In today’s Remainders: wishful thinking. Nikon fans hope they’ve stumbled on a viral campaign for new cameras; magazine companies hope their slick new ads will keep you buying magazines; Google CEO Eric Schmidt gets pranked in 1986, and more. Follow the Signs Camera geeks are getting excited over some mysterious cards that have been showing up in their mailboxes. First I’ll explain what’s on the cards and then I’ll explain what people are surmising, just because it’ll be funnier that way.

Sports Illustrated photographer David Klutho is wielding two Nikon D700s bolted together like a double-neck guitar at the Olympics, except his rig is designed to take 3D photos , not bust out sweet guitar solos. [ Russ Beinder /Flickr]

A $5000 camera is not within reach for most people. So this Nikon D3s review is a bit different—it’s a peek at the near future of photography where shooting in any lighting condition is possible. It’s really exciting. ISO Is the New Megapixel: A Case Study Nikon effectively declared the pixel war over with D3 two years ago: Its $5000 flagship shot a mere 12 megapixels—less than many point-and-shoots—and began the low-light arms race .

We had a great time in Anaheim this past weekend checking out the Photo Marketing Association’s trade show spectacle. Hundreds of cameras and thousands of pictures later, we’re finally back and getting settled. Let’s take a look back at all that we saw this week, and then kind of wrap up a few loose ends. GE’s ‘Create by Jason Wu’ camera collection unveiled, we go hands on Joby Gorillapod Magnetic flexible tripod hands-on Nikon CoolPix ‘Style’ and ‘Life’ series hands-on Pentax’s rugged W90, ultra-zoom X90 now all but official Samsung TL500 and TL350 hands-on Samsung PMA roundup: hands on HMX-U20, eyes on AQ100 and SL605 Sony Alpha ultra-compact concept hands-off: leaves much to the imagination Sony’s ultra-durable DSC-TX5 hands-on: ice, ice, baby Sigma trio espied at PMA, COO expresses interest in supporting ‘mirrorless camera systems’ Gallery: Casio Exilim EX-S7 and EX-Z35 hands-on Gallery: Panasonic PMA 2010 roundup Gallery: Fujifilm PMA 2010 roundup PMA 2010… and that’s a wrap, folks originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds .

What, it wouldn’t be a camera convention without Nikon (and everyone else, for that matter) showing off a basket of new point-and-shoots. We knew what the company was bringing — selections from its “Style” and “Life” series , as well as the P100 superzoom we covered earlier this week — and now we’ve gotten our hands on the L22, S4000, L110, and S8000. There isn’t much to say, frankly — a collection of pocket shooters of various feature sets and various price ranges to cater to various demographics and psychographics. Still, we know you need to get that “fix” when it comes to pictures of gadgets, so let’s get on with it, shall we?

Turns out Nikon’s CoolPix P100 is quite a beaut, and our brief time taking snapshots with the compact superzoom at PMA yielded some pretty good pics with relative ease — guess Ashton’s onto something, after all, if you’re not looking for something pocketable. Also of note is the incredibly sturdy articulating display, a great value-add to the $400 piece. Check out more glamor shots below. Gallery: Nikon CoolPix P100 hands-on Nikon CoolPix P100 (and its articulating display) hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

Well, if you’re sent by Getty Images , the standard issue kit contains: two Nikon D3ses, 24-70mm lens, 400mm lens, 500/600mm lens, 1.4x teleconverter, batteries and memory cards. And you get to haul all that up a mountain! Basically, all of this stuff, plus two of those giant cameras up there. But on top of all the layers of clothing you have to wear, and you have to stand in place for hours and hours. What a blast! [ Pocket Lint ]

In 1975, the first digital camera took 23 seconds to record a 100-line black-and-white photo onto cassette tape. Today, a Nikon D3s takes photos with 12 million pixels at 1/8000 of a second. And it can see in the dark. The conventional wisdom is that the romp-stomp-stomp of progress in digital imaging has proceeded on the mostly one-way track of ballooning pixel counts.

The point has grown cliche by now, but it’s true. Every week your submissions to Shooting Challenges blow me away. And your polar panoramas just upped that ante on every challenge to come. Honorable Mention (non-original photography) Subject: Denali, Alaska Built from 9 photos Camera: Nikon D80 Lens: AF-S DX VR Zoom-Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED ISO: 100 Focal Length: 18mm (27mm /35mm equiv.) Aperture: ƒ/8 Shutter Speed: 1/250 As you can obviously tell by climate, I broke rule 2 because I’m a college student and don’t have time to go out and take photos, but I did want to test my hand at the challenge! -Isaac Chambers Second Runner Up Camera: Sony Cybershot DSC-W50 F-stop: f/5 Exposure time: 1/200 sec. ISO Speed: ISO-80 Focal length: 16mm Flash: None I leave my office right around sunset everyday and park on the top of a garage in the middle of downtown Charleston, SC.

Nikon’s S series are their flashier point-and-shoots, and the S8000 is the splashiest: Super skinny, but it’s got a 10x zoom lens, crazy crispy 3-inch, 921,000-dot display and it shoots 720p video. Plus, uh, look at it. The S8000 and the next step down, the S6000, both shoot at 14MP (I predict noiiiise) and 720p vid at 30fps, though the S6000 has less zoom (7x) crammed in a skinnier 1-inch frame. The S8000 is $300, while the S6000 is $250.