Lexar Press Release

Lexar Increases Performance of Platinum Memory Card Line; Faster Platinum II Cards Ideal for Rapid Fire Shooting and Full Motion Video

LAS VEGAS—(Business Wire)—Jan. 3, 2006 Lexar Media, Inc. (Nasdaq:LEXR), a world leader in advanced digital media technologies, will showcase its new Platinum II offering, an enhanced version of the company’s Platinum line of flash memory cards, at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Lexar’s new Platinum II memory cards provide photographers with performance levels capable of sustained rapid-fire shooting and full motion video, two of the most popular and sought after features in digital cameras. The Platinum II CompactFlash memory card is speed-rated at 80X, capable of a minimum sustained write speed of 12MBs per second, while the Platinum II Secure Digital memory card is speed-rated at 60X, capable of a minimum sustained write speed of 9MBs per second. The Platinum II line also includes popular Memory Stick Pro and Memory Stick Pro Duo flash memory cards.

Lexar Press Release

Lexar Adds Corel Corporation’s Digital Imaging Software to Line of Flash Memory Cards; Award-Winning Paint Shop(TM) Family Software to Enhance Value of Lexar Memory Cards

LAS VEGAS—(Business Wire)—Jan. 3, 2006 Lexar Media, Inc. (Nasdaq:LEXR), a world leader in advanced digital media technologies, today announced that the company is adding further value to its widely popular lines of flash memory products by including digital imaging software from Corel Corporation—valued at $30 to $100 per application—to select flash memory cards in Lexar’s Professional, Platinum and Value lines. The included software programs are Corel(R) Paint Shop Pro(R) 9, Corel(R) Photo Album(TM) 6 (Standard Edition) and Corel(R) Photo Album(TM) 6 (Starter Edition)—all designed to help photographers of all levels enhance, edit and manage their images.

Lexar Press Release

Lexar Bolsters High-Performance USB Flash Drive Lineup, Offering Exciting New Innovations Beyond Storage; Introducing JumpDrive(R) Mercury, Featuring A New On-Board Capacity Meter

LAS VEGAS—(Business Wire)—Jan. 3, 2006 Lexar Media, Inc. (Nasdaq:LEXR), a leader in advanced digital media and accessories, today introduced new additions to its lineup of high-performance USB flash drives, as well as enhancements to existing products, at the 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Lexar, a full line supplier of flash based technology and solutions, is demonstrating its broadened lineup of JumpDrive(R) products, designed with a wide variety of features and capabilities geared toward different consumer needs and lifestyles.

Imation Press Release

Imation 4GB Micro Hard Drive: Still Micro on the Outside, More Giga on the Inside - Drive Recognized as CES Innovations Design and Engineering Awards Honoree

OAKDALE, Minn., Dec. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/—Conveniently carry and share even more high-capacity presentations, graphics, photos, music or e-mails with the award-winning Imation Micro Hard Drive. Imation Corp (NYSE:IMN) announced today that the new 4 gigabyte (GB) drive is now available through Imation authorized distributors and retailers worldwide.

With a unique and stylish padlock design, the durable Imation Micro Hard Drive features a flexible USB connector that locks directly into the drive and can be easily used to clip the storage device to a belt loop, keychain or briefcase. The Imation Micro Hard Drive also encompasses the 2005 Guinness World Records(TM) book smallest hard disk drive, a Toshiba invention measuring less than one inch in diameter—smaller than the size of a quarter—but powerful enough to quickly and easily store 4GB of information.

Lexar Media Press Release

Lexar and Google Team Up to Offer USB Flash Drives with Popular Web Applications

FREMONT, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Dec. 20, 2005—Lexar Media, Inc. (Nasdaq:LEXR), a world leader in advanced digital media technologies announced it is bringing Google applications directly to customers by including Picasa, Google Toolbar and Google Desktop Search applications on its line of popular USB flash drives. The offering is the first time consumers will be able to install Google applications from a USB flash drive directly to their desktop to edit photos, find files and search the web using popular Google applications.

ATP Press Release

ATP Expands Professional Series Flash Cards by Introducing the ProMax CompactFlash(TM) Line; Designed for High Mega-pixel Digital SLR Cameras from Nikon, Canon and Others, the ProMax CompactFlash Line is Rated at 30MB/s (150X)

SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Dec. 20, 2005—ATP Electronics Inc., a leading manufacturer of digital flash media products, today announced the addition of its ProMax(TM) family product line with the release of its highest performance ProMax(TM) CompactFlash (CF) memory cards. With a blazing speed rating of 150X, the ProMax CF card is the fastest CF card available on the market today. ATP will showcase their new water & shock resistant ProMax CF card product line at the CES 2006 January 5-8 in Las Vegas, at the Sands Expo booth # 71440. The complete ProMax CF card lineup will be initially available through ATP distribution partners Ingram Micro, BKA, and D&H while end users can buy the card direct at store.atpinc.com.

