Since a long time, Sony has been the unquestionable leader in the camera world and the camcorders. The Sony camcorders are the best camcorders today. They are most light weight and are easy to operate. Your level of skill in photography just doesn’t matter when you are with the Sony DCR ER47E, which is the latest offering of the Sony.

The DCR SR47E comes with a world class Carl Zeiss Vrio- Tessar lens and features steady shot with it. The footages captured in this camcorder are of the highest quality. The video camera has a 2.7 inch wide LCD touch panel along with a resolution of 123K pixels and a 60x optical zoom for capturing any distant shot with ease. The Sony camcorder has 60 GB hard disk drives that ensure any lengthy videos storage. The Sony DCR SR47E comes with a choice of use of the hybrid technology so as to record video to optional memory stick duo media. The weight of the camcorder is just 1.5 kg and is a sleek. This silver handy cam from Sony gives you a maximum of 45 hour of video when in the LP mode and is capable of still photos too. The digital handy cam has a 1/8″ HAD CCD advanced image sensor which gives you detailed and clear pictures. The camcorder’s PMB software with the one-touch burn can simplify recording with ease and fun.

A clear display of the LCD for shooting videos with the digital handy cam is possible due to the 2.7 inch screen on the Sony DCR SR47E which can compose also playback shots too. The video camera can be rotated to 270 degrees so it helps you capture the difficult pictures. Even the audio recording gives you clear sound because of the built-in zoom microphone in the camcorder.

So it’s time not to let off the beautiful moments and capture and cherish it for a long time to come with your Sony DCR SR47E camcorder.

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The thermal sensitivity of the device is 0.06°C and high temperature measurement accuracy of ±1°? or ±1%, the camera enables operators to pinpoint the smallest temperature difference quickly and clearly. Cursor automatically indicates the position and temperature of the hottest spot within the image. Another cursor always stays at the image center to show its temperature and provides a reference for inspection analysis. Two high-performance viewing options are available in the camera: a built-in color 640× 480 OLED viewfinder and a detachable color 640× 480 LCD (TFT) screen. Plug-and-play USB2.0 interface enables fast downloading of fully radiometric recording and images including temperature measurement and voice annotation.

VGA video output can be also transformed to PAL or NTSC mode. 30-second or more digital clip of voice annotation can be stored with each image. A wireless Bluetooth headset eliminates all cable connections, increasing operator’s safety. It has 2GB memory card which stores both fully radiometric recording and fully radiometric JPEG images associated with temperature measurement and voice annotation. Both of them can be easily and rapidly downloaded from the camera to PC. We should Control the camera by voice only. Free operators’ hands and enable unprecedented working efficiency. Audio alarm will automatically trigger for a spot with temperature exceeding the value preset by operators. For power insufficiency, both audio and video alarm will activate. The device offers extensive range of temperature measuring, image processing and report generating functions, the easy-to-operate Windows- based software highly automates the process of reporting and archiving infrared and visual images, videos and voice, improving professional thermographers’ productivity and efficiency.

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Prior to this, the company was officially called Nippon Kogaku K.K. – many people believe the name changed earlier, but it wasn’t until the late 80’s. 1st April 1988, to be precise, Nikon Corporation was officially (re)born.

Of course, they had been using Nikon as a trademarked brand for many years (history suggests the name Nikon was first invented in the mid 1940’s), so why did they eventually decide to switch? Well, this little story direct from Nikon’s website may shed some light.
Then-president Shigetada Fukuoka met with former French President Jacques Chirac. On hearing the name Nippon Kogaku Kogyo, Mr Chirac simply tilted his head in bewilderment. When Mr. Fukuoka said the word “Nikon,” however, the Parisian mayor understood immediately.
President Fukuoka said “From hereon, I don’t want us to be limited by the name Kogaku (“optics”). Let us work toward even greater advancements.”

Nikon didn’t manufacture their first camera until 1948.

Thirty-one years after the company was founded by the merging of three separate optical manufacturers in 1917, Nikon launched their first camera, the Nikon I. Prior to this, Nikon made lenses under the Nikkor brand, along with binoculars and microscopes.

Demand for the camera in Japan was huge, but it wasn’t without it’s problems. A rush to manufacture left the camera somewhat unreliable, with the film advance often failing to work, which led to many customer complaints and forced Nikon into financial difficulties. However, they rebounded with 1949’s Nikon M and 1950’s Nikon S, then the S2, SP and finally the classic Nikon F SLR, quality and reliability improving with each model.

Nikon originally made all of their now arch-rival Canon’s lenses.

