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June 24, 2006

Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-F717 Digital Camera: 2 Years Later ... CCD Failure & bigtime recall

rating: 3/5 by: graphics_guy - CCD Failure/recall. - This is a pretty great camera! (except for the CCD failure/recall)... This was my first digital camera. I didn't much like film cameras - I guess because I'm too "cheap" to buy film & get it developed. I also hated waiting until I took a whole

From Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-F717 Digital Camera: 2 Years Later ... CCD Failure & bigtime recall

 

Filed under: Digital Cameras We first peeped Fujifilm's compact FinePix V10 at CES earlier this year, but if you've been wondering how it actually performs, the folks at Lets Go Digital have got your fix in the form of an in-depth review. The camera itself is a 5 megapixel number, with a 3.4x optical zoom, and a large 3-inch LCD taking up pretty much all of the real estate on the rear side of the device. Also notable is the high ISO settings (up to 1600), which is rarely seen in a camera of this class. Lets Go Digital really didn't find much negative to say about the camera, giving it high marks for its great lens, fast start-up speed, good color rendition, and general user-friendliness -- they even dug the camera's built-in games. Sticker price is still $349, but it looks like most retailers are selling it for closer to the $300 mark -- although the orange model here seems a bit harder to come by. Why, we don't exactly know; we're assuming it's probably not due to demand. [Via DP Blog] Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

From Fujifilm FinePix V10

 

Filed under: Digital Cameras, Misc. Gadgets, Handhelds Even though we've seen a ton of products designed to aid the visually-impaired in their daily lives, technology still has a long way to go before disabled folks are able to enjoy a completely unrestricted lifestyle, which is why inventor/visionary Ray Kurzweil has spent the last quarter-century building devices that make reading easier for the blind. His latest invention, called the K-NFB, is basically a five megapixel digital camera attached to the back of a Windows Mobile 5.0-powered PDA, which is loaded with software that uses optical character recognition and text-to-speech technology to read aloud the words contained in user-captured photos. Once it's called into action, the $4,860 device supplies the operator with an initial "situation report" that attempts to describe whatever's in the camera's field of vision; if the report indicates that the desired text is within range, owners can then choose to snap a photo and listen to the resulting translation. Although the K-NFB is scheduled to be released soon by the UK's Sight & Sound, several technical issues -- most importantly, the software's difficulty in understanding inverted (white-on-black) text -- still have to be ironed out before it's available to the public. [Thanks, Megan] Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

From Kurzweil set to unveil portable reader for the

 

Posted by Jim at June 24, 2006 03:27 PM