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Samsung St550 Camera

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The Samsung ST550 was notable for introducing the 2 view concept featuring dual LCD screens that allowed people in front of the camera to see the view.

The Samsung ST550 digital camera follows in the footsteps of other portable gadgets from the Korean manufacturer by once again offering ground breaking screen technology. The dual view concept pairs up a 3.5″ Wide 1,152K Touch Screen LCD (with built-in Haptic vibration) with a 1.5″ screen on the front.

Price: £212.98 – £257.94

Image Sensor

* Type: 1/2.33″ (appox 7.79mm) CCD
* Effective Pixel: Approx. 12.2 Mega-pixel
* Total Pixel: Approx. 12.4 Mega-pixel

Lens

* Focal Length Schneider-KREUZNACH Lens f = 4.9 ~ 22.5mm (35mm film equivalent: 27 ~ 124.2mm)
* F No. F3.5 (W) ~ F5.9 (T)
* Digital Zoom Still Image mode: 1.0X ~ 5.0X Play mode: 1.0X ~ 12.5X (depends on image size)

Display

* Type TFT LCD
* Feature Main Display: 3.5″ (8.9cm) Wide 1,152K Full Touch LCDFront Display: 1.5″ (3.8cm) 185K TFT LCD

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Scientists invent world’s fastest and most sensitive astronomical camera

Munich, June 19 (ANI): Scientists have invented the world’s fastest and most sensitive astronomical camera that can take 1500 finely exposed images per second even when observing extremely faint objects.

The first 240×240 pixel images with the world’s fastest high precision faint light camera were obtained through a collaborative effort between ESO and three French laboratories from the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Institut National des Sciences de l’Univers (CNRS/INSU).

Cameras such as this are key components of the next generation of adaptive optics instruments of Europe’s ground-based astronomy flagship facility, the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT).

“The performance of this breakthrough camera is without an equivalent anywhere in the world. The camera will enable great leaps forward in many areas of the study of the Universe,” said Norbert Hubin, head of the Adaptive Optics department at ESO.

OCam will be part of the second-generation VLT instrument SPHERE. To be installed in 2011, SPHERE will take images of giant exoplanets orbiting nearby stars.

A fast camera such as this is needed as an essential component for the modern adaptive optics instruments used on the largest ground-based telescopes.

Telescopes on the ground suffer from the blurring effect induced by atmospheric turbulence.

This turbulence causes the stars to twinkle in a way that delights poets, but frustrates astronomers, since it blurs the finest details of the images.

Adaptive optics techniques overcome this major drawback, so that ground-based telescopes can produce images that are as sharp as if taken from space.

The new generation instruments require these corrections to be done at an even higher rate, more than one thousand times a second, and this is where OCam is essential.

Cameras normally used for very high frame-rate movies require extremely powerful illumination, which is of course not an option for astronomical cameras.

OCam and its CCD220 detector, developed by the British manufacturer e2v technologies, solve this dilemma, by being not only the fastest available, but also very sensitive, making a significant jump in performance for such cameras.

Because of imperfect operation of any physical electronic devices, a CCD camera suffers from so-called readout noise.

OCam has a readout noise ten times smaller than the detectors currently used on the VLT, making it much more sensitive and able to take pictures of the faintest of sources. (ANI)

Courts free Sri Lanka editor held over air strike

Colombo – A journalist arrested on suspicion of helping Tamil rebels to carry out an air raid in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo was released by a court on Friday after the investigators failed to prove the allegations against him.

The editor of the Tamil daily Sudar Oli, N. Vithyatharan, who had been held by police since February 26, was accused of maintaining telephone links with the rebels who carried out a suicide attack by air in the capital on January 24.

When the Colombo Criminal Division (CCD) in charge of the investigation failed to provide evidence to link the journalist to the attack, he was released by Colombo Magistrate Ginhan Pilapitiya.

Investigators spent two months going through hundreds of phone calls made and received by the journalist. Police also checked his bank accounts without finding any link with the Tamil Tigers.

Justice has been delayed, but not denied, the journalist said on leaving court.

“Why did they need to detain me for two months over completely false accusations?” he asked.(dpa)