The HP Photosmart R927 Digital Camera is available bundled with the HP Photosmart 6221 premium Camera Dock at a recommended street price of for £299 or can be purchased on its own for £249 in the UK.

HP US Press Release

The premium styled, ultra-compact HP Photosmart R927 Digital Camera features a bright 3-inch LCD with a 170-degree viewing angle for unsurpassed indoor and outdoor viewing. Take brilliant 8.2-megapixel photos with the powerful HP Precision 24x total zoom. With the latest features such as automatic in-camera red-eye removal, HP Design Gallery and other HP Real Life technologies, users can easily take brilliant digital photos perfect for printing and sharing.

The HP Photosmart R727 Digital Camera is available bundled with the HP Photosmart 6221 premium Camera Dock at a recommended street price of £249 or can be purchased on its own for £199 in the UK.

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HP Photosmart R727 Digital Camera

Take stunning 6.2-megapixel photos with the elegant, metal HP Photosmart R727 Digital Camera. This ultra-compact digital camera features a bright, indoor and outdoor 2.5-inch image display screen while being thin enough to slip in your pocket. With the latest generation of HP Real Life technologies, including automatic in-camera red-eye removal and HP Design Gallery, users can easily take brilliant digital photos perfect for printing and sharing.

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HP Photosmart R725 Digital Camera

Take stunning 6.2-megapixel photos with the elegant HP Photosmart R725 Digital Camera. This ultra-compact digital camera features a bright, indoor and outdoor 2-inch image display and sturdy all metal body, while being thin enough to slip in your pocket. With the latest generation of HP Real Life technologies, including new features such as automatic in-camera red-eye removal and HP Design Gallery, users can easily take brilliant digital photos perfect for printing and sharing.

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HP Photosmart M527 Digital Camera

Get impressive 6-megapixel photos with the easy-to-use HP Photosmart M527 Digital Camera. This digital camera has 21x total zoom - 3x optical, 7x digital - and features HP Real Life technologies, including HP in-camera red eye removal and HP Design Gallery. With the new HP Design Gallery, users can easily take brilliant digital photos. Intuitive button design allows for quick, one-handed shots, in addition to one-button ordering and sharing of photos with HP Photosmart Express. (1)

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HP Photosmart M525 Digital Camera

Get impressive 6-megapixel photos with the easy-to-use HP Photosmart M525 Digital Camera. This digital camera has 21x total zoom - 3x optical, 7x digital - and features the latest generation of HP Real Life technologies. With a new feature called HP Design Gallery, users can easily take brilliant digital photos. Intuitive button design allows for quick, one-handed shots, in addition to one-button ordering, printing and sharing of photos with Photosmart Express. (1)

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HP Photosmart M425 Digital Camera

Easily snap beautiful photos with this stylishly designed 5-megapixel digital camera, featuring 18x total zoom. With the HP Photosmart M425 Digital Camera users can effortlessly snap and edit photos on the 1.7-inch image display, and order prints and share photos using the on-camera HP Photosmart Express button. (1) The camera also includes the new HP Design Gallery.

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HP Photosmart E327 Digital Camera

Capture exceptional photos with the easy-to-use, point-and-shoot 5-megapixel HP Photosmart E327 Digital Camera. Users can view shots on this stylishly designed 1.8-inch image display screen, email photos without attachments with HP Photosmart Share and make beautiful prints and enlargements up to 8 x 10-inches.

Lacie Press Release

LaCie Kicks Off 2006 With 6 Fresh New Storage Solutions

PORTLAND, OR (January 2006) – LaCie brings New Year cheer to its loyal customers today with six new storage products designed to help people easily manage their digital lives. LaCie has again teamed up with world-renowned designers including Neil Poulton and Karim Rashid, and award-winning tech companies such as LightScribe and Roxio, to develop the freshest new hard drives and DVD burners on the market.

