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Canon Launches New EOS Rebel

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Canon Rebel EOS T2iThe Canon EOS Rebel T2i is seen as the ‘flagship’ of Canon’s entry-level digital SLRs (so it’s the best of the worst, right?). While the camera is relatively similar to the previous EOS Rebel, a lot of the features have improved slightly to produce a more feature-packed high-specification camera all round.

The resolution on this camera is an impressive 18 megapixels and the screen is as large as you’d expect on a camera of this quality – it is also easy to use; a bonus compared to some of its competitors! The resolution of the camera means that photos produced are 6 foot by 4 foot in actual size, should you ever wish to print them out at 100% (stock up on those ink cartridges). …

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Joby Gorillapod Magentic Flexible Tripod

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The Joby Gorillapod has gone magnetic with this tripod, and this geek has but one word… “BRILLIANT!” I have an original Gorillapod and love it, but sometimes I could see it being easier to attach the Gorillapod magnetically rather than my old fashioned way of placing it on something in standard fashion or wrapping the legs around some object like a dog in heat.

This Gorillapod has the same features as the original, including the quick release for the camera, except with a magnetic personality.

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Price: $24.95
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BigShot Kit teaches kids to build a digital camera, how it works

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bigshot cameraRemember electronics and chemistry kits you had as kids? Well, there’s new technology coming out all the time and the folks at Columbia University’s Computer Vision Lab have developed an educational kit that is bit more specific  – a digital camera kit.

The BigShot camera comes in parts ready to be assembled. Sure, it’s geared for kids, but let’s face it – how many of us really know how a digicam works? Here’s hoping they can make the economics of this work and get it to the mass market.

via Wired

Retrofit any Video Camera With This Motion Activated DVR Security Recorder

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If you’ve already started on the road to securing your home and business with video cameras, great. But if they’re just real-time cameras, then you’re missing out on the valuable addition of digital recording via an attached DVR.

Well don’t worry. You can snag yourself a DVR that can be used with any camera. It also goes one step better and only records when it sense motion. That’s right – it’s a motion activated security recorder.

The DVR-9122 from KJB Security records at a max resolution of 704×480 @ 24 fps and stores the video on an SD card. It can also overlay time and date stamp on the video and you can schedule when it should record.

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Price: $222.99
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Camera Cube Level – use bubble levelers to get your photos straight

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This no-batteries required gadget falls into the category of things that make you smile wryly and wonder why you didn’t imagine it. The Camera Cube Level is pretty simple – it’s a transparent cube with 3 bubble levelers inside. You slide the whole cube onto the top of your camera’s hot shoe and now you’re ready to take perfectly level shots, both portrait and landscape.

That’s it. If you’re a photography junkie and have a camera with a hot shoe, then go get one, it’s cheap.

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Price: $4.99
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Nikon Coolpix S1000pj – digital camera with a built-in projector

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Nikon has a new take on point-and-shoot digital cameras: it’s one with a built-in projector. Yes, that means you don’t need to upload your pictures to a large-screen monitor or plug into a TV. Just point your camera at the nearest wall and share with everyone.

The Nikon Coolpix S1000pj is the world’s first such digital camera. It is a 12.1 Megapixel camera with a 5x wide-angle Zoom-NIKKOR glass lens, a 5-way VR image stabilization system and a 2.7″ LCD screen.

And the projector? It can project 10″ to 6’6″ away, with VGA-equivalent resolution to produce images up from 5″ to 40″ large. Not too shabby. Battery life is about an hour, which is not too long to start boring everyone. Amazon has a nice video of this camera in action.

The S1000pj is a bit pricey, but that usually comes with being 1st to the table. But to be fair, it has a slew of features that are usually found in more advanced point-and-shoots.

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Price: $429.99
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Scuba Masks With Cameras

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Scuba Mask with Camera

Sports items with built in cameras are nothing new, but they can still be highly impressive and innovative, especially when inside an underwater sports item such as a scuba mask. This is where Liquid Image come in – they supply 4 masks with built in cameras set into the top of them to record your underwater voyages. The masks themselves provide all the functionality you would need out of a scuba mask, whilst recording your images with a camera quality that ranges from 3.1megapixels right up to 720p HD recording.

Most of the masks are similar in specs, except for their recording and storage capabilities:

Item Camera Internal Storage Externally Expandable
Explorer Series 3.1 3.1Mp 16MB 2GB
Explorer Series 5.0 5.0Mp 16MB 2GB
VideoMask Series 5.0Mp 16MB 8GB
Scuba Series HD 720P – 32GB

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Price: $79.99 – $159.99
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Garmin Oregon 550/550t – GPS With Camera

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Garmin Oregon 550t

We’ve had cameras with built in GPS so now it’s time for a GPS with a built in camera! Garmin have taken their award-winning Oregon GPS system and stuck a 3.2 megapixel camera in it with 4x optical zoom – enough to rival a lot of phones on the market today – perfect for those times when you’re trekking up a mountain and want to take a picture of the view but find your phone’s dead.

Enough about the camera, the GPS system is pretty advanced too – the built-in memory has enough room for 2,000 waypoints, 200 routes and 5,000 geocaches and comes loaded with 100,000 maps with 3D perspective rendering. Operation is via a 3-inch touch screen and can be mounted inside a car for in-vehicle use.

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Price: $599.00
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Gardenwatch Cam – watch your garden grow from your desk

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Gardenwatch Cam

The Gardenwatch Cam is a snappy little innovation that lets you record your garden growing by taking pictures at predetermined intervals (standard ones are 1 min, 5 mins, 30 mins, 1 hour, 4 hours, 24 hours or set your own!) in JPEG format, and them playing them back to you in a Discovery Channel-style long exposure movie.

The pictures are taken with a 1.3MP camera and stored on an 8GB internal memory. All-in-all it’s quite an interesting product, and might brighten up your desktop with some amazing photos of the plants and the sunrise that you just wouldn’t be awake for otherwise.

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Price: $139.99
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