Canon camera profits rise despite falling sales

The strong Yen has resulted in fifth consecutive quarter of falling sales income for Canon's camera division, compared to the same period in previous years. Despite this, the company's operating profit and profit margin increased, prompting the company to improve its forecast for the next quarter. Total sales for the division fell 8.3% to ¥229 bn ($2,545m) once currency effects have been taken into account, though they actually grew 6.2% in the currencies they were sold in.

Kodak Consumer Digital Imaging sees sales fall

Kodak has reported that its business division that includes digital cameras suffered a 49% fall in sales (compared to the same period last year) in the third quarter of 2009. "Continued declines in consumer spending have had significant impacts in the company's digital camera and digital picture frame businesses," it said. The sales drop has primarily been due to a decline of approximately $157 million in intellectual property royalty revenues, the company said.

Nikon releases ‘Learn and Explore’ app for iPhone

Nikon has introduced the 'Learn & Explore' app for Apple's iPhone in collaboration with the 'interactive agency' Molecular. Currently available only to US customers, the app gives photo enthusiasts access to images, video lectures and audio commentary from the company's website and enables them to read and bookmark articles from the Nikon World magazine. It is available for download from the Apple App Store.

Digital Video Capture: A Good Way Using Digital Video Signal

Digital video is a video capturing technology that utilizes a digital video signal instead of an analog video signal. Somewhere in nineteen eighty-six, this was initially put on market. The digital video format is more popular than the analog video format due to its unique characteristics that allow it to be copied multiple times without any degradation to the picture quality. And for that reason, today, digital video capturing is widely practiced all over the world. Digital video capture essent

Nikon D3s

Last update 28 October’09 – Hands-on with Sample Photos @ PhotographyBay Nikon D3s announced on October 14, 2009 is a professional DSLR with an FX-format CMOS image sensor and 12.1 effective megapixels and it features 20p HD video recording and an ISO sensitivity range up to ISO 102,400 for increased low light capability, Dust Reduction System including Image Sensor Cleaning function, Active 5 frame bracketing D-Lighting, 9 frames per second in FX format, Viewfinder with 100% frame coverage

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