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I'm looking for a digital camera with no delay between shutter click and capture. Most have a 1-2 second delay. My grand daughter is into acrobatics and my daughter wants to take good pictures. Any help is welcome.

A new bill is being introduced called, Camera Phone Predator Alert Act, which would require any mobile phone containing a digital camera to sound a tone whenever a photograph is taken with the camera's phone. It would also prohibit such a phone from being equipped with a means of disabling or silencing the tone. While its a good gesture, I do not believe having such a law would deter criminals from hacking their camera phones to take pictures in inappropriate ways. Also, the real criminals would not even use a camera phone but would probably use other devices such as...

TOKYO (AP) -- Sony said Friday it found a defect in some of its popular Cyber-shot compact digital cameras and offered to repair affected cameras free of charge. The liquid crystal display screens of eight camera models might not display images correctly, images could be distorted or cameras might not take photos at all, Sony Corp. said in a statement. Affected are eight Cyber-shot models sold between September 2003 and January 2005 in Japan and in a similar period globally, according to Sony spokesman Chisato Kitsukawa. Sony will repair for free only cameras that show signs of the problems, Kitsukawa...

Canon to stop making single-lens camera TOKYO - Japan's top camera maker, Canon Inc., will stop developing new single-lens reflex film cameras as more people abandon film for digital, company officials said Thursday. The Tokyo-based Canon's move followed a similar move by its closest Japanese rival, Nikon Corp., which announced earlier this year it would stop making seven of its nine film cameras and concentrate on digital models. Canon will continue making film cameras already on the market as long as their demand remains. Whether to withdraw from the film camera business will be "decided appropriately by judging the market...

Weston Naef sounds almost misty-eyed when discussing Kodak Tri-X, a black-and-white 35mm film first made in the 1950s and a staple of photojournalism for decades. "It was a wonderful 400-speed film," says Mr. Naef, curator of photography for the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, referring to Tri-X's ability to capture an image in low light, known as its "speed." "And then it could be 'pushed' [chemically altered during development] to 1200, or even 2400"--meaning it could be used in even lower light. Tri-X--along with Kodachrome, Ektachrome, Fujicolor and all those other mellifluously named films--and the Nikon, Minolta and...

Hi all; 'Tis the Season, and I'm looking to upgrade my digital camera from an old 2.3 MP HP Photosmart 612 ... ... to a good, reliable, relatively easy-to-use 5+ MP camera. Am liking what I'm seeing written about the Olympus C-60 Zoom (6.1 MP), but wanted to what what other FReepers like using/recommend.

The attorney for a Virginia man told a Cumberland County judge Tuesday that, though his client acted in bad taste when he took a picture up a woman's skirt, he wasn't doing anything illegal. "I have no doubt that what (Robert G.) Sullivan did was highly offensive. ... "It was stupid, it was immoral, it was insulting — it just wasn't criminal under the invasion of privacy law," John "Jay" Abom argued in the non-jury trial before Judge Edgar Bayley. [snip] The woman's friend, who was working at a restaurant in Capital City Mall's food court at the time, told...

Blogs are great for those who like to write and wonderful for those who like to read, but what about people who don't like to do either? They are expressing themselves through photoblogs, Web sites that are part visual diary, part photo gallery, where in recent years anyone with a digital camera and Internet connection can take part. Many sites have made it easier than ever to share photographs, including Fotolog.net and Flickr.com, which was recently bought by Yahoo. Among the most interesting photoblogs to peruse are group oriented, where many people post pictures, all of them around a central...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - A novelty item just four or five years ago, the digital camera is shaping up as the most popular electronics gift in 2004, according to the Consumer Electronics Association. It was runner-up last year to the DVD player, the No. 1 gift since 2000. Catapulted by cutthroat competition, digital technology is transforming the $85 billion global photography industry by creating new ways of capturing, developing and storing pictures.

I'm a novice when it comes to computer drivers, cables, etc. and need some help. I have a Kodak 3400 digital camera, just took a bunch of pictures. Went into my Photo software and clicked on Edit, Twain Acquire. I get a little box that states "Invalid Class String". When I click OK (no other choice), it goes back to my main page Photo page. The camera is connected. I went to the Kodak webpage and downloaded the updated software. I don't know what a Twain is and I don't know what/where my drivers are. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Posted on Wed, Oct. 15, 2003 HOLLYWOOD | NANNY CAUGHT ON TAPE Tape of nanny is misleading, attorney says An attorney says her client's behavior can be viewed as ''playful'' interaction, but child-care experts call it abuse of the 5-month old. BY ASHLEY FANTZ afantz@herald.com On Tuesday, a lawyer for a nanny accused of violently handling a Hollywood infant said a videotape of the caregiver and the child, which has aired repeatedly on television, is misleading. Fort Lauderdale attorney Allison Gilman said that slowing the tape, which shows Claudia Muro, 29, shaking the 5-month-old back and forth so aggressively that...

What are your recommedations for best digital cameras?