Digital Camera Phones Rule! Anyone Remember Film or Digital Cameras?

Ten years ago, camera companies had nothing to worry about except each other.

But poof! along came digital cameras and the Kodak, Fuji and Nikon's of the camera world had to worry about consumer technology companies like Sony or IT companies (at least back then) like HP.

Funny thing is, while the camera companies -- both old and new -- battled each other for survival (market share) their core imaging technology got scooped up as a cool feature in mobile phones. 

Today, there are now more camera phones in the world than there are film or digital cameras.  According to digital imaging analyst firm Lyra Research, the installed base of camera phones will reach approximately 850 million units in 2006, and this number will grow to more than 1.5 billion units in 2010.

Here's what Steve Hoffenberg, Lyra's director of consumer imaging research, had to say:

"In less than five years since the very inception of this product category, camera phones have gone from nonexistent to predominant. We're still in the early stages of market development for mobile imaging. Picture quality is still immature, and market penetration has largely been supply-side driven.

"But camera phone picture quality will improve substantially over the next several years, upstream transmission bandwidth will increase and consumers will become increasingly familiar with the incredible inherent benefit of wireless connectivity for images."

Will be interested to see what 2010 looks like ...

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How About a Camera with GPS?

Sony no baloney.

Sony has a GPS add-on (GPS-CS1) for its digital cameras that records the location and time data every 15 seconds. The time on the device can be matched with the timestamp on the photo, and the exact location of the picture is added to the JPEG file's meta data, which will allow users to search photos by location!

Now how about that!

Check out Macworld for more.

Here's some more from the Sony press release:

The 12-channel GPS unit is 3-½ inches long, weighs two ounces and is sold with a carabineer to easily attach to a backpack or a belt loop. To arrange pictures geographically, import the logged data from the GPS device, using the supplied USB cable, and then download the digital images to a computer. The supplied GPS Image Tracker software synchronizes the images on your digital camera with the latitude, longitude and time readings from the GPS-CS1 device.

Once synchronized, photos can become virtual push pins on an online map by activating the Picture Motion Browser software bundled with the latest Sony cameras and camcorders released after July.

MSRP: $150

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Gadget Protection at Its Best: Go Allsop!

Loved the Allsop Splash Pack DriPod so much that we've just added another one to keep some of my precious gadgets dry this summer!

(And no, that is not a giant tongue!)

The Splash Pack is an air-tight case for your iPod that features a triple seal, heat-sealed headphone jack, it's fully submersible to almost 10 feet (three meters to be exact).

The lanyard makes it easy to hang it around your neck, drape on your beach lounger or strap to your kayak.

Not just for iPods, it can be used with many small electronic gadgets, like another MP3 player, digital camera or cell phone.

Price: $19.99

www.allsop.com

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How Did You Capture the Fireworks?

So many ways to "take a picture" now -- SLR camera, reuseable camera, digital camera, digital video camera, cell phone with photo capability, cell phone with video capabilities ...

What did you use to capture the fireworks on July 4?

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Mossberg’s Buying a Digital Camera Guide: All You Need

Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Graduation Day, the days of summer -- this is the start of prime picture-taking time.

With that in mind (or maybe not), today's Wall Street Journal features the as always excellent "Buying a Digital Camera: Our Annual Guide" by Walt Mossberg.

I'll leave it up to the author to provide the details, but here are the key areas to consider:

• Megapixels
• Zoom -- optical matters
• Speed
• Bigger and better screens
• Stable images -- digital or optical?
• New ways of viewing
• In-camera editing
• Storing and transferring images
• Battery life

Snap away!

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New Nikon D40 on Its Way?

Back in the analog camera days (when they were just "cameras"), there was nothing like a Nikon -- and in today's digital imaging (aka digital camera) days, there is still nothing like a Nikon.

Not surprised then to catch a bit of the fever and buzz about the new, upcoming Nikon D40, which is supposedly smaller and lighter than the couple-of-year-old D50 and D70.

For those camera buffs who want to take a close-up peak what the D40 might look like, please click here.

And if you bring one back from Japan, please send us an image.

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