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Article | 23/05/2012 Canon to give away 25 EOS cameras to celebrate the iconic camera's 25th birthday
Canon is celebrating the birthday of its iconic EOS SLR range by giving away $25000 worth of cameras -- or 25 EOS cameras.
Article | 23/05/2012 FujiFilm camera design to withstand water, shock, dust, freezing temperatures
FujiFilm said Wednesday it will begin sales of a digital camera in June that is waterproof, shockproof, sealed against dust and sand, and works at tem...
Article | 10/05/2012 Turn your Instagram photos into works of art on canvas
Dreami of hanging your Instagram photos in your living room? A new service will allow you to do just that, printing your best snapshots on "museum-qua...
Article | 22/03/2012 Toshiba to launch camera SD cards with Wi-Fi file sharing in U.S. from summer
Toshiba will launch its new line of Wi-Fi enabled SD memory cards in the U.S. from summer, a company executive said Thursday, in a challenge to establ...
Article | 19/01/2012 Eastman Kodak files for Chapter 11 of U.S. bankruptcy code
Struggling Eastman Kodak said Thursday that it and its U.S. subsidiaries have filed for Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code to reorganize its busin...
Article | 11/01/2012 Polaroid to launch Android-powered Smart Camera with phone
Polaroid finds the whole concept of a "camera-phone" a bit insulting. So it is launching a phone-camera, an Android-driven Smart Camera that is mainly...
Article | 10/01/2012 One last Kodak moment? Kodak intros Wi-Fi and hybrid cameras
Kodak has certainly seen better days in its impressive 131-year history; by now, you've probably heard the rumors that the company has fallen on hard ...
Article | 10/01/2012 Canon PowerShot G1 X: new king of fixed-lens cameras?
It was going to be hard for any camera, G-series successor or otherwise, to top the Canon PowerShot G12. However, Canon may have just shot the moon wi...
Article | 1/11/2011 Thai floods hit Q4 hard drive production, says research firm
The devastating floods in Thailand will cause a 28 percent quarter-on-quarter drop in hard disk drive (HDD) production in the fourth quarter, potentia...
Article | 21/10/2011 Hands on with the Lytro light-field camera
Earlier this year, camera start-up Lytro provided an enticing sneak peek of what their first product could do. Using a light-field sensor -- the likes...
Article | 20/10/2011 Sony delays new camera launch due to Thai flooding
Sony said Thursday it has been forced to postpone the launch of a new camera and cut production of another because a factory in Thailand has been affe...
Article | 6/08/2011 New OmniVision Sensor Makes Phone Cameras Even Smaller
OmniVision is making camera phones even smaller -- again. This time the mobile camera sensor maker is promising an quarter-inch, 8-megapixel OV8850 CM...
Article | 1/07/2011 Ricoh to acquire Pentax, set sights on digital SLR market
Japan's Ricoh plans to acquire Pentax as part of a push to get into the digital single-lens reflex camera market, it said Friday.
Article | 24/06/2011 Nokia's first Windows Phone codenamed 'Sea Ray' surfaces
Nokia has shown its first Windows Phone to the world, perhaps by accident.
Article | 23/06/2011 Camera start-up Lytro promises to revolutionise photography
With a new kind of camera, Lytro wants to remove the headaches of focus from digital photography.