Digital Camera Review

The dificult part of web picture sharing are managing and customized albums on the fly. The browser sometimes loads slower when opening album management panel. It is take such time when uploading many files one by one. Manage many pictures online is hard and confusing.

It will different when managing many pictures in your local computer. It is easy to create folders, drag drop, copy, cut and paste images to one folder to another. 

PhotoOnWeb offers new way to share your pictures online. This software combines two powerfull sites, one site is your local computer and another is internet. You can manage your images in your local computer, and then bulk upload to the web. You can personalize your web from your local computer and then publish it to the internet. This software is a free software, and it supports many file types jpeg, gif, png, even raw file format.

The 1rst step to create your online sharing picture, is download PhotoOnWeb application and install it. Then from your installed software, you can create new album by clicking the menu. You can create many folders as much as you like, move your images to those folders. Personalize your site by choose site templates, even you can make your own template. And then publish it to the web. Finally share it to the world.

Requirements:
- Registered account on PhotoOnWeb website
- Software runs in Microsoft Windows

Press Release

PhotoOnWeb: Easily Share Your Pictures with Friends and Family

PhotoOnWeb is a free tool to create customized online photo albums. In a few clicks you build your own gallery, edit your pics and publish your album on our servers or on your own. You are provided with a web url that can send to all your photos.

Toulouse, France, September 14, 2007 — VSO Software announces the release of PhotoOnWeb, a software tool to create customized photo-albums and host them on the internet.

When we make photos, we usually have in mind to share them with friends and family. To do this, you can send them by email, a heavy and time-consuming process, or post them on the internet: that is exactly what PhotoOnWeb allows you to do.

Unlike other photo sharing services, the PhotoOnWeb software can send many pictures directly from a hard drive as a batch, offers customized templates and host the album on its own server.

Fabrice Meuwissen, Marketing director at VSO and passionate photographer, explains: “We browsed through existing programs but could not find a solution that combined ease of use and enough options to create a professional-looking album. So VSO decided to create its own application to design and host online photo albums”.

Creating an album with the software is so easy that it only takes a couple of clicks; simply add the pictures and click on “publish.” PhotoOnWeb automatically resizes the photos, creates the gallery and transfers it. You can either use your own ISP web space to post your pictures or take advantage of the free 100Mb hosting space provided by VSO PhotoOnWeb servers.

The software provides a choice of more than 15 templates for free and those who feel comfortable with html editing can also design their own background. Other features include: rotating pictures, converting to sepia or black and white, adding a comment for each shot or customizing the layout of the digital photo album, etc. PhotoOnWeb supports various image formats (even professional ones like Raw) so you’ll have no trouble creating your album no matter what kind of camera you use.

Click on the URL of the album and enjoy the results: an elegant, customized gallery with smooth navigation and photos already resized to fit the full screen. Emailing the link allows sharing the online album without sending attachments or the viewer having to register to a community.

For anyone who wishes to post images on the web, PhotoOnWeb is a great, easy and effective solution.

PhotoOnWeb is a freeware.

Features and Specifications

Creates and uploads online photo albums
Supports various digital camera format : JPG , GIF , RAW, BMP, TIFF, PNG, CR2, NEF…
FTP Client software included
Range of web site templates available (baby, wedding, model book, holiday, etc)
Possibility to create own template (html)
Hosting on VSO PhotoOnWeb servers or on own ISP web space
Add your comments on each pictures
Import PhotoDVD projects slideshows.
Optimized for Windows XP / Vista
Free VSO server account (100 Mb, sufficient for about 500 pictures)

About the company
VSO Software, an innovative software editor located in the south of France (Toulouse) was founded in 2003. Since then, VSO has established a reputation for its burning applications and easy to use software. VSO-Software also provides SDK and command lines option for integration by others companies.

VSO Software
Annelise Vo-Thanh
0033 5 62 16 02 23
annelise[at]vso-software.fr
www.vso-software.fr

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TORRANCE, Calif.–Already a major player in North America, GE’s stylish new line of digital cameras made a grand entrance into Latin America today in São Paulo, Brazil.

General Imaging, the worldwide exclusive licensee for the GE-branded cameras, conducted a mid-day news conference at the ultra-chic Hotel Unique in São Paulo, a high-altitude city in love with high design.

