Nikon's my Picturetown available in selected Asia regions

Leonard Goh | May 29, 2008

Nikon's picture-storing and sharing site, my Picturetown, has finally made its way to Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and selected parts of Europe.

When the free service was launched last year, it was available only to users in the US and Japan. In April this year, the Japanese firm piled on additional features to the service and it is now ready to welcome more users.

Signing up is free and you get 2GB of storage space to store and view your images, including Nikon's proprietary RAW format, .NEF, which is viewed as JPEG on other computers. As with most cataloging applications, you can tag the photos for easy retrieval. Users can also create full-screen slideshows with music and direct linking of pictures to blogs or social-networking sites.

If you have a Wi-Fi-enabled Nikon camera like the Coolpix S51c or S52c, you can upload the images via a wireless hotspot to your my Picturetown account. So it makes more sense to use this service if you own one of these cameras.

There are heaps of image-storing Web sites like Picasa and Flickr, but none were created by camera manufacturers. Perhaps other companies should take a peek at Nikon's textbook and service their customers beyond the hardware.

Picture credit: Nikon

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