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Sony’s slim and stylish W180/W190 digicams

Kunal Gangar — Thu, 28 May 2009 05:28:16 +0000

Sony has announced W180 and W190 Cyber-Shot cameras for customers looking for a pocket friendly solution. Both the cameras have identical features except the megapixel count, which is 10.1 and 12.1 for W180 and W190 respectively. The common features include 3x optical zoom, 17x( W180)/18x (W190) digital zoom, 2.7-inch Clear Photo LCD, SteadyShot, face detection up to 8 faces, Smile Shutter and ISO sensitivity up to 3200. Sony will also bundle a PC software for managing sharing the collection on YouTube, Picasa, Flickr etc. The cameras will ship from July 2009.

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Samsung Point-and-Shoot HZ1 does HD video recording

Kunal Gangar — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:27:57 +0000

At Photokina 2008 in Germany, Samsung unveiled HZ1, a 10.2 megapixel camera from the point-and-shoot line. It is equipped with a 10X optical zoom, nice 24mm wide lens and best of all, it can record videos in 720p HD resolution at 30fps. Other features you can expect from this are the features like Face/Blink/Smile detection, red-eye fix, photo style selector and dual image stabilization. The price and availability are not revealed yet.

[Via Akihabaranews]

Canon Powershot G10 stuck between DSLR and Point-and-Shoot nomenclature

Kunal Gangar — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:04:51 +0000

Canon revealed, G10 the top of the line Powershot digital camera from the G-Series. It is an upgrade over its predecessor G9 which gives the benefits of shooting RAW images just like a DSLR but in a small compact form factor of a point-and-shoot camera. G10 is equipped with 14.7 megapixel sensor, 5X optical zoom, 3-inch LCD, DIGIC 4 imaging processor with features like advanced face/motion detection, image stabilization, intelligent contrast correction and Servo AF. Servo AF is a form of continuous focus tracking for moving subjects.

The camera will be available from October at a price of $500.

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