Cameras that talk to phones? What will they think of next! The Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF6 is the latest Micro Four Thirds camera combining a compact body with different lenses to give you a lightweight alternative to a dSLR and the GF6 pairs off with your phone too, thanks to Wi-Fi and, for perhaps the first time in a camera, NFC.

Download the Panasonic Image App to your iPhone, iPad or Android phone or tablet and after setting up the app, you only need to touch the camera to your phone or tablet to turn it into a screen showing what your camera sees. So you can leave your camera on a tripod, wander off with phone in hand, and still snap pictures.
 

As well as firing the shutter, you can zoom, focus and adjust shutter speed, aperture and exposure settings from your phone, or start and stop recording high definition 1080p video with stereo sound.

When you're done with each shot, you can transfer and share pictures automatically to your phone and tablet, tagged with location data.

The camera itself sports a flip-out 3-inch 1040K-dot touchscreen and built-in flash. Inside is a new 16-megapixel Live MOS sensor and Venus Engine processor that can handle up to ISO 3,200 sensitivity.

For extra pizzazz in your pictures, you can also add one of 19 filter effects to a snap. New effects in the GF6 include Bleach Bypass, Toy Pop, and a teasingly-named Fantasy setting. You also have the option to create stop-motion animation, which I could see making good use of a phone or tablet as remote control.

Oh, and you'll be pleased to hear the Intelligent Scene Control, which recognises lighting conditions and adjusts settings accordingly, now offers Food Recognition mode.

Future Cameras

Hi friends,

We know everyone is crazy for TechSavvy  cameras,

Digital cams are always changing, adding new features and improving old ones. The CIPA (Camera and Imaging Products Association) made predictions on what the cameras of the future will look like, highlighting some future camera technologies and High-Tech cameras.

1. Goodbye, Shutter Button

Cameras of the future may no longer require a shutter button. Instead, photographers could wink or use a voice command to tell the camera to record a photo. In this case, the camera probably would be built into a person's glasses. With the camera built into a pair of glasses, aiming the camera would be easy, too.This type of camera potentially could work in a manner similar to a hands-free cell phone, where you can issue commands without the need to push a button.

2. "Ultra Compact"

The camera of the future could redefine "Ultra compact" though, creating cameras that could be 0.5 inches in thickness and maybe with smaller dimensions than today's cameras.

An ultra compact camera generally is defined as a camera that measures 1 inch or less in thickness. Such small cameras are great because they easily fit in a pants pocket or a purse.

This prediction makes some sense, as digital cameras from a decade ago were much larger than today's small models, and the high-tech components inside digital cameras continue to shrink.

 

3. Unlimited Battery Power

This is a Best for us....

Today's  rechargeable batteries in our digital cameras are as powerful as they've ever been, allowing at least nearly hundred photographs per charge.If you could charge the camera automatically as you're using it, without the need to be plugged into an electrical outlet?      How's that?

The camera of the future could incorporate some sort of solar energy cell, allowing the battery to either operate only from solar power or allowing it to charge the battery using the solar cell.

4. "Smell-graphy"

Photography is a visual medium, but the camera of the future may add the sense of smell to photographs.The ability to stimulate senses other than vision to photographs would be an interesting idea.

For example, a photographer could command the camera to record the smell of the scene, embedding it with the visual image that it captured. It's to be optional, though ... adding smells to a photograph of food or a field of flowers would be great, but adding smells to photographs of the monkey house at the zoo might not be desireable, Yuuu.....

So, this are the future of our new technology in Digi Cams,

You Like this features in your Cameras...!!!

Arrival Technology on Cameras

Last year(2012) was a busy year for new cameras, be we want more! We put our heads together and came up with our list of the new cameras we hope to see in 2013.

Let's see, New Arrivals in camera world . . .

1. Canon EOS 7D Mark II

Canon does need to find a replacement for its ageing 18-megapixel sensor.There is talk, though, that the EOS 7D Mark II will have a higher-resolution 21-megapixel sensor. That would be a small but significant gain which would also stop it stealing any thunder from the full-frame models.

 2. Canon EOS 3D

Resolution estimates range from 30-50 megapixels, but seem to be coalescing around a remarkably precise 46.1 megapixels.The Nikon D800, and especially the D800E, are much too good for Canon to pretend that its best shot so far, the EOS 5D Mark III’s 22 megapixels, is enough.

 3. Canon PowerShot G2 X

Keen patent-watchers have spotted a new Canon lens design for an 18-70mm f/2.8-6 lens with a very small gap between the rear element and the sensor plane.

4. Sony Cyber-shot TX55

 Sony has announced a pair of compact cameras, the Cyber-shot TX55 and WX30, both featuring a 16.2 megapixel Exmor R CMOS image sensor and full HD 1080i AVCHD movie recording capabilities. The TX55 is billed as world's thinnest full HD camera, at 12.2mm (0.48 in) thick. The new arrivals are due out in September.

5. Sony Cyber-shot WX30

 

The WX30 is a bit more standard in terms of design, and comes similarly spec'd to the TX55. The camera features a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens, 16.2 megapixel Exmor R CMOS image sensor, 5x optical zoom, 1080i AVCHD video recording capability and a maximum sensitivity of ISO 3200. Other features include 3D and Intelligent Sweep Panorama modes, Clear Image Zoom and Dual Rec.