The Memories of Paparazzi Cameras Still Haunt Guus Hiddink, the New Chelsea Boss
February 16, 2009
Dutchman Guus Hiddink revealed that he can recollect nothing as bad as his run-ins with the Turkish press, when he was the manager of Turkish football club, Fenerbahce in 1990. He also added that the run-ins were a lesson for his life. Guus Hiddink revealed this in the eve of his fresh stint with Chelsea, which would vitually place him in the British sport's golden bowl. He replaces Luiz Felipe Scolari as the new coach of Chelsea.
He reminisced the incident that persisted to disturb him in 'This Is My World', his autobiography. The incident happened in Istanbul that saw Hiddink being framed. The book says that all started when a lady, a huge fan of the club invited him to have a cup of coffee at her house, which he accepted. At night when he walked up to the door of her house to walk back home, he was dumbstruck to find a good number of paparazzis there with their digital cameras out there, though not exactly digital cameras. Flashes were all over with an intent to frame him, subsequently. The book further states Guus Hiddink meeting her again to congratulate her on the success of her articulate designs.
Guus Hiddink also reveals in the book his approaching the club president for an expert opinion. The feedback of the club president is printed in thew book as it was. “Don't worry”, he said. “Welcome to the newspapers of Turkey.” However, today he might be looking ahead to deal with the sharper UK paparazzis armed with some of the most advanced digital SLRs, as against the starter dose he received in 1990.
Celebrate London Australia Film Festival and Win a Canon Digital Camera
February 12, 2009
A ten day long celebration spree runs from 12th to 22nd March at Barbican in London to mark the London Australian Film Festival and Baz Lurhmann's Australia's Blue Ray and DVD release. Alongside, the Barbican is teaming up with The Independent to offer the folk an opportunity to win a Canon digital camera, apart from seeing their works exhibited at the Barbican.
'An image inspired by Australia' is the theme for the digital photography contest. The competitors are expected to email the captured image to the official website, where a judges' panel from The Independent, along with the LAFF organisers will select the winners' creations. The prime winner will be awarded with a Canon digital camera, and the concerned image will be exhibited in the behind-the-scenes image category, apart from the digital camera offer.
Baz Luhrmann's 'Australia' will be screened on 22 March 2pm on the occasion of 15th London Australian Fim Festival taking place at The Barbican. The fim stars Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman. Consequently, a drinks reception highlighting UK's most popular Australian wine, Jacob's Creek.
Launch Of COOLPIX S230 Digital Camera Announced By Nikon
February 6, 2009
Nikon announced the launch of its latest Point and Shoot Digital Camera, the Nikon Coolpix S230 Digital Camera, early today. This new camera from Nikon would come with an intuitive touch screen operation, apart from a load of advanced functions, such as enhanced playback options and fingertip shooting control.
The Nikon S230 comes with a touch control LCD of 3” diagonal size. The 10 megapixel resolution of the camera is complimented by three times magnification of optical zoom. The light sensitivity offered by the device is up to ISO 2000, and it presents the new Nikon Expeed digital image scheme. The lens pertaining to this camera is an Optic 3 x Precision Nikkor lens.
Other significant functions put forth by Nikon S230 are; 16 scene modes, D-Lighting, Favourite Pictures function, Auto Sort, 4 x movie modes cum sound and Time Zone feature. Handwritten and Paint Memo feature in this camera allows the users to add drawings, colourful stamps and borders, or memos to images directly. The provision for storing these files in the JPEG compression standard enhances this segment of the camera.
Nikon S230 also, features the unique easy-to-lock exposure and autofocus, apart from high-speed connectivity. The on-board memory of the camera is 44MB, and its EN-EL10 battery can present about 160 shots. The camera is priced around GBP 170, though various stores and shopping sites may come up with more exciting offers.
Hasselblad H3DII-50 D-SLR Sports a Thumping 50MP Resolution
February 4, 2009
The Hasselblad H3DII-50 Digital SLR Camera has already become a hottie in the world amidst dedicated shutterbugs, especially for its mighty sensor resolution of 50 Megapixels. The sensor of H3DII-50 is a 36-48mm Kodak sensor that boasts of twice the physical size of the largest DSLR sensor of the 35mm category. Apart from this, a TFT display of 3 inches with a View Camera option adorns the device. The total bundle offer is also quiet enticing as it includes an 80mm HCD lens, other than a GPS accessory option.
The H3DII-50 presents an ultra-focus mode that optimises the performance of its digital lens. A choice of waist-level or eye-level viewfinders also appear in the long feature list of this camera, apart from the choice of combining tilt/shift functions and point and shoot photography. The manufacturers of this camera avers that its vast range of HC and HCD lenses matches the best of the Carl Zeiss trade mark Hasselblad icon lenses.
The H3DII-50 can soon be expected in the UK market along with some mind boggling offers.
Minox Decides to Launch Digital Spy Camera
February 2, 2009
Renowned for their Leica line of cameras, Minox of Germany decides to launch Minox DSC Digital Camera that can also be called a digital spy camera. This camera would not be a chic gadget, neither would it present some sort of magnifications of the images according to the sources. Instead, this camera would be a simple 3.2MP digital camera with a reasonable on-board memory of 128MB. Regarding the camera carrying any memory expansion slot, till date there is no credible information.
This digital camera perfectly fits the nickname 'spy camera', predominantly for its size of 86mm x 21mm x 30mm. Its weight of 90 grams also cannot be seen through. However, the public's reaction to this type of a camera is also much awaited, preponderantly for its exposure to mischief mongers who might use it to spend their spare time by capturing secret images of women. The relevance of such a device in the day's market is also ponderable considering the fact that today's digital market is flooded with innumerable cheap mobile phones coming inbuilt with point and shoot cameras of a range of sensor resolution strengths.
