Digital Camera Tests Advised to Diabetics
May 20, 2009
Diabetes UK, a British charities aid foundation and diabetic association that functions for the welfare of the diabetes patients as well as the people who care for them, has opined that the best way to capture in-depth images of the eye to locate blindness causing diabetic retinopathy is through a digital camera.
The opinion of the association comes in the wake of a report stating around half a million UK diabetics were risking their eyesight by shying away from advanced tests. The charity makes it clearer by pointing out the fact that above 26 percent of the diabetes stricken adults in the UK had not taken the test last year.
The information, care and advocacy services director at Diabetes UK, Simon O'Neill commented that the charity was concerned that half a million diabetics in the country have still not had their eye-check using an advanced digital camera, as part of a retinal screening programme. Reports also substantiate his arguments saying that above sixty percent of the primary NHS care trusts were seldom hitting the 80 percent screening rate for adults with diabetes.
Meanwhile, a fund raising event was run by Diabetes UK on 15th May, which was titled 'Care for a Cuppa Day'. The event aimed at the hosting of a thousand tea parties in order to generate a fund of GBP150,000 as support offer to the charity.
David Miliband Burnt in Effigy in Sri Lankan Capital
May 18, 2009
The effigy of the UK's Foreign Secretary, David Miliband has been burned on the streets of Columbo, by the Sri Lankan protesters today, accusing the UK of backing the LTTE rebels. Beside, the protestors also attacked the British High Commission in Columbo by pelting stones and rotten eggs, as well as spraying graffiti. The protestors who numbered around a thousand had some placards with them, which carried slogans such as, 'Miliband is White Tiger' and 'Hands off Sri Lanka. We are no more your colony'.
The protesters who left after an hour of turbulent demonstration had also damaged the outer wall and a CCTV camera of the compound. However, no staff of the High Commission was injured. The protesters' mob had emerged all of a sudden from amid the jubiliation scenes in the city that followed the declaration by the Sri Lankan governmnent that combat operations in the twenty-six year old civil war of the country has come to an end with the routing of the rebel outfit. Today came the news of the death of the rebel leader V.Prabhakaran, his son Charles Anthony and a number of close aides of the rebel supremo, along with the news of Sri Lankan army winning the long civil war.
Meanwhile, the belligerent demonstration has in its turn triggered an enraged response from the UK that reprimanded the island authorities for allowing the protest to turn violent. A high commission spokesman said after the infuriating incident that it was an outrage that the demonstration was allowed by the authorities to turn out that violent enough to cause damage to their property, in apparent contravention of their responsibilities. On the other side, a Sri Lankan policeman said to the staff reporter cum photographer of the Digital Camera Reviews, Amy Don that they had not expected a sudden turn out of the kind. He added that the UK also had been equally irresponsible in allowing the same sort of action against the Sri Lankan embassy in London.
Numerous Sri Lankan citizens still hold on to a firm belief that the Western Countries had hypocritically backed the cause of the LTTE rebels by criticising both the Sri Lankan government's reluctance to call a ceasfire amidst the battle to allow the tens of thousands of civilians to escape and the Army's offensive against the rebel outfit. The government also was found acting in an apprehensive manner towards the journalists from the West, as the Nikon D90 Digital Camera that was seized by the officials from Don was not returned until the time this report has been completed.
Nevertheless, the UK has still been holding on to its GBP 5 billion promise to the Sri Lankan government for more efficient relief operations. Don, in her day's report hoped that the journalists would be permitted into the war-torn area now that the military operations are almost over, along with the safe returning of her advanced digital SLR. She also have reported that the condition of the tens of thousands of civilians who were caught in the cease-fire in the past week was not known, although the Army sources have avered that they are being attended with dedication.
However, the detainment of the three Sri Lankan doctors who had attended to the bruises of hundreds of civilians in the makeshift health care centres in the war zone by the authorities, accusing them of rendering false information to the media, has invited scorn from numerous countries all over the world, according to the latest reports.
Nikon D5000 DSLR Launched at the Flagship Outlet of Jessops
May 12, 2009
Jessops' flagship store at New Oxford Street was chosen by the Nikon's UK thinktank for their visiting team to demonstrate the benefits and capabilities of the Nikon D5000 Digital SLR camera. The demonstration took place on the first two days of the month May and consequently sale of the advanced DSLR model also commenced on 1 May. Throughout the two day event, a programme highlighted by free seminars led by Nikon was also conducted.
