Canon New IXUS Digital Camera Line ‘Winks’ and ‘Smiles’ at Hong Kong

Forget multi-touch, this camera takes your photo from facial gestures.

Canon Hong Kong introduced a new line of cameras that lets you take self portraits with either a wink or a smile. The new IXUS 210, IXUS 130 and IXUS 105 digital compact cameras include some nifty tech that makes taking photos just a little bit easier.

The Scene Detection Technology incorporated with the new Smart Flash Exposure intelligently adjusts flash level for different shooting conditions, eliminating uneven light exposure for great natural-looking photos. The new Smart Shutter mode now includes a “Wink Self-Timer” mode and a “Smile Self-Timer” mode, allowing perfectly-timed self-portrait and group photos to be taken effortlessly.

However Neonpunch was quite happy to stand behind the camera and take photos of the beautiful and voluptuous Gabi Endo a Japanese Brazilian Eurasian model who has a dazzling smile.

 

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Canon EOS 550D Digital SLR Now Available in Hong Kong

Canon’s newest entry-level DSLR shoots 18MP and HD EOS movies.

Canon’s new 18-Megapixel CMOS sensor and DIGIC 4 Digital Image Processor on the EOS 550D is out on the streets today and its a powerful camera for the price.

Shoot full HD (1920 x 1080) video with 3 selectable frame rates, the EOS 550D is equipped with a new 3-inch 1,040,000-dot Clear View LCD with an 3:2 aspect ratio facilitating Live View shooting, movie recording or image playback.

It comes in a few kit price from HK$6,480 – HK$8,980; see the prices and specs below.

 

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Sanyo Xacti Brings Filmmaking Into the Palm of Your Hand

Sanyo offers two new palm-sized camcorders to Hong Kong.

Japanese Electronics giant Sanyo has released two new camcorders for the local market. Whether you’re making home movies of your bundle of joy or a wannabe film maker the new Xacti Dual Cameras will help you get the job done.

The Ultra slim VPC-CS1 can easily slip into any pocket thanks to its lightweight design (approx. 5 oz), and slim body (1.06” in thickness). It can capture Full HD videos with a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels in either MPEG-4 AVC or H.264 video format. The VPC-CS1 can also take high resolution 8-megapixel images using its advanced 10x zoom to 38mm wide angle lens.

 

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Olympus Hong Kong Asks If You Are Tougher Than Your Camera?

Olympus Hong Kong releases 3 tough as nails cameras

Extreme sports enthusiast who fly high and swim deep now can take photos of their daring feats with a camera that might just be tougher than them.

Olympus has released three “µ Tough” compact cameras that can go anywhere you can, be it snorkeling in Phuket or skiing down the Swiss Alps. The Olympus “µ Tough” range of compact cameras are shock proof, water proof and even freeze proof. All the cameras feature HD movie capture, built-in memory, 28mm wide lens, Image Stabilization, 2.7” LCD and HDMI capture.

On hand to show off these hard knox cameras where a couple of lovely models who showed off their softer sides to our cameras. The “µ Tough” might not be the sleekest or sexiest but the girls showing holding the sure are.

 

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Casio G-Shock’s Hong Kong with New Digital Camera Line

Casio’s new camera for the “Extreme” Hong Kong sports geek.

If you are not crazy enough to take your DSLR out skydiving or even on a wet junk trip, then Casio has the digital camera for you.

For those of you who would like to take a few holiday snapshots of yourselves hanging from a ledge with one hand at the top of a mountain or canoeing down fast moving rapids or even snorkeling in shark infested waters, Casio’s new G-Shock camera is just the handy compact camera for the job. The EX-G1 shock resistant, waterproof, dust proof digital camera is the first in the company’s new EXILIM G brand of digital cameras that can go anywhere an extreme sports enthusiast dares to go.

And in case you didn’t see that giant YouTube sticker on the front, its drop-dead easy to upload your videos directly to the video sharing site. More specs below after photos from the Hong Kong launch event:

 

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Nikon D3S Comes to Hong Kong Fully Loaded

The DS3 unleashes a new professional level camera on Hong Kong.

Nikon Hong Kong launched its latest digital SLR camera, the D3S, to a fervor of pomp and circumstance at the first floor grand ballroom of the Nobu Intercontinental Hong Kong Hotel. There to promote the launch was celebrity offspring Jennifer Tse (parents Patrick Tse and Deborah Lee, both well-known HK entertainers and younger sister to local Actor/singer Nicholas Tse), and Raymond Lam.

The photographic work of Vincent Munier was used to show off the capabilities of the new D3S in a short video. If a picture can say a thousand words, than this short below says more than enough about the D3S:

 

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