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- CCD
- (1) Consumer Computing Device A low-cost consumer-oriented product that contains a computer, such as a PDA, Internet appliance or specialized mobile device.
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- Olympus SP-590 UZ
- Photos:Olympus SP-590 UZOlympus may be leading in the lens-length wars with its 26x Stylus SP-590 UZ, but it takes lots more than a long lens to make a decent megazoom; the same things it takes to make a good digital camera, like speedy performance, a competitive, useful feature set, and...
- Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, Digital photography, ISO, CCD, Olympus Corp., Olympus SP-590 UZ, ISO 6,400, camera
- Product reviews 2009-08-10
- Nikon Coolpix P90
- Photo gallery:Nikon Coolpix P90Nikon joins the ranks of manufacturers ramping up their top-of-the-line megazoom models to 24x. The replacement for the Nikon Coolpix P80, the P90, outzooms its 18x predecessor with a 24x f2.8-5 26-624mm-equivalent lens, and outpixels it by upping the resolution from 10 megapixels to 12. More useful,...
- Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, Nikon Corp., Nikon Coolpix, Nikon Coolpix P90, PASM, ISO, CCD
- Product reviews 2009-06-15
- Canon rumor: CCD is dead, long live CMOS
- The sensor king is dead! Long live the king! A rumor has been posted on, yes, CanonRumors that Canon will be ditching the CCD imaging sensor it uses in pro-level digital camcorders for the CMOS chips it currently uses in its digital SLR still cameras. ...
- Tags: CMOS, Sensor, Video, Camera, Canon Inc., CCD, Sensor King, Corporate Communications, Memory, Marketing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
- In 2004 CMOS image sensors passed CCD sensors
- In 2004 Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor CMOS image sensor shipments surpassed Charge-Coupled Devices CCDs, reports In-Stat. This shift was the result of the exploding camera phone market, with shipments more than doubling from 2003 to 2004. While CMOS has surpassed CCDs, CCDs are not going away. They maintain substantial market...
- Tags: CMOS, CCD
- Blog posts 2006-01-10
- CCD market shares: Sony - 41%, Matsushita - 14.6%, Sharp - 13.8%
- Sony dominates the market for CCD chips, which last year generated $1.04 bln in revenues for the firm. With 41% of the market, Sony is three times bigger than its nearest rivals, Matsushita Electric Industrial, with 14.6%, and Sharp with 13.8%, according to market research firm iSuppli.
- Tags: Sony Corp., CCD
- Blog posts 2004-10-13
- Caplio RR30 1.0.0.7 (Windows)
- The Caplio RR30 employs a 1/2.7-inch CCD with a primary color filter that delivers an outstanding 3.24 effective megapixels of resolution. The CCD is also compact, fast, conserves power and provides superb color reproduction. The camera also incorporates a new image processor that reduces noise and integrates surrounding circuitry -...
- Tags: Ricoh Corp., Caplio RR30, CCD, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2002-09-02
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- WinMount (64-bit) 3.2.1117 (Windows)
- WinMount is a useful windows utility. It is an archive tool and also an image tool. It can compress, decompress and browse archieves, mount archives and DVD CD HDD images to a virtual disk. The most powerful function is that mount ZIP RAR to virtual disk or local folder directly...
- Tags: 64-bit, Disk, Microsoft Windows, Virtual Disk, WinMount International, Ip storage, Virtualization, Productivity, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-11-21
- WinMount 3.2.1117 (Windows)
- WinMount is a useful windows utility. It is an archive tool and also an image tool. It can compress, decompress and browse archieves, mount archives and DVD CD HDD images to a virtual disk. The most powerful function is that mount ZIP RAR to virtual disk or local folder directly...
- Tags: Disk, Microsoft Windows, Virtual Disk, WinMount International, Ip storage, Virtualization, Productivity, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-11-21
- Canon PowerShot S90
- The Canon PowerShot S90 is designed for photography enthusiasts and it carries a hefty price tag to prove it. It also has some of the best controls you'll find on a compact camera for manual and semimanual shooting modes. Its lens and photo quality are top notch, too. Actually, about...
- Tags: S90, Canon PowerShot S90, Canon Inc., Canon PowerShot, camera
- Product reviews 2009-11-12
- Samsung HZ15W
- The Samsung HZ15W is a camera that looks good on paper but doesn't live up to the specs. The main attraction is the 24mm-equivalent wide-angle lens with 10x zoom, which is certainly a plus in a camera this size, giving you a lot of shooting flexibility for less than $280....