Fujifilm UK Press Release

Speed it up with Fujifilm’s USB 2.0 Pen Drive range

Fujifilm has announced a new range of USB 2.0 Hi-Speed Pen Drives, adding to its ever-expanding range of digital accessories and media.

The translucent green card readers - available in 256MB, 512MB and 1GB capacities - can be slotted straight into your PC, laptop or digital camera, enabling fast transfer of all documents, images and music files to and from all compatible digital devices.

Sharpics Press Release

New Portable Studios Make Taking Professional Photos Quick and Easy for Product Photography, Selling On-Line or Home Inventory

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 20 /PRNewswire/—More people are using digital cameras in their professional and personal lives including selling on the internet, inventory for insurance or estate planning, scrapbooking, web designing, appraisals, and advertising.

Product photography can be frustrating, time consuming and expensive including finding the appropriate lighting, space and background.  The D-Flector Portable Photo Studios lets everyone including novices, professional photographers, publishers, or inventory managers, have great looking product photographs cost effectively.  Visit http://www.sharpics.com.

“We wanted to make product photography easy.  All you need is a D-Flector, a digital camera with a flash and a monopod set up at a 30 degree angle. Results are excellent photos that increase product visibility and sales,” explains Danica Mazon, Vice President Sharpics.

Seagate Press Release

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif, Dec. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/—Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX) , the world’s leading supplier of consumer electronics hard drives, announced today that the Seagate 8GB CompactFlash Photo Hard Drive has been awarded Professional Photographer Magazine’s “Hot1 Award” in the digital storage media category. The prestigious awards are presented by the magazine annually to products judged to be of the highest quality and most innovative in their category.

“This is quite an honor for a product that is a new entry into a competitive market,” said Jim Druckrey senior vice president and general manager of Branded Solutions for Seagate Technology. “Our Photo Hard Drive storage card is ideal for the needs of professional photographers, providing them with a cost-effective, simple way to store and manage the valuable digital content they accumulate for their work and play.”

Transcend Press Release

Transcend Releases its Lightning Fast, Huge Memory Capacity 8GB 120X Ultra Performance CompactFlash® Card

Transcend Information, Inc. a world leader in flash memory cards, is proud to announce the release of it latest and fastest 120X Ultra Performance 8GB CompactFlash® (CF) Card. The all-new 8GB 120X Ultra Performance CF Card achieves extraordinary average read/write speeds of up to 20/18MB per second using the latest Ultra DMA technology. With these amazing read/write speeds and the huge capacity of 8GBs, users are guaranteed to get the very best performance and results from their high-end digital equipment.

Intemos Press Release

A range of Christmas offers were announced today by Intemos, the digital SLR cleaning specialist.

Until the end of December every purchase of two packs of Intemos’s best seller, DSLRClean, will receive a set of five StikCaps (worth £6.95 / US$12.50 approx) free. In addition, every purchase now earns Intemos reward points (each worth £1.00/ US$ 1.80 approx) towards future orders. Customers have to collect a minimum of 5 points which can be redeemed against any product from the Intemos range. And, until the 9 January 2006, all visitors to the Intemos web site, (www.intemos.com) can enter a competition to win a year’s supply of Intemos cleaning products.

ePhotoZine have just reviewed the JOBO GIGA ONE, a 20Gb portable storage device that is designed to be easy to use. The JOBO GIGA ONE has a fast USB 2 connection, stores all common file formats and supports all common flash formats.

“The Jobo Giga One is a good buy as it holds such a large amount of data. It’s ideal for digital photographers who shoot large number of images, especially if Raw is the chosen format. It’s far cheaper than the equivalent number of solid-state memory cards. The downside with this unit, and many of the lower priced back up devices, is the lack of confidence that your images are safe because you cannot look at them on the unit’s screen in the way you can on more expensive devices. That aside, it is a good solution.”

Website: ePhotoZine - JOBO GIGA ONE Review

Edge Tech Press Release

EDGE Tech Corp Announces Portable Flash Drive with Muscle - the New 8GB DiskGO!™ Now Available

Swap and go with this secure thumb-sized flash drive

Dallas, TX - December 13, 2005 - EDGE Tech Corp (www.edgetechcorp.com), a leading supplier of DRAM and flash memory upgrades, portable computing products, storage devices, and other personal technology solutions is pleased to announce the latest USB flash drive addition to the company’s DiskGO!™ line - the new 8GB DiskGO! USB 2.0 Flash Drive. With a sleek silver design, the eight-gigabyte unit is approximately the size of a thumb and can hold thousands of pictures, music files, data files, or documents from a user’s computer—all with one “plug-and-go” step. The unit is priced at $599 and will be sold to the channel and from the company’s Web site.

