Who says only men handle cameras best? Times change and our favorite camera too has changed hands. Women around the world are going clickety-click and its time to give our lady shooter a treat. Following the growing bling culture, camera manufacturing company Pentax asked design agency ‘Bling My Thing’ to jazz up the recently launched Pentax K-m DSLR camera a bit. Encrust with Swarovski crystals and patterned in red and white elegantly signifies the made-for-women tag.
Giving the uber-professional and less user-friendly cameras a makeover, this Pentax K-m DSLR is much simplified in an easy-to-manoeuvre compact body with user-friendly operations. The price of this ornamental camera is yet to be disclosed, but does that stop the ladies to gear up before they hit the stall. A definite No!

This product is sure to give rise to interest in photography anew. Though aiming for a feminine target, men too might get attracted to it slowly owing to their metro sexuality! Time to be done with your average bloated old-school DSLR camera and add to your bling factor!

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If you love blingy thingamajigs and like the company of gadgets then reserve your 20 August for Canon. All set to capture your precious memories, Canon is all set to enter the elite market with its latest offering of limited edition diamond-studded Canon Powershot Camera. Expected to be available in five unique diamond-encrusted avatars of, the credit for the blingy touch on Canon’s PowerShot Elph goes to Amosu. The camera will be unveiled by tennis star Maria Sharapova. Priced at $12,000, the camera comes festooned with 88 white diamonds weighing 2.22 carats.

Don’t doubt it as Canon’s first attempt in the bling market as prior to this we have witnessed Canon flaunting its pricey offerings i.e. Diamond IXUS commemorating 10th anniversary of their IXUS range and at the same time this one is comparatively affordable. If you are curious to have a first hand experience with this glitzy camera then count for ways to have an invitation for the event “Canon Center Court” scheduled at South Street Seaport on 20 August.

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Time for a digital scan! Tell me honestly how many megapixels your personal digital camera can shoot? 20 or 25? But these numbers fall short before Leaf’s latest offering of Leaf 56-megapixel AFi 10 medium-format digital camera. You heard it correct, the case in pit digital camera has a potential to capture a gigantic 56 megapixels’ merit of visual data in a particular reflection. It is a direct indication that you ought to have a decent amount of storage resolution unless it eats up your memory card just after 5 shots. Its True Wide Frame (TWF) featuring 56mm x 36mm sensor is also attuned with 80 plus other large format cameras. News is the AFi 10 is expected to hit the market sometime in Q4 of running year at a demanding price of $43,675.

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The fruition of Sanyo Xacti HDTV tapeless camcorders compensates from intellectual design and appeal with the DMX-HD800, whose manufacturer believes it seizes a “huge leap in image quality” over its precursor that got unveiled last October. You may find it as an exaggeration at our end but being fans of Sanyo’s Xacti 720p camcorders, we can’t help adoring its quality-performance and expedient flash memory-based HDTV execution for a realistic price. The featured above model sports 5x zoom, 8-megapixel imager, face tracking plus a 2.7-inch LCD view screen. Planned to be shipped in Japan on 22 August, it can be seen as a budgeted deal for $468.

Point is it would bring a revolution in the mindset and performance of all random camera companies that believe that an HD camcorder should cost twofold and will be constrained to pursue suit.

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Having bagged the crown for three-times in a row, Gaj-It has confirmed that the blog is a den of coolest stuff. With 37% of total votes, Flee the flyng digital camera is the pick of the week at CGOTW conducted by Coolest-gadgets. Amidst the pool of digital cameras available, here comes a revolutionary gadget that swears to mar the inexorable conformist design of digital cameras. Called the Flee Digital Camera, it is developed to be thrown high in the air where it will perform taking aerial shots, hence ignoring the need of a small plane. Before touching the surface, the aerial shots are then transferred to your mobile phone via Bluetooth.

