I told you a little while ago about a digital photo frame for your home. Well, that one looks good on the table, but, the “Pocket Album” I’m talking about now, it can be carried around. It is a digital keychain photo viewer with a 1.5-inch color LCD screen (contrast is adjustable for choosing your optimal viewing angle) that lets you carry up to 74 pictures within its 8MB internal memory (I which there could be more and I believe it’s possible with today’s technologie). You can have the favorite photos right in your pocket to share and relive your photo moments with friends wherever you go.
Photos can be viewed by scrolling manually or through an automatic photo sideshow with adjustable intervals. Pocket Album includes user-friendly Photo Viewer Software that can crop and rotate any photos you wish to transfer from the PC (connection is made with the USB cable), and then automatically resize the photos for optimal storage and display on the digital keychain. It is compatible with both Win and Mac.
Pocket Album runs on Lithium-ion batteries, which can be easily recharged with the included AC adapter, having up to 9 hours battery life.
Pocket Album digital keychain measures 2.2″ x 1.6″ x 0.5″ and weighs only 1.2 oz. It is available at a price of $39.95 in Black, Silver, and Blue color design.
FP-5000 Fantasea underwater case is totally compatible with Nikon’s new Coolpix digital camera, the P5100. Depth rated to 60 meters/200 feet, this housing from Fantasea also features a new design and improved construction. The FP-5000 is ideal for outdoor and underwater photographers, who can now quickly access all Nikon Coolpix features for capturing fast action pictures easily and creatively. The FP-5000 housing has a double O-ring seal on all controls, anti-glare hood over LCD screen, and built-in diffuser. The FP-5000 also features a 46mm port ring thread for easy attachment of accessory lenses and filters. Additional controls and features in the FP5000 include: Camera On/Off, Shutter Release, Zoom In/Out, Mode Dial, Command Dial, Function, Monitor, Playback, Menu, Delete, Timer, Focus, Flash, OK Button, Exposure Compensation.
As with all other Fantasea Camera Housings, in the event of accidental water leakage, the Coolpix camera inside is insured. This attractive additional protection is exclusive only to Fantasea Housings and provides the ultimate peace of mind for photographers, who want to be sure their cameras are adequately and safely protected during use in these rugged environments.
On no, I’m not talking about an usual frame here: Transcend T.photo 710 is a new 7-inch digital photo frame, with a high-resolution 480×234 pixel display, is a frame that plays background music, and supports JPG, BMP and Motion-JPG formats – it’s digital!
It is highly configurable, has 1GB of internal memory, and is appropriate for display in your living room, bedroom or office – just about anywhere you would normally put a picture frame or calendar and clock – a black and gold frame that’s only 28mm deep.
The T.photo(tm) also lets you to set custom MP3 alarm clock sounds so you can wake up to your favorite song in the morning. During holidays like Christmas, New Year’s and Valentine’s Day, you can even choose special themes for your pictures. The remote gives you the option of selecting pictures to display from the T.photo’s onboard memory, flash media cards, or a USB flash drive, and also allows you to control its background music no matter what photo viewing mode you are in. Product Features:
* 7†high-resolution (480 x 234) full color TFT display
* Compact remote control
* 1GB of built-in memory
* Supports SD, SDHC, MMC, MS, CF cards directly and miniSD, microSD, MS Duo, MS Pro Duo, M2 with adapters
* Hi-speed USB 2.0 for USB flash drives and connecting to a PC
* Landscape or Portrait positioning
* Wall mountable
* Slideshow, thumbnail, and photo-view modes
* Zoom/rotate functions
* Background music
* Motion JPEG playback
* Plays MP3, WMA, and WAV music files
* Built-in stereo speakers and headphone jack
* Picture Clock, alarm, and calendar with scheduling
* Seasonal frame themes (Christmas, New Year’s, Valentine’s Day, etc.)
