While smartphones are doing their best to kill point-and-shoot cameras, there’s still quite a bit of life left in the mid to high end.
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5 Tech Products That Will Be Dead in 5 Years
With the speed of innovation in the tech industry, we can’t know every piece of technology that will fill our everyday lives in five years, but we can predict what won’t last.
Digital Camera Buying Guide
In this buying guide we’ll help you understand which options and features are most important for what you want to accomplish and offer buying suggestions for every budget.
Taking Photos at Comic-Con with an Actual Camera
How long have I been going to Comic-Con in San Diego? Once upon a time–back in an era called the 20th century–I toted a film camera along and couldn’t even see my pictures until I’d gotten home and visited a photo lab. Then I …
Polaroid’s New Z2300 Is a Digital Camera with a Built-in Photo Printer
Lytro’s Light-Field Camera: Photography, Reimagined
In the world of technology, there are three kinds of change. There’s the subtle, never-ending process of refinement we call evolution. There’s revolution, which is like evolution in fast-forward mode. And then, every once in a …
Meet Lytro, the Light-Field Camera that Snaps 4D Pics
Say hello to Lytro, a new consumer-grade camera capable of focusing on multiple points in an image with eye-popping accuracy after you’ve snapped the picture. We first heard about it this summer, and now it has a release timeframe: early next year. What, you thought “4D” was just marketing gibberish? Because 4D implies “time,” and what …
Is This Really the World’s Smallest Camera?
I’d say no, not really the smallest, not if we’re counting pinhole cameras and all the geeky spy-angled gadgets that’ve been circulating for years. But judging based on general, non-specialty use, I suppose the answer’s “close enough.”
We’re talking about what looks like a 1-inch novelty item you might slip on your keychain like a …
HTC Windows Phone 7 Ad Promises 16-Megapixel Camera
If you listen really closely to this leaked ad for an HTC Windows Phone 7 handset with a 16-megapixel camera, you can hear the sound of compact digital cameras dying a sad, slow death.
HTC’s yet-unnamed Windows Phone 7 would top the Altek Leo’s 14-megapixel camera for the highest pixel count in a smartphone. HTC’s handset will also …
Digital Camera Sales Up in Emerging Markets
According to records released by GfK Retail and Technology, digital camera sales have increased by a wide margin in emerging markets for the first three quarters of 2010. Sales in countries in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and in the Asia-Pacific region rose about 20 percent with the biggest sector in growth found in China and Asia. …
Two Minute Video: Visions of a 3D Point and Shoot Camera
The Finepix Real 3D W3 is Fujifilm’s second stab at a consumer-friendly point and shoot camera that takes 3D photos. While the first version met with less-than-favorable reviews last year, the W3 has slimmed down a bit and gotten a little easier to use so it should fare better this time around.
It’s still a niche product for a niche …
Two Minute Video: Camera Shopping? Skip the Megapixels
One of the first features touted for point-and-shoot digital cameras is the megapixel count. For most people, though, megapixels don’t matter much. Here’s why, along with some other features to consider instead.
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