GE Shows Off New Digital Camera

By Shane McGlaun

When I hear the name GE, digital cameras are not what spring to mind. I think of light bulbs really. Still GE has a full line of digital cameras and other stuff that doesn’t have to do with lighting our homes.

The company announced its latest digital camera recently called the E1250TW. The cam sports a 12.2-megapixel resolution and a 28mm wide angle lens with 5x optical zoom. The most interesting feature of the camera is that the 3-inch LCD is touch sensitive.

Other features include auto scene detection HDTV out, face detection, blink detection, smile detection, an auto adjust LCD, and red-eye removal. A special mode allows users to shoot panoramic images as well. The camera is available now on HSN and on Amazon.com.

The latest Samsung’s PL10 digital camera can play MP3s

The Samsung PL10 is a latest 9 mega pixel multimedia digital camera. The Samsung PL10 (also known as the Samsung Samsung CL5) features a 2.7 inch LCD screen as well as PMP (Personal Multimedia Player) with integrated MP3 player. New is noticeable facial appearance of the PL10 including facade acknowledgment, Perfect portrayal System, Smart Auto and Frame guide? The Samsung PL10 in the UK the Samsung PL10 strength of character is available from April 2009 in silvery, royal black, imaginative red, candy pink and purple designed for £179.

Olympus Stylus Tough-8000/Tough-6000 Digital Cameras

When Olympus decided to call their new digital cameras the Tough series, they really weren’t kidding.

Olympus Stylus Tough 8000 Digital Camera

In terms of specifications, the Tough-8000 comes with 12 megapixels of resolution whereas the Tough-6000 has 10 megapixels.

Where the fun starts is with the other things Olympus claims these latest digital cameras can do. For instance, the Tough-8000 can be dropped from 6.6 feet in height, can go down to a depth of 33 feet as well as withstand pressures of up to 220 lbs and it will “laugh at freezing temperatures.”

The Tough-6000 isn’t quite so tough, but still impressive in that it can be dropped from 5 feet and can go to depths of 10 feet.

Nikon D2Xs

20 improvements in Nikon D2Xs. Tthe viewfinder has been improved. It may still offer the same 100% viewing of the scene and the 0.86% magnification, but the screen is brighter, says Nikon, thanks to the new Brite-View Clear Matte Mark III viewing screen. And the screen is available as both a clear option or gridded, for compositional aid. Better still, Nikon has improved the viewfinder’s functionality in the high-speed crop mode. Both this camera and the previous model use just 6.7 megapixels in high-speed mode to pass the 8fps images through the buffer. This smaller image size meant that, for accurate composition, a separate viewfinder screen had to be used, with lines showing the image edges. Now, the D2Xs shades the extraneous area in the viewfinder, making it much easier to switch between image sizes and continuous shooting speeds. Furthermore, the Colour Matrix Metering has been improved to allow for the smaller image format, instead of metering from the full area. Another obvious addition is the 2.5inch LCD. This isn’t larger than the previous version, but offers a wider viewing angle both horizontally and vertically of 170° – the same as the D200 and new D80.

Nikon D2X an improvement in the camera AF speed in the new model, with improved tracking in continuous AF mode and better subject finding, thanks to the Multi-CAM2000 AF module. Another major improvement is the inclusion of Adobe RGB in all three-colour modes; previously this was limited and sRGB was the predominant colour space. Nikon has also added more custom curves and custom-function options as well as an in-camera crop feature to the D2Xs. Similarly there is now a black-and-white option, which is available as a NEF and JPEG file, so you can also return the colour using the NEF file if the image isn’t working for you. Nikon also claims to have lengthened the battery life, and the D2Xs can now shoot up to 3,800 images on a single charge. An improved battery gauge shows the number of shots taken since the last charge, the percentage of power left and overall battery status. Finally, there have been improvements to the image data, with better EXIF data, additional GPS information (if used with a GPS system), and the system is now Image Authentication-compatible. Incidentally, the D2Xs uses a new NEF format, so RAW files need to be converted via the new Nikon NX software .