that makes few excuses [and] is a great traveling companion.”
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Imaging Resource has published their review of the Sony DSC-HX5V, a 10.2MP resolution (1/2.4-in. “Exmor R” CMOS Sensor) ultra zoom digital camera with 10x ultra wide-angle optical zoom (25-250mm equiv.), GPS + Compass and Optical SteadyShot™ with Active Mode technologies, 3.0-in. LCD (230k-dot), iAuto, P, M, Easy Shooting, iSCN, in-camera High Dynamic Range (HDR), Intelligent Sweep Panorama, Dynamic Range Optimizer, Continuous Shooting 10fps (10.2MP full resolution), Handheld Twilight Mode, Smile Shutter Technology, Anti-Motion Blur Mode, Self-Portrait Timer, Anti-blink Function, and Full HD Movie 1920 x 1080 AVCHD at 60i in 17Mbps.
You can read the full Sony HX5V Review at: Imaging Resource.
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| Date | Camera | Review Site |
|---|---|---|
| >> Reviews Matrix (All the best reviews on one convenient page.) | ||
| 2010-06-28 | Sony HX5V | LetsGoDigital |
| 2010-05-19 | Sony HX5V | Luminous Landscape |
| 2010-04-06 | Sony HX5V | PhotographyBLOG |
| 2010-04-03 | Sony HX5V | DCRP (dcresource) |
| 2010-03-30 | Sony HX5V | TrustedReviews |
| 2010-03-23 | Sony HX5V | Camera Labs |
| 2010-03-18 | Sony HX5V | Imaging Resource |
| 2010-01-06 | Sony HX5V and TX7 | Press Release |
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This scanner has a Super Vision Chip that can read and accurately scan flipping pages (text and images) faster than the human eye can read the fast-moving pages. In the video above, the book is simply hand held under the scanner lens, then quickly flipped while the scanner captures the content on the flipping pages. I guess Google’s book scanning project is going to speed up exponentially now.
[ via IEEE ]
There’s nothing wrong with ads… as long as they are entertaining and especially funny. When one picture can say more than a thousand creative words and tickle your funny bone at the same time, you know you have a winner. A creative and funny ad wins customer good will and forever associates the brand with a warm fuzzy feeling.
Here are a couple of camera-related ads that have won awards (click on any picture for a slide show):
Canon's Image Stabilizer
It just goes to show that men are as talkative as women. Men are just not as voluble, preferring to “speak” their minds in print form.
Read the article at: Globe and Mail.
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This year, a Chinese dissident and a Russian human rights advocate — recent nominees for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize — are joined by an unlikely, nonhuman contender: the Internet.
A campaign to nominate the web, first put forth by the editors of Wired Italy, proclaims that the internet has “laid the foundations for a new kind of society,” in which massive interpersonal contact fosters consensus and understanding.
Read the full article at: Wired.
It turns out that when it comes to trees, a millenium is nothing. Wired Science has a gallery of some of the oldest living trees on the planet.
Read the article and view the gallery at: Wired Science.
Is all that money spent on outer space exploration justified? It costs millions, no billions, to send the shuttle into space, to maintain the International Space Station, to send probes to Mars and the other planets for scientific studies, etc. Some critics say it’s all money wasted.
Ah, but what if we discovered life on other planets? According to Jim Kasting, the chair of NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program Analysis Group, other Earths may be quite common though we have not seen any yet. Why? Because stars are very bright and planets are very dim. Telescopes with very wide apertures (8m, which is more than three times bigger than that of the the Hubble telescope), called Terrestrial Planet Finders (TPFs), are what we need…
Read the article at: Toronto Star.
