Digital Cameras News

Sony, banking off the upcoming release of the new Bond movie in which 007 will illogically kill thousands of terrorists, is not only releasing a James Bond laptop, but a slew of other James Bondian goods. The package, priced at $3,899.99 dollars, comes with a variety of gadgetry which Sony hopes will create a whole new group of super agents on which to base laptops on.

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Photo Etc. Online, a company known for their off-the-wall but fairly useful camera-related innovations have released a "multi-purpose bottle camera pod." For those of you who don’t have the pleasure of knowing what in the world that is — it’s an attachment that hooks up to your digital camera and allows it to be held up by soft drink bottle cup with a diameter of 28.5mm to 30.5mm (rendering our title joke moot — we apologize for those of you reading this because of their intense liking of beer and cameras joined in an unholy union.)

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Sandisk has just announced the release of its biggest and fastest card, designed to hold upto 2000 high resolution images or upto 4 hours of mpeg 4 videos.

The "biggest" part of this announcement comes in the form of 4GB storage. The "fastest" part of the announcement comes from the 9/10 MB write and read speeds.

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Canon, not to be outdone by Panasonic and Sony, has released a high-definition camcorder for consumers, rather than to professionals and so-called "prosumers" (which is really just code word for people who make bad movies about people making bad movies) who lay claim to the majority of HD camcorders out on the market right now. The HV10 promises to not only provide a superb video image that plays nicely on your HDTV sets, but also promises to make each and every family member that much prettier.

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With 13 days before the launch of Nikon’s new D80 Digital SLR camera, photos of the camera have been "accidentally" leaked by Nikon Europe (this is why America doesn’t get along with you, Europe) providing consumers a look at the shiny new model. The leak has allowed consumers a change to glean various information about the camera, but most importantly it provided a name — D80 — for the product, which was previously titled, "We really hope Nikon leaks the name of this camera."

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LG Electronics, the company known for their phones and their winking-happy-face logo, announced the launch of the world’s first 5 mega-pixel GSM camera phone — the KG920. With a slick new design, the handset also boasts to being the slimmest mobile phone in this category (the category of cool) — making it easily one of the most attractive, sellable phones on the market.

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The Georgia Institute of Technology has developed a prototype system that neutralizes digital cameras by locating them within a given area (let’s say a movie theater or an ultra secret CIA spy zone) and immediately shooting them with a laser. The inventor of said system? Darth Vader.

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Linksys has announced the immediate availability of their new Linksys camera that they call — the Wireless-G Pan/Tilt/Zoom (PTZ) Internet Camera with Audio (WVC200) — a snappy, memorable name for a neat little webcam that will please businessmen, regular consumers, and creepy government officials alike.

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We have a new article up for those of you who want to compare the Panasonic DVX100B and Sony HDR-FX1.

Enjoy!