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...
Archive - 2010-03-18
Sony HX5V Review @ Imaging Resource
“A camera that makes few excuses [and] is a great traveling companion.” We’ve added a new Sony DSC-HX5V [QuickPrice Check] Review to our Reviews Matrix. Imaging Resource has published their review of...
Amazing Book-Flipping Scanner
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...
Creative Camera Ads
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...
If Women Speak More Than Men, Why Do Men Blog More Than Women?
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. Share on Bluesky (Opens in new...
And the Nobel Peace Prize Goes To… The Internet
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...
How old can a living thing be? How about 80,000 years?
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. Share on Bluesky...
Earth Calling Earth: Are You There?
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...
Canon IXUS 210 / SD3500 IS Review @ PhotographyBLOG
“The IXUS 210 is fun and surprisingly intuitive to use given its almost complete reliance on the well-thought-out touch-screen control system…. The ability to focus on your subject simply by tapping the...
Google’s Next Frontier: Internet TV
Just what is Google up to? Is it a search engine or is it more? It hopped onto email with Gmail [competitor: Microsoft Hotmail, Yahoo! mail], dabbled in mobile technology with Android [competitor: Apple iPhone], created...
Olympus TOUGH 8010 Hands-on Preview @ PhotographyReview
PhotographyReview has published their hands-on preview of the Olympus TOUGH 8010 [Specs], an ultra compact perfect for those with an active lifestyle and featuring 14MP resolution (on a 1/2.3-in. CCD), 5x wide-angle...
Is this the beginning of the end for Flash?
The Apple iPad does not support Adobe Flash which, according to Adobe, runs on 85% of all Web sites and which powers most of the cool animation and videos you encounter on the Internet. Apple claims that Flash is too...
Interview of Hidenori Toyoda of Sony Japan @ Focus Numérique
Focus Numérique has interviewed Hidenori Toyoda, Head of Marketing for Image & Sound at Sony Japan. Main extracts: – The new compact alpha DSLR will use the Exmor CMOS APS HD and shoot video HDTV 1080...
Ricoh Posts GXR Firmware Update Ver1.07
Ricoh has posted their first firmware update for the GXR units A12 and S10. This firmware update addresses various AF issues and improvements. Download the firmware update at: Ricoh. Share on Bluesky (Opens in new...
And now… the Malvertising Virus
Avast Antivirus is reporting a virus that targets display advertisement. Javascript code in the malware runs as soon as the ad displays on your screen and does not require you to click on the ad. Dubbed a malvertising...
Glitch in Canon 5D Mark II Firmware Upgrade 2.0.3
Canon has admitted a malfunction that occurs with Firmware Version 2.0.3, in which the manual recording levels for C1/C2/C3 are changed and the camera becomes unable to record audio if the power is turned off (or if...