The digital SLR market is getting crowded with Samsung joining in the fray. The Korean company’s 6-megapixel GX1S DLSR is the company’s first attempt in the DSLR market, albeit with some help from Pentax. The generous 2.5” 210k pixel TFT color LCD screen powered by Pentaprism technology is a boon to any serious photograph enthusiast. It is relatively light at 0.5kg. Expect the Samsung GX-1S to begin shipping next month, although pricing details have not yet been released. (
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Mobile Whack
Between a car and a camera, which would gain the attention of your dollars? Hasselblad presents the world’s first 39 megapixel digital SLR camera, presumably powered by Kodak’s CCD. This medium format H2D-39 comes with a 2.2” OLED display, color-correction technology, and supports tethered hard drives, considering each picture is around 78MB in size on average. The H2D costs around $31,000, and for that kind of cash you can easily purchase a BMW to travel in style and luxury.Via Mobile Mag
Samsung Techwin, an offshoot of the vast Samsung empire, has released their new digital camera with portable media player functions. This 6 megapixel camera comes with 45MB of built-in memory and supports a variety of video and audio formats including MP3 files. Coupled with a sleek design, this 18.5mm slim camera looks set to take the consumer digital electronics world by storm when released before the year is over. Via
Akihabara News
The new Samsung ‘S’ series of digital cameras come in 5, 6, or 8 megapixel variants with a miserly choice of colors to choose from – silver or black. All ‘S’ series cameras are equipped with the Friendly Effect Key that allows the user to adjust the color of the photos taken in addition to creating visual effects such as split screens. It can also record video in VGA resolution @ 30fps. Less than 10cm wide and 26.4mm thick, the ‘S’ series of cameras look pretty much like any other ordinary newbie cameras. Via
AVING.net
SAN JOSE, Calif.--Jan. 9, 2006--Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today introduced the public beta of Adobe(R) Lightroom(TM), an all-new digital imaging solution for professional photographers. With its modular, task-based and streamlined environment, Lightroom's goal is to deliver a complete photography workflow. As Adobe collects more feedback from photographers, modules and feature sets will likely change, as customers decide on their popularity and priority within digital photography workflows. Initially available as a beta for Macintosh, Lightroom will later support both the Windows(R) and Macintosh platforms.
We were very excited when this camcorder came out in Japan, but we finally got our hands on a Xacti HD1. A year ago, we did not believe that we would get a compact HD camcorder that soon. The device is a bit bulkier than previous models, but it feels solid and the manufacturing quality is high. This camcorder can shoot 720p (1280x720) videos but can also snap 5 Megapixel photos, thanks to its 5.36 Megapixel image sensor that works along with an image stabilizer that should help videos and still images to be crisper. The videos are recorded in MPEG4 at a maximum bitrate (quantity of data per frame) of 9Mbs. While we played with it, we noticed how the OLED display was refreshing quickly, it was impressive. Did we tell you that one could snap a photo while filming in HD? We would have liked to test it in a controlled environment, but that’s for another time. Retail Price: $799, when it launches at the end of March 2006.
