The DIMA Innovative Digital Product Awards were announced yesterday at the introductory press event before the PMA 2007 International Convention and Trade Show in Las Vegas, yesterday.

March 8, 2007: The DIMA Innovative Digital Product Awards were announced yesterday at the introductory press event before the PMA 2007 International Convention and Trade Show in Las Vegas, yesterday.

Products nominated by the judging team of digital imaging editors were:
– The Zigview S2 remote detachable 2.5-inch LCD viewfinder, which can be used both on and off a digital SLR camera. You can tilt and rotate the LCD for viewing at any angle, including from the front of the camera. The Zigview S2 offers a motion detection shutter release, a sophisticated intervalometer, and a Bulb exposure controller.
– The SensorScope System sensor cleaning system kit for digital SLR cameras.
– The Epson Stylus Photo 1400 (known locally as the Stylus Photo 1410) entry-level A3+ inkjet printer.
– FotoNation FacePro for Mobile Phones, an advanced face tracking product designed to be embedded in mobile cameraphones.
– The Fujifilm IS-1, a 9 megapixel point-and-shoot camera capable of capturing both visible and infrared light, which is designed for law enforcement, medical/dental and science professionals.
– The Hitachi Hybrid camcorder provides the flexibility to choose between formats by offering the convenience of DVD plus the capacity of HDD.
– The Joby Gorillapod family of bendable compact tripods.
– The Photobook Pro makes high quality photo albums, photo books and double-sided photo products utilising silver halide photographic paper as well as many inkjet and non-photo paper materials. It works with KIS/Digital Portal DKS minilabs and KIS e-Station Kiosks, or with non KIS branded minilabs.
– The Lensbaby 3G, an evolution of the selective focus SLR camera lenses that take photos with one area in sharp focus, with that “sweet spot” surrounded by graduated blur. The Lensbaby 3G SLR lens locks in the desired bent position simply by pressing a button. Then, using a traditional barrel focus mechanism, photographers can do fine fo-cusing and precisely place the sweet spot of sharp focus before pressing the shutter re-lease.
– Freedom Universal with the Intuition product finder feature is a shop, gather, select and compare tool. A new snooze feature allows retailers to disarm a single position on the display, providing for a more thorough, untethered, one-to-one product demonstration.
– The Olympus Mju 770SW, SP-550UZ and E-510 cameras.
– The Nexlab 1000 with Print Tower high speed, dry digital minilab solution.
– The rotation360 backpack, which incorporates an innovative beltpack that can be slid to the front for easy access to lenses, flashes, filters, memory cards and other accessories, then slid back around and secured into place at the base of the backpack, all without re-moving the pack from your back.
– Xerox Corp.’s flagship Xerox iGen3 Digital Production Press for commercial printers.