| U.S. Digital Camera Sales Soar | | Posted Friday, January 05, 2007 2:49:04 PM by Blog57 Team | | U.S. digital camera sales have boomed this year, helping to send stock in many of the industry's biggest players soaring. Canon Inc.'s U.S.-listed shares rose more than 40 percent last year. Nikon Corp.'s American depositary shares, though thinly traded, rose more than 34 percent. Eastman Kodak Co. rose 10 percent. The reason for the surge: Americans are turning in their old digital cameras for newer, smaller and more powerful models more quickly than analysts had been expecting. With prices dropping and manufacturers packing more features into successive models, U.S. consumers are upgrading their digital cameras after about three years instead of the four initially predicted, Merrill Lynch analyst Ryohei Takahashi wrote in a recent research note. After initially expecting year-over-year volume growth of 10 percent for digital still cameras in North America, Canon instead saw 30 percent in year-over-year January-October growth, Takahashi said.... | |
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| | | Canon Recalls its Powershot Digicams | | Posted Thursday, December 28, 2006 12:47:49 PM by Blog57 Team | | Canon recently announced that a small number of their Powershot A530 and A540 digital cameras may have an over heating problem. In case you own any of the above two camera, this is what you need to look out for: The bottom of the camera becomes extremely hot near the battery cover.Batteries that are loaded are depleted quickly.The number of shots that can be taken becomes extremely small. Cameras with "21", "22", "23", "24", as the first two numbers from the left are reported as the ones that may be facing this problem. .... | |
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| | | The man with the plan for restoration | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 6:49:18 PM by Blog57 Team | | Chelius H. Carter joined the preservation triage teams that combed the Mississippi Coast in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath for properties of cultural, architectural or historical significance that might be saved. The Holly Springs restoration consultant and other history "triagers," as they called themselves, were frustrated because they had no monetary resources to help storm-beleaguered homeowners. So what this mixture of architects, engineers and restoration specialists did was search for damaged structures, study them and put together reports in hopes the owners would consider repairing instead of bulldozing. If these volunteer experts from across the nation couldn't find the homeowner, they'd leave the papers in a waterproof packet and hope someone would find them.... | |
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| | | Canon signs Tendulkar as global brand ambassador | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 6:51:51 AM by Blog57 Team | | Sachin is only the second sportsperson to be endorsing Canon products after Russian tennis ace Maria Sharapova but the two great sporting personalities are unlikely to figure jointly in promoting the company's products at present, company's Singapore branch President and CEO Kazuto Ogawa said in Mumbai. "With Sachin we are going to focus mainly on the Indian market. Depending upon the popularity of cricket we may consider expanding it. But at present there's no move to bring Sachin and Sharapova together (for brand promotions)," he said. Sachin said he was a keen enthusiast of photography since childhood and had seen the TV cameras of the company, which he will start endorsing from the new year, since the time of his first international outing in Pakistan 17 years ago.... | |
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| | | Asian Stocks Drop, Led by Canon, Hyundai Motor; Hong Kong Gains | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 10:50:02 AM by Blog57 Team | | Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Asian stocks dropped after a report showed growth among U.S. manufacturers slowed. Canon Inc., Venture Corp. and Hyundai Motor Co. led declines by companies that rely on sales in the world's largest economy. ``The manufacturing slowdown is a reflection of weaker U.S. domestic demand and that's definitely a negative for Asian exporters,'' said Steven Lim, who helps manage $300 million at Daiwa SB Investments in Singapore. The Morgan Stanley Capital International Asia-Pacific Index dropped 0.4 percent to 132.36 as of 2:20 p.m. in Tokyo. Nine of the measure's 10 industry groups fell. Japan's Nikkei 225 Stock Average lost 0.6 percent to 16,271.32, while Australia's S&P/ASX 200 Index slipped 0.1 percent from an all-time high. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index rose, set to close above 18,500 for the first time.... | |
