By appearance alone — in a fuzzy black-and-white photograph on the Web, for instance — amateur space analyst Geoff Perry looked like he could have played in one of the postwar Alastair Sim comedies set in English secondary schools.
In a white shirt and tie, draped in a cardigan that must have been [...]
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Looking at online digital photos is great, but many of us prefer an old-fashioned access method. Digital picture frames have been around as concepts for some time, and soon they’ll hit store shelves. Digi-Frame just announced that retailers including Wolf Camera, Fry’s Electronics, Eckerd Drug, Neiman Marcus, DataVision, B&H Photo, and others will carry its [...]
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Nogatech has announced a digital video chip containing a USB interface that can simultaneously stream video and audio to a PC platform at 30 frames per second with CIF (common interchange format) resolution (352 by 288 pixels), or 15 frames per second at VGA resolution (640 by 480 pixels).
Manufactured using advanced 0.25-micron technology, the NT1006 [...]
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Nogatech has announced a digital video chip containing a USB interface that can simultaneously stream video and audio to a PC platform at 30 frames per second with CIF (common interchange format) resolution (352 by 288 pixels), or 15 frames per second at VGA resolution (640 by 480 pixels).
Manufactured using advanced 0.25-micron technology, the NT1006 [...]
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National Semiconductor spinoff Foveon has shaken up the image-sensor arena with a prototype 16.8-megapixel camera that utilizes an image sensor produced using CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) technology.
CMOS imagers—characterized by lower cost but also lower than the CCDs (charge-coupled devices) common in today’s digital cameras—aren’t exactly news. Companies such as Canon, Scitex, and Conexant Systems [...]
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National Semiconductor spinoff Foveon has shaken up the image-sensor arena with a prototype 16.8-megapixel camera that utilizes an image sensor produced using CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) technology.
CMOS imagers—characterized by lower cost but also lower resolution than the CCDs (charge-coupled devices) common in today’s digital cameras—aren’t exactly news. Companies such as Canon, Scitex, and Conexant [...]
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Digital photography sites are popping up all over the Internet, luring consumers with free photo storage and the ability to share and manipulate their snapshots.
Intel is in on the act with GatherRound.com. To differentiate itself, GatherRound.com lets users create 360-degree images. Members use a special free version of MGI Software’s PhotoVista to create panoramas of [...]
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The Digital Imaging Group (DIG) has also launched an effort called the Wireless Image Transmission Initiative (WITI), which targets wireless communications between imaging devices, such as digital cameras, photo printers, and PCs. WITI-enabled devices will be able to exchange pictures quickly and easily. DIG members AGFA, Eastman Kodak, Hewlett-Packard, LightSurf, and NETIMAGE are leading the [...]
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Web masters face a tradeoff when placing digital pictures online. They must balance resolution (image quality) with file size (download time). Today’s digital cameras and scanners produce images of much higher quality than can readily be used on the Internet, yet Web users often want access to the high-quality images.
This conundrum is just one of [...]
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In what’s becoming a trend, Hewlett-Packard has announced an appliance that’s dedicated to capturing and emailing images. Part scanner, part computer, the Digital Sender 8100C captures monochrome or color images, optimizes and compresses them (into Adobe Acrobat PDF or TIFF format), and transmits them as email attachments. The machine can store 200,000 unique email addresses [...]
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