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Stealing a page programming Sony, Pentax, with its new Optio V20 point andPentax shoot, the Optio V20 ($ 279) with smile detection. Sony has improved, too, and threw the blink detection. The camera also has 8 megapixels with 5x optical zoom, a 3-inch LCD screen, Face Detection and Auto-Macro mode for close fast.

As the technology of Sony, Pentax Smile detection automatically detects the shutter when subjects happy. blink detection has nothing to do with the trigger, but warns him blinkage after suffering a blow. This seems a bit unnecessary since you already have a large 3-inch LCD screen on which to read the images. Following the detection of flicker, simply means that you do not choose the playback mode before shouting: “No!”

As for its range of camcorders announced at CES earlier this month, Sony, AOS eight new digital cameras offer a stability of the new features using almost any price.

The line includes eight cameras, including models with two levels of entry and an ultra. The high-end models offer new features like Smile Shutter Mode Intelligent Scene Recognition and while budgets have become the Face Detection and rechargeable batteries.

The DSC-T300 ($ 399, March), digital cameras highest range unveiled today has 10.1 megapixels, 5x optical zoom, large 3.5 inch LCD screen, and many new features, including a recognition Improved face, which differentiates between adults and children, and Smart shutter mode, you take a picture when it detects a smile, without the user having to press the shutter release, and users can set this mode so that it responds only when children and adults smile. Sony AOS new intelligent scene recognition (ISCN) lets the camera automatically selects the optimal scene mode, given the configuration of lighting and the environment it finds. The T300 also includes Sony, AM D-Range Optimizer (DRO), which improves details in the photos taken with a backlight difficult.

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Expected Olympus Stylus 1030 SW you take with you on your next vacation (or, you know, the North Pole expedition): Strong and shoot, today announced it is shockproof, waterproof, freeze up the bumps and dust.

The camera, which Olympus calls the “most difficult point and shoot camera in the world” can withstand drops from 6.6 meters, immersion in water up to 33 feet, 220 pounds collapse of pressure and temperatures as low as 14 degrees Fahrenheit.

Spec-wise, the 1030 SW has 10.1 megapixels, 3.6x optical zoom wide, a 2.7-inch LCD screen, face detection, digital image stabilization in camera editing, and xD slot microSD with an adapter . It will be available in March for $ 399.

Olympus has also added four models to its range of entry level FE: FE-310 ($ 149), FE-320 ($ 179), FE-340 ($ 199) and FE-350 ($ 249). All will be available this month, and have an eight-megapixel resolution Face Detection, digital image stabilization, Perfect Shot Preview guides, and help in camera.

The FE-310, the cheapest of the group, has 5x optical zoom, not bad for a $ 150 device. The FE-320 (3x) and FE-340 (5 times), offers a fine and colorful, respectively. Each pre-set modes including shooting and shooting Smile, which detects smiles and takes three consecutive shots. The FE-320 FE-340 FE-350 includes all in-camera red-eye correction and lighting. The FE-350 features a wide angle 4x optical zoom and a large 3 inch screen, ideal for people who enjoy your camera to your surroundings.