Panasonic is on a roll where digital camera announcements are concerned, with the LUMIX DMC-FZ35 digital camera aiming to make it for a September release later this year. Just to whet your appetite before a month rolls by in a fleeting manner, the LUMIX DMC-FZ35 will be a feature packed shooter that will come with AVCHD Lite, High Definition (HD) video recording capability, coupled with a powerful 27mm wide-angle, 18x optical zoom LEICA DC lens. The LUMIX DMC-FZ35 is tipped to succeed the hugely popular FZ28, where it will come with enhanced creative features combined with the power to shoot HD videos, including motion zoom capabilities to make sure the included 18x zoom is not wasted. Panasonic has also modified the operational layout of the FZ35 to come with a dedicated video record button, turning it into a true blue hybrid, where this particular model is able to function seamlessly as a digital camera and camcorder, offering smooth and easy operation in either mode.

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For those of you that are just dying to capture those ultimate moments when you’re out on your bike or any other situation where you’re doing stunts, there is this USB Action Camera.  It can be strapped inside a car, onto a bike or even to the top of your helmet (which hopefully you’re wearing).  Then you can show off both your awesome and not so awesome moves.  You could even use it to capture moments when your friends are doing something particularly stupid.

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Olympus is more often than not famous for their line of shockproof and waterproof digital cameras from the mju series, and this time round the company has rolled out their latest addition to the family – the µ-7010. This newest addition to the family will come with an impressive 7x wide optical zoom lens packed into a decent body . Olympus proves yet again that form and function can co-exist together in harmony, where this ultra-slim model also comes with Dual IS for better and sharper images even though you’re trying to take a picture in the cold, shivering all over your body due to a lack of warmth. Other modes on this delectable consumer level digital camera include AF tracking and i-Auto mode, where the latter specifically targets beginners to digital photography as it helps make the most suitable mode selection at point of shooting.

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Every once in a while, some new video game technology is released that could change the way games could be played. We’ve already seen the announcement from Microsoft with their Project Natal, and Sony is chiming in with its own great advancement. Sony has recently announced that the PlayStation Eye webcam is going to have face-recognition technology as well as gender recognition technology.

I believe that we have already covered gender-recognition technology before, and Kish Hirani, Sony Europe’s head of developer services, says that it can “detect gender and even the age of the face, separate facial features such as the nose, eyes, and ears, and even detect whether you’re smiling or not”.

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Considering the number of 3D movies in the theaters this summer, as well as those coming this holiday, one can’t help wonder if we are entering into a 3D era that will not end as abruptly as it did in the fifties.

Fujifilm has now announced that they are putting out a camera that can take 3D images. At first I thought that this was a camera that could produce prints that would be 3D, with certain glasses, but apparently, I was wrong.

According to my source, “to view the 3D images, users can put them on a special 3D enabled digital photo frame or print them with a special 3D printing process that needs no glasses to view”.

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Sony’s line of Handycam camcorders hark back to the days where optical discs and abundant flash memory were not even available to the masses, and these Handycams can be said to be huge and unwieldy, but that’s the price to pay if you want to preserve your favorite memories in video format. Well, thanks to the advancement of technology over the years, video recorders have become smaller and smaller and yet are more capable than their predecessors. All those factors have resulted in Sony releasing its new HDR-CX520V and HDR-CX500V Handycam camcorders that are more than able to capture full 1,920 x 1,080 high-definition video and up to 12-megapixel stills, storing those on a 64GB or 32GB internal flash memory (depending on the model, of course), which more or less translates to around 25 hours of HD video in LP mode.

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Taking a decent camera around water is always a nerve wrecking idea.  Unfortunately, if you don’t take a camera, you might miss out on a lot of pictures you wish you had captured.  Be it of cool underwater shots, the kids playing in the sand or various other activities while you’re near or in the water.  With this AgfaPhoto camera you could get all of those pictures and not have to worry about ruining your camera.

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An iPhone user proves it’s not the “Jesus phone” after all by dropping it in the pool!

Hat Tip to Crave for this YouTube link of a user videotaping poolside using his iPhone 3Gs. He suddenly drops it and into the drink it goes. But here’s the amazing part. It continues to video tape while in the water and according to C’Net, two days after dropping it into the pool, IT STILL WORKS.

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