Soon: Synthetize a 3D environment using your pictures (and others')

Microsoft Photosynth is going to revolutionize the way you sort pictures. Right now you sort pictures according to your own tags, labels, or folders. Photosynth synthetizes a 3D environment based on the images in your pictures. Example: if you go to India, take pictures all around the Taj Mahal, Photosynth can arrange your images according to WHERE you took it around the Taj, in a 3D space, presumably merging with data available from the pictures of other people all around the Internet.

And this would add a further dimension to your pictures, much more than GPS geotagging. It will augment reality, give you a much more powerful view, and from a human point of view, evoke more intimate emotions about your pictures.

Check out the video here:

The Fuji F30 is in Singapore

Just this morning, Alan Photo Sim Lim Square received stock for this, and I became his first customer in Singapore to get the Fuji F30. The Fujifilm F30 has indeed landed in Singapore. Pricing - please enquire with Alan Photo.

Just too bad it's using XD.

Fuji F30-world's best P&S camera

The Fujifilm F30 is easily the best point and shoot digital camera in the world right now. hpicckcy of DPreview forums has given us the first installment of his incredible pictures, and it's fantastic. In lousy conditions, it gave such perfect quality I could not believe that it came from a cheap P&S DSC. The possibilities are endless - just by stepping up the ISO up to 3200, you can handhold most of your shots, even night shots for that matter!

Christmas seemed to come early this year. My previous blogpost on What Next for Digital Cameras came to life with the F30 for point and shoots. This F30 has such incredible dynamic range, such low noise levels, that ... for anyone in the market for a point-and-shoot digital camera today, it simply HAS to be the F30, even though it uses XD.

Probably, XD will find a new lease of life with this one. So will Fuji.

Time has come for Phones to kick Point and Shoot butt

I always chose phones based on functionality, and my present phone is a Nokia Communicator 9500.

It's the last of the line though. My new phones will be based on megapixel count. The time has come that a good 3.2 megapixel autofocus handphone with a Xenon flash will kick Point and Shoot butt - the Sony Ericsoon K800i - which even comes with an image stabilizer (whether it's digital or optical remains to be seen, but .... ain't that important to me).