"The Stylus 1000 design hasn’t really changed much since the last generation (Stylus 710, for example).  It has a nice silver finish and it’s pretty slim with kind of a tapered profile from the top, which a thicker part of the camera to hold.  The Stylus cameras all feel pretty sturdy, but they’re not too heavy.  The controls are straight-forward and laid out well.  Since the camera is water resistant, buttons are a little harder to press than non-weatherproof cameras, but that is to be expected. The Stylus 1000 is just a bit thicker than the Stylus 750 that I reviewed earlier." Read more here:

UK have been making underwater housings since 1990. Owner Angelika Kuhn-Kiehl and her husband Uwe Kiehl began making tailor made housing for AF-cameras made by manufacturers like Canon, Nikon, Minolta and Pentax. When this was a success, they quickly started making underwater housing for manually adjustable cameras. A few years later, they expanded to include mid format cameras like the Mamiya 645 and Pentax 645. In 1989, the UK mini range for camera manufacturers like Canon, Minolta and Pentax really made waves when they succeeded in making the world's smallest aluminium underwater housing. The series are aimed to make underwater housing as compact as possible, to save underwater photographers baggage space and weight when travelling around the globe." Read this great article here:

"There are two sequential shooting modes on the Stylus 750. In regular sequential mode, the camera took just three shots in a row at a little under one frame per second. The high speed mode is indeed faster, though the camera "cheats" by lowering the resolution to 3 Megapixel. It took 16 photos in a row at 3.3 frames/second, which is a lot better, as long as you don't mind the low resolution. All-in-all I was a bit disappointed with the continuous modes on the camera, especially having used the infinite modes Canon and Panasonic's ultra-compacts. The only real positive here is that the LCD keeps up perfectly with the action, with no pauses or blackouts." Read this nice review here:

"Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced semiconductor technology solutions, today announced that it has developed the industry’s first 40-nanometer (nm) memory device. The new 32 Gigabit (Gb) NAND flash device is the first memory to incorporate a Charge Trap Flash (CTF) architecture, a revolutionary new approach to further increase manufacturing efficiency while greatly improving performance.
The new CTF-based NAND flash memory increases the reliability of the memory by sharply reducing inter-cell noise levels. Its surprisingly simple structure also enables higher scalability which will eventually improve manufacturing process technology from 40 nm to 30 and even 20nm.
In each 32Gb device, the control gate in the CTF is only 20 percent as large as a conventional control gate in a typical floating gate structure. With CTF, there is no floating gate. Instead, the data is temporarily placed in a “holding chamber” of the non-conductive layer of the flash memory composed of silicon nitride (SiN). This results in a higher level of reliability and better control of the storage current." Read more inside..

"Ricoh has released firmware update version 3.01 for the Caplio 400G and version 1.06 for the Caplio 500G. These updates resolve the following issues:
- If you copy an image from the internal memory to an SD card, the date modified will be retained the original modified date and will not be changed.
- If an error occurs in a printer side at the PictBridge connection, the process in the camera side will now quit properly."
Check it here: via dcviews.com

"Some hardcore photographers may have been poised to celebrate the Fourth of July by heading out and buying a Sony A100, Sony’s first digital SLR camera, which was due to hit the shelves that day. They’ll have to find a new way to celebrate their independence, though, because the release has been delayed until July 17. Instead, eager consumers can reserve a camera of their own between now and the 17th.
Sony is aiming to grab as much as 15% of the rapidly growing digital SLR camera segment which is currently led by Canon and Nikon. It will be interesting to watch how successful they are. On one hand they have a powerful brand to leverage, but not in cameras. They also start way behind the market leaders. Also, the profit margins in the segment are juiciest for lenses and accessories, but those sales rely on buyers first having a camera to buy accessories for, so it will take a while for Sony to be able to capitalize. They will be ahead of Samsung, Fujifilm, Minolta and others who are also eyeing the market, though." via mobilemag.com