Capture 3D from Your Camera. What, you don’t have a 3D Camera…. well you might not even need one. Yes, you read it right, you might not need one and we are not joking here and to make it clear for you here we are telling you how you actually can you capture 3D from your camera. Seeing the voracious appetite of the modern photographers and home customers for 3D visualization and data, PhotoModeler has come up with a solution to feed their appetite and to allow the users to capture 3D using their camera. Now many of you might be asking what PhotoModeler is. So, here’s the answer. The PhotoModeler is a windows submission which is used for creating 3D measurements and models from the images captured from common digital cameras. The PhotoModeler Scanner software brings the ability of generating dense point clouds such as a laser or 3D scanner, but at doesn’t require any cumbersome or pricey equipment. The immense suppleness in using the ever-present digital camera renders  [...]

Waterproof cameras clearly are the order for the day in the world of digital cameras, and with the festive season approaching fast all the major camera makers are working hard to offer as much as they can and in the best possible manner. Recently we saw Fujifilm’s waterproof offering the Fujifilm FinePix XP10 priced at $179.  The FinePix XP10 that was launched recently actually is an heir of company’s very first waterproof camera, the Z33WP series and comes loaded with features like a 12 megapixel (MP) digital camera with features taken carelessly in a low-end digital immobile camera. The camera comes loaded with flash and a 5x optical zoom. And here we are again reporting the launch of an all new waterproof camera from GE. The all new GE Active Series of waterproof digital cameras is the latest offering in the waterproof digital camera segment and is just perfect for recording all your fishing memories. The GE G5WP is a waterproof camera up to a depth of five meters.  [...]

The latest offering from Fujifilm, the Fujifilm FinePix F300EXR is a 15X-optical-zoom digital camera offering a boatload of imaging controls and features. But like any other digital camera this device also comes with its own set of shortcomings like sharpness, low-light performance and poor video quality. But the good news here is that its one of the most versatile digital camera available in market with fixed-lens, courtesy its 15X optical zoom lens (24mm to 360mm), there are some unique shooting modes available here as well, and these unique shooting modes makes the most of the 12 megapixel Super CCD EXR sensor of the camera. The camera also comes with a one-touch panorama mode, which lets you sweep the camera for creating an instant 360 degree image. But despite all this versatility, the F300 EXR comes with certain performance issues which holds the camera back from becoming the top choice in our top-rated pocket megazoom chart: substandard  [...]

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX700 comes loaded with advanced features to complement its $400 MSRP. The camera lens probably is the major attraction for most of the potential buyers of the camera and it’s pretty understandably so. Although, many of the consumers in the market are fascinated to long zooms, the bright f2.2 aperture is a rarity on compact cameras, which gives you a low depth of field which is attractive for macro and portraits shots, in addition to allowing you shoot at really low ISOs when you have really less light. The 24mm equivalent ultra wide-angle lens of the camera offers great flexibility with the compositions, in addition to a 5x zoom range is just ideal for a pocket camera. The camera also has manual and a semi-manual shooting modes and it captures 1080i-resolution movies @ 30 fps (frames per second) straight at the press of a button. The image processing engine and sensor of the camera makes it a rather fast camera as well. Though, you really are paying for  [...]

The Olympus Stylus Tough 8010 is a winner when it comes to durability, and is one of the most tough pocket cameras you can get in market. The shock absorbing system and metal body of the camera could survive a drop up to 6.6 feet and up to a weight if 220 pounds the camera even is crushproof. On top of that the camera is freezeproof up to 14 degrees Fahrenheit and waterproof up to 33 feet. The camera also comes with a rock solid set of shooting options which makes snapshots easy despite the conditions the camera is being used. A rarity here is a 2GB internal memory. But don’t get excited with the rugged wrapping and durability of the camera, inside all this solid wrappings there is a rather average point-and-shoot camera, which is painfully slow as well. The photos captured here appeared pretty decent, provided that you don’t want razor-sharp poster-sized prints. One thing that could be hard to swallow for many of the users is that the comparatively  [...]

The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX9 is pretty similar to its freshly launched precursor the TX7. the boasts the same 3.5-inch high-resolution touch-screen LCD, 25mm-equivalent wide-angle lens, and 1080i movie captures @ 60 frames per second; the best thing here is that all this comes in a body which is only 0.7 inch thick. The camcorder makes use of a high-speed Exmor R backside-illuminated CMOS sensor, also, but the DSC-TX9's is a 12 megapixel camera, while the TX7 was 10 megapixels only. Although we accept the resolution bump graciously, but we think that, this only would be a rather lame reason to update a camera. But the primary reasons that will account for the success of the camera are its new shooting modes. The shooting modes for the camera include a Superior Auto mode in conjunction with the two 3D-shooting modes. The Superior auto mode of the camcorder combines the entire multishot modes that we’ve seen on preceding Exmor R-based Cyber-shots. Though, the 3D stuff offered by the  [...]

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FH20 is a compact camera falling in the sub-$180 category and featuring a wide-angle lens having an HD movie capture and 8x zoom, but that’s all. Now it might sound upsetting, but actually it is not. The camera does what it does well and despite the fact that there still is room for improvement on the shooting photo quality and shooting performance of the camera, the shooting speed and the results delivered from the camera is decent. From this all it becomes pretty clear that the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FH20 is all about value and if you want anything further than pleasant snapshots and consistent auto mode for your money, like a Mini-HDMI output, then this is not the camera for you. It's a simple camera with a flexible lens at a reasonable price. The control panel for the camera is rather easy to understand and master, so anyone who is familiar with the operation of digital camera won’t be having any problems in understanding  [...]