Archive for the 'Digital Still Camera' Category

Canon 5D Mark II: Full Frame DSLR and 1080p Video Recording

Image courtesy: Digital Photography Review
Canon’s 5D Mark II is a full frame digital SLR (DSLR). It improves on the original 5D on many accounts. The full frame CMOS sensor has a total of 22.0 million pixels with 21.2 million of them effective. The largest files will have a pixel format of 5616 x 3744. The [...]

Sony Cybershot DSC-T500: 10MP Digital Camera with 720p Movie Recording at 30fps

Sony Cybershot DSC-T500 Specifications
Display: 3.5″ wide transflective touch TFT LCD
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Display Pixel Format: 640 x 360 for a total of 230K pixels
Image Sensor: 1/2.3″ Super HAD CCD 10.3MP (10.1MP effective)
Image Format: JPEG, 3648 x 2736 (max)
Video: 720p 30fps limited to 10 minutes per clip
Video Pixel Format: 1280 x 720
Video Codec: MPEG4 AVC/H.264
Lens: Carl Zeiss [...]

Canon EOS 50D: 3″ VGA LCD Monitor

Canon EOS 50D Specifications
Image Sensor: 15.1MP APS-C CMOS with EOS Integrated Cleaning System
Performance: 6.3fps continuous shooting. Max burst 90 JPEGs with UDMA card
Image Processor: DIGIC 4
ISO Sensitivity: 100-3200, expandable to 12800
Autofocus: 9-point wide area
Monitor: 3.0″ Clear View VGA LCD with Live View mode, Face Detection Live AF
Monitor Pixel Format: 640 x 480
Body: Magnesium alloy with [...]

Samsung TL34HD: 14.7MP Digicam

Samsung TL34HD Specifications
Display: 3.0″ 640 x 480 Touch LCD
MP: 14.7
Zoom: 3.6x Optical (6.0 - 21.6mm)
Shutter Speed: 1-1/1500 sec (Auto), 15-1/1500 sec (Manual), 8-1/1500 sec (Night)
ISO: 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200
Movie: 1280 x 720/30p
Storage: SD, SDHC up to 8GB
Connectivity: HDMI CEC, DLNA
Lens: Schneider 28mm KREUZNACH VARIOPLAN Zoom
Other: Image Stabilization, Face Detection, Blink Detection, DRIM [...]

Digital Camera Pixel Density

Pixel density. That’s a term many are not familiar with. Pixel density is the number of pixels divided by the display or imaging area. This blog post will be about digital cameras, so pixel density refers to how big or small the image sensor pixels are. And to get to the bottom line quickly: generally [...]

Kodak Easyshare V610: 2.8″ LCD

The Kodak Easyshare V610 has one of the largest LCDs for a compact digital camera. The LCD is 2.8″ and is one of the largest I’ve heard of. Of course there are larger one. I believe Samsung has a digicam (the Pro815 to be exact) that holds the world record for largest TFT LCD screen [...]

Samsung NV10: 7×6 Touch-sensitive Interface

Samsung’s NV10 is a 10.1 megapixel compact digital camera with a 2.5″ wide-view LCD. It has Samsung’s Advanced Shake Reduction (ASR) system that allow clearer picture-taking in low ambient light situations. The NV10 also takes MPEG4 videos at 640 x 480 resolutions and at a fast clip of 30fps.

Source: DPReview (front), PC World (back), Samsung [...]

Nikon D80: Improved LCD

The Nikon D70s had a 2.0″ TFT LCD with a total pixel count of 130,000. The new Nikon D80 improves that in two ways: larger screen and more pixels. The display was enlarged by 0.5″ to 2.5″. The 2.5″ TFT LCD also has 100,000 more pixels for a total of 230,000. Viewing angle information which [...]

Samsung 3″ VGA LCD

On August 10, that would be today, Samsung introduced the world’s first 3″ TFT LCD panel with a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels. The title press release by Samsung states that this panel is intended for digital still cameras, but I think there would be many more uses for this 3″ high-resolution display. So [...]

Sony Ericsson K800i: First Cybershot Branded Mobile Phone

Cybershot is the brand that Sony uses for digital cameras in some markets such as the US. It’s K800i is a mobile phone and is the first to have the brand Cybershot on it. The K800i has a fairly high-resolution 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera with a Xenon-based flash and lens cover. It lets you have [...]