Everyone knows Nintendo is a global gaming juggernaut, but you might not think of them as a player in the digital camera game. Well, think again: The new Nintendo DSi hand-held has two 640×480 cameras and comes pre-loaded with basic facial-recognition software that calculates how similar two people look. Continue Reading

Casio released today a firmware update that adds a digital zoom feature to the company’s 8.1 megapixel Exilim EX-Z150, a camera which already had 4x optical zoom. The upgrade enhances that factor to 60.2x. Continue Reading

Pentax released its latest entry-level digital SLR today: The 10.2 megapixel K2000 (or “K-m” in Europe), which features shake reduction and continuous shooting at 3.5 frames per second. Continue Reading

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Canon has formally announced the 50D–to be released for sale in October–and specs posted on the official Canon USA sight confirm many of the rumors that had been circulating about the prosumer upgrade to the 40D. Continue Reading

J.D. Power and Associates has released their 2008 Digital Camera Usage Satisfaction Study, which examines picture quality, performance, ease of operation, and appearance and styling. The report gave healthy props to DSLRS by Canon and Nikon, and point-and-shoots by Canon, Fujifilm, Lumix (Panasonic) and Sony.

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Israel-based Leaf Photography, a member of Kodak’s Graphic Imaging Group, has rolled out a 56-megapixel medium format digital back, just out-pixeling the recently released, 50mp Hasselblad H3DII-50 – a camera that uses a Kodak sensor.

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Imaging Resource has posted an in-depth review of the new Fujifilm Finepix S100FS, an 11.1-megapixel hybrid with a 28-400mm zoom lens that Fujifilm is billing as the “Genesis of Nature Photography Digital Camera.”

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The Jamaica Observer has a nice story about the rise and fall of film photographer and the rise of the digital age.

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Q: What was the first digital camera ever made? Tim S from Chicago, Ill.

A: The first digital camera was invented by Steven Sasson, an engineer at Eastman Kodak, in 1975. Sasson used state-of-the-art CCD image sensor chips, which recorded black and white photos on a video cassette. The camera weighed eight pounds, had a megapixel resolution of .01, and it took 23 seconds for it to develop its first image. Continue Reading

Q: How big of a print can I make with a 5 megapixel camera?

A: To answer your question quickly: you can make a quality Continue Reading