Hitachi Cell Phone Shoots HD Video

Meanwhile in Japan, Hitachi is releasing a new cell phone with AU sometime in the near future (my sources tell me it’s this week actually). Now, it’s your run of the mill Japanese cell phone that comes complete with a ship load of GB storage, e-money function, TV, radio, mp3 player, GPS, 5 mega pixel camera, Internet (Mobile PC), free email and text messaging with a neat cell phone key pad that allows for the famous Japanese Two Thumb texting style. Yes, some Japanese females type faster in Japanese than I do on my laptop, in English. But what makes this cell phone so darn mouth watering is the built in video camera. It shoots, High Definition Video. Yes you heard me, HD video from a cell phone that is smaller than most remote controls. Complete with a HDMI cable slot you can just stick it to your TV and watch last nights glorious party movies all over again.

What is not to be impressed about this phone? Oh, and for all those actually lucky enough to be living in Japan but not interested in learning to read Japanese – it is fully bilingual, English/Japanese.

I was lucky enough to get a personal demonstration by the lovely Kimiko seen her holding this wonder of modern technology before the opening of an AU PR-event in Yokohama. I am getting one. I promise. Now, who wants to see videos on Tokyobling?

Nikon S60 Autopsy

My Nikon D3 post is drawing one or two eyeballs so I figured someone might be slightly interested in seeing a compact digital camera autopsy. It is the Nikon S60 dismantled and laid bare for your enjoyment. Compared with the 14-24 lens that was cut in half on the Nikon D3, this lens is positively miniscule. It is basically just electronics. Large screen though.

Nikon S60 Autopsy

Nikon D3 Cut In Half

 

I visited the Tokyo Eco Products convention the other day (2008/12/12) to be exact and naturally I headed straight for the Nikon booth where my gaze immediately fell upon this beauty: a Nikon D3 cut in half for all of our camera porn pleasures! For a technophile camera lover as myself, I was for once happy to be a foreigner in Japan: the staff politely ignored my feeble attempts to take a decent photo through the counter glass. I felt slightly incestous: a Nikon D60 photographing a crippled D3. Behold all the beauty that is Nikon technology! And pray that you never see anything like this again.

AF-S Nikkor 14-24mm

 

 

Nikon D3 cut in half

 

The inside of a Nikon D3

A lot of glass in that lens