Panasonic pivots touchscreen
Panasonic bills its new Lumix DMC-G2 as the first interchangeable lens system camera with a pivoting touchscreen LCD.
The 3-Inch touchscreen allows for focus control and shutter release. The LCD rotates 180 degrees and tilts 270 degrees.
In its still mode, the 12 megapixel model captures 3.2 frames per second, and has an ISO of 100 – [...]
Rimage improves sales, expands markets
Digital publishing systems provider Rimage reports improved fourth quarter operating results, citing a nearly 26 percent increase in sales of its high-end Producer disc publishing hardware, which included an $800,000 order shipped to the Department of Justice for its new video surveillance data archiving system.
Developed in partnership with a surveillance software provider, Rimage says its [...]
Latest camera phones
A few noteworthy camera phones debuted at the recent Mobile World Congress:
The N-02B mobile phone from NEC has a 12-megapixel camera that activates in less than a second, according to Cypress Semiconductor. The phone uses the TrueTouch touch screen solution, which it says enables users to focus the camera using the touch screen for speed [...]
Animoto upgrades videos to high resolution
Animoto customers can now upgrade their automatically made movies into higher resolution video files.
The high-resolution videos are rendered at 4 times the resolution of regular Animoto videos, the company says, “and are suitable for burning to DVD or projecting to large screens.”
Customers can share & embed videos in high resolution, even from within a [...]
Apple sues HTC over smart phone patents
Apple has sued major smart phone manufacturer HTC of Taiwan for infringing 20 patents related to the iPhone.
While we see the iPhone as a leading platform for innovative imaging, with dozens of applications for photography, we note that none of the patent claims relate to digital imaging.
HTC manufactures Google’s Nexus One smart phone, as well [...]
Interviews at PMA with Olympus, Nikon, Sony, more
Our colleague Dave Etchells at the Imaging Resource has conducted, transcribed, and posted some excellent in-depth interviews with top imaging executives at the PMA 2010 trade show. [How'd you get 'em up so fast, Dave?]
Among the interviews:
• Sony Senior Vice President and Corporate Executive Masashi Imamura, and General Manager of Imaging Product Planning Naruhiko Odashima
• [...]
Sigma updates compact and SLR cameras
Lens-maker Sigma continues to update its line of cameras based on the Foveon three-layer sensor.
The SD15 SLR features a True II image processor and 3-inch LCD. Its buffer is twice that of the preceding SD14, and offers a continuous shooting speed of 3 frames per second with up to 21 Raw images.
That earlier model, the [...]
Sony debuts new interchangeable lens camera system
Sony started off PMA 2010 with a major introduction: its first new interchangeable lens camera system, delivering a sensor that is larger than that in compact cameras, but in a body much smaller than a standard SLR.
Sony’s new model will ship in 2010, the company said at a Sunday morning PMA press conference, but pricing [...]
OmniVision: 2nd-Gen BSI sensor leads in low-light sensitivity
OmniVision Technologies claims its OmniBSI-2 architecture “represents a major milestone in digital imaging technology,” with the first 1.1-micron backside illumination pixel.
The sensors will enable new imaging solutions with superior image quality and low-light sensitivity, the company says, as well as better pixel layout, better isolation, and significantly reduced crosstalk.
The architecture also extends OmniVision’s pixel roadmap [...]
30x zoom, dual display highlight Fujifilm 2010 camera line
This year’s line of new FujiFilm cameras add some distinct new features, among which are a “Dual Direction GUI” that detects the orientation of the camera and automatically switches the direction of the menu button accordingly, and the “Dual Image Display” that splits the screen in various ways to view multiple images at once, “so [...]
