optical

Crave Talk: How flash will destroy optical and magnetic storage

Crave Will the hard disk be made useless after it's forced to help flash memory destroy optical media? As flash encroaches on more of optical media's territory, I see it teaming up with hard disk drives to make on-demand the dominant method of distribution.

21 January 2008, 10:53

Griffin AirCurve and Clarifi: Boosting iPod touch speaker, optical zoom for iPhone

Crave The Clarifi protective case is also supposedly the first case for iPhone 3G that sports a built-in lens to give the phone's camera an optical boost. The added optical lens lets you zoom up to 6 inches closer.

Tags: charge, sync, optical, dock

18 September 2008, 10:59

Pioneer creates 400GB optical disc: Like 16 layers of Blu-ray

Crave The Japanese company has announced that it has successfully created a 400GB optical disc, similar in construction to Blu-ray. Barely half a year after Blu-ray won the format war we're now being told that Pioneer is working on the next big thing...

Tags: disc, discs, ray, storage

10 July 2008, 11:47

Kodak EasyShare M1073 hands-on with photos

Crave We've no problem with manufacturers sticking 'IS' in the names of cameras, because we're pleased they're including optical image stabilisation. M-m-m-moving on, the M1073 sports a 3x optical zoom with a 35mm-equivalent focal length of 32-96mm.

17 July 2008, 12:44

Canon Digital IXUS 860 IS: Born with style

Crave All we want from our compact cameras is that they're pocketable, have optical image stabilisation, plenty of manual control, a big screen, simple menus, classy styling, a wide angle lens and built-in icemaker.

2 October 2007, 12:07

Kodak EasyShare M873: Whistles? Check. Bells? Check

Crave ISO sensitivity up to 1600, allowing for digital image stabilisation, check.x optical zoom lens, check. The fact is that 8-megapixel (or thereabouts) compacts with 64mm (2.5-inch) LCD screens and 3x optical zooms are the bread-and-butter of the...

Tags: kodak, compact, optical, megapixel

4 September 2007, 11:17

Photos: Hands-on with the Nikon Coolpix P5100

Crave It ships 12.1 megapixels, a 3.5x optical zoom -- equivalent to 35-123mm -- and EXPEED digital image processor. There's a choice of using the optical viewfinder -- remember them? Built into the lens is optical lens-shift image stabilisation, which...

7 November 2007, 11:12

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18: Supermassivezoom

Crave It stands, my friend, for 18x optical zoom. A zoom that size would massively magnify those jitters we mysteriously wake up with every morning, so it's a good thing the DMC-FZ18 has an optical image-stabilisation system.

Tags: panasonic, optical, numbers, auto

24 July 2007, 11:55

Nikon P50: Downtown man

Crave Modelled after the uptown, high-class P5100, the P50 is a stripped-down, straightforward Billy Joel of a point-and-shoot.The P50 packs an unremarkable 8.1-megapixel resolution, but the optical zoom is a 3.6x with a satisfyingly wide 28mm wide...

Tags: nikon, earth, coolpix, silver

29 November 2007, 10:26

Hands-on with the Pentax Optio A40: 12-megapixel pet

Crave The 3x optical zoom lens has a 35mm equivalent to 38-114mm, with face detection and optical image stabilisation built in. There's just something cuddly and lovable about the Pentax Optio range of compact cameras.

19 March 2008, 10:40

Pentax Optio M60 and E60: 10 megapixels for dummies

Crave The M60 is a 10-megapixel compact, with a 5x optical zoom, and smile and blink detection. It also packs a 3x optical zoom and takes AA batteries, in case you can't figure out how a charger works. Joining the recently announced waterproof W60 are...

Tags: pentax, optical, megapixel, entry

30 July 2008, 10:59

Samsung HZ1: High zoom kicks off Photokina

Crave It's a superzoom, boasting a 10x Schneider Kreuznach optical zoom lens. You can use that 10x optical zoom while filming, which is something many people want to see, although we're not that fussed. Camera'd out yet?

Tags: samsung, zoom, detection, optical

23 September 2008, 16:07

Photos: Samsung G800, F700, i550, i780, Armani and more

Crave It packs a 5-megapixel camera, 3x optical zoom, auto-focus, xenon flash, face detection and wide dynamic range optimisation. A very clever feature that we tested out last night is the optical mouse. In true Samsung style, the event held at the...

30 October 2007, 13:36

Fujifilm confirms S2000HD, J150w, J110w, J100, and J120

Crave It's a 10-megapixel superzoom, sporting a honking great 15x optical zoom. The J120 and J150w are 10-megapixel models with 5x optical zoom and 76mm (3-inch) LCD screens. Fujifilm has officially confirmed the launch of a bunch of new cameras...

13 August 2008, 11:33

Sony Cyber-shot W series: W170, W150, W130, W120 and W110

Crave The top-of-the-range 10.1-megapixel Cyber-shot W170 -- pictured -- has a Carl Zeiss wide angle lens with 5x optical zoom, and 35mm equivalent focal length of 28mm-140 mm. Finally, the entry-level 7.2-megapixel W110 is the same as the W120 but...

Tags: sony, hd, zoom, optical

6 February 2008, 10:59