ScanCafe specializes in preserving your memories and precious moments. For most of us we don’t have the time or luxury to scan in all our old photos so that we can make them digital, however ScanCafe will save you the time as long you have the money. Send them a bunch of your most prized photos via UPS and they’ll scan and digitize them. Then you can select what you want saved to CD or printed our professionally. Pricing is 19c for negatives at 3000 dpi, 24c for slides at 3000 dpi and 27c for photos at 600 dpi. This is actually pretty reasonable pricing, and when you consider that your photos are probably fading away as each moment passes, this is a good bandwagon to jump on. Just pray that UPS takes care of your package getting there.

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What the heck is this? An overhead projector, you say? Nope guess again. It’s HP’s somewhat small Elite Auto Focus Webcam. It’s compatable with all of the chat programs out there, or most of them anyway, and has a USB 2.0 Cam which clips onto your monitor. It also features a 3 MP CMOS camera capable of shooting video ranging from 640 x 480 pixels at 30fps quality on down to 1,600 x 1,200 at a stuttering 5fps. “It also brings a built-in stereo microphone, face tracking and Magic-i video effects software, 3 programmable buttons, and a sliding “privacy cover” which lets your date know that the camera really is, off. “

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Here is a carry-on sized camera bag that obviously can carry a huge amount of camera and video gear, not to mention clothing. The bag itself has several dividers, and is soft and Flexable. It would be great for people in the television business. Review excerpt: “The zippers used on the bag are big and beefy. I grossly over stuffed the Mountainsmith Correspondent with clothing and camera gear and the zippers held up without any issues at all. I have had zipper son lesser bags split when over stuffed. Pulling the bag though the airport is very easy thanks to the big inline skate wheels. The bad also rolls over rough terrain easily.” Read the whole review here:

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CD’s are becoming rather outdated, since DVD’s are so cheap these days. It is much more logical placing your pictures on a DVD rather than a CD, because DVD’s hold so much more information. The Digital Photo to DVD converter does just that.

“This is the compact recorder that effortlessly copies photographs from your digital cameras memory card directly onto a CD for playback on a DVD player without using a dedicated computer. Photographs are converted into MPEG format and immediately burned onto a CD (CD-RW or CD-R required) which can be placed in a DVD player for slide show viewing using your DVD players remote control. An album index enables easy photograph selection prior to full-screen viewing. The recorder can also burn photographs onto a CD in JPEG format, allowing you to view the CDs photographs on your computer. The recorder has both RCA and S-video inputs that allow you to connect it directly to your TV and view photographs either from a burnt CD or from an inserted memory card. It can be plugged directly into your computer for use as an external CD burner or memory card reader using its USB cable. The recorder can accept Compact Flash, Smart Media, Memory Stick, Secure Digital, Multi-Media Card, and Microdrive memory cards.”

Hammacher is currently carrying the Digital Photo To DVD Converter for $199.95.

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The JVC Everio GZ-HD6 has been given the Editors Choice Award from Digital Trends Magazine.

Quote from the review: “At the January Consumer Electronics Show, a flotilla of high-def models were launched and they’re slowly coming to the proverbial store near you—including the new JVC GZ-HD6. This $1,399 USD camcorder is a far cry from the crappy MPEG-4 video makers readily available for a 100 clams. Although barely good enough for a YouTube opus, people buy them because they’re cheap—what a shock!
However, if you’re in any way serious about saving memories with a modicum of quality, high definition is the way to go although it will definitely put a dent in your wallet.”

Read the review here:

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Rolleiflex MiniDigi is a 5 megapixel retro looking digital cam. Cost is around $800. Hmmmm…that much?? ” Waist Level Shooting Prevents ‘Camera Fright’ Why has the Rollei Twin Lens Reflex always been preferred for portraits? The camera, held at waist level, never ’stares the model in the eye.’ People go on looking and acting naturally instead of posing for the camera. This is true for grown-ups but also goes for small children and even animals. With this type of view finder, you can also hold the camera very low or even place it on the ground when the shot requires that. And you don’t have to lie flat on your belly yourself.”

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Here is a display version, with a clear body of Sony’s new Alpha A900 prototype DLSR Camera. It is an amazing 25 megapixel s. Word is that it will be launched sometimes in August or September 2008. Price is not available yet, and details are scarce.

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Action Cameras have made available a cool little device that is designed for the cyclists everywhere. I am sure that it’s tough riding a bicycle around major cities. A lot of automobile drivers don’t seem to respect the environmental aspect of riding a bicycle, rather than burning gas, and try to edge those riders off the road. Action Cameras suggests suggest that cyclists try one of these helmet cameras to catch these criminals in the act. The helmet cams are wireless, and record their audio and video directly to an SD card. And other uses for the camera are endless, because it’s waterproof.

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There is a new search tool on the web to access Flickr’s database of photos called Compfight.

“Compfight is a great new tool that uses Flickr’s API to search the database of photos (including the option to do full-text search on titles and descriptions, and to limit searches to Creative Commons licensed works only) and then feeds back the results as live clickable thumbnails. Unlike Flickr’s own advanced-search page, Compfight remembers your settings from search to search, and the large quantities of search-result thumbnails per page makes this the ideal choice for playing photo-editor.”

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For those of you that are into skulls and freaky stuff, here is an out of the ordinary web camera. You know…those little cameras that usually sit somewhere beside or on top of your computer…that always look just about the same? Well not this one. This would be the kind of thing that would scare the heck out of me if I woke up in the morning, and it would be the first thing I would see. So, I would suggest not placing it by the computer in the bedroom. It has a 1.3 MP Camera that records at about 30 frames per second. Cost is about $66.

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