Spoiler update: See the bottom of this page… In our previous post on Compact Cameras vs Smartphones, the advantage appears to be swinging to smartphones as they slowly approach compact cameras in the quality of their camera components. But smartphones [smartphones really means “smartphones and tablets” for most of the following remarks] have 3 other key features […]
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iPhone 4 vaults to the top but begins to trail off in recent months If you follow the Flickr Camera usage statistics, then the answer to question of smartphone vs compact camera is smartphone. Last year compact camera sales fell by 30% as fixed lens smartphone cameras started to displace fixed lens compact cameras [in 2010
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This is a recounting of the most interesting [not necessarily the best] daily reveals at the CES Show. 1)The Canon PowerShot G1 X is important for what it is not. It is not the first Canon ILC camera in the spirit of the Sony Nex7 or Olympus Pen ILC. It is not shirt pocket size
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Picthat has been saying for over two years now that compact cameras are being pushed hard by the improvements in the cameras on smartphones and tablets. Now courtesy of a Wells Fargo pre-release on Consumer Electronic Show announcement, readers will see that there is a wave of new point and shoot, compact cameras incoming stocked
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The various underlying technologies shaping today’s cameras are undergoing profound transitions just as market pressures have companies looking for new capabilities to bring to market. It is mostly a match made in heaven for most camera consumers. The result is a continuing and even accelerating stream of innovations in the photo and camera world. We
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As usual, the NYTimes is out prospecting for some of the nifty stuff in photography and appears to have uncovered the Next Neato Innovation – the Lytro multi-focus camera and pictures. The Lytro uses an array of micro-lenses to record not one but many images all at the same time but with differing depth of field
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Nikon D5100 16.2MP CMOS Digital SLR Camera with 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 VR Nikkor Zoom Any doubts about the convergence of video cameras with digital SLRs went by the wayside with the arrival of the new Nikon D5100 video SLR. This blog has foreseen convergence for the past 4 years and now it has happened with Nikon D5100
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Online Photo-Editing sites have been covered by thePhotoFinishes.com before; but not a free online PhotoFinishing site. Befunky changes that – it is devoted to taking your photos and transforming them into works of art using special effects like Cartoonizer, Oil Painting, Inkify, Old Photo, Charcoal, Impressionist, and my favorite – PopArt. Then add some goodies.
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