Lexar rebrands Eye-Fi Wi-Fi card for cameras

Will the Eye-Fi Share by any other name still transmit as sweet? Lexar thinks so: it's rebranding Eye-Fi's Share SD-based Wi-Fi card, which facilitates automated Wi-Fi photo uploads from your digital camera, with the hard-to-type name of Shoot-n-Sync. This comes out of a partnership announced by the two companies back in January.

Like the Share, the Shoot-n-Sync card will come in a 2GB capacity. It will be available in October for US$99.99.

Lexar also announced new 2GB and 4GB Memory Stick Micro memory cards (M2) for your Sony Ericsson phone. The company did not announce pricing for the card, which will be available in the fourth quarter of this year, but expects it to cost the same as competing cards, putting 4GB in the US$30 to US$60 range and 2GB in US$10-plus territory.

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Fulfill your spying ambitions with Minox

Photo credit: Minox

Back in the 1960s and 1970s, Minox cameras were renowned for their miniscule footprint, and the company's 8 x 11 series of shooters were even used by spies for discreet operations. However, the German company didn't latch straight onto the digital bandwagon when it happened in the late 1990s, so now it has to revolutionize itself in other ways to stand out from the big players.

On its teaser site, Minox claims that its new camera will make people associate it with James Bond, and it's so small, "it disappears in a clenched fist". The Web site lists the new shooter's dimensions to be similar to 8 x 11 series snappers, with the latest imaging technology.

According to Retro Thing, the shooter is named Minox DSC and will house a 3.2-megapixel sensor, 128MB of internal memory, a microSD card expansion slot and 640 x 480-pixel video recording. It will be powered by a Lithium-ion battery.

There's no word on the pricing yet, but Minox will probably announce its availability and pricing when it unveils this collector's item at Photokina next week in Germany.

Ion Audio delivers nonaudio product, Slides 2 PC film scanner

At this point, it's safe to assume that most of your photo collection is digital and stored on your computer and (hopefully) a backup disk or two. But what about those boxes of slides sitting at the bottom of your closet (or in your parents' basement) that are slowly but surely fading and yellowing as the years progress? Now, you could go out and easily drop a US$1,000 on a film scanner from Nikon, or you could go out and grab Ion Audio's Slides 2 PC scanner for US$100.

Its 5-megapixel (1800dpi) scanner will leave you with 2,592 x 1,680-pixel files. Ion Audio (you know, the PC turntable and miscellaneous audio peripheral maker) touts the scanner's four-glass optical element along with automatic exposure and color balance to deliver accurate scans. It throws in a photo editing app from ArcSoft in case you still want to make tweaks. Included in the kit are two slide trays, each of which holds three slides at a time, and a negative tray. With a single USB connection and one-touch scanning, you might be able to set your folks up with this thing with the expectation of fielding only a minimal amount of tech support calls.

Via Crave CNET | Source: Everything USB

Sony's Alpha A900 to go below S$4,500

With Canon joining in the fray yesterday with its announcement of the EOS 5D Mark II, the full-frame dSLR game is now in red-hot stage. But what's making the competition even more intense is the pricing.

Sony has yet to confirm the retail price for the A900. However, it did tell us it will be less than S$4,500 (US$3,207.64) for the camera body. While we can only speculate that the Japanese company is trying to make the shooter's price more competitive against the US$2,699 EOS 5D Mark II, we know for sure that Nikon's D700 (priced at S$4,499 (US$3,206.93)) will be the most expensive of the lot.

Shooters from Canon and Sony seem to have the most value for money, considering that both cameras have about the same resolution. But if we were to look at features, the EOS 5D Mark II wins hands-down with full HD-quality video recording and a whole suite of proprietary and third-party accessories to go along with it.

The DSLR-A900 will be available throughout Asia from end October.

Just how small is the Lumix DMC-G1?

Picture credit: Luc Saint-Elie on Flickr

We've seen stock images of the Lumix DMC-G1, but just how small is this camera that is the first in the world to use the new Micro Four Thirds Standard? Panasonic and Olympus (which jointly developed the new imaging format) have mentioned that this new system will shrink the size of dSLR-like cameras to make them more portable.

According to its specifications sheet, the DMC-G1 measures 124 x 83.6 x 45.2mm, but nothing speaks louder than images.

Flickr user Luc Saint-Elie has posted several images of the shooter itself online, and it seems like shutterbugs with larger hands may have difficulty getting a good grip on this shooter. It also appears the new Micro Four Thirds lenses are significantly smaller than a regular-sized can of Coke.

I won't drone on any further. Check out Luc Saint Elie's Flickr page, then check back with us soon for the camera's review.

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