They're baaaaack. HP that is. After a hiatus from the digicam market, the company is back with new cameras and camcorders. Here's a look at the digital cameras. Keep in mind, they all have 12-megapixel image sensors:
- HP CW450 ($99): 4x optical zoom, smile and blink detection, 2.7-inch LCD.
- HP CW450t ($109) sports a 2.7-inch touch screen display, 25 scene modes, smile and blink detection and a 4x optical zoom.
- HP PW460t ($149) has the largest LCD of the bunch, with a 3-inch display (and touch-screen to boot). Aside from that, there's a 4x optical zoom, 25 scene modes and smile & blink detection.
- HP PW550 ($149) has a 5x optical zoom, 28mm wide angle lens and a 2.7-inch display with the same 25 scene modes and smile/blink detection.
- HP SW450 ($129) is 3/4 inch thick (or "thin") with a 4x optical zoom, 25 scene modes, smile & blink detection and 2.7-inch display.
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here for details on the camcorders.
HP was an early innovator and advocate behind many of the in-camera editing technologies that are commonplace in today's cameras (think red eye reduction or decorative frames). Long before most of the advanced features we've now come to expect from mid-levels models were available, an HP executive described a camera to me as "a computer with a lens." The idea being that, just as in computers there's no end of things that can be done with the information in front of you, so too will digital cameras be able to harness processors to achieve some great things.
Let's hope there's still some innovative fire left in their bellies.
Print | posted @ Tuesday, February 23, 2010 8:31 AM