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Sean Dodson: How the video camera has become a gadget for everyone (Guardian Unlimited)
In 1983, the Sony Corporation of Japan launched a device on a largely unsuspecting world. The Sony Betamovie became the world's first commercial camcorder, using videotape, not film. Despite retailing at around £1,200 - then around the cost of a decent second-hand car - the Betamovie camera helped usher in one of the most defining and disruptive cultural activities of the 1980s: the home ...
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Sony's Cyber-shot DSC-G3 with WiFi diddled by the FCC (Engadget)
Filed under: Digital Cameras The FCC didn't give us much to go on here besides these wireframe images and a few radiation reports. From that we can tell you that Sony's about to release its new DSC-G3 Cyber-shot boasting 802.11b/g WiFi. As a followup to the WiFi-packing DSC-G1 announced more than a year ago, we're expecting the 3.5-inch LCD (now probably touchscreen like the T700 ) ...
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A cheap camcorder in every pocket (Guardian Unlimited)
Environment, science & technology: Now a ubiquitous tool, the video camera has become a gadget for everyone, says Sean Dodson
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New digital camcorders put lots of creative power in your pocket (Seattle Times)
Two new pocket-size digital camcorders I've been testing should make any amateur videographer — and those who want to be one ...
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Got $18,000? Grab a Hasselblad camera while it's cheap (CNET)
Hasselblad cuts the price of its lower-end medium-format digital camera. Perhaps it will keep medium-format photographers from straying into the 35mm SLR fold.
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New Nikon is first SLR to shoot video (USA Today)
Video clips on point-and-shoot digital cameras are great: Why not use them on cool digital SLRs as well? Nikon hopes to hammer that point with the release of its latest digital single-lens reflex camera, the D90, expected in stores next month for $1,299 with a lens. Nikon is billing the D90 as the first SLR with video capability.
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Breakthrough Nikon SLR shoots standard and HD video (USA Today)
Video clips on point-and-shoot digital cameras are great: Why not use them on cool digital SLRs as well?
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Kodak bows low-cost touch photo frame (MacNN)
Kodak on Thursday pushed the cost of digital photo frames down slightly courtesy of the EasyShare P520. While small with just a five-inch 4:3 screen, the photo screen has the American camera maker's touch-sensitive border controls for changing settings without dirtying the screen. It also permits swappable borders to match the look of a given home with a less artificial look than some ...
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Camcorders offer pocket-size simplicity (Chicago Tribune)
Digital camcorders from Kodak, Pure Digital Technologies make it easy for amateurs T wo new pocket-size digital camcorders I've been testing should make any amateur videographer—and those who want to be one—a capable shooter ready to share memories with friends or upload to YouTube.
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From Silver Dust to Smilin' Gus: Make Your Own Daguerreotype (Wired News)
Louis Daguerre's original process for creating ghostly silver images is still in practice today. And, minus a few innovations, it's just as intricate and expensive as it was back in the early 1800's. Here's how to capture your own silver-plated magical moments.
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