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  • Apple hit with iPhone digital camera patent lawsuit

    Apple hit with iPhone digital camera patent lawsuit

    Posted on December 4, 2009 | No Comments
    Looks like Apple's lawyers will be extra busy in the coming days. Some entity by the name of St. Clair Intellectual Property Consultants has filed suit against the house that Jobs built, alleging that the iPhone infringes upon several of its patents.

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  • Check out pics from the $26,000 Leica S2

    Check out pics from the $26,000 Leica S2

    Posted on November 12, 2009 | No Comments
    Have you ever wondered what pictures look like from a camera that costs more than many cars? I have. I know there are a lot of professionals out there that view DSLRs like the Canon 5D and Nikon D700 as entry-level because they have flashes that cost more than those cameras. Well, DPReview got a hold of the $26,000 Leica S2 and just posted some sample pictures, but don't expect to be blown away.

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  • CrunchDeals: Buy two Wii games, get one free at Target (starting Sunday)

    CrunchDeals: Buy two Wii games, get one free at Target (starting Sunday)

    Posted on October 30, 2009 | No Comments
    Here's a little heads up on Target’s upcoming Sunday circular: if you buy any two Wii games at $50 or more, each, you’ll get a third game free from “a choice of over 80 Wii titles.” The deal will start this Sunday, November 1st, and run until next Saturday.

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  • Lexar announces new 600x Compact Flash cards

    Lexar announces new 600x Compact Flash cards

    Posted on October 21, 2009 | No Comments
    Lexar announced their new 600x compact flash cards today. It's not unexpected that the faster speed memory cards are coming out, given the UDMA requirements of cameras like the Canon 7d.

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  • The new Canon 1D Mark IV can shoot incredible 1080p video and here’s the proof

    The new Canon 1D Mark IV can shoot incredible 1080p video and here’s the proof

    Posted on October 20, 2009 | No Comments
    The Canon 1D Mark IV is finally official, all 16MP, 1080p video shooting of it. The $5000 DSLR is packed with the very best of from Canon. In their usual fashion, DPReview has more info than you probably wanna know about the camera. Besides, you already know that it's kick ass. But remember the dude that shot the first video with the 5D Mark II. Yeah, Canon hooked up with him to do a short with this camera and the results are amazing. Click through to see what I mean.

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  • Japan’s No. 1 company regarding patents is Panasonic, research company says

    Japan’s No. 1 company regarding patents is Panasonic, research company says

    Posted on October 14, 2009 | No Comments
    Japan is the world's second biggest nation in terms of patent application filing, but which company is leading the race in the country that's home to world class tech firms like Sony, Toshiba and Thanko? Tokyo-based Patent Result thinks it has the answer: According to them [JP], the quality and quantity of Panasonic's patents (filed in the past fiscal year) is unparalleled in this country.

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  • Review: Canon Color ImageClass MF8050Cn all-in-one printer

    Review: Canon Color ImageClass MF8050Cn all-in-one printer

    Posted on October 9, 2009 | No Comments
    There is a code to which a cowboy cleaves. He never shoots first, he's always kind to ladies, and he never buys more printer than he can handle. While I can't speak for those out on the lone prairie, I can report that the 52-pound ImageClass MF8050Cn by Canon may be the heaviest printer I've had in my office to date. This isn't a printer for scrap-booking or creating beautiful photomontages of your grandmother. The color printing is delightfully sharp but the speed and on-board features - the lack of a picture preview screen, for example - makes this an office printer through and through. It also has a built-in copier and fax machine if you're into that stuff. It also scans from PCs or Macs. Because we're basically talking about a large job printer here you won't be printing many photos on this printer. However, it has excellent color reproduction and is just fine for color prints. A slight concern: the "media capacity" is 150 sheets on this puppy, which means you'll have to refill it every few if you're doing a few dozen pages per day.

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  • Canon will not be attending PMA 2010

    Canon will not be attending PMA 2010

    Posted on September 29, 2009 | 1 Comment
    According to this weeks issue of Amateur Photographer, Canon will not be attending PMA 2010. The company is apparently shifting focus away from niche trade shows in order to focus shows like CES that reach more consumers. After all, that's the way Canon's products are going anyway. We've seen a huge shift in the last five years as the DSLR has moved from the prosumer market to clearly an everyday Joe-type camera. Sure, there will always be high-end products which could be showcased at shows like PMA, but money is tight for everyone including the photography giant and so they need to focus on shows with the furthest reach.

