The Polaroid Z340 Camera from Photojojo is a new twist on instant cameras. Just like the old Polaroids that spit out self-developing photographs, the new Z340 camera can produce 3″ X 4″ instant prints on special smudge- and water-proof, tear-resistant ZINK photo paper. What’s different about this Polaroid is that it’s a 14MP digital camera [...]
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So……..what does a 46 year young man do when he’s given a Drift Innovations HD Action Extreme Sports camera to review? You know the ones, you’ve seen the videos of the guys in the California X Games doing motorcycle or skateboard jumps and flips, or the guys skydiving or……. Well the mind might be willing but [...]
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Lytro has up for preorder their Light Field Camera. “Unlike a conventional camera that captures a single plane of light, the Lytro camera captures the entire light field, which is all the light traveling in every direction in every point in space. Since you’ll capture the color, intensity, and direction of all the light, you [...]
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While the GoPro Hero has been the defacto go to wearable camera for extreme sport photographers, Swann has just released an alternative in their Freestyle HD. Specifications include: Detachable LCD viewer 3 X Digital Zoom Waterproof up to 65′ 1080 HD Video at 30 fps 8 MP still in single-shot or rapid fire Wireless remote [...]
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GoPro has just announced its new HD Hero2 camera. Twice as powerful as the original Hero, it now supports 1080p HD video and 11 megapixel photos. It has a newly designed 170º wide angle lens and is capable of snapping 10 photos per second. The GoPros are the camera of choice for adventurers and extreme sports fanatics due [...]
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If you’re like me you love 360° panoramic pictures, but trying to get a good one is hampered by having to be very precise with overlapping, lighting and other factors. Using 36 fixed focus 2 megapixel Camera modules and an accelerometer used to measure launch acceleration, the Panoramic Ball captures a full spherical panoramic view at [...]
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The new Samsung NX200 camera combines a powerful 20.3MP CMOS image sensor with a small package. The NX200 body is only 4.6″ wide X 2.5″ tall X 1.44″ deep. It comes with the 18-55mm lens and the flash unit shown in the picture. The Samsung NX lens uses single AF, continuous AF, and manual focus. [...]
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Kodak has released a waterproof version of their Playfull. Capable of 720p HD, waterproof to 10 feet for up to 2 hours and small enough to fit into a pocket or purse its capable of recording up to 10 hours of HD video with expandable SD/SDHC card slot. Standard is 2.0 inch LCD screen, digital image [...]
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Samsung‘s new MultiView MV800 camera has a 3-inch LCD flip-out touchscreen display that can be angled from 0 – 180 degrees. You’ll be able to take pictures from eye level or waist height by angling the view screen, or flip it completely up so you can see to take perfectly- framed self-portraits. The MV800 has [...]
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Here’s another camera for your espionage games or nanny surveillance. This HC-GUM Covert Gum Stick Camera/DVR from Smarthome looks like an old-style pack of Wrigley’s Doublemint gum – if you don’t look too closely. (They have the look right, but for some reason it’s marked with “Dangerous Material” and described as a lighter.) It takes still [...]
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Hammacher Schlemmer calls this the World’s Smallest Camera, and they’re probably right. This camera is so small, it looks like you might have gotten it from a gum ball machine, but it is a working auto-focus 2MP camera. It captures still photos as JPEGs at 1600 x 1200 resolution and captures AVI video at 30 [...]
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When I first saw this cute little Necono Digital Camera, I thought it would make a good gift for a kid. The camera looks like a cat from a book by Lisa Larson, and it’s a very simplified camera without even a viewfinder. It can take still photos and video, but you won’t know what [...]
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If your ongoing quest to prove the existence of Bigfoot has always been thwarted by his irritating use of the cover of night, ThinkGeek‘s new camera might be for you. The Midnight Shot NV-1 touts just 5 megapixels–but when was the last time your fancy Nikon or Canon was able to take a clear [...]
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When I was very young, I remember playing with an old camera that belonged to my mother. I didn’t know it then, but it was an Imperial Reflex 620 Duo lens camera – just like the one purportedly used by Marina to take those famous pictures of Lee Harvey Oswald. That Imperial camera was a [...]
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This little digital camera is a replica of the famous Rolleiflex 2.8F twin lens reflex camera. The Rolleiflex MiniDigi AF 5.0 camera is only about 2.9 x 1.8 x 1.8″ and weighs 3.5 ounces. It is available in red/black or all black. The camera is 5MP and it has a 1.1″ view screen and produces [...]
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Panasonic has finally announced US pricing for the (much anticipated) GF2, their second generation micro four thirds camera with interchangeable lenses. The current MSRP is $499.95 for body alone; $599.95 for body plus 14 – 42mm GF2K lens; and $699.95 for body plus 14mm prime GF2C lens. The new micro 4/3 cameras produce dSLR quality [...]
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I have used video cameras for as long as I can remember. My first video camera was one of those really hefty kind that you sat on your shoulder and it used regular VCR tapes. Yeah, and I admitted it. Since then I have used every imaginable type of video camera, from ultra expensive to [...]
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