Dptips :. Digital Photography Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

Pentax announces the 12 Mp X70 Megazoom digital camera which features a 24X optical zoom lens with wide-angle to super-telephoto coverage housed in a portable, compact, lightweight body. With its SLR-like styling and flexible exposure modes, the X70 should bridge the gap between compact digital cameras and digital SLRs, and offers you shooting options such as aperture/shutter priority and metered manual modes, true hardware sensor-movement Shake Reduction and fast operation. The Pentax X70 will ship in April for $399.95…

Sony unveils the 9 Mpl Cyber-shot HX1, offering 20x optical zoom and a list of creative features. At the heart of the HX1 is the new Sony-developed “Exmor” CMOS sensor to deliver outstanding images with reduced noise when shooting in high ISO. Capturing landscapes, church spires or skyscrapers is as easy as “press and sweep”, where wide and ultra-wide settings in horizontal or vertical directions, can take up to 224-degree horizontal or 154-degree vertical shots. The Cyber-shot DSC-HX1 will be available in April for about $500…

Researchers from Microsoft’s labs all over the world exchange ideas, show their latest innovations and explain emerging technologies at TechFest 2009. One of the fields that might become of particular interest for digital imaging is the Augmented Reality research project, which deals with the combination of real-world and computer-generated data. Eventually this may bring us real smart cameras or camera phones, where just pointing your camera at a restaurant will reveal the menu and pointing the camera at a station will reveal today’s train schedule…