Monthly Archives: August 2008

Aug
30
2008

Photokina Action

One can tell that Photokina, the CES of camera shows, is upcoming in Cologne Germany in mid-September. There is a proliferation of new camera announcements - particularly in the ultra competitive digital SLR business. Early this Spring, this site featured a story on the new digital SLRs. Yet already there are new cameras coming [...]

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Aug
29
2008

The Video SLR

For the past few years I have been arguing that still and videos cameras are converging. Casio’s EX-F1 is currently the best example of that convergence. The Casio EX-F1 delivers 5 modes of still picture taking including auto-bracketing in four modes, multiple exposures from 2 to 60 frames per second, motion sensor triggered [...]

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Aug
16
2008

The Media Notebook

Lenovo has launched the latest and most power packed graphics notebook this August - go to DPReview.com for all the details. What is notable is that this machine acknowledges that graphics processing is now driving PC development.
Look at all the graphics goodies - 17″ Hi-resolution, high gamut WUXA screen, NVidia 3700 with 1GB of [...]

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