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Camcorder Evolution Takes Next Step: Hard Drives
Those stacks of old videotapes waiting to be transferred to DVDs were daunting.
So Mark Younger decided to buy a new video camera with a built-in hard drive. Now, after shooting his daughter's basketball game, he comes home, plugs the camera into the computer, drags and drops the entire video onto his PC, and then burns a DVD. The process......
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12/13/06 |
A camera's worth a single pixel
"Nothing thrills a gadget geek like the latest, greatest digital camera, stuffed with the biggest number of megapixels that physics and wallet allow. And nothing makes them more envious when it belongs to the geek in the next cubicle. Camera makers have competed for nearly a decade to sell consumers cameras loaded with ever more pixels, the picture......
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09/30/06 |
Picture of success SanDisk goes beyond photography
"SanDisk (SNDK) CEO Eli Harari profited from his physics education by inventing the use of memory chips to store digital photos on tiny, removable cards.
The company now sells more than 100 million memory cards a year. It recently topped $2 billion in sales, including royalties from rivals licensed to make cards."......
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03/14/06 |
Consider your digital camera use before going shopping
Finding the perfect digital camera is not hard. If you're looking for your first camera, or replacing your current one, determine how you will use it, then look for the features you need in your price range.
Before delving into the different types of cameras, let's take a quick look at megapixels. Fortunately, you don't have to worry about t......
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12/17/05 |
Help for Confused Camera Buyers
So you're in the market for your first digital camera. Your options are endless. Four or 5 megapixels? Optical or digital zoom? Point-and-shoot or SLR?
What to buy?
One of the main appeals of digital photography is instant gratification. You get to see images immediately, and you don't have to pay for film developing.
More than 10......
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12/07/05 |
A clearer picture of the digital camera scene
This may be the Year of the Digital Camera, when what was a high-tech gizmo only a year or two ago is morphing into an ordinary consumer item. By January 2006 more than half of all American households will own at least one digital camera, predicts the Photo Marketing Association (PMA). At the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year, manufacture......
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07/10/05 |
$29.95 one-time-use video cameras ready
The first one-time-use video camera goes on sale this week at CVS drugstores in the Northeast.
The makers of the $29.95 camera and CVS hope the device will do for video what one-time-use cameras did for film sales: dramatically increase the market.
"The one-time-use camera revolutionized the film market," says Grant Pill, director of ph......
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06/06/05 |
Digital photo workshops ensure every pixel tells a tale
Picture Perfect, is isn't.
Gloomy skies are giving way to a downpour, just in time for the first assignment of our two-day "Digital Basics" photography workshop: to capture a compelling image that emphasizes color.
On a recent glum day, our band of shutterbugs fans out through the historic district in Chesapeake City, Md. We pass antiqu......
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05/16/05 |
Digital photo workshops ensure every pixel tells a tale
Picture Perfect, is isn't.
Gloomy skies are giving way to a downpour, just in time for the first assignment of our two-day "Digital Basics" photography workshop: to capture a compelling image that emphasizes color.
On a recent glum day, our band of shutterbugs fans out through the historic district in Chesapeake City, Md. We pass antiqu......
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05/16/05 |
Every pixel tells a story
Gloomy skies are giving way to an April downpour, just in time for the first assignment of our two-day "Digital Basics" photography workshop: to capture a compelling image that emphasizes color.
Sodden but undeterred, our band of shutterbugs fans out through Chesapeake City's compact historic district. We pass jumbled antique shops, weathered......
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05/06/05 |
Will new CEO shift Sony's focus?
The company that created the Walkman, PlayStation and Trinitron TV is struggling to keep up with the fast-moving consumer electronics industry.
Since digital cameras were introduced in the late 1990s, Sony had long been the market-share leader. Last year, Sony was dethroned by Kodak, which got there with aggressive price cuts and marketing, s......
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03/08/05 |
Amazon creates new Yellow Pages with Photographs
nternet retailer Amazon late Wednesday introduced a new way of finding local business information online - with pictures.
Like search engines Google and Yahoo, Amazon's A9 search engine gives users text and map results, but with a twist: A9 has added 20 million thumbnail pictures of storefronts to its new business directory. ......
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01/27/05 |
Memories gone in a snap
here's one in almost every American household: a shoebox stuffed with faded snapshots of days gone by, the kids' baby pictures, the ugly dress you wore to the prom, innumerable views of the Grand Canyon, the college roommate passed out drunk. Americans have been filling such shoeboxes for generations, and now, thanks to the delete button on digital......
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01/22/05 |
Day in Pictures
USA Today's "Day in Pictures" for December 29th, 2004.......
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12/30/04 |
Frame brings digital pictures alive
If you were nice rather than naughty this year, maybe Santa left you a digital camera. But even if you didn't get to unwrap a megapixel marvel this holiday season, there's a good chance you've already got one, possibly as part of your cell phone.......
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12/30/04 |
Personal Life Recorders within a Decade?
Over the years, a number of tech prognosticators have said that someday many of us will own a device that might be called a personal life recorder, or PLR. Maybe a PLR would look like a tie clip or a brooch. It would have a tiny microphone and camera lens and would record everything that happens to you all day long - every conversation, every play ......
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09/08/04 |
A disposable digital camera enters the market at $19.99
Jonathan Kaplan thinks digital cameras are too hard to use, so he decided to do something about it. Kaplan, 36, is the CEO of Pure Digital Technologies, a scrappy start-up devoted to bringing digital photography to the masses. His solution: no wires, memory cards or having to connect the camera to the computer.
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08/19/04 |
Coffee table can now showcase custom photo book
Kathy Cochran learned about a Web site that offered custom-made coffee-table photo books and decided to make one for her nephew's engagement. The book, pictures of her nephew and his fiancée, was so enthusiastically received that she made another for their wedding and others about her family's history and a record of a recent trip to Antarctica.......
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07/19/04 |
Don't get stuck with a full digital camera memory card on your trip
People who sign up for Andy Biggs' photographic safaris to Africa always ask him the same question: How do we save our digital pictures and clear our memory cards while away?
It's a common concern, not just for digital shutterbugs shooting lions, cheetahs and zebras in Tanzania, but also for vacationers this summer from Disney World to Alaska
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07/12/04 |
