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Another Customer Sues Starbucks Over Bathroom Cam
By Phil Villarreal on September 22, 2011 9:45 AM   76 Comments
After his 5-year-old daughter spotted a hidden camera in a D.C. Starbucks bathroom, a man is suing the company and asking for $1 million in damages on four counts, including breach of privacy. More »

(The Consumerist)

Understanding What All Those Weird Manual Settings On Your Camera Do
By Phil Villarreal on June 27, 2011 11:30 AM   59 Comments
Photography newbies, as well as those who have used cameras for years but prefer to point and shoot obliviously, tend to be confounded by their devices' settings. The fear of activating or deactivating a function and ruining your ability to snap pictures of your cat can be quite daunting. More »

(Triborough)

Kodak Wants Your Old Cameras, Electronics
By Phil Villarreal on June 5, 2011 10:30 AM   61 Comments
If you've got a drawer full of old camera equipment, you can turn it into money by selling it to Kodak, which has introduced a trade-in program in which it's seeking digital and film cameras and accessories, digital video cameras, digital picture frames and printers. More »

Find Your Stolen Camera By Searching Web For Uploaded Pictures From It
By Ben Popken on April 28, 2011 1:00 PM   41 Comments
The descriptively named stolencamerafinder.com helps you track down your stolen fancy digital camera. Just drag and drop photos from your camera before it was stolen onto the box on the website. The site then scans scraped databases for the EXIF data embedded in the picture to locate other photos encoded with your same serial number. If there's a hit, that person might have your camera. More »

Why Does Digital Camera Repair Cost More Than Just Buying A New One?
By Laura Northrup on October 14, 2010 8:00 AM   140 Comments
Dan writes that he was very happy with his Panasonic camera, a point-and-shoot with a nice zoom lens. He would have been happy to pay $100 to get it back in working order and avoid buying a new one. Alas, this was not to be. Since a special part needed to be ordered from Japan, Panasonic wanted $488 to repair a camera that originally cost $300. Dan is better off buying a new camera—which won't be a Panasonic. More »

Canon 7D Or Barbie Video Girl: Which Is Better?
By Chris Walters on August 24, 2010 10:30 AM   40 Comments
Sometimes when you're comparison shopping for electronics, it helps to find a fan-made video test that looks at the devices side by side. Luckily for you, if you can't decide whether to buy an $1800 Canon 7D or a $50 Barbie Video Girl, now you've got some help. (Hint: only one of these can be called "the sassiest camera money can buy.") More »

Kodak Demonstrates Its Awesome Camera Technology With Stock Photo
By Chris Walters on July 14, 2010 10:41 AM   40 Comments
It's common practice for companies to license stock photography to use in promotional materials, but one of our readers thinks it's somewhat strange that a camera company would go this route, when the one thing you're trying to sell to consumers is the ability to capture great images. More »

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Chili's Fires Employee Accused Of Placing Camera In Restroom
By Carey Alexander on July 10, 2010 11:45 AM   68 Comments
A former Chili's employee is set to answer charges that he stashed a cellphone camera aimed at the women's toilets in the Arroyo Grande restaurant. The camera was discovered after a 41-year-old patron noticed something suspicious concealed in a bucket of cleaning supplies. More »

(Spirit635)

Where The Hell Is The Viewfinder On These New Cameras?
By Meg Marco on May 21, 2010 3:31 PM   92 Comments
Consumer Reports says that 35% of you would like optical viewfinders on cameras, and yet they are becoming harder and harder to find. Why is this? More »

(Tower Records Japan)

Does The World Really Need A Rainbow-Colored DSLR?
By Marc Perton on May 12, 2010 12:32 PM   86 Comments
Well, does it? More »

(Photo: usblsb)

Another Reason To Avoid Giant Megapixel Point-And-Shoot Cameras
By Chris Walters on January 19, 2010 1:12 PM   78 Comments
By now you hopefully know that more megapixels don't necessarily make a better camera. For one thing, you can almost double the megapixels of a camera while only gaining about a 40% increase in resolution. For another thing, it takes a lot more than just sheer number of pixels to produce a decent image. Nevertheless, point-and-shoot cameras with ginormous megapixel stats (now topping 12 MP) continue to hit the market. But Ross at Petavoxel says there's another reason to avoid huge MP point-and-shoot cameras: something called the Airy disk. More »

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Walmart Accused Of Secretly Videotaping Public Restroom
By Chris Walters on December 22, 2009 7:13 PM   110 Comments
Seven current and former employees of a Pennsylvania Walmart Tire and Lube Center have filed suit against the company, reports the Morning Call. The employees say they discovered that they and the general public were being monitored via video camera in a public bathroom. More »

Best Buy: -$50 Off Camera Anti-Sale
By Phil Villarreal on October 13, 2009 2:34 PM   41 Comments

—>Jameson snapped this photo of a camera "sale" at an Illinois Best Buy.  More »

16-Year-Old Unwittingly Stars In Homemade Abercrombie & Fitch Dressing Room Video
By Chris Walters on September 10, 2009 7:10 PM   120 Comments

—>A teenager is suing Abercrombie & Fitch and one of its former employees after she caught someone filming her in one of the store's dressing rooms.  More »

Watch Out For Panasonic's Proprietary Battery Cameras
By Chris Walters on July 27, 2009 11:19 PM   89 Comments

—>Many of Panasonic's cameras will only work with official Panasonic batteries—the newest models require "an embedded security ID chip," while older models have been issued a firmware upgrade that locks out third-party vendors. This is already pretty obnoxious, but what makes it even worse is Panasonic can't keep up with demand, so the batteries they insist you buy for your camera aren't available.  More »

The Megapixel Wars Must End
By Laura Northrup on July 17, 2009 11:25 PM   92 Comments

—>Consumer Reports has the guts to say what nobody else does. Too many innocent kilobytes have been overwritten in vain. Too many other digital camera features not given their chance to shine. It's time. We all must agree that it's time for the megapixel wars to end.  More »

Dealership Video-Responds To Customer's Hidden Camera Expose
By Ben Popken on July 10, 2009 11:27 PM   142 Comments

—>Mark Hampton has posted a video response to his dealership getting totally snagged by a customer who stashed a hidden camera in his vehicle and caught mechanics doing some dirty deeds.  More »

VIDEO: Toyota Employees Taped Stealing From, Watching Porn In Customer's Truck
By Alex Chasick on July 7, 2009 2:58 PM   310 Comments

—>UPDATE: Dealership Video-Responds To Customer's Hidden Camera Expose  More »

NY Attorney General Fines, Closes Down Infamously Scammy Camera Stores
By Lucy Bayly on July 1, 2009 2:45 PM   58 Comments

—>If you bought cameras or electronics from any of these stores recently you were probably scammed: Best Price Camera, Foto Connection, 1 Way Photo, 86th Street Photo, Broadway Photo, Camera Whiz, and Sonic Photo. Or perhaps you bought something online from one of their astonishing array of alter egos and websites (see full list).   More »

Ritz Camera Files For Bankruptcy
By Chris Walters on February 23, 2009 11:01 PM   65 Comments

—>Ritz Camera, an occasional and colorful character on our blog (scam confessions! feedback bribery!) has just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.  More »

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