The new Pentax Optio W60 digicam is planned to hit japan market late this month. As a waterproof camera, the Optio W60 allows you to take a picture down to 4 meters underwater as long as 2 hours. This 10 Mp camera available in silver and ocean blue. Other features include 5x optical zoom lens, a 2.5-inch LCD, supports up to ISO 1600 and HD video recording.
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Announced back in February, the new DA 17-70mm f/4 AL [IF] SDM lens finally launched by Pentax. The lens is compatible with the K20D, K200D, K100D Super and K10D and later Pentax dSLR cameras. And it comes with a 4.1X zoom ratio covering wide-angle to moderate-telephoto ranges, and covers a focal-length range from 26mm wide angle to 107mm telephoto in the 35mm format.
SPECIFICATIONS
• Lens mount: PENTAX KAF3 mount • Lens construction: 17 elements in 12 groups • Angle of view: 79° – 23° (with PENTAX D-SLR camera body) • Number of diaphragm blades: 7 • Minimum aperture: F/22 • Minimum focusing distance: 0.28m (0.92 ft.) • Filter size: 67mm • Maximum magnification: 0.31X • Dimensions (diameter x length): 75mm x 93.5mm (3.0 inch x 3.7 inch) • Weight: 485g (17.1 oz.) without hood; 515g (18.2 oz.) with hood
Measuring 9 x 1.12 x 5.45cm, the new Sanyo Xacti DMX-HD1010 is the latest HD Camcorder from Sanyo that’s expected to hit Japanese market this month. The camcorder features 10x optical zoom, 2.7-inch LCD display, SD/SDHC card for storage, and built in neutral density filter. Beside its capability to record video and capture still image, the camcorder also coming with built in stereo microphone and mono speaker.
Nikon just announced its latest photo editing software, the Capture NX 2. As the successor of Capture NX software, the NX 2 comes with new features including the the all-new Selection Control Point tool and the new Auto Retouch Brush.
Capture NX 2 introduces the all-new Selection Control Point tool, which allows users to carry out nearly any image adjustment to a specific area with just a point-and-click to make the selection. Whether applying an Unsharp Mask to just the eyes in a portrait, a Gaussian Blur to only the background of a photograph or D-Lighting to open up the shadows, the Selection Control Point makes it easy to do. What once was a complex and tedious task now takes just a fraction of the time
Designed and made along with Olympic spirit, the new Panasonic HDC-SD8K HD Camcorder equipped with 10x optical zoom, 2.7-inch LCD display, and 8GB SDHC card that allow users to capture all favorite Olympic moments without worrying ‘out of space’. Price: $ 1280.
As a camera phone, the new NEC N906i is more phone than camera. But as we’re here to talk about camera, lets see the camera side. The N906i sports 5 MP image sensor and enhanced with face detector to automatically snap away when a sweet smile detected by the lens. And for picture preview, the camera equipped with 3-inch large VGA screen of 640 x 480 screen resolution. This camera phone available in Japan through NTT DoCoMo.
