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Mother’s Day Specials are Available at B&H
Mother’s Day is coming up, and we’re working on a purchasing guide for you. But in the meantime, you should take a look at the Mother’s Day Specials at B&H Photo. They’ve got cameras, camcorders, netbooks, tablets, and more.
Do You Want a 14MP Camera Phone?
GSMArena via Android Community reported on a new Android cameraphone, the Altek Leo, that is more camera than it seems to be phone. The phone is complete with a 3x optical zoom, 14MP CCD sensor, HD video recording, Xenon flash, and running the Android operating system. There is also Wifi, 3G, and a Micro SD card slot. But all his begs the question: would you want a 14MP sensor in your phone? If so, why would you want that vs the 5MP RAW sensor we blogged about earlier? Let alone the Android operating system does have some good photography apps but not the greatest. This was further shown in our tablet coverage when we ranked the Dell Mini 5. While optical zoom is much better than digital zoom, do you think that phones will ever get to the point where they will slap a nice prime lens on instead of offering a zoom function? And with technology moving faster each day there is only a matter of time until phones become modular and we will be able to switch out processors, RAM, and graphics chips the way we can with out computers. In that case, perhaps we may be able to switch out camera sensors as well.
Please share your thoughts in the comments below.
Wacom Introduces The Cintiq 21UX Tablet For Photo Editing
Today, Wacom announced their new Cintiq 21UX tablet for photo editing. New features of the tablet include enhanced pen performance and new ergonomics designed to provide an intuitive and “natural-feeling pen-on-screen” workflow in addition to a black-scheme look to it. It will come at a pricey $1999 in the United States when it ships in late March/early April. Also included are the bundled software and a pen stand. It should work well with Photoshop and the other editing programs I’ve written about previously. More details in the four-page press release which can be downloaded here in PDF format (New Cintiq 21UX March 1 2010 Final for Distribution) More pictures after the jump. Also check out our coverage on Tablets.
Photo/Video Editing Recommendations for Tablets
We’ve covered the JooJoo, the iPad, the Slate, the Archos 9, and the Mini 5. Vince talked about the usefulness of the tablets for photography and I covered them for video editing. When we talked about these, we mentioned only a few select programs. Here are my recommendations for both types of editing work.