General Imaging Chairman & CEO Hiroshi “Hugh” Komiya and Rene Buhay, Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing for the Americas, met with more than 40 journalists and emphasized the importance of Latin America to the new camera brand’s long-term vision. Representatives of Jaacx Distributors, the Miami-based master distributor for GE digital cameras in Latin America, also took part in the news conference.

“Latin America remains an exceptionally fast-growing market for digital cameras, and Brazil and other Latin American countries are enjoying greater buying power than ever before,” Komiya said. “General Imaging is committed to an enduring relationship with distributors, retailers and consumers throughout the region.”

Buhay predicted rapid fourth-quarter growth for General Imaging in Latin America. “GE cameras are now in approximately 1,000 retail outlets, and we expect to be in somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 stores by the end of the year,” he said.

Since its May 1 launch, General Imaging and its GE-branded digital cameras have already achieved a presence in 12,000 retail outlets in North America – and are on track to be in 20,000 by the end of 2007, Buhay said. GE cameras are also available through numerous online retailers and TV shopping channels.

An independent company based in Torrance, Calif., General Imaging unveiled eight GE-branded cameras on March 8 in Las Vegas during PMA 07, the imaging industry’s leading trade show.

Even at the entry level, the GE cameras include features one would expect from a much more expensive camera, starting with the A730’s 7 megapixels of resolution, 3x optical zoom, and a 2.5-inch LCD screen. Models at the higher end feature up to 12 megapixels, up to 12x zoom, and 3-inch screens. In the middle is the E850, which adds wide-angle capability to its long list of features.

The cameras boast sleek and intuitive design, plus a host of popular, advanced functions as standard features, including panorama stitching, face detection, image stabilization, red-eye removal, and ISO 1600 sensitivity. More information about GE cameras is available at www.ge.com/digitalcameras.

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Carl Zeiss well known lens manufacturer, announced new lens for SLR camera, Distagon T* 2/28.  The Distagon T* 2/28 will be shipped in the fourth quarter of 2007 with list price of US$984 in  U.S.

There are two type of this lens, F Mount (ZF) and K Mount (ZK).

For ZF it will compatible with :
Nikon
F, F2, EL, FE, FM, Nikkormat-Series, F3, FM3A
F50, F55, F65, F75, F80, F401, D40, D40x, D50, D70, D70s, D80, D100
FG, FA, F301, F501, F4, F5
F70, F90/F90x, F100, F601, F801, D1, D1X or D1H
F6, D200 or D2-Series
FujiFilm
FujiFilm FinePix S1Pro, S2Pro, S3 Pro
FujiFilm FinePix S5 Pro
Kodak 
Kodak Pro 14n

For ZK it will compatible with:
Pentax
K100D, K110D, K10D
*is D, *is Ds, *is DL, *is Ds2, *is DL2
MZ-M, ZX-M, MZ-S, MZ-3, MZ-5, ZX-5, MZ-5n
ZX-5n, MZ-6, ZX-L, MZ-7, ZX-7, MZ-10, ZX-10,MZ-30
ZX-30, MZ-50, ZX-50, MZ-60, ZX-60, *is
P3, P30
A3, A3000
Program A, Program Plus, P5, P50, P30n, P3n, P30T, PZ-10, Z-10
Super A, Super Program, SF-1, SFX, SF-10, SF-1N, SF-7
SF-XN, PZ-1, Z-1, PZ-1p, Z-1p, MZ-5
LX, ME super, ME-F
ME, MV, MV1, MG
KM, KX, K1000, MX
Samsung
GX-10, GX-1L, GX-1S

Press Release

Thornwood, N.Y. – The Zeiss Distagon T* 2/28 is a new, high-speed, wide-angle lens, complementing the line of advanced SLR lenses from Carl Zeiss for analog and digital 35 mm single lens reflex cameras. With a fast aperture of f/2 and a 28mm focal length, the Distagon T* 2/28 is the ideal bridge between the existing wide-angle lenses with 25mm and 35mm focal lengths.

The new lens is available in two versions: Distagon T* 2/28 ZF for cameras with the F-bayonet mount and the Distagon T* 2/28 ZK for cameras using a K-bayonet mount. It is one of the fastest lenses available in this focal length and is ideally suited for taking photographs in unfavorable lighting conditions. Equipped with manual focus, a high quality metal casing and floating elements, it provides demanding photographers with a creative, top-class tool with lasting value. The performance potential of the lens is consistent throughout the entire image field, even with professional digital cameras featuring full format sensors.

