Nikon goes Full-Frame: New Nikon D3 announced
Wow, what e beauty! Finally, it’s here. After the longest period of speculation ever Nikon has today lifted the covers on their first full-frame digital SLR, the new 12.1 megapixel D3. The D3 is all about speed and sensitivity, twelve megapixels on a big CMOS chip means large photosites (8.45 µm pitch to be precise) and that adds up to base sensitivity of ISO 200 to 6400 with an additional two stop boost over that (up to ISO 25600). The other side of the speed story (apart from blistering AF and shutter lag) is that the D3 can shoot at nine frames per second with AF tracking or eleven frames per second without. Other headline features are a newly branded EXPEED image processor, a new 51-point AF sensor, color AF tracking, dual CF compartments (with UDMA support), an amazing 3.0″ 922,000 pixel LCD monitor with Live View (including contrast detect auto-focus), HDMI video output and even a virtual horizon function which can tell you when you’re holding the camera perfectly level. There’s too much to fit here so we crammed as much as we can into a preview. The D3 will be available in November, at around US$5000.
Via: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0708/07082312nikond3.asp
Too bad, the new Nikon D3 it does not look like this pretty interesting design study 
DSLR Boom: Canon reports record sales in first half of 2007
Canon Inc. has just announced its second quarter and first half financial results for 2007, reporting a 9.5 percent increase in sales over last year’s second quarter, from 1.028 trillion yen (approx. $8.72 billion USD) to 1.127 trillion yen (approx. $9.56 billion). First-half sales climbed 11 percent to 2.17 trillion yen, compared to 1.95 trillion yen for the first half of 2006.
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Nikon: 40 million SLR lenses sold worldwide
Nikon just announced that its digital camera performance and overall profits rose this quarter year over year. In a three-month period ending June 30, Nikon shipped twice as many SLRs than this time last year, increasing from 360,000 to 760,000 this quarter. Shipments of compact cameras rose 22 percent, growing from 1.67 to 2.03 million units. Nikon also announced it has reached the 40 million unit mark for SLR lenses sold worldwide. Read more
New Sony Alpha: Re-inventiving the DSLR?
An imminent announcement of a new model on the Sony Alpha line is doing the rounds of the picture-perfect world. Oodles have been written and so have they been said, thus leaving the market curious for the ever re-inventive Sony! Of course thousands of guesses apart, some sure shot things said to set the camera aside from its contemporaries is the projected specs of 12.8 megapixels (I told you, my digicam’s going to look like a joke someday), light sensitivity up to 3,200 ISO (pheww), speeds of 10 frames per second (tickling the animation lover in me) in JPEG mode and in-camera> anti-shake compensation (for the clumsy, shaky bummer in you and me). Now, now, now, Read more
Yawn: Canon 1D Mark III rated best camera ever
No surprise: San Francisco-based tech news site Cnet just rated the new Canon 1D Mark III with the Editor’s choice tag. Well, this editorial decision was a pretty easy one: The Canon 1D Mark III is the latest and most advanced professional Digital SLR and with a retail price of $4.500 by far one of the most expensive digital SLR ever made.
Sure, this is ‘the’ professional digital SLR on the market right now, it is just fantastic, allows incredibly fast shooting, has an amazing picture quality, and an absurd number of options which make this one the best SLRs the global photography community has ever seen. No doubt about it, every serious photographer wants this camera.
However, I predict, within 6 to 12 months, Canon’s fiercest competitor, Nikon Corp. will roll out an update to their current top-of-the-line DSLR camera model, the Nikon D2Xs. As for decades, the Canon vs. Nikon head-to-head race to built the best pro SLR will continue and within the Read more
Nikon: Rebates for DSLR’s and Coolpix
Japanese photo pionier Nikon Corp is now offering a “Buy Both and Save” Mail-in rebate for customers who purchase a DSLR and a Coolpix consumer class digital camera. When bundled together, customers can receive up to $50 back on select Coolpix point-and-shoot models. The offer is valid to June 30, 2007. Read more
Photos on the go: Kingston introduces Memory Card Drive/Reader
A new digital storage idea worth taking a closer look at is a Kingston flash drive with a slot for memory cards. While you are for example on a vacation trip and you want to drop your precious memories onto your laptop, then the new Kingston DataTraveler Reader is the smartest thing you want to have. The drive/reader comes in three different capacities, with up to four Gigabytes of storage and has expansion slots for SD/MMC which will allows user to read up to nine different miemory card formats. Also: The DataTraveler Reader allows you work with the two drives simultanious. Adorama Camera in New York City sells the 2GB version of the DataTraveler Reader for under $30.
Tabblo: New Photosharing site
With the rise of photosharing websites in recent times it is hard to gauge which one works best for your needs. Tabblo could be solution as far as sharing your photos with friends and family, but it also offers you may other interesting features; from creating your own photo books, postcards or posters, the -so far free - photo website gives you a choice on what to do for output of your images.
Photoshop CS3 in stores
Adobe Photoshop CS3 is here, and it has lots of new features, tweaks, and changes to check out. This version of Photoshop comes in two flavors–CS3 and CS3 Extended. Find out which version is right for you, or if you even need to upgrade. Read more. 1!1 Cne
Amazon offers the latest Photoshop CS version for $641.
Sony introduces CompactFlash
Japannese CE giant Sony just announced the company will finally enter the CompactFlash Market. This step marks a pretty late entrance into the CompactFlash market. So far Sony just manufactured Memory Sticks. For now, Sony starts with two tiers of memory cards to target digital camera user’s; a 66x set with 1GB to 4GB capacities and a professional set of 133x 2GB and 4GB cards backed by Sony’s Image Recovery Service.
