New digital camera, photo software, and camera accessory announcements.

Camera Bits Photo Mechanic 15th Anniversary Special Promotion

News Software

Today, Camera Bits, Inc. announced a special promotion to celebrate the company’s 15th anniversary. Photo Mechanic 4.6, the latest version of their photo workflow and editing software for professional photographers, will be available for only $60. The latest version of Photo Mechanic features geo-tagging, Live Ingest, convert RAW to DNG command, new HTML and Flash […]

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Panasonic Lumix ZS10 Pocket Superzoom Camera – 16x Zoom Lens & Touchscreen Display

News Panasonic Point and Shoot Uncategorized

  It’s starting to look like 2011 might be the year of the pocket superzoom camera. A bunch of new pocket superzooms were announced a few weeks ago at the annual CES tradeshow. Conspicuously absent from the list of new cameras was a new Lumix ZS model from Panasonic, the company that invented the pocket […]

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Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX78 Digital Camera

News Panasonic Point and Shoot

Today, Panasonic announced the Lumix DMC-FX78 compact digital camera. The Lumix DMC-FX78 features 12.1-megapixels, a Leica DC Vario-Summarit 24mm ultra-wide angle lens with 5x optical zoom, 3D Photo mode that takes 20 consecutive photos and overlays the best two, 1920 x 1080 full-HD video recording in AVCHD, a 3.5-inch Smart Touch LCD that includes Touch […]

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Panasonic Lumix TS3 Rugged Waterproof Camera – New Sensor, Full HD and GPS

News Panasonic Point and Shoot Uncategorized Underwater

  Panasonic has announced a new waterproof, shockproof point-and-shoot camera. The Panasonic Lumix TS3 replaces the TS2 as their top-of-the line rugged outdoor point-and-shoot camera. It increases the waterproof depth rating from 33 to 40 feet (12.2 m), bumps video resolution to 1920 x 1080 full HD, adds GPS and 3D shooting; and a new […]

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Samsung ST95, ST90 and ST65 Digital Cameras

News Point and Shoot Samsung

Samsung announced three new ultra-slim digital cameras, the ST95, ST90 and ST65. The 17mm slim ST95 features 16-megapixels, a 26mm wide lens with 5x optical zoom, 720p HD movie recording with H.264 codec support, a 3.0-inch touch LCD screen with Smart Touch 3.0 User Interface, Smart Auto with 16 landscape and portrait modes, Smart Filter […]

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Samsung ST6500 Digital Camera

News Point and Shoot Samsung

Samsung announced the ST6500 digital camera that features Samsung’s new curved design for a better fit in the hand. The ST30 also features 16-megapixels, a 26mm wide angle lens with 5x optical zoom, a 3.0-inch touch LCD screen with Smart Touch 3.0 User Interface, 720p HD movie recording and playback with Smart Filter 2.0 video […]

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Samsung ST30 Digital Camera

News Point and Shoot Samsung

Samsung announced the ST30 ultra compact digital camera that’s about the size of a mobile phone. The ST30 features 10.1-megapixels, a 28mm wide 3x zoom lens, Smart Auto focus, Digital Image Stabilization, Face Detection, Blink Detection, Smile Shot, Beauty Shot, Self Portrait, and Red-Eye fix. The Samsung ST30 digital camera will be available March 2011 […]

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Canon "The Story Beyond the Still” To Premiere At Sundance Film Festival

Canon Contests Events News Uncategorized

  The result of a contest-driven collaboration, Canon’s “The Story Behind The Still” short film will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in a private showing on January 23, 2011. The film will make its public debut on the Sundance Channel and Vimeo on February 7th.

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Epson Stylus Photo R3000 Printer

Epson News Printers & Printing

Epson announced the Stylus Photo R3000 13-inch printer that produces exhibition quality prints, ideal for photographers and fine artists. The Stylus Photo R3000 features UltraChrome K3 with Vivid Magenta ink technology that is a professional eight-color ink set, a MicroPiezo AMC print head, AccuPhoto HD2 image technology for smooth color transitions, four pre-set black and […]

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Nik Software Silver Efex Pro 2

News Software

Today, Nik Software announced Silver Efex Pro 2, the latest version of their black and white conversion plug-in software for Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom and Apple Aperture. The upgraded Silver Efex Pro 2 includes new features such as History Browser, Dynamic Brightness, Amplify Whites, Amplify Blacks, Fine Structure, Image Borders, Soft Contrast, and selective colorization. It […]

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Sekonic L-308DC DigiCineMate Light Meter

News Studio & Lighting

Today, Sekonic announced the new compact L-308DC DigiCineMate light meter. The L-308DC DigiCineMate features HD Cine, Cine and Photo modes for metering and exposure readings in f-stops to one-tenth step, light measuring with Lumisphere for incident light readings, Lumidisc for lighting green screens and reflected light, three custom settings, a customizable LCD,  film and digital […]

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SanDisk Extreme Pro SDHC UHS-I Memory Card

Digital Storage Memory Cards News

SanDisk announced the new Extreme Pro SDHC UHS-I memory cards, available in 8GB, 16GB and 32GB capacities. The Extreme Pro SDHC UHS-I memory cards feature up to 45MB/second read and write speeds, Power Core controller, Ultra High Speed (UHS) technology, and UHS Speed Class 1 video class rating for HD 1080p and 3D video recording […]

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2011 CES Tradeshow Final Camera Report

2011 CES Events Featured News

 The annual CES consumer electronics tradeshow took place in Las Vegas, last weekend (Jan 6-9, 2011). Besides huge 3D TV sets, game consoles, optimistic “iPad killer” tablets and smart phones, there were also a whole bunch of new cameras. I didn’t attend CES as I was at the Snowcial social networking and tech conference in […]

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Olympus XZ-1 Premium Compact Camera Preview Video

Camera Reviews Featured News Olympus Point and Shoot Videos

Olympus steps up to the premium compact camera plate with their new XZ-1 camera. The Olympus XZ-1 digital camera is designed to compete with high-end compact cameras like the Canon PowerShot G12, Nikon Coolpix P7000 and the Panasonic Lumix LX5. To do that it has a large, 1/1.63-inch 10-megapixel sensor, a 4x f/1.8 iZuiko zoom […]

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Olympus E-PL2 Hands-On Sneak Peek Video

2011 CES Camera Reviews Featured Mirrorless News Olympus Uncategorized Videos

 Olympus has announced the E-PL2, the second generation of their entry-level E-PL Pen Micro Four Thirds camera. They sent me an E-PL2 a few days ago so I could get to know it and post a hands-on intro when it was announced. Compared to last year’s E-PL1, the Olympus E-PL2 is more of a refinement […]

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