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  • Hands-on with the Panasonic GF-1 M4/3 camera

    Hands-on with the Panasonic GF-1 M4/3 camera

    Posted on September 5, 2009 | No Comments
    I’ve been excited about four-thirds cameras for a while now. They seem like a great idea - DSLR power in a point-and-shoot package. However, after the Olympus E-P1 I’m worried that manufacturers are treating these cameras as beta hardware and the real models won’t be stable for a few years. That said, I’m still interested [...]

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  • Are we in for a CPU war? 7 Japanese companies team up against Intel

    Are we in for a CPU war? 7 Japanese companies team up against Intel

    Posted on September 3, 2009 | No Comments
    There is exactly one 800-pound gorilla in the CPU arena, and that's Intel. But the company, which controls about 80% of the global CPU market, is soon getting some serious competition from Japan. A pool of Japanese companies has decided to team up and produce a made-in-Japan CPU that's supposed to rival Intel's products. The CPU will be jointly developed by Fujitsu, Renesas, NEC, Canon, Panasonic, Hitachi and other companies from Japan. It will be used in a range of consumer electronics, servers, robots and cars and it's "green". The CPU adopts itself dynamically to the amount of data being processed, resulting in energy savings of up to 30% when compared to the power consumed at normal times.

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  • Is this the full press release for the Canon EOS 7D?

    Is this the full press release for the Canon EOS 7D?

    Posted on August 31, 2009 | No Comments
    The press release for the Canon EOS 7D has leaked. Unfortunately, it's only available as a translation from Chinese, so it's riddled with all sorts of gibberish. Not that that's ever stopped us before!

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  • Whistlin’ in the dark – Leica opens first US store

    Whistlin’ in the dark – Leica opens first US store

    Posted on August 24, 2009 | No Comments
    In what some would call a rather interesting move, Leica has decided to open it's first store in the U.S. in West Palm Beach, Florida. This is interesting because, well, let's face it, Leica is unapologetically not a bargain brand. They are also building a series of studios, classrooms, and other spaces to support the retail location.

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  • Amazon has all the new Canon cams up for pre-order but don’t believe the sale prices

    Amazon has all the new Canon cams up for pre-order but don’t believe the sale prices

    Posted on August 21, 2009 | No Comments
    Canon rolled out a bunch of new cams yesterday and just like clockwork, Amazon has them up for preorder. Don't believe they are on sale though. The "Our Price" is set right at the MSRP even though Amazon says they are on sale.

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  • Thank you, Canon, for dropping out of the megapixel race

    Thank you, Canon, for dropping out of the megapixel race

    Posted on August 19, 2009 | No Comments
    The average mom and pop have judged digital cameras by megapixels alone since the beginning of time. Most people think that more megapixels means a better picture. A lot of the time brand, lens, or sensor type doesn't factor into the buying decision and why should they? Manufacturers have long catered to this mentality by outing cameras that constantly have more megapixels than others. But today's announcement of the 10MP Canon G11 point and shoot camera, Canon has officially dropped out of the race. The predecessor to this camera, the G10, had a whopping 14.7MP on a small sensor. That's a lot. But the camera also had issues shooting above 800 ISO and in low light. This can partly be blamed on the over-packed sensor. But the new G11's 10MP sensor should resolve some of those complaints. However, the surprisingly low pixel count also caused us to dismiss an early leak. It's not like Canon to drop the megapixel count on one of its halo cameras. This is from the same company that stuffed 21MP into the EOS 5D Mark II and leapfrogged the 12.1MP Nikon D700. But finally the average consumer might start to understand that megapixels are not the sole factor in the quality of a camera. It might take some explaining from a salesmen, but they have been doing that for years.

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  • Canon updates the Powershot line, outs the G11, S90 and new digital ELPHs

    Canon updates the Powershot line, outs the G11, S90 and new digital ELPHs

    Posted on August 19, 2009 | No Comments
    The Canon EOS 7D might still be a rumor, but the company has released a whole slew of new cameras without a DSLR in sight. There are a whopping six new cameras, in four product lines. While the digital ELPHs are great, us camera geeks are mostly intersted in the new G11 and S90. Interestingly [...]

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