Canon’s first cameras were inexpensive Japanese Leica clones, and in 1934 it announced a 35mm rangefinder called the Kwanon. The Kwanon was just a prototype never put into production – it was followed by their first commercial camera, the Hansa Canon, in 1936. Canon had one problem, however – they didn’t have any experience of making lenses, so they contracted Nippon Kogaku Kogyo, already a proven optical designer and manfufacturer, and used Nikkor lenses. The Hansa Canon actually shipped as standard with a Nikkor 50mm f/3.5 lens.

In fact, a large part of the first Canon camera was made by Nikon – Nippon Kogaku was responsible for the lens, the lens mount, the viewfinder, and the complete rangefinder mechanism. Canon did start developing lenses in 1937, but they weren’t available until after WWII, and they didn’t launch their fast 50mm Serenar f/2 until 1947.

When launched in 1959, the Nikon F cost an average of three months salary.

We may think that we have it bad with the price of today’s digital SLRs, but the first Nikon SLR cost 67,000 Yen – three times the salary of a Japanese government employee at the time. They still managed to sell a million of them over the next 15 years!

This was the camera that introduced us to the F mount – the very same mount (albeit with added features, especially in the electronic age) that is still in use today. This mount was revolutionary at the time, having a huge diameter in comparison to it’s rangefinder peers, which allowed Nikkor F lenses to be far more resistant to mechanical vignetting.

Nikon’s first Digital SLR, the D1, was developed from scratch in just two years.

We may take for granted now that a new camera will be digital, but just over 10 years ago this was certainly not the case. Although the first Coolpix (the Coolpix 100) was produced in 1997, Nikon’s classic D1 wasn’t introduced until 1999.

The order to produce a DSLR came from Nikon’s president in 1997, and engineers responded by saying it would take four years, three at a minimum. They were given two.

The result was a 2.7mp DSLR with many features bettered by even today’s entry-level cameras (and also by it’s contemporary digicams; the Coolpix 100 was 3mp), but at the time it was revolutionary. The D1 quickly displaced Kodak from dominance of the DSLR market, and sales exceeded the target of 100,000 bodies per year even at it’s US$5500 asking price. With the D1, Nikon’s market share eclipsed that of Canon. Strangely, the camera used the NTSC colorspace, not the SRGB or AdobeRGB we use today.

Article originally published at NikonHQ – the web’s premier site for Nikon photographers.

Zeus, Inc. (name disguised), operates in several industries, including chemicals, cameras, and film. The company is organized into SBUs. Corporate management is considering what to do with its Atlas camera division. At present, Atlas produces a range of 35 mm and digital cameras. The market for cameras is intensely competitive. Although Zeus has a sizable market share and is producing much revenue for the company, the 35 mm market itself is growing very slowly and its market share is slipping. In the faster-growing digital camera segment, Zeus is facing strong competition and has been slow to gain sales. Zeus’s corporate management wants Atlas’s marketing group to produce a strong turnaround plan for the division. Marketing management has to come up with a convincing marketing plan, sell corporate management on the plan, and then implement and control it.

Developing marketing strategies and plans
The first task facing Atlas is to identify its potential long-run opportunities given its market experience and core competencies. Atlas can design its cameras with better features. It can also considering a line of video cameras or it can use its core competency in optics to design a line of binoculars and telescopes. Whichever direction it chooses, it must develop concrete market plans that specify the marketing strategy and tactics going forward.

Capturing marketing insights
To understand what is happening inside and outside company, Atlas needs a reliable marketing information system; it will want to closely motor its marketing environment.
Atlas’s microenvironment consists of all the players 10 affect the company’s ability to produce and sell cameras-suppliers, marketing inter diaries, customers, and competitors. Its macro environment consists of demographic, economic, physical, technological, political-legal, and social-cultural forces that affect sales and profits.

Atlas also needs a dependable marketing research system. Marketing research is an indispensable tool for assessing buyer wants and behavior and actual and potential market size. An important part of gathering environmental information includes measuring market potential and forecasting future demand. To transform marketing strategy into market: programs marketing managers must make basic decisions on marketing expenditures, marketing activities, and marketing allocation. How many dollars should support Atlas’s or three camera lines? Direct versus distributor sales? Direct-mail advertising versus trade-magazine advertising? East Coast markets versus West Coast markets? To make these allocations, marketing managers may use sales-response functions that show how sales d profits would be affected by the amount of money spent in each application.

