No surprises here. Electronic giant Sony is now said to be number three after Canon and Nikon in global DSLR shipments. The aforementioned report quoted last year’s IDC analysis data saying Canon had 47%, Nikon 33%, and Sony 6% (once as much as 10%) of global DSLR shipments. With a strong offering in the new Sony Alpha DSLR-A700, we will see some more competition in the DSLR market, which is absolutely good news for consumers.
Circuit City, Canon and PopPhoto Magazine is having a photo contest from September 2 to September 30. The theme of the contest is “Patterns in Nature“. The winners of the contest will get a Canon camera. All submissions will be judged based on composition, relevancy, dimension (lighting), and uniqueness. There are already some nice submissions. Read all about the photo contest at CircuitCity camera/camcorder forum.
Posted in Photo contest on September 6th, 2007. No Comments.
We have opened the Flickr group called “DPTnT - Digital Photography Tips and Tricks“. You are welcome to join and share not only your photos but also the tips and tricks you have learned.
Posted in Site Update on August 24th, 2007. No Comments.
With strong sales performance from D40x/D80, Nikon has obtained the DSLR market leader position in Japan (Read the previous post titled Nikon is on top, in Japan) with market share of 47.5 percent vs. Canon’s 36.5 percent. With the recently announced two new DSLR products, the EOS-1Ds Mark III and EOS 40D, Canon expects (or just hoping?) to regain the lead in Japan for digital SLR camera shipments. Is Nikon quivering, or just busy preparing its new releases? Let’s just wait and see.
Many Nikon fans are eagerly waiting for Nikon to release the updates to the aging D2 series (D200, D2X, D2Hs). If you are one of them, here is the ground shaking news for you. 
Posted in Rumors on August 18th, 2007. No Comments.
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Posted in Site Update on August 9th, 2007. No Comments.
I thought the 15″ digital photo frame is the top of the line, then I found this 19″ model by photoVu. It sure looks great. It is very expensive though, for a $1199 and up price tag. Apparently, digital photo frame will be a “hot buy” for 2007. If you have not heard enough news about digital photo frame, please follow this Yahoo! Pipe for more.
eWeek reports that Microsoft has submitted its HD Photo technology (tentatively titled “JPEG XR”) to the Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG) for considering as an industry standard. The HD photo technology has been under development at Microsoft for a while. It looks great on paper, offering such benefits as high quality or loss less compression, high dynamic range encoding, high performance, and small memory footprint, etc. However I am a little suspicious of the (or the claimed lack of) motives behind everything MS has to offer.
