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Eizo FlexScan SX2262W Monitor

9.5 Rating

A high-quality widescreen monitor for advanced photo enthusiasts and professional photographers who require a controlled colour workflow.Announced in late December, Eizo’s new FlexScan SX2262W monitor has been designed for professional photographers and serious photo enthusiasts who like to produce large inkjet photo prints. Compatible with both Windows and Mac operating systems, it’s one of the few screens of its size with a native resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels. This is higher than the 1680 x 1050-pixel native resolution of most 22-inch monitors and enables it to display roughly 30% more information in the same amount of screen space.

Emtec Photo Cube

7 Rating

Compact and lightweight data storage for digital camera pictures.Faced by stiff competition from falling memory card prices and rising card capacities, the prices of portable storage devices have fallen in recent months. French company, Emtec (which was originally named BASF) has released two affordable portable storage products under the Photo Cube brand name. Available in 40GB or 80GB capacities, they use 2.5-inch notebook computer hard disk drives for data storage.

Eizo Flexscan S1931 Monitor

A capable LCD monitor with the controls and functionality needed for digital imaging.FlexScan monitors may be the entry-level models in Eizo’s LCD range but they offer a good cost/performance ratio for a broad range of graphic applications, including imaging. Available with a narrow matte black or grey bezel (screen surround), the FlexScan S1931 presents a simple, sober design that makes images look vibrant and provides an uncluttered viewing area.

Eizo ColorEdge CG19

A top-of-the-range monitor with performance to match.ColorEdge monitors sit at the top of Eizo’s range and are designed to provide professional image quality. At more than double the price of the FlexScan S1931 display, Eizo’s ColorEdge CG19 is targeted at professional photographers, prepress professionals and people for whom colour accuracy and fidelity are paramount. Eizo actually claims to hand-adjust every ColorEdge monitor before it leaves the factory to ensure it delivers consistently accurate, reliable colour reproduction.

Digital Foci 8-inch Portable Photo Book

8.5 Rating

Promoted as the ‘Best brag book for sharing treasured memories’, the Digital Foci 8-inch Portable Digital Photo Book (Model PBK-080) promises to be useful to both amateur and professional photographers as well as business users. A development of the ubiquitous digital photo frame, this device takes a standard LCD screen and houses it in attractive leather-like covers. Digital photos, videos and business presentations can be displayed on the screen.

Digitalk DPF-K800A Digital Photo Frame

8.5 Rating

An easy-to-use 800 x 600-pixel, digital photo frame with a 4:3 display that is sharp with natural-looking colours.Unlike some recently-released digital photo frames, the DPF-K800A 8-inch Digitalk frame doesn’t include Bluetooth or WiFi support and is consequently competitively priced. The 16.3 x 12.3 mm TFT LCD screen sports a shiny black acrylic surround that is approximately 25mm wide at each side, 16mm at the top and 40mm at the bottom to accommodate the control panel.

ColorVision PrintFIX Pro Suite

If you’re really serious about the quality of the digital prints you make, you need to introduce colour management into your workflow. The tools required are a colorimeter for measuring the colours produced by your monitor and a spectrophotometer (or spectrocolorimeter) for measuring the colours produced by your printer. Together they enable you to make the picture you see on-screen emulate the output of your printer.

Canon CanoScan CS5600F

8.5 Rating

A competitively-priced, easy to use scanner for photographers with small volumes of images to digitise.Although not top of the range, the CanoScan CS5600F is a well-specified flatbed scanner with an attractive price tag and could appeal to everyday consumers who need to scan both reflective originals (such as documents and prints) and images on film. Capable of 4800 x 9600 dpi (dots/inch) resolution and up to 48-bit colour depth it has a built-in film adaptor that accepts up to six frames on 35mm filmstrip or four mounted 35mm slides at a time.

Liquid Image VideoMask 310

8.5 Rating

A combined diving mask and video/stills camera for snorkelling and shallow scuba diving.Liquid Image’s VideoMask 310 sits in the middle of its new range of camera-equipped diving masks. Designed like a regular diving mask, it includes a digital camera that can record both still pictures and video clips. Ideal for snorkelling and shallow scuba diving, this mask can also be used for free diving and shark cage diving.