Connecting with customers
Atlas must consider how to best create value for its chosen target markets and develop strong, profitable, long-term relationships with customers. To do so, Atlas needs to understand consumer markets. How many house holds plan to buy cameras? Who buys and why do they buy? What are they looking for in the way of features and prices? Where do they shop? What are their images: different brands? How does the digital segment differ from the 35 mm segment? Atlas also sells cameras to business markets, including large corporations, professional firms, retailers, and government agencies. Purchasing agents or buying committees make the decisions. Atlas needs to gain a full understanding of how organizational buyers buy. It needs a sales force that is well trained in presenting product benefits.

Atlas will not want to market to all possible customers. Modern marketing practice calls for dividing the market into major market segments, evaluating each segment, and targeting those market segments that the company can best serve.

BUILDING STRONG BRANDS
Atlas must understand the strengths and weaknesses of the Zeus brand with customers. Is it so strongly associated with certain technologies that it could not be used to brand new products in related categories? Is its 35 mm film heritage a detriment in the digital camera market? Suppose Atlas decides to focus on the consumer market and develop a positioning strategy. Should Atlas position its cameras as the “Cadillac” brand, offering superior cameras at a premium price with excellent service and strong advertising? Should it build a simple, low-priced camera aimed at more price-conscious consumers? Should it develop a medium-quality, medium priced camera? After launch the product’s strategy will need modification at the different stages in the product life cycle: introduction, growth, maturity, and decline. Furthermore, strategy choice will depend on whether the firm is a market leader, challenger or follower. Atlas must also pay close attention to competitors, anticipating its competitors’ moves and knowing how to react quickly and decisively. It may want to initiate some surprise moves, in which case it needs to anticipate how its competitors will respond.

Field of View

An essential characteristic of any set of binoculars is the field of view. This is either indicated in degrees or more commonly in a number such as 300 x 1000 ft. The field of view tells you the distance from left to right that you will be able to see when the binoculars are up to your eyes.  For marine binoculars it is especially important to get as wide a field of view as you can afford because looking out to sea there are few landmarks to help you zoom in on a given area. The larger the number per 1000 ft, or the bigger the angle, the less time you will spend panning the binoculars from side to side trying to locate the object you are looking for. It is also handy to have a wide field of view if you are tracking moving objects such as a bird flying in the distance or a speedboat racing in front of you.  A general rule of thumb is that a lower magnification will give you a wider field of view, so keep that in mind when shopping.

Power (Magnification)

The power or magnification factor is the degree to which the binoculars magnify what you are looking at. There is tradeoff between power, clarity and field of view. When comparing marine binoculars, keep in mind that with extra power you lose both clarity and field of view and with lower power, you see a brighter image and have a wider field of view. Many experts agree that a magnification of about 7 or 8 times is a good power objective.

Eye Relief

When you focus the binoculars you can adjust each lens separately, so if you wear a simple glasses prescription it can be easier to take your glasses off. However, many people who wear glasses prefer to keep them on while looking through binoculars. A longer eye relief will be helpful for those you want to use their marine binoculars while wearing prescription lenses.  15mm is a fairly standard eye relief distance. 22mm gives you a little extra play to hold the binoculars forward from your eyes and still experience a reasonable field of view.

Waterproofing

Marine enthusiasts agree that one of the primary features all marine electronics must have is a good waterproofing system. Marine binoculars are no exception. Look for ruggedized casing that can withstand being dropped in the water and also look for lenses that have protective coatings that prevent water from clinging to the lenses. There are several types of lens coating provided by manufacturers of marine binoculars, some are anti-glare or anti-reflection, so look specifically for coatings that repel water and moisture.

Once you understand the basic characteristics of a good pair of marine binoculars you can find good deals online at marine electronics outlets. Study the specifications to compare the differences between models, manufacturers and price ranges.

I stand in my kitchen, coffee cup in my hand. Like many mornings, I beat my alarm. No, I didn’t use a hammer. I mean that I’m awake before it goes off. I’m already dressed, boots and birding vest on. The vest pockets are already filled with my field guides, checklist, notebook and pen, compass and map. My binoculars and spotting scope already carefully stowed in the car. Coffee’s good this morning. I need to get my hat and coat. I checked the weather forecast last night (the internet is my friend): cool crisp morning will give way to sunshine and a bit of wind. I’ll grab my sunglasses just in case.

As light seeps into my backyard, the feeders and bird bath already draw visitors. There are robins on the grass; goldfinches and house finches at the feeder. A wren flits in the Rose-a-Sharon near the bath. Stealing into the yard from the ravine’s edge is a flock of Dark-eyed Juncos.

Camera…I have to get my camera. Maybe, there will be a chance at a good shot. I grab my cell phone, which I’ll carry only in case “someone wants or needs me”.

A bottle of water and an apple for a snack; I’ve got to go. It’s a good day to go birding.