Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III Packs 21MP

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III Packs 21MPMad for it photographers will be looking to put their grannies on eBay come October when Canon’s high end EOS-1DS Mark III full-frame digital SLR hits UK stores.

With a sensor capable of producing files that convert to uncompressed 16-bit TIFFs over 100MB in size, this camera doesn’t just raise the bar for photo professionals – it gives it an almighty boot skywards.
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Retouching Service Turns Pageant Children Into Plastic Freakshows

Retouching Service Turns Pageant Children Into Plastic FreakshowsWe’ve seen some mighty weird things on the Internet over the years, but this American- based Profes- sional Pageant Photo retouching site easily has to be one of the spookiest things to appear on our screens for a long time.
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Samsung Announce NV8, NV15 and NV20 Cameras

Samsung have let rip with three new models to their NV series of point’n’shooters – the eight mega pixel NV8, 10 mega pixel NV15 and 12 mega pixel NV20.

All three new cameras feature the unique Smart Touch interface which lets users navigate through the menus by sliding a finger across the control buttons running outside the cameras’ 2.5″ LCD screen.
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Nokia Acquires Media Sharing Site Twango

Nokia Acquires Media Sharing Site TwangoNokia has just added photo sharing service Twango to their swagbag, giving punters an easy way to share multimedia content through their desktop and mobile devices.

Founded by former Microsoft veterans, Twango is a site for sharing multimedia content (photos, video, audio) offering a wide range of options for people to manage, share, and repurpose their content.
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Panasonic DMC-FZ18 Superzoom Camera Announced

Panasonic DMC-FZ18 Superzoom Camera AnnouncedPanasonic has taken the wraps off the the latest model in their FZ superzoom series, the FZ18 which packs an astonishing eighteen times optical zoom.

Sporting a relatively modest 8 megapixel sensor, the SLR-style camera offers an ‘Intelligent Auto Mode’, Face detection, automatic LCD backlight control and high ISO performance.
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Taking Gadgets To Glastonbury Festival

Taking Gadgets To Glastonbury FestivalLeaving the safety and relative sanity of our London office for a six day soiree at Glastonbury, we thought carefully about what gadgets to pack. Being veterans of Glasto – and all too familiar with the minging mudbath of 2005 – we made sure to pack ample waterproof clothing and bring along plenty of plastic bags for wrapping up our gadgets against the inevitable rain.
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX100 Digital Compact Announced

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX100 Digital Compact AnnouncedRocking up on the 12 megapixel bandwagon is Panasonic, who have just announced their new Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX100 digicam, a sweet-looking snapper sporting a 1/1.72-inch sensor, 28mm wide-angle zoom and image stabilisation.

Shimmying its way to the vanguard of the Lumix FX compact camera series, the Lumix FX100 packs Panasonic’s Venus Engine III processor supporting a High-Speed Burst shooting mode that can knock out a sizzling eight shots per second, with a High Sensitivity mode taking the sensitivity into the stratospheric heights of 6400 ISO.
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