Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter


0

Flash! Here's What's New in Photo Gear

Spy pens, 3-D cameras and new lens technologies on display

Share

(Newser) – The biggest photography-gear expo on the globe, Photokina, got under way this week in Germany as manufacturers rolled out everything from state-of-the-art lenses to geotagging devices. Wired takes a look:

  1. Fuji’s FinePix Real 3D System incorporates dual lenses that capture separate images, then meshes them into a single 3-D file.

  1. Minox updated its iconic Spy Camera for the digital age. More fun is its Digital Pen Spy Camera, which captures AVI video from a ballpoint pen casing. So 007.
  2. Though Olympus was tight-lipped, next year’s Micro Four-Thirds digital camera will combine the design of a pocket digital with the picture quality of an SLR.
  3. ATP’s Photo Finder Mini will geotag your memory card with GPS data, making Google Earth your photo album.

Various cameras are displayed during a press preview tour of the Photokina fair in Cologne, Germany, on Monday, Sept. 22, 2008.
Various cameras are displayed during a press preview tour of the Photokina fair in Cologne, Germany, on Monday, Sept. 22, 2008.   (AP Photo)
A man holds a Leica M8 camera with the Leica Noctilux-M 1:0.95 lens at the Photokina fair in Cologne, Germany. More than 1,500 companies from 46 countries are presenting there.
A man holds a Leica M8 camera with the Leica Noctilux-M 1:0.95 lens at the Photokina fair in Cologne, Germany. More than 1,500 companies from 46 countries are presenting there.   (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
Visitors look through tele lenses by Canon at the Photokina fair in Cologne, Germany on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008.
Visitors look through tele lenses by Canon at the Photokina fair in Cologne, Germany on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008.   (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
« Prev« Prev | Next »Next » Slideshow
OFF THE GRID
11.24.09
Murdoch and Microsoft: The Mice Are Trying to Roar
11.23.09
Books Are Bad for You
0 comments
VIEWING:
 
LEAVE A
COMMENT Comment Policy
Facebook ConnectPost this comment to Facebook?

After connecting you will have the option to post your comment on your Facebook profile.

 

Related Newser Stories

9 Stories

 Music Biz Drops 
 Concert Camera Bans 

Bands give up trying to control images

Nov 11, 09 1:22 AM CST
(Newser) - As camera phones held aloft become as common as lighters in the air used to be at rock-and-roll concerts, the music industry is starting to give in to reality and drop camera bans. Most bands are allowed to choose their own photo policy, and a growing number are letting fans... More »

MORE ABOUT:
music industry • camera • photography • digital photography • concert • camera phones • bands

 MIT Students 
 Snap Space Pics 
 on the Cheap 

'Project Icarus' sends camera to the stratosphere for under $150

Sep 22, 09 4:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - A trio of MIT students managed to take photographs from the edge of space for less than $150, the Guardian reports. The students sent a digital camera and a GPS-equipped mobile phone in a coolbox into the stratosphere by attaching the kit to a helium balloon. They retrieved the photos... More »

MORE ABOUT:
MIT • camera • photography • atmosphere • outer space

 Kodak Shutters Kodachrome 


Jun 22, 09 10:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Kodak is discontinuing its storied Kodachrome film line, the company announced today. Introduced in 1935, Kodachrome was the first commercially successful color film, and was immortalized in a Paul Simon song in 1973. But these days it represents less than 1% of Kodak’s film sales, and only one lab... More »

MORE ABOUT:
film • Kodak • Eastman Kodak • camera • photography

9 Stories


Fuki inveils 3-D SLR at Photokina
Smart House

Minox unveils digital version of classic spy camera
T3


Technology 
TwitterFollow @NewserTech on Twitter

 
technology • camera • photography • digital photography • Top Gear

from our news partners