SR Inc. Press Release

SR Inc. has released the L-Ring 3200, its largest and most powerful LED ring light.  With 32 oversized LEDs and an inner opening of 72mm, the L-Ring 3200 is a powerful, versatile ring light large enough for almost any digital camera, especially digital SLRs.  The L-Ring 3200 can be used as either a continuous light source or a connected flash via a standard hot-shoe or PC connection.  It has a variable power dial to easily control the output, and can shoot with both full-ring and half-ring lighting.

The L-Ring 3200 is the latest model in the L-Ring product line, which also includes the L-Ring Ultra II and the Mini L-Ring Ultra. For more information, see www.srelectronics.com or call 800-324-7745.

Fantasea Line Press Release

Fantasea Line now introduces a specially designed housing for the Nikon Coolpix P1 and P2 digital cameras with WiFi. The FP-1 housing, due for release Dec. 15th, is ideal for underwater and outdoor photographers who enjoy the cameras’ automatic exposure features for capturing fast action pictures easily and creatively. The Fantasea FP-1 housing insures the most compact design for easy handling and accurate access to camera functions through the critical placement of push-button controls.

Underwater photographers can dive or snorkel and capture all the excitement of this fascinating world, while outdoor photographers also have the option of capturing the action of such activities as white water and paddle sports, sailing and boating, surfing, fishing and hunting, backpacking and camping, and for family activities around the swimming pool or at the beach. The Fantasea FP-1 will protect the Coolpix cameras from water, sand, dust, and other damaging elements.

Fantasea Line Press Release

Fantasea Line now introduces a specially designed housing for the Nikon Coolpix S1 and S3 digital cameras. The FS-1 housing, dedicated to these two new ultra-slim Nikon digital cameras is compactly designed for easy handling and accurate access to camera functions through the critical placement of push-button controls.

The Fantasea FS-1 housing is ideal for outdoor and underwater photographers who prefer to use the cameras automatic exposure features for capturing fast action pictures easily and creatively. Underwater photographers can dive or snorkel and capture all the excitement of this fascinating world, while outdoor photographers also have the option of capturing the action of such activities as white water and paddle sports, sailing and boating, surfing, fishing and hunting, backpacking and camping, and for family activities around the swimming pool or at the beach. The Fantasea FS-1 will protect the Coolpix cameras from water, sand, dust, and other damaging elements.

Kodak UK Press Release

KODAK ROYAL Paper is now KODAK ROYAL Digital Colour Paper - Name change reflects consumer demand for high-quality digital prints at retail

LONDON December 7, 2005 — Meeting the demands of today’s digitally savvy consumer, Eastman Kodak Company today announced that KODAK ROYAL Paper, Kodak’s highest-quality consumer photofinishing paper, is now KODAK ROYAL Digital Colour Paper.  This change will enable photofinishers to better communicate to consumers that this is Kodak’s best silver halide paper for digital printing. Consumers will enjoy crisp, sharp, colour-saturated digital pictures that are available from this premium paper.

Cardmedia Press Release

Pen + USB Flash drive + PDA touch panel
Optional Laser/light pointer
Supplied in a metallic gift box

Cardmedia (Europe) Ltd has released the USB All in one Executive pen drive, a good quality pen combined with built in USB Flash memory to easily backup or transport your data.
The Executive pen drive is available with capacities ranging from 64MB up to 1GB, and is offered to end users from its eShop as well as to Corporate companies for logo printing service on bulk orders.

Manfrotto Press Release

Professional Photographer Magazine honors Innovative Articulated Arm.

Bassano del Grappa, Italia (PRWEB) December 7, 2005—Manfrotto, the world’s leading manufacturer of photographic support products, is proud to announce the Articulated Arm with Camera Bracket among the select group of 2005 Hot1 award winners from Professional Photographer Magazine.

The prestigious Hot1 Awards honors professional photographic products that are revolutionizing today’s imaging industry, and is given to a product for its exceptional quality, innovation, design and performance.

Sony Press Release

Sony’s Latest DVDirect Recorder Burns Digital Photos and Home Videos Onto DVD Discs Without a Computer

SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/—Expanding the DVDirect(TM) DVD recorder product family, Sony Electronics today introduced another new model that allows both digital photos and home videos to be recorded onto discs without the need for a computer.

Like the presently available VRD-VC20 model, the new VRD-MC1 recorder can transfer home video footage in real-time from a camcorder or VCR tape to a DVD without a computer, and also enables “computer free” recording of digital still images directly from memory cards to DVD as a slideshow for playback on most home DVD players and PC DVD-ROM drives.

The new recorder can also be directly connected to PictBridge(TM) compatible photo printers for printing individual digital pictures from a memory card or from a DVD disc.