Digicambeat

Digital cameras come in various shapes and dimensions, and the most loved ones are those which are easier to carry and offer cool features.

Get the Sony CyberShot DSC-G1 and you will get more than what you ask for. The Slim digicam from Sony may have the sleekest of appearance, but when it comes to performance, it is a sumo.

The WiFi enabled digicam has optics by Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar- with a sliding protective cover and comes with an internal memory of 2GB.

It comes wih a 6 MP image sensor, 3x optical zoom and a wide 3.5-inch color display. It’s four scene mode gives video recording a new dimension. Sony CyberShot DSC-G1 will cost you $600.

Aim, shoot and rejoice with this portable powerhouse in disguise.

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PIE, Photo Imagine Expo, is going to take place in Japan. Moreover, many companies have come up with their revolutionary and magnificent camera modules. Everyone wants to make big at this important time of the year and thus are unleashing a wide varieties of camera too.

Olympus is also here and I suppose they have already shown their mettle. They have presented their μ780, an all-weather contemporary camera incorporating a 7.1Mpix sensor, support for video in VGA at 30fps, ISA1600 (with a mode at 2500), a 5x optical zoom, 15MB of internal memory and a 2.5′ TFT screen for that super quality viewing angles. They have made it their ‘Limited Edition’ product by adding an extra 512MB XD card slot to it. Olympus is all set to take up the market with a ‘Flash’!

Via: Akihabaranews

Remember the heftily-priced Leica M8 digicams, which were recalled earlier owing to some glitches. Well, the company has now released a firmware update, which they claim to solve the problem of M8’s high sensitivity to infrared light. Initially, Leica offered UV/IR filter for all lenses to sort out the problem but that led to the tribulations with the color cast of wide-angle lenses from 16-35mm. The new firmware upgrade is claimed to address this very problem. What else can we say other than ‘Better late than never.’

Via: Adorama

The people at Panasonic are always getting themselves busy in creating something out of this world. They all are well aware of the market scenario and the competition, another thoughtful innovation is round the corner by them-the high definition video cameras.

This one is termed as the HDC-SD1, DX1. The high definition persona of these video cameras is because of the quality they bestow through a very high end resolution of 1920×1080 which in turn distributes a 1080i, wow! Simply marvelous!

Via: Coolgadgetszone

Summers are finally here so you all might want to spend most of your time in swimming pools and doing water surfing.

But what about capturing images of the area where Mother Nature is at her best...? Yes that’s underwater!

Casio has released a new Waterproof Digital Camera that will enable you to shoot pictures underwater. The gear is compatible with Casio Exilim EX-Z65 and EX-Z75.

I’m not too sure that you will be able to click some pictures under the surface of an ocean as the device remains waterproof till the depth of 10 feet.

On the plus side the gear also protects your camera from sand so you can also use it on the beach while playing volleyball and click some pictures of the ocean floor but remain close to the shore...!

No word yet on the price and availability of this device.

Via: Mobilemag

This high-precision infrared camera has a lot to speak. It’s actually NEC camera module HX0830M1 and has the power of capturing the black-body radiation which inturn bestows the best sharpness to a picture and that too with a black and white picture tube. This module also boasts of a simple and an uncomplicated installation.
The HX0830M1works on the principal of analyzing the environment heat content through special sensors which get activated when even a minor change in the surrounding’s infrared content occurs. Thus this great innovation helps to see clearer images even in the least of the visible light.

This small wonder converts the longer wavelengths of the light into the visible spectrum and thus helps the human eye to perceive the pictures more appropriately.

Via: Fareastgizmos

Tekom has unveiled a GPS digital camera named GX652 at CeBIT.

The device features:

6 Megapixel Camera

4.8X Optical Zoom

3-Inch TFT LCD display

MPEG-4 Video Recording in VGA quality at 30fps

The device can be connected to a GX1 GPS receiver and then the screen can be used to view all the maps that you receive from a dozen channels within five seconds.

No word yet on price and availability.

Via: Ubergizmo

Sometime back, may be say a decade, people used to converse about the surveillance cameras. It was opined that such cameras would keep a proper vigilance over the area they are given charge of. The time has come now! Such CCTV cameras are not the talk of the past but are here to be dealt with the odds. British government has already deployed such closed circuit cameras in order to keep vigilance and proper traffic sense on the busiest of the busiest streets. Such CCTV cameras may pose a lot of jeopardy for the unlawful and anti-social elements. Middlesbrough one of the most talked about towns in UK has been the proud owner of adorning such high quality surveillance systems like the CCTVs on its streets. And the government opines that after the deployment of such cameras the crime rate in the city has decreased to the level quite negligible. The government seems to be planning a campaign regarding the awareness towards such anti-crime systems.

Such anti theft systems also talk to you and rather make you aware of the crime you are incorporating. They make you aware of the deed which you are doing and that may be against the law. They make you aware of the various crimes, may be petty, like littering the town streets, unlawfully acting on the streets and even getting involved in sex in the public or open crowded places. Such CCTVs are a must have for every government round the globe for sure!
They can certainly be termed as the Robots who are keeping their eye, oh sorry their lenses, on us.

Via: Gizmodo

Since last December, Panasonic has targeted the consumer market by launching its 3CCD HDC-SC1 and HDC-DX1 high-definition camcorders and has now come up with its successors the HDC-SC3 and HDC-DX3. Both the SD3 and DX3 fully support H.264 and will capture video at resolutions up to 1,920 by 1,080 pixels, an increase over the 1,440 by 1,080 resolution offered by the earlier models.

Both these successors have the same capabilities as their predecessors but cam be distinguished by the media they use to store the video as the SD3 stores the video to SD card and the DX3 writes it to DVD discs in AVCHD format. Both these models have a much-improved video compression as 4 GB SD card can hold about 40 minutes of high-resolution video, while an 8 CM DVD can hold 14 minutes of high-def video per side. Apart from these features, these models carry the same specs as the previous models.

Both models will be released in Japan on April 25 with no plans for an international release yet. The SC3 and DX3 will retail for approximately $1,275 and $1,190 respectively.

Via: ubergizmo

Samsung Electronics has released a 7.2MP 28mm wide-angle camera at CeBIT-2007. The camera dubbed ‘VLUU L74 Wide’ is a host to some outstanding features including a 3-inch Touchscreen LCD.

The camera has a 28mm wide-angle lens with 3.6x optical zoom, Flash animation GUI, high sensitivity ISO 1600 support, face recognition AF and AE, world tour guide function and advanced shake reduction.

No word yet on the pricing and availability of this device.

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