News Archive - June 2001 Return to: Current News Archive Index Thursday, June 28, 2001 Callisto announces Photo E-Mailer, Viewer for Mac! 18:53 EDT - Software company continues to port its PhotoParade products to the Macintosh platform... Callisto Corp. has announced in a press release that it has now released its Photo E-Mailer and Photo Viewer products for users of Macintosh computers. Sold under the PhotoParade moniker, the programs... (More) Nikon D1x user review posted! 18:05 EDT - Wildlife photographer compares Nikon's D1x to the D1... IR reader Rodrigo Gimenez dropped us a note to point out an interesting user review of Nikon's D1x digital camera by wildlife photographer B. Moose Peterson, posted on his Moose's Digital World website.... (More) Google betas Image Search engine! 17:39 EDT - Well-known search engine makes it easier to find images online... Google, the popular web search engine which launched in September 1998, is now running a beta version of its upcoming Image Search service, our friends at the Digital Photography Review report. The Image... (More) Wednesday, June 27, 2001 Digital Eye posts D1x samples! 17:14 EDT - David Kamanski shows off some beautiful D1x photos... Our friends over at the Digital Eye website received a production model Nikon D1x shortly after we did, and have been posting some great photos with it on their site. Thus far, they have 9 night shots,... (More) Minolta announces DiMAGE Scan Multi PRO! 14:17 EDT - New film scanner has 4800dpi resolution and ASF's Digital ICE3... Minolta Corp. has announced a new film scanner at the PC Expo show which started yesterday at the Jacob Javits Center in New York. The DiMAGE Scan Multi PRO is a successor to the existing Dimage Scan Multi... (More) Pretec announces highest capacity CF card! 13:40 EDT - CompactFlash capacity soars to 640MB... Our friends at LetsGoDigital.nl in Holland spotted an interesting announcement by Pretec Electronics Corp., the US subsidiary of Taiwanese company Premier Image Technology Corp. Pretec has announced the... (More) SanDisk announces new PC card adapters! 12:28 EDT - New adapters rount out SanDisk's line with support for SmartMedia, MultiMediaCard, Secure Digital... Flash card manufacturer SanDisk has announced two new flash card adapters at the PC Expo show... The adapters allow Secure Digital and MultiMediaCard or SmartMedia flash cards to be used in a PC Card (PCMCIA)... (More) Tuesday, June 26, 2001 FULL review posted of Canon CanoScan FS4000US film scanner! 14:09 EDT - Canon's 4000 dpi film scanner gets the full IR review treatment... There seems to be a real dearth of film scanner reviews on the 'web these days, and an even more severe lack of *detailed* ones. In response to persistent requests from readers, we're updating and extending... (More) Terapin Mine nearing market? 13:14 EDT - Steve's Digicams suggests we may not have long to wait for TeraOptix's portable storage device... We spotted a news item over at Steve's Digicams which suggests that TeraOptix's Terapin Mine storage device may soon be on the market. Dallas-based TeraOptix, a subsidiary of Singaporean company Serial... (More) Monday, June 25, 2001 DCRP reviews PowerShot S110! 19:42 EDT - Jeff Keller examines Canon's latest Digital ELPH - what does he think? Our friends over at the Digital Camera Resource Page have now posted their review of the Canon PowerShot S100 Digital ELPH. Jeff concludes: "The PowerShot S110 Digital ELPH isn't going to make current... (More) SiPix announces portable photo printer! 19:30 EDT - Silicon Valley company rounds out its PC Expo announcements with a new portable color thermal transfer printer... SiPix Inc. has today announced a new portable photo printer that can be used either with a PC/notebook computer or the SiPix SP-1300 'Shoot & Share' digital camera announced earlier today. The PocketColor... (More) SiPix to ship low-cost CF DualCam! 18:43 EDT - iQuest Roam will cost $99, offer still and tethered video images... SiPix Inc. has today announced that it will begin shipping its new iQuest Roam digital camera next month. The new iQuest features both digital still and tethered (webcam) video capabilities, and a pricetag... (More) SiPix announces instant print digicam! 