Tag: Panasonic
CES 2009: Panasonic introduce camcorders with a 70x optical zoom
Now a 70x zoom is extraordinary. Seriously that one fact basically overshadows every other thing they’ve said about their three new camcorders. Think about it, you’ll basically be able to zoom in on a piece of spaghetti someone is eating and capture every last drop of grease dripping from it. Nice.
Panasonic to launch first fully paperless fax machine
Hey faxers, don’t get too excited, but Panasonic will be releasing a paperless fax machine before the end of January. The bad news? For the moment, it’s Japan-only. I’m actually quite surprised that it’s taken the human race this long to develop a machine that sends faxes without actually having to feed in paper.
To send, you can type messages mobile-phone-keypad-style on the big built-in buttons, or alternatively you can send Word docs, as well as docs saved in ‘other formats’. Presumably PDF will be among them. Fax messages can be read on the device’s screen and, sadly, printed out if you absolutely have to.
Panasonic Paperless Fax (via CrunchGear)
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New Panasonic RP-HNJ150, RP-HJE700, and RP-HJE900 earphones
Panasonic has just dropped a bunch of new earphones on the world, the RP-HNJ150, RP-HJE700, and RP-HJE900. The RP-HNJ150 are the low-end model, feature a frequency response of 6Hz-23,000Hz, with an impedance of 16Ω. They’re available in pink, white, blue and black. They’ll cost you US$34.92 (£25 or so).
Flickr user uses face, hands, fingers and Mac to illustrate the size of the Lumix G1
When it comes to the Lumix G1, Panansonic’s first compact-sized Micro Four Thirds SLR camera, there’s an unusual worry. The worry that it’s going to be too small. This is the fist time in gadget history that “too small” has been a possible issue.
SLRs need space. They have buttons and dials, plus that big lens you’ll be needing to rotate to stop the pictures being blurry. A small camera body might make that difficult, which has got big-handed people worried that the G1 might be too small and therefore a bit clumsy and dangerously droppable. So Flickr user Luc Saint-Elie took some pictures of it. Here it is, along with her fingers, in an active use scenario.
It seems to fit. Her fingers don’t seem painfully bunched…
Panasonic launching small "Micro Four Thirds" Lumix DMC-G1 SLR camera this October
The upcoming Lumix DMC-G1 is a proper SLR, only engineered using some kind of shrink-ray technology (the new Micro Four Thirds system) to make it 27 percent smaller than existing SLRs, like the Lumix DMC-L10.
Plus it only weighs 385 grams – the equivalent of 10 four-finger Kit Kats, and manages to pull off 12.1megapixels. Here’s what it looks like. And yes, there is a pink one for the ladies.
The halfway-house DMC-G1 is down for an October 31 launch…
Olympus and Panasonic set the standard for smaller SLR cameras
I always feel intimidated when I go on to the photo sharing website Flickr. Whereas I can feel a smug sense of superiority towards commentators on YouTube, as they’re mostly idiotic fundamentalists or 9/11 conspiracy theorists, on Flickr, the comments don’t talk about what’s actually in the photos: it could be a kitten, or even incontrivertable photographic evidence for the existence of the Loch Ness Monster – and yet they’re always about how good or bad the composition of a photo is.
Because my digital camera is of the cheap “point and shoot” variety, I always feel rubbish in comparison to the Flickrati and their £1000 SLR beasts and their beautifully framed shots of, well, mostly artsy cityscapes. This could all be about to change though thanks to a new technology developed by Olympus and Matsushita…
Panasonic rumoured to be producing a 40" OLED TV. Expect the Joneses across the street to retaliate soon.
If you had £467million, what would you do with it? Travel? See the world? Buy yourself a small country? Maybe even give some of it to poor people?
Panasonic, as it happens, does actually have that sort of money, but has opted to stay in instead, and spend the money on a bigger telly…
Panasonic MIRROR II 824P: chameleon mobile phone?
Panasonic has unveiled its HSDPA-enabled mobile phone — the MIRROR II 824P — which sounds as if its outer surface can change colour, presumably depending upon the whim of the user, though it would be cool if it could react to its surroundings like a chameleon.
It features a 3-inch QVGA LCD screen, two megapixel camera with auto focus and image stabilisation, up to 2GB of microSD and 8GB of micro SDHC, and over five hours of multimedia playback time between charges…
Panasonic launches 14.7 megapixel Lumix DMC-FX150
Another day, another Lumix – today’s offering being the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX150…
Panasonic DMC-LX3 offers SLR functionality in a compact camera
Looking to take in some more serious photography, but don’t want the bulk of an SLR? The newly-launched 10.1 megapixel Panasonic DMC-LX3 could be for you…
