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March 9th, 2010

Transcend’s compact flash cards for digital SLR photography enthusiasts (Manila Bulletin)

Transcend is offering its ‘’Ultimate’’ 600X and ‘’Premium’’ 400X CompactFlash cards featuring unmatched transfer rates and enormous storage capacity. These are ideal for photo and video enthusiasts, allowing them to take full advantage of their high-resolution equipment. Transcend Ultimate 600X — Unparalleled Transfer Speeds

March 9th, 2010

Pentax gets official with 40 megapixel 645D medium format camera (Engadget)

We had a hunch that Pentax was readying a 645 Digital , and sure enough, the company has come clean with that very camera today. The May-bound 40 megapixel 645D is a medium format beast, but unlike similar options from Hasselblad , this one won’t actually destroy your hopes of sending four generations of offspring to college. Boasting a 44mm x 33mm sensor, a 3-inch rear LCD and a virtually …

March 9th, 2010

Canon Says China May Become Top Camera Market in 2015 (Update2) (Bloomberg)

March 10 (Bloomberg) — Canon Inc. expects China’s camera market to become the world’s largest as early as 2015, overtaking the U.S., its head of the business said.

March 9th, 2010

GE challenges camera leaders (Bangkok Post - Thailand’s English news)

General Electric (GE), the US industrial conglomerate that is a relative newcomer to cameras, is expanding into Thailand’s digital camera market to challenge the Japanese brands Olympus, Casio and Fuji.

March 9th, 2010

Canon Says China May Become Its Biggest Camera Market in 2015 (Bloomberg)

March 10 (Bloomberg) — Canon Inc. expects China’s camera market may become the world’s largest as early as 2015, an executive said. Canon, the world’s biggest camera maker, is doubling the number of outlets and boosting its marketing workforce in the Asian nation to tap the company’s fast-growing market, Masaya Maeda , head of the camera business, said in an interview yesterday in Tokyo.

March 9th, 2010

Technology › Panasonic unveils world’s 1st digital interchangeable lens system camera (Japan Today)

Panasonic on Tuesday unveiled the LUMIX DMC-G2, the world’s first digital interchangeable lens system camera with a movable LCD that allows for touch-control, and the…

March 9th, 2010

Intevac Receives $18M Multi-Year Purchasing Agreement for Digital Night Vision Camera Modules (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—-Intevac Photonics, a subsidiary of Intevac, Inc. announced today it has received a multi-year $18 million Purchasing Agreement for its digital night vision camera module from a NATO customer.

March 9th, 2010

Review: Ricoh GXR digital camera (Macworld)

While the GXR sounds like good news for photographers looking for a high-quality shoot-from-the-hip camera for street and travel photography, getting set up doesn’t come cheap.

March 9th, 2010

Digital camera maker Altek sees 1Q10 order volume up 50% on year (Digi Times)

Taiwan-based digital camera maker Altek expects order volume for the first quarter to hike 50% on year, according to the company. But mainly because of the labor shortage in China, some shipments originally scheduled for January and February have been delayed to March or the second quarter, Altek said.

March 9th, 2010

Aiptek unveils hybrid pico-projector, 720p camera (MacNN)

Aiptek’s PocketCinema Z20 is a combination pico projector and digital camera. It has 2GB of internal memory and a microSD memory card to store still images or video recordings captured by its 5-megapixel camera. It can capture 720p videos but is unlikely to be able to reproduce them at the same resolution….