Kodak launches YouTube channel “ForMom”
Kodak describes its new “ForMom” YouTube channel as a “one-stop shop … where busy moms can share and find new ways to connect with friends and family.” The channel features user-generated testimonials from real moms on topics ranging from parenting and cooking to health, beauty and exercise, the company says. Kodak worked with Ogilvy & Mather on [...]
e.Digital sues Canon, Pentax, and Panasonic over Flash storage
e.Digital Corporation filed a patent infringement lawsuit against nineteen companies in United States District Court for the District of Colorado. In its complaint, e.Digital asserts that products made by the listed companies infringe the Company’s U.S. patent #5491774 regarding flash memory recording techniques. The accused products range from digital cameras and camcorders to voice recorders [...]
Sony Ericsson phones Android with photo features
Sony Ericsson will early next year offer the X10, a mobile phone with an 8-megapixel camera and such photographic features as touch focus on a 4-inch capacitive touchscreen, smile detection, geotagging, and image stabilization. The phone will also provide face recognition – not just detection: it will identify five faces per photo, and “automatically connect [...]
Aptina supes up surveillance sensor
Aptina supes up surveillance sensor Surveillance cameras can be placed anywhere despite constraints posed by challenging light conditions such as low light or high contrast, claims San Jose, Calif.–based Aptina Imaging. “Capturing HD quality details in low light and wide contrast lighting conditions is a great step forward for the surveillance market.” The company’s new [...]
High-Def TV goes mainstream; Here comes Ultra-High Def
While the market for High-Definition TV (HDTV) has hit the mainstream, the industry has already started speculating about the commercialization of Ultra-High Definition (UHD). Market research firm, In-Stat predicts a lengthy time period before the UHD market reaches a critical mass of 5 percent household penetration. However, as the initial market debuts over the next [...]
Dreamstime stock photo agency increase free options
Serban Enache, CEO of Dreamstime, a digital image stock photography agency, announced the company’s initiative to up the number of images made available free. In January 2007, Dreamstime made available an assortment of images under its free umbrella. Dreamstime has nearly doubled the number of images available free. The number of images in the Dreamstime [...]
Epson announces PictureMate Show 2-in-1
Just in time for the holiday season, Epson announces the PictureMate Show, which the company calls an easy-to-use 2-in-1 combining Epson’s PictureMate 4-by-6-inch photo printer with digital photo frame capabilities. It offers a 7-inch, widescreen tilt digital photo display with WVGA resolution (480-by-800) to easily view and edit photos, as well as 270 MB internal [...]
Tiny Prints launches nationwide talent search
Tiny Prints Inc., Mountain View, Calif., launch of its nationwide search for America’s cutest families, couples and children (up to age 10). This holiday season, anyone who wants to star in the Tiny Prints 2010 advertising campaign can submit their best photo to the Tiny Prints Talent Search, from Nov. 2 – 27, for a [...]
Carl Zeiss adds 35mm lens for Canon
Carl Zeiss AG, Germany, has added a Canon EF bayonet mount version of its Distagon T* 35mm f/2 ZE to its lens lineup. Like the other Zeiss ZE lenses, it incorporates a CPU and data contacts for communication with the camera body. The lens is ideal for still photographers looking for a fast, general purpose [...]
Austrian company Trevision installs first Durst Rho 500R in Europe
Trevision, Vienna, Austria, recently installed a Rho 500R in addition to its three other Durst machines. These include two Rho 320Rs and a Rho 700 flatbed, all of which have been purchased in a little over 12 months. Jürgen Marzi, Trevision’s group sales manager, said, “Over the last few years the company has been [...]
