Wednesday, September 29, 2004

SanDisk debuts Photo Album hardware device for viewing photos...: "SanDisk today introduced the SanDisk Photo Album, a compact, sleek device that lets consumers display digital still pictures or video clips on their TV sets and even attach soundtracks to slide shows. Using any one of eight flash memory card formats as well as portable USB flash drives, the unit also enables consumers to play MP3 music files on their home audio systems." (Via The Macintosh News Network.) 6:31:11 PM

Is this the top megapixel digital camera (that you can buy off the shelf)? Hassleblad's New H1D 22 MP Medium Format Digital Camera: "Hassleblad has just announced the new H1D digital camera which will contain 22 megapixels in a 37mm x 49mm sensor. Image storage will not be done via cf cards, micro drives etc., but rather by a 40gb Image bank, or if you're in the studio, via computer. The H1D is capable of producing 132mb files in 16 bit RGB. ISO range is 50 -100." (Via Digital Camera Websites: Digital Photography News - The Latest Digital Photography News.) 6:06:32 PM

I ran across this earlier today on some photo site, will post the URL shortly. IPIX InfoMedia and REALVIZ announced the availability of IPIX Interactive Studio with the REALVIZ fisheye plug-in extension. The REALVIZ fisheye plug-in supports 3, 4, and 5 shot capture modes, useful for photographers who require higher resolution than what 2 shots provides. 8:42:31 AM

IPIX announced a partnership with Peace River Studios, with the first product from the deal being the Peace River Studios 3Sixty IPIX Edition panoramic camera mount, made exclusively for IPIX fisheye photography customers. 8:41:23 AM

The tech world seems to think that this JPEG security vulnerability for some Microsoft products will be exploited in a big way soon. JPEG exploit could beat antivirus software: "Security experts say that attacks using image files could bypass established defenses." (Via CNET News.com.) 8:38:18 AM

Software Tackles Digital Photo Proliferation (Reuters): "Reuters - Now that digital cameras have overtaken film cameras in sales, users are beginning to encounter a familiar problem -- what to do with the bulging image files and folders filling up computer hard drives?" (Via Yahoo! News - Digital Photography.) 7:08:15 AM

SanDisk Extreme III: "SanDisk has today announced its new range of memory cards which double the performance speeds of its predecessor. Aimed at professionals, the new Extreme III range includes CompactFlash, SD and Memory Stick PRO media with the first two boasting read/write speeds of 20MB/sec, while the latter has 18MB/sec. SanDisk says its cards will work in extreme temperatures ranging from -13F (-25C) to 185F (85C). Integrated RescuePRO software allows photographers to recover accidentally deleted images or data. They..." (Via Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com).) 7:06:48 AM

SanDisk Ultra II: "SanDisk has quadrupled the capacity of its high speed Ultra II line of memory cards with an 8GB CompactFlash card. Also at the top end of the Ultra II range is a 4GB Memory Stick Pro and 2GB SD card. Each boasts a minimum write speed of 9MB/sec and read speed of 10MB per second." (Via Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com).) 7:04:29 AM

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