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Smile, You’re on (Digital) Camera: TASER’s New Police Minicam and the CloudNews from Scientific American:
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TASER, best known for their electric shock guns, has a new product: Tiny, sunglass-mounted cameras that upload live footage from a cop’s P.O.V.
February 21, 2012

By Neal Ungerleider
TASER, best known for their electric shock guns, has a new product: Tiny, sunglass-mounted cameras that upload live footage from a cop’s P.O.V. to the cloud. The idea? They will help prevent police brutality lawsuits and increase accountability.

Taser has unveiled a line [...] Continue Reading…

Pick of the pixels from this year’s CP+ showNews from The Japan Times:Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012
One of the highlights of this month’s CP+ Camera and Photo Imaging Show 2012 in Yokohama was Nikon’s new D800 digital SLR camera, aimed at multimedia photographers and videographers. The 36-megapixel monster is once again spurring the debate over how many megapixels is too many megapixels.

The D800 is the successor to Nikon’s D700, which was released in July of 2008. That was a 12.1-megapixel camera, and the D800 is exactly three times that, with [...] Continue Reading…

Sony prepares new APS-C compact camera rival to Canon’s G1 XNews from SlashGear:

Highly trusted sources of Sony Alpha Rumors have revealed that Sony has plans to one up Canon’s G1X (as pictured below). This new compact camera is expected to have a DSLR-grade APS-C sensor with a fixed zoom lens. Although still only a rumor, the site gives it its highest “SR5″ rating of being “almost certainly correct!”

Sony’s new offering doesn’t quite have a name yet, but sources say that it will compete most directly against the Canon [...] Continue Reading…

Canon PowerShot S100 12MP 5x Digital Camera w/GPS for $ 404 + free shippingNews from CNET:

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BuyDig offers the Canon PowerShot S100 12.1-Megapixel Digital Camera in Black, model no. 5244B001, for $ 404 with free shipping. That’s $ 4 under our mention from last week and the lowest total price we could find by $ 11, outside the price below. It features a 3″ LCD, 24mm wide-angle f/2 lens, 5x optical zoom, dedicated movie button, 1920×1080 (1080p) video recording, optical image stabilization, SD/SDHC [...] Continue Reading…

Nikon 1 J1 Mirrorless Digital Camera with 10-30 mm VR Zoom LensNews from Australian Macworld:

Nikon 1 J1

Nikon, www.mynikonlife.com.au
Pros 
Very small form factor; fast; advanced video features

Cons 
Less than stellar video/audio quality; menu dependent for most functions; minimal external controls

RRP $ 996

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Nikon launched its first mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras, the Nikon 1 J1 and its more advanced sibling, the V1, last fall. The Nikon 1 J1 is the smaller and more affordable of the two, although both were designed from the ground up around a 10 megapixel (effective) CMOS [...] Continue Reading…

Nikon D800 DSLR Camera Release Date Set in MarchNews from Z6Mag:

Nikon announced on Monday, February 6, 2012 their new professional D800 FX-format digital SLR camera. It will take pictures at a resolution of 36.3 megapixels which is the highest for any commercial DSLR camera.
Bo Kajiwara, director of marketing, Nikon Inc said in a press release, “Whatever the project, visionaries need a tool that is going to help them stay on-time and on-task. The Nikon D800 re-imagines what is possible from this level of D-SLR, to address the needs of an [...] Continue Reading…

Battle of the Big Android Phones: LG Announces 5-inch Optimus VuNews from PC Magazine:

February 19, 2012 05:08pm EST

Hey, you got your tablet in my smartphone! You got your smartphone in my tablet.

And now, LG is hoping to get its newly announced Optimus Vu smartphone into the market previously owned by Samsung’s Galaxy Note – the world of the ultra-sized devices, that is.

Not content to wait for this year’s Mobile World Congress to unveil its big ol’ smartphone, LG has released some pictures and confirmed the specs of [...] Continue Reading…

Focus on digital camera savingsNews from Springfield News Sun:

By Robin McMacken, Contributing Writer 12:27 PM Saturday, February 18, 2012
Editor’s note: Every Sunday in Life, Steals and Deals will examine all aspects of shopping: from consumer hints and strategies to fabulous finds, local deals and what’s trending.
I have three point-and-shoot digital cameras — two Nikon Coolpix and a Canon Sure Shot — a digital Nikon D100 SLR and a vintage, I suppose, Olympus Pentax.
My world view is a girl can never have enough cameras — especially when she has five [...] Continue Reading…

Canon PowerShot G1 XNews from CNET:
Canon PowerShot G1 X photo samples
What you think about the Canon PowerShot G1 X depends upon whether you view it as a cheap alternative to the Fujifilm X100 or an expensive competitor to a lot of other fixed and interchangeable-lens models. That’s because the price of the camera sets it apart from the crowd as much as the large-ish sensor does. But despite delivering on image quality and having a pretty nice shooting design, the lens, and to a lesser extent the shooting performance, [...] Continue Reading…

Focus on digital camera savingsNews from Dayton Daily News:

By Robin McMacken, Contributing Writer 12:27 PM Saturday, February 18, 2012
Editor’s note: Every Sunday in Life, Steals and Deals will examine all aspects of shopping: from consumer hints and strategies to fabulous finds, local deals and what’s trending.
I have three point-and-shoot digital cameras — two Nikon Coolpix and a Canon Sure Shot — a digital Nikon D100 SLR and a vintage, I suppose, Olympus Pentax.
My world view is a girl can never have enough cameras — especially when she has five [...] Continue Reading…