Dptips :. Digital Photography Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

Late Nirvana frontman to appear alongside “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and “Lithium” in Activision’s upcoming rhythm game.

Looking for a touchscreen camera? The T90 should be on your list as it packs a heck of a lot of features into a pretty stylish case.

Fashion and beauty photographer Christine Lim fell for the beauty of the lens during her university studies, and has never looked back.

CNET’s Donald Bell helps make sense of the confusing world of digital video file formats and explains some common terms and concepts.

Mac or PC? The war rages on. We’ve thrown the most recent 13-inch MacBook Pro and the closest PC to a Mac we’ve seen, the Asus U80V, into the ring for an all out brawl.

Here’s a sneak peek of the new Android Market, which is continuing to fill up with funky new apps and any improvement to its search function are welcomed with open arms.

Optus, Vodafone and Three have long struggled to match Telstra’s reach outside the capital cities. Vodafone’s major network upgrade is the best chance yet to dilute Next G’s rural monopoly, but questions remain.

The Preston has the look of a better handset, but poor call quality spoils an otherwise well-performing budget-priced touchscreen phone.

The pilot production of the first Australian-built hybrid car began yesterday with the push of an oversized Power button in Altona, Melbourne.

Last week Nokia has announced their new N900 mobile computer-grade camera phone. Messaging on the N900 is easy with the full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and the internal 32GB of storage can be expanded up to 48GB via a microSD card. For photography the N900 comes with a 5 Megapixel camera, Carl Zeiss optics, and Dual-Flash. The onboard software and the wide (800×480) display makes organizing, editing and sharing your pictures ever so simple. The N900 will be displayed at Nokia World, Stuttgart, on September 2…

We’ve now updated the 458 Italia gallery with more pictures and details, including the interior that’s now stalk-less and has an iDrive-style entertainment/navigation interface.

With a growing number of compact cameras in the 3x to 12x zoom range that combine portability with distant-shooting goodness, we select the cream of the crop in our round-up.

If you can forgo the boring design and lack of HD video recording, the FinePix F70EXR has a lot to offer.

Finally, an ebook reader comes to the Australian market - with claims of open file format support and long battery life to boot.

Vodafone has gone live today with its expanded 3G coverage to rural areas, now reaching 94 per cent of the population.

Fraunhofer Researchers will be presenting a prototype of the “FlashBox” at the Int’l Broadcast Convention in Amsterdam (Sept. 11 to 15). The FlashBox is an onboard recorder - truly diminutive in size - that stores digital film on exchangeable disks without compression. It can record images for digital cinema and HD in a resolution of up to 2048 x 1080 pixels. It is also capable of storing Bayer raw sensor data and optionally JPEG2000 images. On the inside of the robust housing, the slots for two Solid State Disks offer a total of 500 gigabyte…

Samsung will soon announce the new WB5000 digital SLR-style camera featuring 12.5 Megapixel resolution, a powerful Schneider-KREUZNACH 26mm wide angle, 24x optical zoom lens, and a 3-inch LCD display. CNET Asia did already have a quick hands-on with the new camera, at the recent launch of the new line of Dual-view cameras in Singapore. Samsung UK has briefly posted the camera on their website too, but has apparently decided to withdraw the post again. More details on the new WB5000 you’ll find here…

Apple’s OS X 10.6 operating system Snow Leopard by default loads with a 32-bit kernel, despite running 64-bit applications.

Sony introduces a stylish limited edition S-Frame digital photo frame made with CRYSTALLIZED - Swarovski Elements. The 7-inch digital photo frame offers WVGA (800×480 pixels) resolution and features about one gigabyte of internal storage capacity, and through an auto-resizing adjustment that downsizes photos, it lets you store up to 2,000 photos. Image transfer through USB input, as well as support for most memory cards. The new DPF-D72N/BQ digital photo frame will be available for about $150 in October…

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