While PMA 2006 was a slower-than-usual show for digital camera innovations, there have been some great strides in printer technology. Dave interviews Dr. Nils Miller of Hewlett-Packard, Justin Joseph, and Ed LaManna of Canon USA to see what's new in the world of printers.
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Dave interviews Amy Koppmann of Sony Electronics, showing us the latest cameras in Sony's product lines.
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Shawn tours the PMA show floor to find out what new camera bags are on offer, interviewing Suzanne Caballero of Lowepro Worldwide, Ben Richards of Crumpler Bags, and Erin Harris of Targus.
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Dave interviews Chuck Westfall of Canon USA, showing us the latest cameras in Canon's product lines, as well as describing their new philosophy of "Image Anyware".
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Dave interviews Michael DeLuca of Eastman Kodak Company, who gives us a good rundown of the types of sensors Kodak is producing for camera manufacturers. Michael also explains why you probably won't ever see thirty-nine megapixels on a consumer digital camera chip.
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Dave interviews Nicolas Touchard, the Vice President of DxO labs, about their new DxO Digital Optics Technology. This technology promises to dramatically improve the performance of your cameraphone in lowlight situations, by using specialized software to improve the light-gathering ability of the aperture. As well, they are developing a digital focusing technology that will allow the camera to focus - without the use of any moving parts!
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Shawn interviews Steven Heiner of Nikon, who gives an overview of Nikon's new cameras on display at PMA. Featured are the "Life" series of cameras - the Coolpix L2, L3 and L4, the "Style" series of cameras - the Coolpix S5 and S6, and the "Performance" series of cameras - the Coolpix P3 and P4. As well, Steve displays Nikon's D200 and newest SLR macro lens, the 105mm Micro-Nikkor AF-S VR2.
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Dave interviews Andy LaGuardia of FujiFilm, who gives us a tour of two of Fujifilm's latest offerings, the FinePix F30 and the FinePix V10.
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Color calibration of your monitor and printer is an incredibly important topic that you'll be hearing a lot more about from us over the next year. Even brand-new monitors straight from the box can have wildly varying color characteristics. (So just having a new monitor by no means excuses you from the need to calibrate it.) Ross Hendricks from ColorVision by DataColor takes us through their product line and explains a few of the ins and outs of color calibration along the way.
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The four-thirds digital SLR system got a lot stronger today. At a joint Olympus- Panasonic press conference this morning, Panasonic introduced the Lumix DMC-L1, incorporating an 18-50mm f/2.8-3.5 image-stabilized Leica zoom lens. We chatted with Suguru Takamatsu of Panasonic's Optical Group (Japan) to get a few more details.
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The new Kodak V570 camera is a great example of out-of-the-box thinking. It's the first two-lens, two-sensor consumer digital camera. (First introduced at CES '06 in January.) The net result is a camera that has both super wide and normal zoom ranges, packaged in a very compact case. Dave takes you through the camera's workings, including its amazingly effective in-camera panorama stitching.
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As the only current removable-lens digital SLR with a live LCD preview, the Olympus EVOLT E-330 is sure to draw some attention. Many users moving up from all-in-one digital cameras to digital SLRs miss the ability to frame their shots on an LCD viewfinder. The new Olympus E330 solves that problem with some tricky optics and a second, dedicated viewfinder CCD. We've had hands-on with a prototype, and Editor Shawn Barnett and Publisher Dave Etchells recorded a video walkthrough of the camera to explain some of its operation. Shawn also wrote a User Report, after spending a couple of days shooting with the new camera, describing some of its strengths and foibles. The sample we saw was only a prototype, so we can't share any images from it with you, but we think you'll find this an intriguing new wrinkle in the d-SLR field. Read our Olympus E330 First Look for all the details! To see the video, click on the image above.
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