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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
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Sony’s High-Res Image Enlargement Engine Gives Infinite Zoom

12:20AM John Herrman | Imagine Google Maps for individual images. Or Gigapan, without loading delays. Or Silverlight Deep Zoom, for Sony products, with video. Or, or, or…just watch Sony’s High-Res Enlargement Engine on video, because a moving picture’s worth a million words, roughly. More »
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
Cameras

Ricoh CX2: 10.7x Zoom Compact With A CMOS Sensor

10:58AM Nick Broughall | Not content to let Canon steal all the camera news glory today, Ricoh has today released the 10.7x zoom CX2 snapper. More »
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
Cameras

Panasonic’s New Lumix Range Zooms Into Australia

5:22PM Nick Broughall | Panasonic today announced local release details for that trio of compact snappers we saw last month plus they’ve snuck in a new model – the FX65. More »
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Cameras

Zoom Q3: Finally A Flip-Type Pocket Cam With Decent Audio

11:30AM Dan Nosowitz | Our Battlemodo showed that while cheap pocket camcorder video quality has come a long way, audio quality is usually abysmal. The Zoom Q3 aims to change that with TWO directional microphones that can be focused much like a lens zooms. More »
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Cameras

Pentax X70 24x Superzoom Is First With 720p Video

7:19AM Adrian Covert | Pentax’s X70 is a non-DSLR with 24x Superzoom, but it’s also the first of its kind to include 720p video recording.
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Peripherals

BlackBerry Bold, Storm No Longer Lack A Gratuitous Zoom Lens Attachment

11:00PM John Herrman | Brando, never one to miss an opportunity to attach a thing to another unlikely thing, has expanded its mobile phone zoom lens line to include models for the BlackBerry Bold and Storm. More »
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Cameras

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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Monday, October 6, 2008
Cameras

Canon Lens Completely Disassembled (Result: A Lot of Rings)

11:20PM John Herrman | Zoom lenses are by no means a rarity, but it’s not often that someone chooses to sacrifice one to the internet. FredMiranda forum member sbv20 found himself with a useless Canon 17-85mm lens after the aperture became stuck, so he did what any good gadget freak would: he tore it apart. He documented the process with a fantastic series of photos which demonstrate that even the boring lenses found dangling from necks at any tourist destination are obscenely complicated. More »
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Friday, October 3, 2008
Cameras

Automatic Cameraphone Zoom Shows Up In Sony Ericsson Patent App

7:30PM John Herrman | I guess the complicated combination of accelerometers and proximity sensors isn’t trivial technology, but this one really should have been done by now: automatic zoom based on camera movement. In a new patent application, Sony Ericsson has detailed technology that judges your intention to zoom by measuring the camera’s distance from your body, zooming in as it moves further away. The patent is just for cameraphones at the moment, but there’s no reason that it couldn’t (or shouldn’t) crop up in the next generation of point and shoots as well. [UnwiredView via Engadget] More »
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