Lenses with a 28mm focal length are popular for landscape and architectural photography – and the Distagon T* 2/28 ZF is ideal even for high quality, close-range portraits. Due to the high speed of the lens, it is particularly suited for taking pictures indoors under natural light or other low light conditions.

The Zeiss Distagon T* 2/28 uses floating elements, ensuring impressive image quality in both the close-up range as well as at longer distances. With a fast aperture of f/2, photographers enjoy greater creativity through flexible use of the depth-of-field. This enables them to effectively separate the subject from the background at full aperture and achieve a strong 3D effect. High image quality is provided under all conditions, from wide open to stopped down and at different focus ranges, despite the extremely high speed.

With its numerous, outstanding properties, the Distagon T* 2/28 from Carl Zeiss is a versatile, multi-purpose lens for the demanding commercial, landscape and fine-art photographer. Thanks to the standard F and K bayonet mount connections, the lens can be integrated into the corresponding camera systems – with some limited compatibility on a case-by-case basis with the simpler camera models.

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San Dimas, Calif., — September 5, 2007 - Norcent, a marketer of high-quality, value-oriented home entertainment products, is pleased to announce the latest addition to its growing line-up of outstanding feature-packed digital cameras, the DCC-725, is now shipping. The camera offers many convenience and customization options to turn even the most amateur photographer into a pro.

“Now consumers can affordably purchase a feature-rich, high image quality camera without paying brand name prices,” according to Rick Stans, Norcent EVP of Sales and Marketing. “Norcent is committed to giving consumers all the features and quality they expect at the absolute best value possible.”

The camera is easy to navigate with intuitive buttons attractively placed on the back. The 2.5″ LTPS TFT LCD, scratch-resistant acrylic panel display offers a bright and clear look at the photo being taken or to review past shots and video clips. A 3x optical zoom and 4x digital zoom is included for crystal clear distance shots.

The DCC-725 features 15 picture-taking modes to enhance image quality in common challenging shooting situations. The picture taking modes include: Program, movie, voice recording, portrait, landscape, sunset, night scene, text, back light, kids, snow, food, fireworks, building and quick mode.

In addition to the numerous picture-taking modes, Norcent includes many white balance settings to simplify certain shooting situations: manual, daylight, cloudy, tungsten, fluorescent, and custom white balance settings. An assortment of photo effects such as black & white, sepia, negative art, mosaic and RGB filter are also included allowing for personalization of photographs. For action shots, the Burst mode will capture the excitement in a series of 4 images.

Movie mode captures video clips with resolutions of 640 x 480, 320 x 240, or 160 x 120 and will record until the flash card is full. The DCC-725 also includes a built-in flash with auto, forced on, forced off, slow sync and red-eye reduction modes

Additional features include 16MB of internal memory plus an SD card slot. The camera is also multilingual with numerous language options such as: English, German, French, Japanese, Italian, Korean, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, Russian, Portuguese, Czech, Polish, Turkish and Hungarian

The DCC 725 arrives with a complete accessory package and is ready to go with a USB Cable, AV Cable, Wrist Strap, Camera Bag, User Manual and Software CD.

The Norcent DCC-725 seven megapixel digital camera is available at select retail outlets nationwide and through the Norcent website e-store located at http://www.norcent.net for an estimated street price of $109.99.

About Norcent
Norcent is a worldwide, award winning consumer electronics manufacturer dedicated to bringing the latest in high-tech digital technology to the mainstream consumer market. Norcent’s ability to leverage the most competitive ISO certified manufacturing facilities allows it to provide cutting-edge digital products to consumers at the best overall value. For more information please visit www.norcent.net or send an email to info[at]norcent.net.

Features

• 7.0 Megapixel digital camera captures high-resolution images up to 3072 x 2304
• 2.5” LTPS TFT LCD, scratch-resistant acrylic panel display
• 3x optical zoom and 4x digital zoom
• Movie mode captures video clips with resolution of 640 x 480, 320 x 240, and 160 x 128
• Built-in flash with auto, forced, no flash, slow sync and red-eye reduction modes
• Manual, daylight, cloudy, tungsten, fluorescent and custom white balance settings
• 15 picture taking modes: Program, movie, voice REC, portrait, landscape, sunset, night scene, text, back light, kids, snow, food, fireworks, building, quick mode

Specifications

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