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Canon PowerShot SD1000 is a 7.1 mega pixel camera. It is ultra compact and easy to carry. It utilise a CCD type sensor. It is well equipped with the latest face detection technology. The pixel density of the camera is found to be 29 MP/ cm². Maximum possible resolution in PowerShot SD1000 is 3072 x 2304. Other possible resolutions are 2592 x 1944, 2048 x 1536, 1600 x 1200 and 640 x 480 respectively.

Canon Powershot A460 is a 5.0 mega pixel camera with 2.0 inch LCD display. It utilises a CCD type sensor. Pixel density of the camera is 29 MP/cm². Maximum possible resolution in PowerShot A460 is 2592 x 1944. Lower resolutions supported by the camera includes 2048 x 1536, 1600 x 1200 and 640 x 480. It supports two image ratios. They are 4:3 and 3:2. Size of the sensor is 1/3 inch. It supports auto focus feature only. Normal focus range of the camera is 47 cm and macro focus range is 1 cm. Optical zooming is possible up to 4x. It is possible to get 16x magnification when combined with the digital zoom facility. Canon Powershot A460 uses DIGIC II image processor for its functioning.

Canon EOS 40D is a 10.1 Mega pixel digital camera. High resolution images can be obtained with the help of this 10.1 Mega pixel camera. It has got a 14bit analog to digital converter. Images can be obtained in three sizes. These includes 3888 x 2592, 2816 x 1880 and 1936 x 1288 sizes.

Google’s Picasa is an easy to use picture editor and picture organizer. The main advantage of Picasa is that it is a freeware. The presence of red color pupils in photographs is referred to as the red eye in photography. It is an unwanted effect and it results in the loss of natural beauty of the photograph taken. It occurs when the lens of the camera is very close to the photographic flash light. One of the easiest methods to remove the red eye from a photograph is by using Google’s Picasa software.

Microsoft Pro Photo Tools is nice freeware utility for geotagging your photos and adding some metadata information to them. I have mentioned it in my June’s article Microsoft Pro Photo Tools: geotagging and metadata editing. Now, Microsoft comes with second version of this application. It brings a few changes in user interface, RAW and HD photos support and much more.

Sony announced its new digital camera Cyber-shot T77 on 6^th August 2008. It has got a maximum resolution of 3648 x 2736. The camera is a 10.1 Mega pixel one. Digital zooming is possible up to 4x. Both auto focus and manual focus are possible. It has got a 3 inch touch screen LCD.

Canon PowerShot G7 has got high end features. It has got a solid, compact body and has also got external flash capabilities. It is actually the successor of Canon’s previous G6 model. The camera has got an effective pixel of 10 Megapixels.

Did you heard about interested project developed by Microsoft Research? One of its applications is called AutoCollage 2008 and it is intended to photographers. With Microsoft Research AutoCollage 2008 you are able to create a nice collage from your photos.

Panasonic comes with a new model in digital cameras, LUMIX DMC-FX36. The speciality of this camera is its lens system, by the use of which it is possible to create a 25 mm wide angle lens. The camera is also provided with 5x digital zoom (4x digital zoom, 7.2 extra optical at 2Mpix).

Nikon comes up with another model in digital cameras, Nikon Coolpix S610. It has got a 10 mega pixel camera. The zooming facility is available up to 4x. Good high resolution pictures can be obtained from this camera.

You surely know an image manager from Google. Its Picasa is now available in a new version as a beta. Picasa 3 brings some new features you would like. The upgrade works well, just install a new version and take a look at the list of news and changes.

Sony comes with yet another model in cameras. This time it is Cyber-shot T500. The important and attractive feature of this camera is its high definition video recording. The Cyber-shot T500 is a 10 Mega pixel one and has got dual photo and still image capture facility while video recording.

I think that many of you would like to have nice smile and white teeth. However many people don't have this luck. There are several methods how to do teeth whitening using photo editors. If you prefer free solution and free online photo editors I can recommend Picnik.

Microsoft's developers recently launched the new version of the Deep Zoom Composer. This application is intended to prepare special photos for using in Deep Zoom applications. The new version of Deep Zoom Composer has one interesting feature - it is able to create panorama photos.

Are you looking for gallery solution on your website? If you have a lot of Flickr images and would like to show them on your own website in very interesting way, then you should try the new service called FotoViewr. It will create a stunning photo gallery based on your Flickr images.