17:02 EDT - SCP-1000 'Shoot & Print' digicam features a built in color thermal-transfer printer... SiPix Inc. has today announced its first instant print digital camera, the SiPix SCP-1000 'Shoot & Print'. The 0.31 megapixel SCP-1000 features the ability to print 2" x 2.5" 254dpi CMY thermal transfer... (More) SiPix announces 1.3 megapixel digicam! 16:20 EDT - SP-1300 digital camera offers direct connection to SiPix's photo printers... SiPix Inc. has today announced at PC Expo a new digital camera model, the SiPix SP-1300 'Shoot & Share'. As the name implies, the 1.3 megapixel SP-1300 features the ability to print directly from the... (More) Short Form review of Polaroid PDC-2300 posted! 14:51 EDT - Polaroid takes a step up to a more featureful digicam - how does it measure up? The subject of our second Short Form review is Polaroid's PDC-2300. Many people are unaware that last year, Polaroid sold more digicam units than anybody. Huh? That's right. The reason most of us in the... (More) "Short Form" review posted for Ricoh RDC-i700! 14:35 EDT - A brand-new review of Ricoh's 'image capturing device', and a brand-new review style to boot... In effort to cover more of the breadth of the digicam market, we're experimenting with "short form" reviews of some models. These will provide a more concise look at the features, capabilities and performance... (More) Full Review posted for the Olympus D-510Zoom! 14:26 EDT - Dave gets hands-on with Olympus' D-490Z successor... Phew! With the site redesign (mostly) done, we'll finally be uncorking the bottleneck on our review production. - There should be a *lot* of reviews going up this week. The first is a review of Olympus'... (More) Full DSC-P20 review from Steve! 13:40 EDT - Sony's 1.3 megapixel entry-level DSC-P20 digicam gets Steve's review treatment... The review-frenzy over at Steve's Digicams continues with a full review of Sony's DSC-P20, a fixed focal length 1.3 megapixel unit targetted at the entry-level market. Steve concludes: "All things considered... (More) Steve reviews Canon's Brio zoom! 13:32 EDT - First review we've seen thus far of Olympus' D-150 Zoom digicam... Steve Sanders over at Steve's Digicams has been as busy as we have recently it seems, posting four new reviews over the weekend. In the second of these, Steve takes a look at Olympus' Camedia Brio D-150... (More) Steve's Digicams reviews CanoScan FS4000US! 13:21 EDT - Gregg Hickman tries out Canon's 4000dpi film scanner... Our friends over at the Steve's Digicams website have posted a full review of Canon's CanoScan FS4000US, a 4000dpi 35mm/APS film scanner that was first announced back at the PMA show this spring. The... (More) Flash! MORE SLR Comparison images! 01:12 EDT - MORE D1x comparisons! Several of you asked about further comparisons between the D1x and other Pro SLRs. Always happy to oblige, we've produced the "Great Digital SLR Shootout" Page, with a number of side by side... (More) Saturday, June 23, 2001 Steve's Digicams posts FinePix 6900Z review! 15:16 EDT - Steve Sanders delivers his verdict on Fuji's update to the 4900Z... Our friends over at Steve's Digicams have posted a full review of Fuji's FinePix 6900Z digital camera, a 3.3 megapixel, 6x optical zoom unit that was first announced last March in Japan, and confirmed... (More) The New Look is Here! 12:49 EDT - It was a long road... Hard to believe we've been working on this for almost a year, but we've finally deployed our all-new site design. (Do you *realize* how many pages there are in this thing? Yeesh - Like draining a swimming... (More) Casio announces its first 4 megapixel digicam! (UPDATED) 00:43 EDT - New model contains some pretty unusual features... Casio Japan has today announced a new digital camera, the first 4 megapixel unit from the company, in the form of the QV-4000. The unit features a Canon 3x optical zoom lens, 1.8" LCD display and CompactFlash... (More) Friday, June 22, 2001 Coolpix 995s in stock and shipping! 15:53 EDT - For all those who've been waiting, the 995 is in stock and shipping! Our friends at Ritzcamera.com have just let us know that their shipment of Coolpix 995 cameras has arrived and they've commenced shipments. No specifics, but it sounds like they got a hefty quantity, so... (More) More D1x photos online! 