sensor

Hands-on the Hitachi DZ-HV564: HD on SD

Crave The CMOS sensor packs a creditable 5 megapixels, so stills should be half-decent an' all. The camcorder market is like a big bag that the fine folks at Flip Video have picked up and shaken about. In the current economic climate, we're still waiting...

3 December 2008, 10:32

Hands on with the 24-megapixel Nikon D3X

Crave News of the Nikon D3X leaked over the weekend and we took it for a spin first thing this morning, giddy with the power of a 24.5 megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor. There's no sensor-cleaning system either, due to the loss of viewfinder coverage that...

1 December 2008, 16:07

D3X: Nikon unleashes 24.5-megapixel beast

Crave There's quite a bit of speculation as to how similar the sensor in the D3X is to that in the Sony Alpha DSLR-A900; Nikon says it's a Nikon-designed sensor that may (or may not) be manufactured by Sony, which usually means they're pretty similar.

Tags: nikon, frames, megapixel, iso

1 December 2008, 9:10

Polaroid Photo Frame and Weather Station: Fairweather frames

Crave Beneath this main screen is a second LCD panel that displays weather information, with an indoor temperature and humidity sensor and a wireless link to a supplied outdoor sensor. Astonishingly, it's nearly the end of November, and in Crave's part...

Tags: polaroid, frame, frames, wireless

24 November 2008, 10:48

Three Colours Red: Scarlet, Epic and 3D for Red cameras and camcorders

Crave You start with a Scarlet or Epic 'brain' -- like a no-frills camera back, or like a dSLR body that's just a sensor in a box -- to which you add modular bits to build the camera you want. This is the monster Epic 617 brain, with a sensor measuring...

14 November 2008, 11:01

Hands-on with the Ricoh R10: None more black

Crave Features include CCD sensor-shifting image stabilisation, a 1cm macro function, face detection and backlight compensation. Bow, mortals! Bow before the satanic majesty of the Ricoh R10, a camera as black as the depths of your soul.

13 November 2008, 10:58

Philips designs 'smart' camera pill

Crave The iPill determines its location through a pH sensor that measures the acidity of the environment, which varies throughout the intestinal tract. Philips Research has come out with a new intelligent camera pill that can be electronically...

Tags: medicine, drug, patients, pill

13 November 2008, 9:47

Seven things you didn't know about Windows 7

Crave At WinHEC, Microsoft handed out 700 free sensor developer kits that included a light sensor, touch pad and accelerometer. New sensor support According to a press release from fingerprint-sensor maker AuthenTec, improved biometric support should...

Tags: battery life, wi fi, sensor, media center

11 November 2008, 10:11

Photos: Hands-on with the Sanyo Xacti CA8 waterproof camcorder

Crave It packs a 1/2.5-inch CMOS sensor, boasting 8 megapixels. Usually when a waterproof gadget arrives in Crave Towers, we bust out our cagoules and sou'westers take some pictures of said gadget in the sink.

5 November 2008, 11:27

Olympus E-30: 30-something gets out the vote

Crave Like the others, the E-30 boasts a CMOS sensor, like the D90 packing 12.3-megapixels. Those sneaky scamps over at Olympus. While the rest of the camera world scrambled to punt out entire new line-ups before Photokina had even opened its doors, we...

Tags: olympus, panasonic, art, nikon

5 November 2008, 4:00

Limited edition Pioneer Kuro: Perfect black meets perfect beige and white

Crave Because the TV's sensor monitors the colour of the light falling on it, as well as the brightness, it's also capable of adjusting the picture for any décor. As if the price of Pioneer plasmas wasn't enough to keep them exclusive, now the company...

Tags: pioneer, screens, brightness, tvs

28 October 2008, 15:02

New Apple MacBook Pro: Packing Nvidia

Crave There's a built-in iSight webcam and mic, stereo speakers, the magnetic clasp from the Air and a sudden-motion sensor. Tonight's event at Apple HQ was widely expected to deliver a major refresh to the company's ageing MacBook laptop line, and...

Tags: air, hard drive, ray, blu

14 October 2008, 18:43

Swarovski-studded Olympus mju 1040: Lipstick on a pig

Crave It packs a 1/2.33-inch CCD sensor with 10.1-megapixel resolution. Calum Best. Paris Hilton. Cristiano Ronaldo. Scientologists. Windows Vista. There are plenty of things we love to hate, and we grudgingly concede they do serve a purpose.

Tags: olympus, wedding, xd, mju

14 October 2008, 10:54

LG KC780: A trimmer 8-megapixel camera phone

Crave There's even a motion sensor so pictures align themselves automatically. Mobile phones are like buses: you wait for ages for one to come along and two turn up at the same time, and drive straight past you.

Tags: lg electronics, lg, face, megapixel

14 October 2008, 10:38

Crave Live: Panasonic Lumix G1 video tour

Crave It does away with the prism, mirror and optical viewfinder you find in a standard SLR shooter, but it still has a 12-megapixel sensor inside. The Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1 has the traditional camera manufacturers feeling a little nervous at the moment.

9 October 2008, 15:45