Pentax has unveiled three new Optio point-and-shoot digital cameras. The headliner is the Optio I-10 ($299), which borrows its style from SLR film cameras. You're looking at a 12-megapixel sensor, 5x optical zoom, HD video recording (720p) and a 2.7-inch LCD. Then there's the H90 with the same core specs but different styling and a slightly lower cost of $179. The E90, for just $99, with a 10-megapixel sensor, 3x optical zoom and a 2.7-inch LCD. Full release below: PENTAX Imaging Company announced three new digital cameras with designs so unique that not one can be labeled as “just another silver digital...

Adobe has announced an updated app for iPhone: Photoshop Mobile 1.1.  It's a free app and the update adds video playback if you host your videos on the company's Photoshop.com site.  On the editing side there's a new sharpen tool which lets you increase or decrease sharpness by dragging your finger across a photo. You'll also get eight new borders to frame your photos.

Face detection - the ability of cameras to locate and focus on faces in a frame - is a pretty widespread feature in cameras these days. Now, Adam Rose at Time reports that some people are complaining that it's - wait for it - racist. That's because certain products with face detection capabilities have reportedly had trouble identifying non-white faces. Now as Rose makes clear there doesn't appear to be any deliberate racism at work. It's more of a case that the algorithms that enable face detection have an easier time with white faces than they do with everyone else (which...

It's well known in photography circles that megapixels don't really matter. At least, they don't matter nearly as much as many manufacturers say they do (as they race to add more and more pixels to their image sensors). David Pogue at the New York Times has beaten this drum and now a new blog Petavoxel takes up the banner. The long and short of it is that when it comes to megapixels, more isn't necessarily better. In fact, in small point-and-shoot cameras, more megapixels is actually worse. Petavoxel explains: Most point-and-shoots are based on extremely tiny sensor chips—smaller than your pinky nail,...

  Samsung isn't the first company to offer built-in GPS into an imaging device (Sony has it in their camcorders) but it's nice to see the technology proliferate. The new, 12-megapixel HZ35W is going to use GPS to geo-tag images (i.e. to embed location data into the image file, which you can use to view pics on applications like Google Earth). It will also display in real time your location on the camera's 3-inch AMOLED screen. I've tried similar functionality on the Sony XR520V camcorder and these current location maps aren't super-detailed (although Samsung's could be). It wasn't street level, but...

There were no shortage of cool camcorders at CES, but CrunchGear has some behind-the-scenes footage of something that wasn't made public: a camcorder with a built-in video projector that projects what it films. We've already seenNikon do some cool stuff with a projector and the possibilites here seem endless.     

This is quite funny:

Every year, consumer electronics makers descend on Las Vegas with a simple mission - to convince you that the stuff that they had told you about last year - you know, the greatest devices ever made - are actually not worth your time. Instead - look at this! (The Onion sums up this dynamic nicely.) Still, every year, interesting things poke through. And this year, the big word is 3D - mostly TVs and Blu-ray players. But among Panasonic's camcorder introductions was its first 3D HD camcorder. This $21,000 model is made-to-order so it's not exactly something you'll be toting around...

Few traditional film companies have gone through the twists and turns that have buffeted Polaroid (their past owner was arrested on allegedly constructing one of the biggest financial frauds in American history - although that was before Bernie Madoff). At CES 2010  the company looks to recapture some of that old magic with some new products that harken back to the, um, good old days...? From the release: Polaroid will offer a completely redesigned, modern version of the Polaroid OneStep camera, the PIC 1000.  The PIC 1000 will be available in a range of fun colors and use classic Polaroid Color...

I'm a big fan of the Eye Fi wireless SD card and from the news today it looks to get even better with the new Eye Fi Pro XS card ($149). Now the memory bumps to 8GB, from 4GB, with a Class 6 speed rating for higher performance cameras and HD camcorders. It's also compatible with 802.11n wireless networking. The company will also update the Eye Fi Manager software to give it greater functionality. But to my mind the best new feature is the "endless memory" mode which deletes files from the card after they've been uploaded. That's been the biggest liability...