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Prices For New Nikon Coolpix, Including Mutant Projector-Camera
3:00PM Dan Nosowitz | Nikon’s new Coolpix point-and-shoot line leaked yesterday, but today Nikon unveiled the official US prices and specs (though no release dates) for all four cameras, including the crazy S1000pj with the built-in projector. More »
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Teens Capture Amazing Shots 32Km from Earth’s Surface With a Balloon
3:40AM Mark Wilson | Using a $US77 Nikon Coolpix and a $US60 latex balloon filled with helium, a team of teenage students captured these remarkable shots from 32km above the Earth’s surface. More »
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Nikon P90 24X Superzoom Can See American Underpants From London or France
2:00PM Matt Buchanan | Nikon’s P90 doesn’t boast the mightiest barrel of the increasingly ridiculous superzoom subset of digital cameras—that’s Olympus’s crown to wear—but 24x is serious step-up from the P80 and trumps Canon’s latest. More »
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Nikon Coolpix S230: Nikon’s Less Pricey Touchscreen Digital Camera
2:00PM Matt Buchanan | The touchscreen S230 differs from Nikon’s first touchscreen camera, the S60 in a few big ways: It has real buttons where it needs them, the touchscreen works better (supposedly), and it’s over $US100 cheaper. More »
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Nikon’s Cheap L-Series Digital Cameras: 15X Zoom L100 and $US110 L19
2:00PM Matt Buchanan | Nikon’s L-series is the cheapo line. The L100 gives you 15X zoom and other not-too-shabby features for $US280, while the L19 is the cheapest digital camera they’ve ever offered, at $US110. More »
Weapons
Pixels for Pistols Trades Guns for Digital Cameras
4:45AM Mark Wilson | Pixels for Pistols is a Toronto-based effort by the Henry’s camera chain allowing anyone to trade in a gun, no questions asked, for a Nikon Coolpix S52 or Coolpix P60 camera. That’s it. You give a gun and get a camera in an effort to get rid of unused guns that could be stolen and misused for crime. Lasting for four weeks, the venture has been so successful that gun owners across Ontario have been calling in to donate, despite not being eligible since they aren’t local. And hose folks have come up with some quirky solutions of their own. From The Star: More »
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MI6 Camera With Secret Images Bought on eBay for $US30
10:15PM Jesus Diaz | A Nikon Coolpix camera belonging to the MI6–the British equivalent of the CIA–was sold on eBay for $US30 with images of al Qaeda suspects, fingerprints, names, rocket launchers, and missiles inside. That’s bad enough, but it gets worse: the camera also contained top secret information that may compromise the security of James Bonds in the field. More »
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Nikon Coolpix P6000 Gets Leaked, Rumoured to Deliver an Absurd 13.5 Megapixels
7:37AM Adam Frucci | What looks to be the upcoming Nikon Coolpix P6000 has leaked, showing a picture of the high-end point-and-shoot as well as some of the specs and a purported release date of this August. Most notable is an absolutely-bananas 13.5-megapixel sensor, which should provide you with pictures large enough to print billboards from. The follow-up to the P5000, it’s aimed at people who want better quality shots than your average point-and-shoot without the bulk of a DSLR. No word on pricing, but the P5000 debuted at US$400, so place your estimates in that ballpark. [Nikon Rumors] More »
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CoolPix S52 and S52c: Nikon Updates Its Most Popular Point-and-Shoots
3:00PM Wilson Rothman | After making waves in the DSLR world, Nikon renewed its push in the point-and-shoot market with the slender feature-loaded camera you see before you. It’s had slightly different model names over the past two years, but its newest incarnation, the US$250 9-megapixel 3X-optical-zoom-equipped S52, is pretty slick. You get: • 2000 ISO in “high sensitivity” mode • Optical image stabilizer • In-camera slideshows with music from iTunes • SDHC support • 3″ LCD A $30 step up gets you the S52c, the same basic camera with an extra bit of a bulge. No, it’s not a tumah, as Gov. Schwarzenegger would surely tell you: it’s Wi-Fi, and with it a direct connection to Nikon’s my Picturetown online community for sharing, mailing and uploading to Flickr and other sites. Press release after the two galleries below.
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