* Supports 13 languages
* Two-year warranty, including one-year stuck pixel guarantee
We usually spend allot of money on the camera, lenses, filters, memory cards and batteries, leaving us with the empty pocket most of the time. In this shopping list, the camera bag is probably the last thing. Until the pocket will be full again to finally buy a camera bag, here’s what you can do:
Get a desired resistant material, a needle and strong threat and a shears. Measure the dimensions of your camera and follow the instructions in this article by Evil Mad Science Laboratories.
Later on you can decorate it with flowers (or other shapes) made from a different material.
By now, you probably think that the biggest SD/MMC memory card for picture storage has about 4 GB capacities. From now on, it’s time to think about high speed 8 GB memory cards. Hopefully, the latest generation of digital cameras supports this amount of storage.
First, Panasonic introduces a new memory card, the 8GB Pro High Speed SD Memory Card (available starting from September 2007 at a price around $159.99). The writing speed is 20MB per second and the card can record 3080 still images at 10-megapixel resolution or 80 minutes of MPEG-4 movies in Fine quality setting. Also, Panasonic plans to launch a 16 GB SDHC card later this year.
On the other hand, one of the most trusted card producers, Sandisk, just released new ‘Ducati Edition‘ range of high speed flash memory cards. The new memory cards are Sandisk’s fastest yet, with 4 and 8 GB for the CF and 4GB for the SDHC (45 and 20 MB per second respectively).
Toshiba had already made an 8 GB card at the beginning of the year, with “class 4″ high-speed data writing specification of the SD Card Association and capable to record data at 6 megabits per second.
Pretec 8GB SD card was presented at Photokina Show. It is fully compliant with SD 2.0 (SDHC) specification with access speed up to 20MB/sec.
Indoor environment is usually not sufficiently illuminated. Most compact cameras automatically use the flash in this condition. But the result is not satisfying.By watching this video you will understand that filling the shadows with a simple flash is not a good idea:some areas will end up burned, overexposed. By adding more little lights to the environment (a 4 lights device attached around the lens), the lighting approaches more to the outdoor conditions (softer light).
Another idea for overcoming the problems that come with the use of flash is using a diffuzer. About this, later.
Tip1: Never keep your cameras – digital or film – in your car or in a cold room. Condensation builds up once you enter a warm room or building. That moisture is never welcomed to any electronic gears or glass lenses. Also the cold temperature wears down battery life. Working at a camera repair store, we find this a common problem. Baby your equipment, keep it from moisture, dust, sandy beaches, etc. and carry it in a shock proof bag. Put some silica gel sachets into the bottom of your camera bag. The little sachets will draw any moisture in your bag to them to save your lenses and DSLR from being impacted by it.
Tip 2: Protect your lens. DSLR sensor chips collect dust. You may not even notice that you have dust at all, until you stop down and shoot with a wide lens or macro. Or, you can check the amount of dust by Make your LCD monitor display a white or light grey screen (like the sky for example).Then, all of a sudden it looks like you are looking through an electron microscope or something. Prevention is always better than cleaning. For each lens you own you should consider purchasing a UV or skylight filter. Keep it attached to your lens at all times. In addition to it cutting out UV light they will protect your lens from scratches or even breakage.
Tip 3: Clean Your DSLR’s CCD. A sensor swab is wrapped with a special lint-free cloth and the tip is moistened with a few drops of methanol. This liquid makes the dust particles stick to the cloth for removal; a dry cloth will only push the dust around the sensor. Other than making your light background images look like a case of chicken pox, a moderate to severe accumulation of dust particles will cause a noticeable loss of contrast in your images. In conclusion, make a search for Eclipse fluid or other brands that make sensor cleaning kits. In most camera stores you’ll find an alcohol based lens cleaning fluid that is well worth having. To apply the cleaning fluid grab yourself some lens tissues. These tissues are one use tissues and should be thrown away after using. Don’t use normal facial tissues – these are too rough and will scratch your lens. An alternative to cleaning tissues is the more modern microfiber cleaning cloth.
There is still more to say, many other methods of sensor cleaning, but i told you about the one i find the best. For more information and concrete purcese, check cameraclean.