Owning 8.1 megapixel digicams or capturing beauty via 5 megapixel camera phones is no big deal. But the demand of the hour is to pay a deserving amount of respect to the revolutionary creations produced by big boys. The case in point is the world’s first ever full-frame 60.5 megapixel Medium Format camera system by Phase One. The P 65+ enables you efficiently capture imagery with 8,984 x 6,732 pixels resolution or 180MB, 8-bit RGB files. The accessibility to Sensor+ CCD technology allows higher sensitivity, extended lively range (12.5 f-stops against standard models that go up to eight) plus 20% more live incarcerate area (in juxtaposition to 39 megapixel or 50 megapixel 48mm-by-36mm chips presently accessible or publicized) presented with exposure of 53.9mm by 40.4mm to professional photographers.

It doesn’t reflect the need for lens magnification, hence enabling full viewfinder exposure. But don’t develop hopes of availing this luxury at standard price as extraordinary offerings demand fat sum. With price range of P 65+ digital back starting from $39,900 and the P 65+ camera system retailed at $41,990, word is around that it would hit the market by Q4 of running year.

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Hasselblad is an established name in the niche of producing high-end cinematography apparatus and their latest offering makes it sure that they are still high on spirit. The mention of the 50-megapixel H3DII-50 camera is a reality and the company claims to offer world’s largest sensor with this latest product. Developed by Kodak, the camera measures 36×48mm and boasts twice the dimension of the chief 35mm DSLR sensors. The H3DII is competent of arresting images at 1fps while producing 300 MB files with an ISO range of 50-400.

Other features include an array of lens choices, 3″ display, CCD cooling sink for noise reduction, GPS accessory and choices for file output and media cards. And if you always go by people’s choice then this time please don’t as for sure it’s going to demand a big amount. There is no word on its pricing as of now but it is anticipated that price may settle at $37K. But you have to hold on until October.
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If you still feel that you stand a level below and wish to mar the upper hierarchy of proud bling owners then here is an opportunity for you. News is the Dalumi Group in association with electronics moguls LG and Ricoh is planning to show case an elite luxury lifestyle accessory assortment detailing a diamond-encrusted flash drive and a digital camera. Called Ricoh Caplio R5, the digital camera is encrusted with over 200 high-quality diamonds on white gold.

Maintaining the comfort of capturing pics, the diamonds are positioned around a sleek circle enclosing camera lens whilst the LG memory drive is designed using diamonds from Dalumi positioned again on white gold. So, if that piled up dough wanting to be spent can be floored here as the luxury Diamond Camera is retailed for $25,000 and the LG’s Disk demands $10,000.

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Developed and designed for Channel Five’s ‘The Gadget Show’ presenter Suzi Perry, the Compact Fashion Camera concept aims at offering a new avatar to the production of digicams by reinventing technology. This custom-built offering by design studio Curventa would surely outfit the artistic standards of a contemporary woman. Literally measuring the size of a lipstick, it can easily be accommodated in any standard handbag with perceptive imaging expertise providing it the grace of any high-end gadget.

This feature packed camera would sport flexible OLED touch screen display, wireless charging and incorporated DLP projector. For sure, the concept has the potential to highlight this purposeful gizmo as an entrant to the coming revolution in the industry of imaging.

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A Taiwan-based digital camera company OEM Altek would be launching the first ever 8-megapixel consumer digital camera with integrated GPS and mechanical geotagging by this June. Truly, it doesn’t claim to be the first device to coalesce GPS and digital camera features as there are devices that have built-in digital camera or high-end cameras with incorporated GPS features. Standing away from those, it takes pride in being the world’s first pocket-sized compact camera with incorporated GPS utility.

Featuring 3-inch touch screen, the photos captured via this camera are customarily geo tagged and then depict its positioning on Google Earth, Google Maps or Flickr’s geotagged photos service. It is a great tool in the hands of travel freaks as they can tap the places from where pictures are taken via this camera and form a travel journal that’s based on map. Its entry would be an alarm to other camera developers to deliver high-quality consumer cameras will incorporated built-in GPS.

P.S.: Altek is an OEM, therefore camera would be sold off under another brand that is not disclosed.

Via ComputerWorld/ TheRawFeed