"With the Lexar Memory Stick, we now offer an entire line of digital film products that are designed meet the stringent needs of digital photographers," said Eric Stang, Chief Operating Officer, Lexar Media. "Lexar's focus on the digital photography market helps to ensure that Memory Stick media will be available in the channels and retail outlets where photographers shop." "As Memory Stick media devices proliferate, we expect the demand for Memory Stick storage products to skyrocket," said Mark Viken, President of Sony Electronics' Personal Network Solutions Company. Lexar is the first Sony licensee to offer Memory Stick products. Lexar Memory Stick storage products are available in 16, 32 and 64MB capacities with list prices starting at US$59. has announced that it is now shipping Lexar-branded Memory Stick digital film to its retail and distribution channels in the US and Europe. Source: Digital Camera Resource Page Mavica MVC-FD95 review And with the camera selling for $1000, shouldn't they just give you the FlashPath adapter in the box?"Be sure to check out the full review for more details, as well as sample photos and close-ups of the camera itself. The optional FlashPath Memory Stick adapter will certainly take care of the capacity problem, but not the speed problem. The real downer here is the floppy support - you can only store four photos for disc, and it's very slow reading and writing the disc. The photo quality is generally good, though JPEG compression is obvious in some cases. Though it's very large and bulky, it's designed extremely well and is very easy to use. Here's what Jeff had to say about the 'FD95: The Sony Mavica line is really one of the kind, and the MVC-FD95 stands out as the top of the line, at least until the CD1000 model ships. Our friend Jeff over at the Digital Camera Resource Page has posted his review of Sony's Mavica MVC-FD95, a 2.1 megapixel unit with 10x (!) optical zoom, and a choice of floppy disk or Memory Stick storage (with optional Flashpath adapter). Thanks to Kumio Yamada / .jp for this item! Source: K-Tai Watch's Takagi Industries PDC-10 news item The camera will also be bundled with the new Mac drivers in stores soon. PC Watch's news item contains a photo of the PDC-10 camera it also notes that Macintosh OS drivers for Takagi's 350,000 pixel PDC-35, released last November but previously only Windows compatible, will be available next month. It is to be sold bundled with an image editor and proprietary home-page builder which allows users to post their images to a free 3MB website that is included in the price of the camera. There's no flash or LCD display, and the camera has a fixed focal length lens and optical viewfinder. The camera has dimensions of 65 x 90 x 27.5mm, and weighs 70 grams without the four AAA alkaline batteries it uses - and on which it is powered for up to 250 hours. The internal non-removeable memory can hold 80 images in the lower resolution, or 20 in the higher resolution, and the photos are transferred to a Windows 98 PC by way of a USB port. The unit features a 100,000 pixel CCD with a choice of 352 x 288 or 176 x 144 pixel resolution. Takagi's new PDC-10 digicam couldn't get much cheaper, at a price tag of ¥5980 (US$57). The K-Tai Watch website in Japan (a sister site of the PC Watch website we often mention in this news page) has posted news of a new entry-level digital camera from Japanese company Takagi Industrial, who sell their products under the "Purpose" brand name. NEWS! - Digital Cameras, Digital Imaging, Digital Photography, Digital Scanners
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