A tutorial on the best possible procedures to capture the optimal with the HD movie mode of the digital SLR camera stole the attention of numerous aspiring shutterbugs who were present there on the occasion. Another attraction of the programme was a demonstration of the Creative Lighting System of Nikon.
The Nikon D5000 is a 12.3MP DSLR that comes with a vari-angle flip-out display screen of 2.7 inches and a viewing angle of 170 degrees. The advanced DSLR also incorporates a built-in dust reduction system and sensor cleaning system. The dust reduction system of the DSLR is based on a technology called AirFlow.
Jessops had also announced an enticing offer for the first set purchasing the DSLR, which is a canvas print 32 inch x 24 inch free of cost. Apart from this, a free Sandisk Ultra II SDHC card of 8GB also accompanies the sales pack.
Sri Lanka: Digital Photographer Stopped from Entering the War Zone
May 5, 2009
An official Photographer of Digital Camera Reviews, along with a number of journalists and professional photographers from all over the world, were refused entry into the war zone, in Sri Lanka on Tuesday. After persistent pleas permission was granted by the authority to visit the concentration camps, even though deprived of the permission to carry in cameras.
The visit of the journalists and the photographers had coincided with a 2 day visit of the British MPs to the war-torn nation, the latter with a view to hold meetings with the political leaders and the prominent civil society figures on the state of the refugees in the concentration camps as well as of those trapped in the war zone. Des Browne, the former defence minister of the UK was among the elite group.
The reports from the reporter cum photographer of the website, Amy Don revealed the pathetic situation prevailing in the concentration camps, which she said that was totally different from anything that she had come across previously. She also stated that an epidemic outbreak could happen at anytime considering the scorching heat going on in the tropical island.
Another point stressed by Don was the gradually compounding number of the refugees making it to the government area, against the already inadequate rehabilitation arrangements. She hoped, along with the UN, Red Cross and other relief workers that at least the government screening of the refugees concluded at the earliest, to give them an opportunuty to freely attend the distressed.
Meanwhile, a Sri Lankan official who spoke to Don at the time of her retrieving her Nikon D90 Digital SLR Camera from the authorities, said that the country was expecting an aid of $ 1 million, the arrival of which would considerably improve the conditions. He also expressed his concerns over the tens of thousands of civilians still believed to be stuck in the war zone.
The civil war between the government forces and the LTTE rebels can be dated back to 1976 when the rebels' supremo V. Prabhakaran founded the outfit as a local guerilla movement with a view to establishing a sovereign Tamil homeland. According to reports, till date more than 75 thousand lives have been taken by the war.
Pic Credit: Reuters
Polaroid Camera Back in Britain with a Digital Edge
May 2, 2009
11 May has been fixed by Polaroid company to start rolling out the Polaroid Pogo Instant Digital Camera in the UK. The news is also out that retailer Firebox has bagged the initial rights to sell the new digital camera across the UK. The new gadget is all about Polaroid shoving profusely its new inkfree printing technology into an advanced digital camera of 5 megapixel sensor resolution.
It is widely perceived that that this bold move from Polaroid has been, as a matter of fact triggered by the reasonable success of its photo printer, PoGo Photo Printer that was launched last year. The new instant digital camera is a compact snapper that ejects a 300 dpi photo-print on a Zink sticky-back 2 x 3 inch photo paper, after capturing the image.
The process of capturing and printing of an image consumes around 40 seconds, as the user is also offered the comfort of previewing the proposed print on the 3 inch LCD screen of the camera, apart from removing red-eye, adding borders, printing dates and cropping the images prior to the printing process. The camera also comes with a 4 x digital zoom, movie mode with sound and an electronic timer.
Other features of the instant snapper are; numerous shooting modes, a memory expansion slot that suits an SD card and a USB slot with cable to connect the device to a computer. The sales pack is complete with a complimentary ten sheets of Zink photo paper. The customer can buy refil packs of Zink photo paper at GBP 17.95 for 70 sheets and GBP 7.95 for 30 sheets.
At Firebox, the introductory offer price of the PoGo Instant Digital Camera will be GBP 229.95.