15:44 EDT - A batch of "non-standard" photos shot with the D1x are posted! In response to several reader requests, I've shot and posted a few random shots taken with the D1x of subjects other than our usual test targets. Lots of flowers and bugs, so you can marvel at the detail,... (More) Get ready! (Pardon the dust) New look coming tomorrow! 15:38 EDT - Look out! New site design coming! News updates will be a bit slow today, and visitors tomorrow morning may notice more than a little "construction dust", as we're getting ready to roll out a mammoth overhaul of our entire site. In the... (More) Thursday, June 21, 2001 DPReview looks at Fuji's 6900Z! 16:13 EDT - Phil Askey looks at Fuji's 3 megapixel 4900Z successor... Our friends over at the Digital Photography Review website have this afternoon posted a review of Fuji's FinePix 6900 Zoom digital camera, which was first announced last March, and subsequently confirmed... (More) DCRP reviews Sony photo printer! 14:32 EDT - Jeff Keller tries out Sony's DPP-SV77 dye sublimation printer... Our friends over at the Digital Camera Resource Page have now posted their full review of Sony's DPP-SV77 dye sublimation printer, an interesting unit announced back on June 6th which features a built-in... (More) Wednesday, June 20, 2001 Qimage Pro 2001 v2.0 released! 16:33 EDT - Qimage Pro 2001's latest release improves NEF/ORF decoding, adds D1X support, and more... We just received an email from Mike Chaney, author of the popular (and highly recommended!) imaging utility Qimage Pro 2001 with news of a new release of the program. Qimage Pro 2001 v2.0 has the following... (More) Steve reviews PDR-M81! 14:35 EDT - Steve Sanders tries out Toshiba's first entry into the four megapixel market... The good folks over at Steve's Digicams have posted the first full review we've seen thus far of Toshiba's 4 megapixel PDR-M81 digital camera, which was first announced in Japan at the end of last month,... (More) Jeff reviews Sony DSC-S85! 13:26 EDT - Sony's 4 megapixel Cyber-shot undergoes the DCRP review treatment... Jeff Keller at the Digital Camera Resource Page has this morning posted his review of Sony's Cyber-shot DSC-S85, a sub-$800 4 megapixel digital camera announced back on June 6th. Jeff concludes: "What... (More) DCRP reviews Toshiba PDR-M61! (UPDATED) 13:14 EDT - Jeff Keller tries out Toshiba's 2.3 megapixel, 3x optical zoom digital camera... Our friends at the Digital Camera Resource Page have posted the first review we've seen of Toshiba's PDR-M61 digital camera, which was first announced back at the start of February. Unfortunately Jeff... (More) Olympus announces 4 megapixel compact digicam! 09:00 EDT - Popular Camedia C-3040 digicam gets a boost to 4 megapixels in Olympus' newest model... Olympus America Inc. has today announced the latest entry in its line-up of full-featured, compact digital cameras, the Camedia C-4040 Zoom. The camera is essentially an update to the previous C-3040... (More) Tuesday, June 19, 2001 Kodak announces 720x pricing! 10:17 EDT - Kodak's latest Pro SLR will list at $6,995 when it ships next month... Eastman Kodak Co. has today announced pricing for its DCS 720x, the replacement for the DCS 620x that was announced back on June 4th. The DCS 720x will have a list price of US$6,995 and will ship towards... (More) Monday, June 18, 2001 Steve's Digicams looks at PhotoPC 3100Z! 20:52 EDT - Steve Sanders reviews Epson's latest digital camera... Our friends over at the Steve's Digicams website have posted the first review we've seen of Epson's new PhotoPC 3100Z digital camera, which was first announced back on May 14th of this year. Steve concludes:... (More) It's Live! FULL Nikon D1x Review! 20:36 EDT - Our *FULL* review of the Nikon D1x is now "live"! Thanks to some very speedy shipping by Nikon (thanks, Nikon!), we now have our *full* review of the hot new Nikon D1x online! (I won't use the word "exclusive", since I'm sure other sites will be getting... (More) Maxell announces ZD3 digital camera! 