Hitachi Maxell Offers New Consumer Digital Camera

Hitachi Maxell Ltd., a maker of electromagnetic media and batteries, is introducing a new consumer digital camera utilizing the "Zero Halliburton" design, the JPEA Photo Electro News reported. The Hitachi Maxell ZD3 digital camera incorporates a 1/1.8-inch 3.34-megapixel CCD image sensor and produces image files up to 2,048-by-1,536 pixels. It features a 7.8-15.6mm/f2.8-3.5, 7-in-6, 2X zoom lens with a minimum focusing distance of 0.9 meters. Exposure, focusing, and white-balance are programmed, and the white-balance allows manual shift to daylight, tungsten light, cloudy sky, fluorescent light, and preset. The camera accepts SD memory cards. Only 10,000 units will be produced. Hitachi Maxell is accepting orders until Aug. 31 through its dealers and at www.zerohalli.com.

(This appears to be the Kyocera S3 in a different case.)