New products will make their debut at Macworld Expo in San Francisco’s Moscone Center from January 9-13. Visit LaCie Booth #2143 for a hands-on look. LaCie will also offer special Macworld pricing on its most popular hard drives for a limited time via the LaCie Store Online or direct at 503-844-4502. And stay tuned for the launch of a brand new “Customer Profiles” webpage on http://www.lacie.com that showcases how filmmakers, photographers, musicians and many others are using LaCie products to get things done.

Pentax UK Press Release

PENTAX EVOLVES THE OPTIO ‘S’ FAMILY WITH THE LAUNCH OF THE OPTIO A10 - Taking the Optio ‘S’ style and creating an all-new flagship standard

Building on the success of established Optio ‘S’ family, Pentax continues to set the standard amongst compact digital cameras with the launch of the Optio A10. Featuring a proprietary Shake Reduction system, the Optio A10 also boasts 8.0 effective megapixels and a 1.8-inch CCD to create the sharpest images yet.

Style-conscious novices and photographic enthusiasts alike will benefit from the superior features that the Optio A10 offers. Despite a tiny size of 88.5 x 54.5 x 23mm (w x h x d), the Optio A10 offers an unrivalled user experience that will produce exceptional picture quality, regardless of the photographer’s level of ability or the environmental conditions.

Pentax UK Press Release

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTINUES TO APPEAL TO COME WITHIN REACH OF THE MANY, NOT THE FEW - The latest entry-level digital compact camera from Pentax will ensure beginners can make the most of digital photography

As part of its ongoing commitment to bring photographic excellence to digital photographers of all levels, Pentax has introduced the Optio E10. It is aimed specifically at photographic novices and features a mode dial that permits simple mode selection. A slim, lightweight compact camera with 6.0 effective megapixels and a 3x optical zoom lens, the Optio E10 also boasts a large, 2.4-inch LCD monitor.

The Optio E10 combines the world’s leading optics, providing a great value digital camera without a performance compromise. Now there’s no reason not to be digital.

Fujifilm UK Press Release

Fujifilm FinePix V10 Zoom: putting more fun into photography

Life’s full of fun and games with the FinePix V10 Zoom

Fujifilm today announces the launch of the FinePix V10 Zoom, a next-generation digital compact camera with distinctive looks and an extra dose of fun. Available in a stylish, two-tone design and with a distinctive body, the FinePix V10 Zoom features an enormous three inch LCD screen, whilst remaining remarkably small in size.

The three inch screen is designed to enhance the experience of shooting and viewing photos. With approximately 230,000 pixels, the high resolution LCD is perfect for instant framing during shooting and easy viewing of images during playback. A convenient zoom display has been added to confirm focus and image details as you shoot, by enlarging the centre of the focus position.

Fujifilm UK Press Release

Fujifilm FinePix F470 Zoom: stylish, friendly and functional

Six megapixel, user-friendly addition to Fujifilm’s ultra-smart ‘F’ range of digital cameras

Fujifilm today announced the launch of the FinePix F470 Zoom – a pocket-sized, silver compact with user-friendly controls and multiple scene positions for ultimate ease-of-use. Hidden within this camera’s individual body design are 16MB of internal memory, a 3x optical zoom lens and a sensor delivering six megapixels. Combining strength and elegance in a neat package, the FinePix F470 Zoom is both stylish and functional, and perfect for anyone new to digital photography.

This chic compact, only 19.7mm thick, has a distinctive appearance thanks to its innovative design. Incorporating a raised side grip that sits comfortably in the palm of the hand, the FinePix F470 Zoom allows the user to hold it securely, without compromising the slimline look of the camera’s stylish body.

Fujifilm UK Press Release

Fujifilm’s straight ‘A’ cameras in a class of their own - Fujifilm launches FinePix A400 Zoom and FinePix A500 Zoom

Following the continued success of its ‘A’ series of entry-level digital cameras, Fujifilm today announced the launch of two new additions to the range: the FinePix A400 Zoom and FinePix A500 Zoom. Designed with ease-of-use as a priority, these digital cameras produce outstanding images, even for those people who find digital technology a potentially intimidating experience.

Bearing in mind that there are still more households that don’t own a digital camera than those that do, the FinePix A400 and A500 Zoom will make life easier for those thinking of converting to digital photography during 2006.