18:06 EDT - New digicam has Zero Halliburton styling and a limited production run... Hitachi Maxell has today announced a new digital camera, according to our friends at digitalcamera.gr.jp. The Maxell ZD3 features styling by Utah-based luggage and protective case manufacturer Zero Halliburton,... (More) Nikon announces Coolpix 995 bug! 15:45 EDT - Canadian, Japanese users await firmware update; US cameras will already have update and ship-date is unaffected... Nikon Japan and Nikon Canada have simultaneously announced the discovery of a firmware bug in the Coolpix 995 digital camera which can cause degraded image quality, a noisy LCD preview and possible camera... (More) Canon posts PowerShot G1, Pro90 IS firmware! 15:23 EDT - Firmware 1.0.0.2 corrects LCD brightness issues... Canon Japan has today released a new version of firmware on its English website for American and European users of its PowerShot G1 and Pro90 IS digital cameras. Firmware version 1.0.0.2 incorporates the... (More) Friday, June 15, 2001 Toshiba USA to announce PDR-M81! 20:45 EDT - Digicam which was announced in Japan last month will ship in the USA next month... We first told you about Toshiba's PDR-M81 digital camera when it was announced in Japan back on May 28th of this year. The camera is to be announced in the USA on Monday, and Toshiba has given us the... (More) LOTS more D1x Photos Online! 18:38 EDT - We've uploaded and linked-in a large batch of additional D1x photos! Continuing our testing of Nikon's (incredible) D1x, we've now uploaded sample images for the majority of our test targets. We also have NEF files available for a couple of them, so you can play with the... (More) Thursday, June 14, 2001 Sony announces Cyber-shot DSC-P20! (UPDATED) 16:19 EDT - New entry-level digicam features 1.3 megapixel CCD and $249 pricetag... Sony Electronics has today announced a new entry-level digital camera, the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P20. This is the same camera we first heard rumors of back in March, and it looks like they were fairly accurate,... (More) Problems turned up with latest Microdrives, D1X! 12:46 EDT - IBM's latest Microdrive controller chip in 512MB and 1GB drives revises timing, causes problems... We noted in a news item from our friends at Rob Galbraith Online (and similar items on Japanese sites) that the latest batch of 512MB and 1GB Microdrives have been showing problems with Nikon's brand-new... (More) Steve's Digicams reviews Sony DPP-SV77 dye sub! 11:44 EDT - Steve Sanders posts the first review of Sony's newest dye-sub printer... Our good friends at Steve's Digicams have today posted the first review we've seen of Sony's DPP-SV77 dye sublimation printer, an interesting unit with built-in MemoryStick and PC Card slots for reading... (More) Wednesday, June 13, 2001 SimpleTech announces photo storage solution! 18:36 EDT - Bundle consists of portable hard drive, flash card reader, 32MB CompactFlash card and software... California-based SimpleTech Inc. (formerly known as Simple Technology) has announced a new bundle aimed at digital camera users which it feels makes it easy to 'to capture, edit, store and share thousands... (More) DPReview posts Nixvue Digital Album review! 6:09 EDT - Phil Askey over at the Digital Photography Review website has today posted his review of Nixvue's Digital Album, a portable storage solution that offers 10 or 20GB of battery-powered hard disk backup for your CompactFlash, SmartMedia, MemoryStick or Secure Digital / MultiMediaCard memory. Phil concludes: "It does what it says on the box... And it does it well. The unit I have here for review is far... (More) Ricoh announces 2 megapixel MP3 digicam! 15:03 EDT - Ricoh's latest digital camera combines still images, video, audio and webcam capabilities in a 'mobile phone' style package... Ricoh Japan has announced a new combination digital camera / MP3 player, according to Yamada Kumio's digitalcamera.gr.jp website. The Ricoh Caplio RR10 is a 2 megapixel, 2x optical zoom unit which has... (More) DCRP reviews Mavica MVC-CD300! 