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When one talks about photography, a small, handy black color device comes in mind. Now Mother’s day is over and Father’s day is next month. So Panasonic’s Lumix DMC- FX100, a 12.2-megapixel resolution camera can be a perfect gift for your father. Features of Lumix family’s new member (Lumix DMC- FX100) of popular brand of electronic goods Panasonic are given below:
• It has 28mm wide-angle Leica DC lens with 3.6x optical zoom. Panasonic has called this feature as ‘Extra Optical Zoom.’
• The Lumix DMC-FX100 is equipped with a 2.5-inch LCD screen.
• It has f/2.8 brightness.
• It has more powerful flash with reach up to 16 meters.
• The memory limit is 27MB.
• It is able to record 1920×1080 high-definition still pictures.
• It has Intelligent Image Stabilization with Mega O.I.S. to capture shaky moments.
• Its high speed burst shooting mode allows the user to take 8 pictures per second.
This camera available in silver and black colors can be purchased in July 2007.

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One of the nastiest things that can occur at your digital camera is of its falling into the water, but now you do not need to worry as Olympus has stuffed their new product with a waterproof functionality (10m depth). The new camera, called Olympus 770SW, is touted to be an all-terrain point-and-shoot digital cameraoptical zoomLCD screen.

With the measurement of 3.6” W x 2.3” H x 0.8” D (91.8mm x 59.2mm x 20.6mm) and weight of 155g, the Olympus 770SW is operated on Li-Ion battery. Integrated with a 2,5″ Hypercrystal, it is featured with 7.1m effectual pixels, water-resistant to 10m, shockproof against falls from up to 1.5m, Crush proof against loads of up to 100kg and freezeproof to -10 degrees Celsius, 3x

The Olympus 770SW comes with an estimated street price of US$379.99 (35mm equiv: 38-114mm) with digital mage stabilization.

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Promising to bring the absolute best picture quality to their lineup, Sony recently released their three latest AVCHD-capable digital camcorders. The HDR-CX7 ($1200 MSRP) is their first to record solely to a removable flash media, Memory Stick PRO Duo. Also rolled out at the same time were the HDR-SR5 and HDR-SR7, two latest hard disk drive high definition models. All latest models make use of the new AVCHD codec, which is touted to be an execution of H.264 encoding for hard disk and memory card capable Camcorders.

All the three brand new models are featured with 2.7-inch screens, Sony’s ClearVid CMOS sensor which boasts of providing better feature and clearness plus Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T optics for the unsurpassed color saturation. Besides the models also make use of the latest x.v.Color technology, thus making users able to put that novel Mitsubishi LCD TV to excellent use.

Handycam HDR-CX7, which is the first one in the lineup, claims to be the world’s tiniest and lightest AVCHD high-definition camcorder. Taken as a whole with battery it weighs just 15 ounces. The users can record almost 3 hours of packed HD 1080 video while built in with one of their 8GB Memory Sticks. The CX7 is sported with a 3.0MP senor with the retail for nearly $1,200.

Next in the lineup is the HDR-SR7 AVCHD, which claims to be consisted with the similar 3.0MP sensor as the CX7. Though not as tiny as the CX7, but users are enabled to record up to 22 hours of complete HD 1080 on the incorporated 60GB hard drive. The HDR-SR5 is similar to the SR7, merely with a 40GB drive and a 2MP sensor. The SR7 comes with almost $1,400 whereas the SR5 comes with just $1,100.

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For all those enthusiasts who love to shoot the movements, Panasonic has announced a new powerful image sensor that is resistant to weather, heat and UV deterioration. This lightfast image sensor for the next generation features digital-microlenses and photonic color filters, which are innately fade-resistant and tough. These photonic color filters made of inorganic materials offers an assortment of camera modules with lightfastness. This robust MOS sensor can be used under harsh sunlight for more than 20 years.

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Our memory is not so reliable to re-call where we took our photographs therefore to label all your photographs with location, date and exact time a new device has striked the market called di-GPS.

To make you’re every clicked photograph an unforgettable shot this new device offers real time position and the precise time to your digital camera to record those locations for every digital image you snap.

This small device comes with an integrated backup battery, an internal antenna and sports only Nikon DSLR cameras and the Fujifilm S5 Pro at present.

To get this new device one has to shell $300, that is bit expensive to me.

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The company’s newest camcorder ‘DZ-HS300A’ features a 25x optical zoom lens and 2.7-inch 16:9 widescreen LCD. It has an built-in 8GB hard drive that can store up to 3 hours of video recording in the best quality mode and can be easily copied to a DVD at a 1.5x speed with just a click of a button and thus eliminating the need of a PC. This sleek camcorder has an extra sensory drop-proofing protection system.
Its best feature is that it takes just 1 second to start from standby and thus allows nothing to escape from it. The expected price is 699,000 KRW.

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To combat market trends in its segment Canon has introduced HR10 HD camcorder that claims to offer superior autofocus performance.

This HR10 camcorder offers nine-point autofocus feature and to provide advanced autofocus performance it’s Instant AF system uses a mixture of through-the-lens technology and an external sensor.

This compact device comes equipped with a not-so-good 3.1 MP CMOS sensor with an optically stabilized 10X zoom lens. The best feature in the device is its ability to record AVCHD(Advanced Video Codec High Definition) video to 3-inch DVDs, but for stills you will have to rely on the MiniSD card.

It also provides 135-degree viewing angle and uses Canon’s DIGIC DV II HD image processor to advance color reproduction and noise reduction.

The device also touts built-in flash, a video light, 2.7-inch LCD and can also be easily connected directly to the latest High Definition TVs by using a single cable on all-digital HDMI interface to playback HD video on HDTVs.

Canon’s HR10 HD camcorder will strike the market in August 2007; still I don’t see many buyers opting for this camcorder as it bears a pretty heavy price tag of $1,199.

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Hyundai Telematics has announced to introduce their latest DMB navigation device ‘T10′ in Korean market that features a digital camera and KBS TPEG service in real time.

This latest device sports ‘SK Rousen 1.5 version map’ software, the T10 adopted Samsung’s 7-inch 16700000-color TFT-LCD, touch sensor button on the front frame and 2640mAh built-in lithium polymer battery.

This smart and sleek device also enfolds FM transmitter, PIP(Picture in Picture) functionality, dual speaker, rear side camera port and remote control as well as a variety of multi-media functionality including T-DMB, movie, mp3 player, and image viewer.

The device is expected to cost 428,000(KRW) and will strike the Korean market in mid of May.

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Daidaixing has brought in for you a digital camcorder namely ‘Timetop DV528‘ that offers you a plenty of functions like

Digital still camera
Voice recorder
Mp3 and Multimedia player
PC camera

And the best part of the package is that the camcorder can work with the MPEG-4 format. The device made its debut at China Import and Export Fair.

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Pure Digital Technologies showed off their latest range ‘Flip Video camcorders’. They simply irresistible and a must have travel equipment that one should own. Through these marvelous camcorders, you can download videos and stuff from various online video sharing sites available on the web. These extraordinary Flip Video camcorders can give you a 30 -minute to 60 -minute of recording time. They carry a price tag of $119.99 and $149.99 respectively.

They qualify for some revolutionary features:

A one-touch recording with a 2x digital zoom, a 1.5x color playback display, and a software that facilitates you to upload video to video sharing sites ( as through YouTube) with just a single click of a button.

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