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| | | Digital camera sneak peak | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 12:52:47 PM by Blog57 Team | | Now that so many of us have entered the realm of digital photography, what's next? Most modern cameras take excellent pictures. So, what are manufacturers doing to make them different and better? That's what the annual PhotoPlus Expo hopes to answer each year. "We have visitors come from all over the United States, international visitors come to take a look at the show. It's a mix of prosumer and professional/consumer products. You'll find everything from top-of-the-line professional cameras here to point and shoot cameras and printers," David Schloss of Photo District News said. "We're starting to see a lot of technology that's made to make things easier for the consumer to get a better picture than even the professionals used to get a couple years ago." Without question, the hot new feature that's showing up in just about every brand new digital camera face is detection technology.... | |
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| | | Adobe's Camera Raw, DNG Converter v3.6 | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 10:51:03 PM by Blog57 Team | | Adobe has updated its Camera Raw plug-in for Adobe Photoshop CS2, extending raw file support to 13 additional camera models. The Camera Raw 3.6 plugin builds on the raw file support integrated in Photoshop CS2 for digital cameras from leading manufacturers including Canon, Fuji, Nikon and Panasonic. The camera raw functionality in the Adobe digital imaging software line provides fast and easy access to the raw image formats produced by professional and mid-range digital cameras, allowing photographers to easily manipulate raw files without sacrificing any image quality, saving time while increasing artistic control and flexibility. The company also released Adobe DNG Converter v.36, an free update to its Universal Binary utility that converts files from more than 130 cameras to the DNG file format.... | |
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| | | Canon Q3 profit rises; expects printer price squeeze | | Posted Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:50:32 AM by Blog57 Team | | TOKYO, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Canon Inc. , the world's top maker of copiers and digital cameras, on Thursday posted a 20 percent rise in quarterly profit, and also raised slightly its annual forecast on expectations currency gains will make up for a price slump of inkjet printers. Canon expects operating profit of 691 billion yen ($5.82 billion) in 2006, up just 1 billion yen from its previous target. "Inkjet prices are expected to fall further than our initial expectations," Canon's senior managing director Toshizo Tanaka said at a news conference in Tokyo. "Sales of consumables haven't really come through either." But still, Canon expects a 18.5 percent jump in operating profit this year, a seventh year of record profit, on strong demand for its wide line-up of office gear and digital cameras, luring both professionals and consumers.... | |
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| | | DigitalCameraInfo.Com and CamcorderInfo.Com Name the Best Digital Cameras and Camcorders of 2006 | | Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 2:49:47 PM by Blog57 Team | | Boston, MA (PRWEB) October 25, 2006 -- To make choosing a new digital camera or camcorder one of the simplest tasks on your holiday shopping list this season, consumer products guru Robin Liss and her dedicated teams of reviewers and editors have released the DigitalCameraInfo Select 2006 and the CamInfo Select 2006, their comprehensive lists of the best products in every category. .... | |
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| | | Review: Canon Powershot A640 digital camera | | Posted Saturday, October 21, 2006 10:48:05 PM by Blog57 Team | | Although they offer the ultimate in quality and flexibility, digital SLRs are simply too big for most of us to carry around all day. At the other end of the spectrum, ultra-compacts slip easily into any pocket but simply can't deliver level of image quality the serious photographer demands. Though far from huge, the Powershot A640 from Canon is larger than many compact digital cameras on the market. It's just big enough to fit in all the features and components you'd want without compromise, and without resorting to fiddly buttons, but it's small enough to fit into a small bag or a large pocket. Rather than using a tiny lithium-ion power pack. A hand grip to the right houses four AA-sized batteries behind a door shared with the SD card slot. Incorporating a 10megapixel sensor and a 4x optical zoom lens with nine-point autofocus, the A640's impressive specification makes it ideal for enthusiasts, while its 21 scene modes and intelligent analysis programs ensure that novice users too can take high-quality pictures.... | |
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