11:47 EDT - Jeff Keller gets hands-on with Sony's 3x zoom, CD-RW digicam... Our friends over at the Digital Camera Resource Page have today posted their full review of Sony's Mavica MVC-CD300 digital camera. Jeff's thoughts on this interesting CD-RW based digicam? "...I'd say... (More) Zing.com prepares to close down! 09:24 EDT - Popular online photofinisher announces its business will soon come to an end... Online photofinisher Zing.com, which not only provides its own extremely popular photo-sharing website to customers but also provides the backbone of a number of other sites, has announced on its http://dev.zing.com/... (More) Fuji announces FinePix 6900 Zoom! 08:00 EDT - Fuji USA catches up with the rest of the world in announcing the FinePix 6900 Zoom... Fuji Photo Film USA Inc. has today announced the FinePix 6900 Zoom digital camera, a model we first told you about when it was announced on March 22nd by Fuji Germany. The camera essentially combines... (More) First *Production Model* D1X Photos on the Web? (UPDATED) 02:37 EDT - We just got our hands on a full-production D1X, and have posted some images for our readers... WOW! We just got a sample of a full production model of Nikon's new 6 megapixel D1X Pro SLR in-house, and have spent a busy day shooting tests and analyzing the results. First thoughts? It's incredible!... (More) Tuesday, June 12, 2001 Toshiba announces firmware updates! 21:11 EDT - PDR-M60, -M61, -M65 get 128MB SmartMedia capability; -M60 also gets some other improvements... Toshiba America Inc. has today released firmware updates for three of its digital still cameras... The PDR-M60, -M61 and -M65 are now fully compatible with 128MB SmartMedia cards, and the -M60 also gets... (More) Fuji outlines digital strategy! 21:03 EDT - In interviews with Reuters' Edmund Klamann, the Japanese manufacturer discusses its plans in the emerging digital marketplace... Press agency Reuters has today posted a news item detailing Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd.'s plans for the digital imaging marketplace. Reuters' Edmund Klamann spoke with Fuji executives for the piece, which... (More) Digicam market heading for a crunch? 16:19 EDT - Reuters looks into its crystal ball and foresees tough times ahead for digital camera manufacturers... An interesting item from news agency Reuters today looks at the future of the digital camera marketplace, and predicts some tough times ahead for manufacturers in a marketplace which is heading for a shakedown... (More) New Bibble released - site back online! (UPDATED) 15:44 EDT - Bibble's latest version offers faster, better RAW conversion - the website was down, but is back now... Our friends over at Steve's Digicams have today reported on a new version of popular imaging utility Bibble, which has just been updated to improve RAW file processing. Bibble v2.99 has a number of new... (More) Monday, June 11, 2001 Agfa Consumer Imaging sale falls through! 15:56 EDT - Talks abandoned as Agfa decides to retain its Consumer Imaging business... Agfa-Gevaert N.V., which had been in talks with investment company Schroder Ventures as it considered selling its Consumer Imaging business, has today announced that the negotiations have been ceased.... (More) Kodak, Intel, Olympus invest in DataPlay! 15:37 EDT - Announcement brings two more likely sources of digital cameras based on DataPlay media... DataPlay Inc. has announced the closing of a $55 million round of financing which included investments from big names such as Kodak, Intel and Olympus - and interestingly, musician David Crosby! The announcement... (More) Full review of Fuji's FinePix 2300! 14:05 EDT - Steve wraps up a busy week with the first review of Fuji's FinePix 2300... It has been a while since Fuji's 2.1 megapixel FinePix 2300 digital camera was first announced back at the start of February, and when Steve's Digicams posted their review this morning we were surprised... (More) First review of Olympus' D-510Z online! 13:49 EDT - Steve Sanders tries out Olympus' replacement for the D-490Z... The fine folks over at Steve's Digicams have posted the web's first review of Olympus' Camedia D-510 Zoom digital camera, a camera that was first announced back on May 8th, and is alternately known in... (More) Steve reviews DCR-PC110 camcorder! 