- Tags: Samsung HZ15W, camera, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
- Product reviews 2009-11-05
- Finding pocket cameras with the best anti-shake feature
- All of us are susceptible to some camera shake now and again, either from unsteady hands, dim lighting or just a large gust of wind blowing past. Sometimes you need a camera that will account for this problem more than others. Here are three cameras that are reputed to have...
- Tags: Camera, Rachel King
- Blog posts 2009-11-03
- Voyager 4.5.5 (Mac)
- Voyager 4 gives you a photorealistic textured horizon display - create a digital panorama of your own horizon, and show a realistic sky as it appears from your back yard!Stars are drawn with photo quality using a model based on real CCD star images. You can adjust the size and...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Photograph, Horizon, Carina Software
- Software downloads 2009-10-28
- Equinox Image 1.10.1 (Mac)
- Equinox Image controls Santa Barbara Instrument Group SBIG CCD cameras grey scale and color and Optec, RoboFocus, JMI and Motor Focus focusers. This program also controls SBIG filter wheels, AO devices and remote guide heads. Auto focus, FWHM, Photometry, Astrometry, RMS error, color enhancement and format conversion functions are available....
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microprojects, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Productivity, Security
- Software downloads 2009-10-20
- Sony DCR-DVD650
- DVDs were never a perfect solution for directly recording video to with a camcorder. The medium makes even less sense now with hard-disk-drive and flash-memory models reasonably priced and able to store much more video in far smaller packages. About the only advantage camcorders like the Sony Handycam DCR-DVD650 have...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Consumer electronics, Flash memory, Memory, Monitors & displays, video, DVD, camcorder, Sony Corp., memory stick, pixel
- Product reviews 2009-10-13
- Naked chips could make digital cameras cheaper
- if you mean good shots in low lightthen yes very much.Phone shots are notoriously bad in low light. So yes very interested if that's the feature. It's not clear from your article though...More is not necessarily betterThere are just so many photons that fall on a sensor surface...
- Tags: digital camera, chip, low light, bucket, camera
- Discussion threads 2009-10-09
- Naked chips could make digital cameras cheaper
- The digital camera market could be seriously revolutionized if an adjustment is made to the most expensive part of the camera: the image sensor. A team of scientists at the Technical University of Delft have presented a paper stating that taking the lid off of a memory chip and using that instead...
- Tags: Sensor, Digital Camera, Photograph, Camera, Chip, Rachel King
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35
- Photos:Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35With the Lumix DMC-FZ35, Panasonic overhauls the insides of its popular FZ28 megazoom, offering higher resolution, an improved optical image stabilizer, faster AF, and support for the AVCHD Lite movie codec. But while the camera does deliver better performance and photo quality than its predecessor, they're still not...
- Tags: Panasonic, camera, Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35, Panasonic Lumix
- Product reviews 2009-10-08
- Digital camera sensor inventors win the Nobel Prize in physics
- good article Janicewith my love for digital cameras, the inventors of the CCD deserve the prize!Richly deservedThere's a life changing technology that's earned out in the neighborhood of a trillion dollars with all its derivative innovations.JJBRE: Digital camera sensor inventors win the Nobel Prize in physicsJanice, admittedly yours is a...
- Tags: Digital cameras, Digital photography, digital camera, sensor inventor, Janice, camera, Nobel Prize
- Discussion threads 2009-10-08
- Digital camera sensor inventors win the Nobel Prize in physics
- Forty years after they first sketched out the idea for a digital image sensor, two former Bell Labs research scientists have been jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2009 "for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit â€" the CCD sensor." by Janice Chen
- Tags: Imaging, Sensor, Digital Camera, Digital Image, Camera, Document Management, Semiconductors, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Janice Chen
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- Astro IIDC 4.05.03 (Mac)
- Astro IIDC works with a wide variety of low and high end, color or monochrome, 8 or 16 bit FireWire 400 or FireWire 800 cameras. It has a simple intuitive interface, can record movies, grab frames, grab averaged frames, grab sums of frames, has extensive Altivec / SSE3 optimization for...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Frame, FireWire, Processors, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2009-09-17
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