Cameras & Camcorders on TFTS - Page 34

The camera never lies, so they say. Though, these days, with digital photo manipulation software well and truly in the hands of the masses, it’s increasingly the case this adage no longer holds true – if it ever truly did. And, in the case of Hewlett Packard’s new R937 digital …

Sorry, but we couldn’t resist quickly posting about this bizarrely named Jelly 35mm camera film primarily because it stands as a prime example as to how not to name a product when using a foreign language. And this is especially the case when one of the blurbs on the packaging …

As anyone who has ever taken pictures of kids for family portraits will know, getting children to smile for the camera can prove to be an uphill struggle, but a chap by the name of Federico Sartorio has come up with an ingenious, low-tech solution to the problem using just …

Whilst there are specialist computer programs available that will assist you in joining together numerous separate digital photographs to form a panoramic vista a great deal of work and patience is required to get a decent result and, if just one of your photos is a little out of focus …

Having posted only recently about TU Delft’s trials of a solar powered computer mouse, namely the Sole Mio, we find ourselves referring to yet another one of their projects, known as the RoboSwift, that could result in us seeing birds in a wholly different light in the near future.
Presently being …

Having posted yesterday about the concealed camcorder alarm clock, a post in which we referred to a number of concealed spy cams featured previously on TFTS, we couldn’t possibly pass up on posting about this great spy gadget.

Billed as being a security device, we have no doubt that this alarm clock with built in camcorder has an altogether more dubious use as a concealed spy cam and that it will sell well on account of this fact.

Two weeks ago we published a post concerning Hitachi’s announcement that a new HD Blu-Ray based Camcorder was in the pipeline and today Hitachi has officially announced its DZ-BD7H and DZ-BD70 Blu-Ray HD Camcorders.

With electronics manufactures ceaselessly competing amongst themselves to produce ever more compact gadgets, Panasonic has today served to lay down the gauntlet for the worlds most compact full spec HD camcorder in the form of its 3CCD High Definition HDC-SD5 Camcorder.

If you want to transfer high definition home videos and digital photos to DVD discs without having to fire up your PC then the next-generation VRD-MC5 DVDirect DVD Recorder – now with HD support – from Sony should fit the bill nicely.

If you’re serious about your home movies or are looking to make the jump to HD recording then its time to start saving.