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Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Captures First On-Sky Image with Sinistro Camera

Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope (LCOGT), with first lights at nine new 1-meter telescopes since April of 2012, achieved another critical milestone by capturing the first on-sky image with a production Sinistro camera. In development for over six years, the camera is arguably more important than the telescopes that will use them. “A telescope is really nothing more than a large camera lens,” explained Joe Tufts, instrumentation scientist on the Sinistro project. “A large, precise, stable, and very expensive camera lens.”

2 Aug 2013

New Easy to Operate, Portable Panorama Camera

In future, soccer and music fans will be able to choose the camera angle when watching live matches and concerts on TV, or even enjoy a 360-degree view of proceedings: all thanks to a new panorama camera that is small, robust, and easy to operate.

2 Aug 2013

Forecast Report on China Digital Camera Industry

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Research and Forecast of China Digital Camera Industry, 2013-2017" report to their offering.

2 Aug 2013

$NovaMedica to Distribute ReVision Optics’ Refractive Surgery Solution in Russia$

NovaMedica to Distribute ReVision Optics’ Refractive Surgery Solution in Russia

NovaMedica, a Russian pharmaceutical and medical device company, and ReVision Optics, Inc. the U.S. developer of the innovative refractive surgery solution against presbyopia Raindrop™ Near Vision Corneal Inlay, have signed an agreement to commercialize this technology in Russia.

1 Aug 2013

Zecotek to Provide $500,000 of Patented LFS Scintillation Crystals to Hamamatsu Photonics

Zecotek Photonics Inc., a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific markets, today announced that it has received a $500,000 order for its patented Lutetium Fine Silicate (LFS) scintillation crystals from its strategic partner Hamamatsu Photonics (Tokyo: 6965) of Japan.

From Zecotek Photonics 1 Aug 2013

olloclip Introduces Telephoto Lens and Circular Polarizing Lens for iPhones

iPhone and iPod touch photographers who want to get twice as close to the action and get clear close-ups now have a solution, the new olloclip telephoto lens and circular polarizing lens (CPL). Perfect for capturing a crisp, close-up photo or video at half of the effective distance, the olloclip telephoto lens – like all olloclip products — continues to take mobile photography further than ever while bringing your faraway subjects closer to you.

1 Aug 2013

Cassini’s Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer Reveals Effect of Tidal Forces on Enceladus’ Plume

Enceladus, a peculiarly small, geologically active moon of Saturn, emits an impressive plume of water vapor and ice from its southern pole, a bit like Yellowstone’s Old Faithful. The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, circling Saturn since 2004, has the pictures to prove it.

1 Aug 2013

Global Contact Lens Market Forecast to Grow at 8.6% CAGR to 2016

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Contact Lens Market 2012-2016" report to their offering.

31 Jul 2013

Teledyne DALSA to Provide Cameras for freeD Sports Replay System for NBC Sunday Night Football

Teledyne DALSA, a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, announced that the company is partnering with Replay Technologiesto provide its latest generation cameras and framegrabbers for deployment of Replay’s breakthrough freeD sports replay system at AT&T Stadium (formerly Cowboys Stadium) in Arlington, TX.

From Teledyne DALSA 31 Jul 2013

Lumen Dynamics Release New X-Cite 120LED Light Source for Fluorescence Microscopy

Lumen Dynamics, a world leader in light delivery technologies, expands the X-Cite® LED illumination product line with the new X-Cite® 120LED for fluorescence microscopy.

30 Jul 2013