Transcend Press Release

Transcend launches its Very High Capacity 1GB MMCmobile Memory Card, Perfect for the Next-Generation of Mobile Digital Devices

Transcend Information, Inc. a tireless innovator and world leader in flash memory solutions is proud to introduce the release of its enormous memory capacity 1GB MMCmobile(tm) Memory Card (Dual-Voltage Reduced-Sized MultiMediaCard), the world’s highest capacity MMCmobile card and ideal for use in the latest high-spec portable digital devices.

LLC Press Release

The Panorama Factory™ V4.2 Adds Support for Multi-Core Processors and 64-Bit Processors

Pittsburgh, PA - January 3, 2006—LLC has released two new editions of The Panorama Factory, its popular software product for creating panoramic images.

The Panorama Factory m32 Edition runs on single- and multi-processor computers, delivering improved stitching speed on multi-processor systems (including multi-core systems) by performing image computations in parallel. The m32 Edition requires Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2003 or Windows Vista.

HandHeld Entertainment Press Release

HandHeld Entertainment Announces ‘‘Third Generation’’ WiFi (Wireless) ZVUE Portable Media Player; New ZVUEs to Be Featured at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show

SAN FRANCISCO—(Business Wire)—Jan. 3, 2006 New WiFi ZVUE (Model 500) is One of Two New Landscape-Format ZVUEs That Feature a 3.5-Inch Screen (320 X 240), 1GB of On-Board Flash and Both Compact Flash and SD Card Slots

HandHeld Entertainment(TM) today announced a new “Third Generation” of ZVUE(TM) portable media players, one of which includes wireless (WiFi) 802.11a/b/g connectivity.

Today’s announcement was made just prior to the annual Consumer Electronics Show, where HandHeld Entertainment will showcase its family of ZVUE portable media players January 5-8, in booth #70454 of the Sands Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Luminous Landscape have published their initial impressions of the new Apple Aperture software.

“‘I’ve left the question of raw editing till last. I have to say that I’m not overly impressed. Both Camera Raw and Capture One do a much better job in almost every regard, and faster to. It will also be unusual for any photographer to be happy with the overall level and variety of image control offered by Aperture, and therefore a trip to Photoshop will be necessary. Apple makes this fairly easy on the way out, but problematic on the way back because Aperture doesn’t understand Photoshop’s layers. (Layers on files coming back into Aperture from Photoshop are flattened, though if you re-export they are still there). Also, the Photoshoped file needs to reside inside the Aperture database for the whole system to make any sense without large numbers of multiple copies of files ending up all over the place. I wonder how many photographers are going to be happy with this.”

Website: Luminous Landscape - Apple Aperture First Impressions

DIWA member and Czech website FotoAparat have just reviewed the new 10.2 megapixel Nikon D200 digital SLR camera.

Website: FotoAparat - Nikon D200 Review

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CameraLabs have just reviewed the new 10.2 megapixel Nikon D200 digital SLR camera.

“There’s very little to fault about the Nikon D200. It’s very robust, has great ergonomics and a wide array of features, while handling superbly and delivering excellent image quality. In use it performed very well and we struggled to find any downsides to list at the end of the verdict - indeed we felt almost churlish criticising Nikon for the way it zooms-in on images during playback, although it has to be said, simple zoom in and out buttons really are much more intuitive.”

Website: CameraLabs - Nikon D200 Review

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The Samsung Digimax i6 digital camera is announced today. The Samsung i6 is a 6 megapixel camera and also a portable media player with a 2.5 inch LCD screen and Advanced Shake Reduction. The Samsung Digimax i6 will be available in early 2006.

Samsung UK Press Release

Introducing the Samsung Digimax i6 PMP camera.

The i6 is the world’s first PMP slim camera
-  i6 PMP plays MP3 and works as a Portable Media Player
-  Slim, striking and ergonomic design
-  ASR (Advanced Shake Reduction)
-  large bright TFT LCD (2.5 inch)
-  All the great functions of a Samsung camera including 6-megapixels and 3x optical zoom