Friday, September 30, 2005

Sony Set To Deliver 10-Megapixel Point-and-Shoot Camera (NewsFactor): "NewsFactor - Sony (NYSE: SNE) is raising the bar in digital photography with the introduction of a 10-megapixel camera that has plenty of bells and whistles for consumers willing to pay top dollar for a high-end product." (Via Yahoo! News - Digital Photography.) 8:02:17 AM

"The Case of the Exploding Nikon": " Or the ‘Nikon of the Exploding Case,’ if you prefer. Using OEM parts in expensive equipment is elementary, dear Watson, but MobileMag is reporting that some people are using cheap replacement Lithium batteries in their D70s and getting disasterous results. The cheap batteries don’t have integrated voltage regulation and they can overheat and explode. Fortunately no one has had a camera held up to their eye when it exploded yet. Some of the cases may have involved: users may have thought they were getting official replacement parts. As a result, Nikon now puts holographic stickers on their betteries; look for them. And while the reports on MobileMag are about Nikons, the lesson here should be for everyone to use OEM replacement parts. We saw this same thing a couple of years a o with cell phones, and we’ve seen it with various laptops; Lithium batteries just aren’t something you want to mess around with. Get the OEM part with the appropriate embedded circuits. Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments © 2005 Weblogs, Inc. Ads by Google " (Via The Digital Photography Weblog.) 7:58:12 AM

Nikon adds Wi-Fi to Coolpix digital cameras (MacCentral): "MacCentral - Nikon Corp. has developed a couple of new digital still cameras with built-in wireless LAN adapters, the company said Thursday in a statement." (Via Yahoo! News - Digital Photography.) 7:58:02 AM

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