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Wow! You know things are tough all over when a heavyweight like Canon reports a number like this one. Canon’s profitability has been hit by sliding consumer demand as well as the strength of the yen, which makes Japanese products less price-competitive overseas and eats into revenues when they are converted into the Japanese currency. [...]

Canon is replacing its popular PowerShot A470 with a new 10.0 MP model: the extra-compact, affordable PowerShot A480. Redesigned for even more intuitive operation, the PowerShot A480 offers a new build and design that is 25% smaller than that of its predecessor. Available in a choice of silver, red, blue or black color. Flexible framing [...]

Six days ahead of the inauguration, CHANGE.GOV has released the new official portrait for President Barack Obama. It was taken by the newly-announced official White House photographer, Pete Souza. This is the first time that an official presidential portrait was taken with a digital camera. The camera used was none other than the new Canon [...]

Tamron Co. Ltd issued a press release last September to announce a new 10-24mm wide-angle zoom lens. Now available at retailers, the SP AF10-24mm F/3.5-4.5 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) lens features a 2.4X zoom ratio in a in a user-friendly lightweight, compact design. Tamron’s “SP Di II class” lenses provide high optical quality in [...]

The photography forums, especially at DPReview, have been buzzing recently with reports of strange artifacts in photos from the new Canon 5D Mark II. In some cases, small black dots appear next to bright highlights. In mid-December, Canon issued an apology and stated that a fix was forthcoming. On January 8th, Canon released a firmware [...]