13:37 EDT - First review of a digital video camcorder from the folks at Steve's Digicams... Steve Sanders of the Steve's Digicams website has posted his first review of a digital video camcorder over the weekend, having tried out Sony's DCR-PC110. The PC110 features a 0.25" megapixel imager,... (More) DVSpot preview site launches! 13:13 EDT - Digital video camcorder site launched by the folks from the DCRP! Our good friend Jeff Keller, editor of the Digital Camera Resource Page website which we've mentioned in our news page frequently in the past, has today launched a preview of his latest site, DVSpot. ... (More) Friday, June 8, 2001 Polaroid announces PDC 640 CF! 18:51 EDT - New digital camera looks to be Polaroid's Modem Camera with the modem functionality removed... Polaroid Corp. has announced a new digital camera in its lineup, the PDC 640 CF. Whilst the camera might initially seem to be an update to the existing PDC 640 model to which it looks essentially identical... (More) Casio updates the Wrist Camera! 15:21 EDT - Digicam watches popular with gadget lovers now capture a color image... Casio Inc. has announced two new additions to its Wrist Camera series of watches with built-in low-res digital cameras, the WQV3D-8 and WQV3-1. First shown at the JCK Show in Las Vegas, Nevada earlier... (More) Thursday, June 7, 2001 Kodak retires 300, 500, 600-series SLRs! 13:09 EDT - Its official - Kodak no longer has any Canon-bodied cameras in its Pro SLR digital camera lineup as three camera lines reach their end... Eastman Kodak Co. has today distributed a press release outlining its new product portfolio, which consists of the just-announced DCS 720x, the DCS 760 announced last March, the 16 megapixel DCS Pro Back... (More) Full Review of Polaroid SprintScan 4000 posted! 12:39 EDT - An in-depth look at Polaroid's 4000dpi 12-bit film scanner, which accepts color or black and white 35mm negatives and positives, or APS with an optional adapter... Continuing our slow march through the land of high-resolution film scanners, we've just posted our full review of Polaroid's aptly named SprintScan 4000. This was the first of the 4000 dpi units on the... (More) DCRP reviews Fuji FinePix 6800Z! 00:47 EDT - Jeff Keller tries out Fuji's 'Porsche-designed' beauty... The fine folks over at the Digital Camera Resource Page have now posted their full review of Fuji's FinePix 6800Z digital camera. Jeff concludes: "I really like the Fuji FinePix 6800 Zoom, but I'd like... (More) Sony DSC-S85 - full review online! (UPDATED) 00:00 EDT - Wrapping up 'Sony Day' at the Imaging Resource, Dave tries out Sony's first 4 megapixel digicam... It's a good guess that 2001 is going to be the year of affordable 4 megapixel cameras. While Toshiba announced a low-cost model just recently, Sony is the first of the market-leading manufacturers to announce... (More) Sony announces Cyber-shot DSC-S85! (UPDATED) 00:00 EDT - Update to the DSC-S75 features 4 megapixel CCD and more... Sony Electronics has today announced a 4 megapixel version of its existing Cyber-shot DSC-S75 digital camera, in the form of the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-S85. This is the same camera we first heard rumors... (More) Wednesday, June 6, 2001 Sony USA announces new photo printers! (UPDATED) 16:00 EDT - Somewhat behind the Japanese announcement, Sony USA has now made the new photo printers official... We told you earlier this afternoon about two new photo printers from Sony, and we've now passed the official 4pm ET announcement time for the US market... Full specs for the printers can be found in our... (More) Sony Japan announces two new photo printers! 