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Canon's 120Mp APS-H Sensor

Canon successfully develops world’s first APS-H-size CMOS image sensor to realize record-high resolution of 120 megapixels.

TOKYO, August 24, 2010—Canon Inc. announced today that it has successfully developed an APS-H-size^*1 CMOS image sensor that delivers an image resolution of approximately 120 megapixels (13,280 x 9,184 pixels), the world’s highest level^*2 of resolution for its size.

Compared with Canon’s highest-resolution commercial CMOS sensor of the same size, comprising approximately 16.1 million pixels, the newly developed sensor features a pixel count that, at approximately 120 million pixels, is nearly 7.5 times larger and offers a 2.4-fold improvement in resolution.^{*3 /} Read the full Press Release here.

In order to compete with other 1080 HD and High ISO DSLR offerings out there, Nikon have just released their much anticipated replacement for the D3000.

Nikon D3100

Pre-order yours:
here with 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 VR for $699-95
or
here with 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 VR and 55-200mm f/4-5.6G VR for $949-95

Specifications:

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Whilst the UK and various EU countries have grounded air travel, photographers are smiling all the way to their digital homes with the amazing photo opportunities it brings. Watch European photographers emerging images of the ash clouds, sunsets, lava and fireworks as they upload them to Flickr. Some crazier than others of course! (See pic below!)

We get these red sunsets all the time in Africa
Click the photo below to see more images about the event as the world’s photog’s capture it!
or here for the “Yahoo Editor’s Pick” Gallery: Volcano in Iceland

Playing with the Devil by skarpi

Shelved

Time to shelve your camera??? What will our overpowering, non-participative Governments come up with next?
Are they justifying their positions in those haughty halls by implementing bill after bill, law after law with their usual disdain for incorporating those affected by such laws?

Enough already! How are you going to take a photo of your loved ones below the Eiffel tower without capturing a complete stranger at the same time!

Although published in 2007, this debate continues today, as it should.

Below a quote from this worrying article called “UK Gov nationalises orphans and bans non-consensual photography in public” from the folks over at Copyright Action:

The ICO code : put that camera away, my face is private

Not content with abrogating photographers’ copyright, another part of Government is now going some way to ban photography altogether in public places, for data protection reasons. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) proposed new code for personal information online has “commonsense” new rules that in effect will prohibit photography in public places where anyone who’s in the photograph might be unhappy about being photographed. A photo, taken in public, is now deemed private data, y’see. CCTV, full body scans at airports, no problem, but if an ordinary person takes a photo, this Kafkasesque notion of privacy in public will apply. Unless it’s on film. You’d probably be OK taking photos of someone committing a criminal offence too, as ICO thinks this shouldn’t be private information.

Canon EOS 550D

Canon has announced a new addition to its EOS range of DSLR cameras – the 18 Megapixel EOS 550D – which incorporates technologies and features more commonly found in semi-professional DSLRs, such as the EOS 7D. In a compact, lightweight body the EOS 550D includes a newly developed 18 Megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor, Canon’s advanced DIGIC 4 image processor and the ability to shoot Full 1920x1080p HD movies.

Buy it here with EF-S 18-55mm IS lens.

Read more about it here.

Mrs Barbara Gregory (Image from the BBC)

A South African couple who lost their digital camera when it slipped overboard from a cruise ship have been traced after a Spanish fisherman hauled the device from the Atlantic sea floor a year and a half later.

Benito Estevez, of Spain, found the camera in his nets with five of the photos still intact on the memory card and uploaded the images to the web.

Barbara and Dennis Gregory, were en-route from New York to Southampton on the Queen Mary 2 in 2008 when they lost their camera in the ocean.

Nikon P90

Various online reports state the camera was a Nikon P90. The memory card brand has not been released. Sounds like a good advertising / marketing opportunity.

Read the full story here.

Click there > P100, S8000, S6000, S4000, S3000, L110, L22

Nikon D3S digital SLR and AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED

Nikon Corporation (Michio Kariya, President) is pleased to announce that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has placed an order for eleven D3S digital SLR cameras and seven AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED lenses to be used for photographic documentation.
The D3S digital SLR cameras and AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED lenses ordered by NASA will be carried on the Space Shuttle and used to photograph activities at the International Space Station (ISS) in the future.
No special modifications will be made to these products. They will be the same products available to end-users, confirming the incredible versatility of the D3S. This equipment will be used along with the Nikon D2XS digital SLR cameras, NIKKOR lenses, and Nikon Speedlights already in use at the International Space Station. (continue reading…)