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EasyShare Z915 Blue Digital Camera - Lowest Price: $127.49


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Published Feb. 11, 2010 at 9:06 a.m.
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Take photography to the next level. Whether you are zooming in on fast action shots or taking a picture of your surroundings, the Z915 is the camera that can handle it. And it's surprisingly simple to use ...

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Garmin-Asus nuvifone A50 runs Android, knows where you are turn-by-turn


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Published Feb. 11, 2010 at 4:00 a.m.
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The long rumored Nuvifone jump to Android is here just as we get set to kick off Mobile World Congress next week. Garmin and ASUS claim that the A50 brings "more location technology than any other smartphone" with a plethora of location-aware apps making use of a highly sensitive (though unnamed) GPS receiver. Spec-wise, the A50 packs a 3.5-inch HVGA (that's 480x320 pixels, presumably) capacitive touchscreen with custom, finger-friendly UI, 4GB of internal storage with microSD expansion, and

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No-name Mini USB pico projector now the cheapest you can buy


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Published Feb. 10, 2010 at 10:03 p.m.
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It was fun while it lasted, but Sanwa's once $119 pico projector is now selling for no less than $179, which means that it's no longer able to hold the prestigious title of "world's cheapest pico projector." As far as we can tell, that honor now belongs to this impressively boxy model known only as the "Mini USB 2.0 LED Projector w/Tripod," which is now available at various online retailers for $159.99. Specs are as basic as can be, of course -- but, hey, it comes with a tripod ... No-name Mini

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Shooting Challenge: A Wonky Sense of Scale [Photography]


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Published Feb. 10, 2010 at 4:20 p.m.
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For this week's Shooting Challenge, we're playing with the human mind. How do you know something in a picture is really that large or small? Or put differently, why the hell did no one tell me I was a giant?? ... The Challenge ... Trick our sense of scale using forced perspective. In other words, I ask that no one goes the tilt-shift or macro route. We're not creating miniatures through lens distortion as much as we're abusing the basic laws of perspective for our adolescent giggles ... The

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Nikon Announces Two New Pro Lenses


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Published Feb. 8, 2010 at 10:33 a.m.

Nikon's 24mm f/1.4 and 16-35mm f/4 VR II offer wide-angle options for pros ...

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Olympus intros $600 12.3 megapixel PEN E-PL1 Micro Four Thirds camera


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Published Feb. 3, 2010 at 1:01 a.m.
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It certainly took them long enough, but Olympus has finally (finally!) introduced a Micro Four Thirds camera with a price tag that's a little closer to earth. If you'll recall, both of the previous PENs cost upwards of $750, but the E-PL1 touts a much more reasonable MSRP of $599.99. And that doesn't mean Olympus has been stingy on features. Nope, quite the contrary as the the minuscule body is packed with the same 12.3 megapixel image sensor as the E-30 and E-620 (check the images in the

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Olympus PEN E-PL1 Hands On: The Cheap Micro Four Thirds Camera for Everybody (with Flash!) [Digital Cameras]


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Published Feb. 3, 2010 at 1:00 a.m.
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It leaked earlier today, but we're still pretty struck by Olympus's latest micro four thirds camera, the E-PL1. Why? It has a built-in flash (finally!). And it's $600, making it the cheapest micro four thirds camera around ... The E-PL1 takes the opposite tack of the E-P2, stepping down a rung. So, you're probably wondering what you give up to shave off that couple hundred bucks. Shockingly little. It's got the same sensor as every other micro four thirds camera. But it's not as solidly built as

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Nikon Coolpix P100 26x Superzoom: Their First 1080p Video Camera [Digital Cameras]


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Published Feb. 2, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.
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Oh, I've waited for this day. The day Nikon delivered legit HD video. Not only does the P100 deliver full 1080p video in H.264, it shoots 120FPS bursts, and goes with a 10MP CMOS sensor for better low-light performance. Yeah ... It is a superzoom—26x (26mm-678mm), which is a little shorter than what Fuji or Olympus dropped over the last couple of days—which I'm admittedly prone to disliking, but there's a lot here in what's easily Nikon's flagship point-and-shoot ... It's the first Coolpix

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Nikon S8000 and Friends Smuggle Big Lenses in Tight, Uh, Spaces [Digital Cameras]


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Published Feb. 2, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.
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Nikon's S series are their flashier point-and-shoots, and the S8000 is the splashiest: Super skinny, but it's got a 10x zoom lens, crazy crispy 3-inch, 921,000-dot display and it shoots 720p video. Plus, uh, look at it ... The S8000 and the next step down, the S6000, both shoot at 14MP (I predict noiiiise) and 720p vid at 30fps, though the S6000 has less zoom (7x) crammed in a skinnier 1-inch frame. The S8000 is $300, while the S6000 is $250 ... The S4000 is their new touchcam, which seemed more

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Photographer Loves Math, Graphs Her Images


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Published Feb. 2, 2010 at 8:00 p.m.
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Math and photography student Nikki Graziano combines her two favorite things by overlaying graphs and their equations on carefully composed images she's captured ...

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