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While face detection has become a common feature in modern digital cameras, Sony took one step ahead and developed the first camera with smile detection, the DSC-T300, and proudly announced it today.

The main attraction of this camera is certainly Sony’s new smile detection technology. So how does this new feature work? When the camera is set to smile detection mode, a user can select one out of the three preset smile detection levels (i.e. smile, grin, and great grin). After the shutter button is pressed, the camera will detect the target’s face and shoot the photo automatically once the chosen smile level is reached. Sounds cool to me, with this great feature I’ll never miss the smiles while shooting photos :)

High quality camera maker Leica finally introduced their first digital rangefinder, the M8 in September. Perhaps we should think of the M8 as a digitalized M7 instead of a brand new product. The camera body still looks pretty much the same from the front and it’s just thicker than the M7, you probably wouldn’t notice it’s a digital camera before seeing the LCD monitor at the back.

After their success with the old V570 dual-lens camera and the V610 with 10x optical zoom, Kodak kicked the new V705 out without a second thought. The main upgrades from its predecessor V570 are the twin 7MP sensors (as opposed to 5MP) behind its fixed wide-angle and optical zoom lenses, which conspire to give the V705 a whopping 5x opitcal zoom. Other niftyness includes new anti-blur tech and Kodak’s Perfect Touch processing, which makes your pictures better than your pictures.

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• Buy Kodak Easyshare V705 for $337.87 at Amazon.com

Sometimes our memory could be a funny thing. You might not remember where did you take a picture, or even remember the wrong place which you took the picture especially if you travel around frequently. Sony came up with their own life GPS device, the Sony GPS-CS1. This little device attaches to compatible Sony cameras including the Sony Alpha DSLR and stores GPS and time information, so when you download your photos it can tell you exactly where and when you took them.

SONY has announced the releases of their new Cyber-shot camera models, the DSC-T30 and DSC-H5, both featuring SONY’s new 3-inch high resolution LCD. The large display screen does not only make it easier for you to capture pictures and videos, it also makes it easier for you to organize and preview your pictures and recorded videos. The new LCD has excellent color reproduction, which is up to 1.6 times better than other LCD availables on mobile devices.

Are you looking for a digital camera with a larger view finder? Check out the Fujifilm FinePix V10, which features a 3” LCD display, not only serving as view finder and image viewer, but also as your gaming screen!

It was only the second day of 2006 and Kodak has already introduced their new 5-megapixel dual lens Easyshare V570 digital camera. With KODAK RETINA Dual Lens technology, the Easyshare V570 camera wraps an ultra-wide angle lens (23 mm) and an optical zoom lens (39 – 117 mm) into a small, sleek package less than an inch thin.