CutePixel

TOKYO -- Nikon Corporation is pleased to announce that production figures for our Nikkor SLR interchangeable lenses surpassed the 40 million mark this month. Forty-eight years have passed since Nikon introduced the first Nikkor lens with F mount, together with our first SLR camera, the Nikon F, in 1959. Nikon views the 40 million figure as symbolic of the love and enthusiasm shared by photography enthusiasts - professionals and amateurs alike - for...

A new digital camera model from Korea's Samsung offers an eight megapixel 1/2.5" CCD imager and 5x optical zoom lens in an attractive, feature-rich package. The Samsung i85 has no optical viewfinder, in favor of making room for a a large 3.0" LCD display with 230,000 pixel resolution on which images are framed and reviewed. As well as capturing still images the i85 can record movies at up to 800 x 592 pixels, although the frame rate is li...

The Nikon Coolpix L10 doesn't look like a digital camera made for kids but it's priced just right for them. And it's a great deal on a digital camera for anyone who enjoys composing images, and capturing the moment without having to worry about photographic science. But there's plenty of photographic science built into this digital camera. The Coolpix line has always offered N...

The midrange model in Nikon's L-series of digital cameras, the Nikon Coolpix L11 is priced about midway between the L10 and L12. It shares the other models combination of compact size, good image quality, useful feature set, and very afforda...

We're going to begin covering higher-end monitors and calibration products, and have struck a deal with ColorVision to encourage more of our readers to get (and keep) their monitors calibrated. As you might expect, it's important for an organization like IR to have well-calibrated monitors. After all, a lot of people rely on our comments about image quality to make their camera-buying decisions. In the past, we'd used a variety of monitor cali...

<

<

<

It was a long and hairy battle, but the IR servers are now back to normal... Apologies again for our outage last Friday through Sunday, it was testimony that the best laid plans of mice and men (but particularly the latter) are prone to going astray. There are a few tidbits in our experience that might be of use to others who manage web servers, so I'll take a moment and share here a bit of what happened. (We run Linux/Apache, but the lessons ...

The MathWorks, an AUTOSAR Premium Member and active work package participant, today announced that Volkswagen has integrated a fully AUTOSAR-compliant comfort and convenience electronic control unit (ECU) into an existing Volkswagen ECU network for the first time by automatically generating the compliant software from Simulink(R) models with Real-Time Workshop Embedded Coder(R). [PRWEB Jul 31, 2007]