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News New App Collates Photos Across Devices Nero has released a free app for its photo sharing service. Connecting photos across iOS and Android devices, as well as popular social networks including Facebook and Google+. NeroKwik allows users to organise their content by maintaining a cloudbased catalogue of high-resolution thumbnail images of the user’s photos. The original, full-size images stay where they were originally stored. “Finding photos across multiple devices and online services is a huge challenge for consumers today and it’s only going to get harder,” said Nero Chief Product Officer Martin Stein. “From our own research we know that more than six out of ten consumers with photo collections on multiple devices or online services struggle to find, browse or sync their photos. We are hoping to help solve this problem.”
Sony’s NEX-N Breaks CSC Records Weighing approximately 210g, Sony’s new NEX-3N has taken the title of the world’s smallest, lightest interchangeable-lens camera with a large APS-C sized sensor. The camera has also added to Sony’s connected capabilities by offering Trilluminos functionality, which means users will experience a dramatically expanded palette of vivid, ultra-realistic colours when videos and still images are played back on any Sony Bravia TV that supports “TRILUMINOS Display”.
Deal agreed last autumn sees Sony become Olympus’ biggest shareholder. Sony and Olympus have now completed a £400 million deal which was announced last September and makes Sony Corporation the largest shareholder in Olympus, with nearly 35 million shares and giving Sony 11.46% of overall voting rights.
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When the deal was agreed, both companies indicated that the synergy between their imaging businesses would be used to further both brands with new products and technologies. The respective companies currently offer two of the strongest brands in the growing compact system market. Olympus has also moved to dispell rumours that it’s withdrawing from the SLR market, saying in a statement: “There is absolutely no truth in these reports. In addition to strengthening our offering of mirrorless interchangeable-lens cameras in the future, the company will continue to offer digital single lens reflex cameras as in the past without any change. Image courtesy of OlympusAmerica.com
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As the traditonal imaging market continues to evolve on a dialy basis, Pixel continues to deliver to the broader imaging retail trade. The Pixel offices received a handful of concerned phone calls when the recent Jessops news first broke. A couple of concerned readers asked “will you continue?” The answer, put simply, was “of course and why not?” Whilst the traditional UK photographic trade will always be a valued and important element of Pixel’s readership, it is no longer the sole audience for the magazine and, whilst important, Jessops stores made up just a small section of our readership. You will have noticed that, along with the design and composition of the magazine, Pixel’s spread of content has evolved over the last few months and this will be a continuing trend to introduce all areas of our readership to unique and valuable content, information and products that will, ultimately, help to keep business as up to date, diverse and profitable as possible. We will always be the newspaper for the
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imaging trade, but it’s the imaging trade itself which is changing to include more technologies and to offer more opportunities to more retailers than ever before. As more brands venture into the imaging world with connected technologies and products, we’ll be hearing from a wider variety of manufacturers, industry bodies and individuals. It’s a very exciting time and we’re pleased to be able to report on this fascinating and broader than ever - industry.
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