13:23 EDT - New printers to be announced in the US shortly offer printing solutions in the field or the living room... Sony Japan has announced two new dye sublimation printers, the DPP-SV77 and DPP-SV88. Both units share the same 403dpi 24-bit color print engine, and ability to read JPEG, TIFF or BMP format images from... (More) Tuesday, June 5, 2001 Olympus Japan announces C-100, C-200Z! 17:07 EDT - Latest Japanese announcements are equivalents of cameras already announced stateside... Yamada Kumio's digitalcamera.gr.jp website today reports on two new digital camera announcements from Olympus Japan. The Olympus C-100 and C-200ZOOM digital cameras are both Japanese equivalents of cameras... (More) IXLA's imaging portal reaches end of the road! 16:51 EDT - ...or should that be the end of the 'PhotoHighway'? Australian company IXLA Ltd. pulled the plug on its money-burning imaging portal PhotoHighway.com last January, as part of a plan to cut costs and restore profitability to the parent company by the end... (More) Olympus announces Camedia D-370! (UPDATED) 09:00 EDT - Replacement for the Olympus D-360L promises greatly enhanced battery life... Olympus America Inc. has today announced a replacement for its existing D-360L digital camera, in the form of the Olympus Camedia D-370. Already in our database, the D-370 features greatly improved battery... (More) Monday, June 4, 2001 Kodak completes Ofoto acquisition! 23:53 EDT - With online photofinisher under its control, Kodak strengthens its online imaging portfolio... Eastman Kodak Co. has today announced that it has completed the acquisition of online photofinisher Ofoto Inc., in a deal we first told you about back on April 30th. "The closing of the transaction is... (More) Digital Outback DCS 760 experience report! 07:18 EDT - Uwe Steinmueller reviews Kodak's $7000 digital SLR... We received an email this morning from Uwe Steinmueller over at the Digital Outback Photo website with news that he's posted an 'experience report' on Kodak's DCS 760, concluding: "The DCS 760 delivers... (More) Kodak DCS 720x Pro SLR - more pics! (UPDATED) 07:00 EDT - New Nikon F5-based digital SLR will replace the DCS 620x in Kodak's lineup... Eastman Kodak Co. has this morning announced the latest addition to its lineup of SLR digital cameras targetted at professionals, the Kodak DCS 720x. Based on Nikon's F5 film camera, the DCS 720x replaces... (More) Sunday, June 3, 2001 Sanyo announces DSC-MZ1 digicam - samples online! 23:30 EDT - Latest model from the Japanese consumer electronics company looks packed with interesting features... Sanyo have announced a new digital camera for the Japanese market carrying on their tradition of above-average video and burst-mode capabilities, the Sanyo DSC-MZ1. Now in our database, the MZ1 is similar... (More) megapixel.net June 2001 edition online! 15:16 EDT - megapixel.net posts June 2001 edition; 4 new camera reviews, 2 new articles and a goodly selection of reader photos... Our friends at the bilingual (French/English) megapixel.net website have now posted their June 2001 edition... Reviews this month include the Sony DSC-S75, Olympus C-2040Z, Toshiba PDR-M65 and Sony MVC-FD97... (More) Saturday, June 2, 2001 Arthur Bleich posts RDC-i700 review! 23:36 EDT - Digital PhotoCorner cooperates with Digital Camera Magazine to provide the first look at Ricoh's 'image capturing device'... Arthur Bleich over at the Digital PhotoCorner website has posted a review of Ricoh's RDC-i700 'image capturing device', a digital camera which includes some functionality such as Internet connectivity... (More) Upgrade coming: IR Site will be *down* Sunday AM! 16:11 EDT - The Imaging Resource site will be down for a major storage upgrade this Sunday, beginning about 3AM Eastern Daylight Time. Just a quick note to let all our loyal readers know that we'll be taking our server down for a major storage upgrade this weekend. The *plan* is for this to happen beginning at 3am EDT Sunday, June 3.... (More) Friday, June 1, 2001 Pentax EI-100 - specs and pic! 18:36 EDT - LetsGoDigital.nl uncovers another new Pentax digicam... We're nearing the end of our backlog of new digicams that built up whilst Mike was sick, and have now added Pentax' entry-level EI-100 digital camera to our database. The EI-100, first reported on by our... (More) Jeff reviews Olympus' Brio D-100! 14:39 EDT - One of Olympus' latest Camedia digicams, alternately known in some countries as the C-1, goes on the Digital Camera Resource Page's 'reviewing bench'... Our good friend Jeff Keller over at the Digital Camera Resource Page has now posted his full review of Olympus' Camedia Brio D-100 digital camera, first announced back on March 6th 2001. What does Jeff... (More) Return to: Current News Archive Index