PluggedIn: Digital Cameras All the Rage This Christmas
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When families and friends get together for the holidays this year, many more of them will use a digital camera to record those memories.
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Sony's Q&A people get bored the day after Thanksgiving and offer to replace Cybershot cameras whose LCD screens malfunction in warm and humid places. Could be a cool million cameras affected. In Gear Factor.
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My relatives have become accustomed to me brandishing the latest digital gizmo at family gatherings, so when I started snapping photos recently with a new, slightly unorthodox bytecam, they barely expressed casual interest -- until I mentioned the camera's resolution: seven megapixels.
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Though technophiles are the one who usually like to brag about their electronic toys, recently, even tech novices have started crowing about their digital video recorders.
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You may have noticed something similar about the new crop of digital music player-photo display gadgets that began to elbow their way into the market during the holidays. They all had displays that would disappoint everyone but a few philatelists. That's not the case, though, with the Olympus MR-500i, also known as the m:robe.
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Here are CNET reviews of nine digital cameras that compete in the same price range.
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Although photography has been around for generations, its digital overhaul opens up new possibilities. Tell me what you want to find out about. From CNET Blog Networks.
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So, you've got a nifty camera phone or digital camera, and now you want to show off your best shots of your buddy taking a header into a snowbank. Daniel Terdiman looks at several photo-sharing sites.
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Wired takes a look at the latest and greatest in the world of digital cameras. The E-510 nudges digital single-lens reflex cameras another step closer to capturing reality as faithfully as your retinas.
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Digital photo frames expand beyond standalone frames into home appliances.
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By Michelle Kessler  SAN FRANCISCO -- Tim Kelly thought he had found an incredible bargain.    A Nikon CoolPix L6 camera, the perfect Christmas gift for his wife, was on sale for $139 at online retailer USA Photo Nation last month. It usually sells for about $179 in stores.
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MP3 players have made it onto nearly everybody's holiday wish lists. Here is a collection of devices that suit every price range.
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Copyrighting the pyramids...ActivePerl 5.10...4x6 prints for 9 cents...Sony Alpha A700 firmware...customers who appreciate lower-megapixel Fujifilm F30/31 cameras
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How much digital camera can you get for $300? A lot more than last year.
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls... It's with much anticipation that I say this. I have a new product that may be familiar to those of you who used Radio 8, and in other ways may be completely new.  The idea is simple.  There's a convergence between big screen high-definition televisions, and photography as an Internet based activity. The purpose of this product is to smooth that convergence, to make it easy to set up a connection between the Internet and your television. To allow photography to come into your living room in new, powerful and easy ways. Think of it as the networked living room and you'll understand the vision. Some of the work I've done is technical, some is user interface, and some is working with media organizations to try to create a comfort level, or at least a spirit of Let's Give This A Try. In the latter case, it's much like working with the NY Times to get their news headlines and summaries to flow through Radio's RSS aggregator in 2002. Only this time we're working with photographs, and we think, the best news photographers in the world. And the pictures are beautifully high-def, they look really great when displayed on LCD and plasma screens. I use it with my 52-inch Samsung and 46-inch Sony. Of course what looks great on a wall, also looks great on a 15-inch Macbook or 24-inch iMac.   And while we connect those pros with your TV, it's equally important that we connect your friends and families too. One of the early testers found the pictures that Doc Searls uploads to Flickr a great revelation. Me too. That's because Doc is not only a great photographer, he's also a great story-teller. I find that I can follow the lives of far more friends visually than I can through text messages (which I love to do too!). Viewing great photos on bigscreen TVs, desktops and laptops -- that's one focus, but not the only one.  I wanted to provide a complete two-way tool for people who love Flickr, as I do.  Why Flickr? Well, they've got this great thing called an API. It makes it possible for people like me to make software that runs on a desktop computer that does things like automatically backing up your new photos every night, and providing a drop-folder on your desktop for quick uploads. (It understands tags too, it's incredibly simple.) We also made it easy to post pictures you like to Twitter. Why Twitter? It's that API thing again. They made it easy for us to love them. I wish more network service developers understood how powerful this outstretched hand is.  But that's not all! Not by a long shot. The reason all this will be so familiar to Radio 8 users is that it builds on the same engine, the one that was released as open source in 2004. So I've been working on other tools to drop into this base platform and once we have a good-sized base of people using it for "really simple photos" on the desktop, there will be other tools. And because it's an open platform, other developers can do the same. Not saying they will, but they can.  Anyway, I'm in the last stages, preparing the download site, and a FAQ, and tweaking the installer. One caveat, the first beta release is Mac only. That's because I'm doing all my work on the Mac, and this is a one-man show. Later we will work it out for Windows too, and with a bit more work and a bit more luck, for Linux.  It should be ready before the sun goes down today.
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Kevin Tofel explains how to use an iPhone as a portable handheld photo gallery using the beautiful AP wire photos and FlickrFan.   I did a Qik video demo using my Nokia N95. Lots of computers involved, the quality ain't great but the idea is pretty neat.
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In June, on a trip to Italy, I wanted a copy of a picture a stranger was taking. "What if his camera, as it was taking the picture, also broadcast the bits to every other camera in range. My camera, sitting in my napsack would detect a picture being broadcast, and would capture it. (Or my cell phone, or iPod.)" Then on August 29, a review in the NY Times of the Fujifilm Z10fd said it could beam photos to other cameras that support the IRSimple protocol. Unfortunately the camera wouldn't ship until October. Well, it's now November, the camera is shipping. Yet none of the reviews on Amazon mention its social feature. I was thinking of getting one, but then what's the point if no one else has it? According to the reviews it's a fairly ordinary digital camera otherwise. (Though it has a "blog mode" which is mentioned but not adequately explained in the video ad.) So -- do you think this this baby bootstraps? Are social cameras here now, or a thing of the future?