Sigma Corporation is pleased to announce the launch of the new Electronic Flash EF-530 DG SUPER.  The EF-530 DG SUPER features a powerful Guide Number of 53 and is designed to work with the latest TTL auto exposure systems of all popular manufacturers’ digital SLR cameras. Among the advanced features of this flash are modeling flash function, multi pulse flash, TTL wireless flash, FP (high speed) flash, rear-curtain Synchro flash and manual flash mode which allows the photographer to set the flash power level by up to eight stops.

Sigma Corporation is pleased to announce the launch of the new Electronic Flash EF-530 DG ST. The EF-530 DG ST features a powerful Guide Number of 53 and is designed to work with the latest TTL auto exposure systems of all popular manufacturers’ digital and film SLR cameras. It features TTL automatic flash exposure control for easy operation. The autozoom function automatically sets the optimum illumination angle in accordance with the lens’ focal length in a range from 24mm to 105mm.

Borrowing from the lightning-fast speeds, precision engineering and colorful style of international motorcycle racing, SanDisk Corporation today launched a line of turbo-charged flash memory cards – the SanDisk Extreme Ducati Edition CompactFlash and the SanDisk Extreme Ducati Edition SD^™ Plus. Both have the quickest read/write times of the SanDisk portfolio and represent the company’s ultimate performance products for digital photographers.

Designed for Chief Memory Officers(TM) and active photo enthusiasts, Epson America, Inc. today announced the Perfection(R) V200 Photo, its newest consumer scanner featuring a high-quality 4800 dpi optical resolution -- for only $99. Equipped with the ability to scan photos or film with just one touch, scan 3D objects with the unique high-rise 180-degree lid and offer features such as photo restoration and Advanced Digital Dust and Scratch Correction, the versatile Perfection V200 offers remarkable results.

Made Products, which designs and manufactures unique accessories for digital cameras, announces today the release of Always-On, a line of protective cases and tripods for compact cameras. The new line includes the Millipod Micro Tripod, Wrap-Up Compact Camera Wrap, and the Wrap-Up & Millipod Combo.

"Always-On products are all about convenience" says Graeme Esarey, CEO of Made Products. "We feel that great camera accessories should not only perform well, but they should be there whenever you need them. We have designed each product to be compact and minimalist, so that you hardly notice them after you put them on. But when you need to take a picture, there they are. "

Dowell Enterprises have developed a product called the Lens Cradle - a great asset to the photographic community. Its basic design fills a much neglected gap in SLR camera equipment.

The Lens Cradle offers many features which should be explored. One of the leading benefits is to support any lens with a tripod collar and the camera in a horizontal fashion by utilizing the proper centre of gravity.

Transcend Information, Inc., a global leading company in flash memory cards, is very pleased to announce its 4GB ultra-speed (150X) SD High Capacity (SDHC) Class 6 card. Formatted in FAT32, the SDHC is the new generation of SD cards (Version 2.0) that can reach up to an enormous 32GB capacity. Transcend’s 4GB SDHC Class 6 150X card features high data transfer speed (15MB/s) and can fulfill the high-capacity demand of the new SDHC devices such as Nikon Coolpix S200/S500/P5000 cameras, Panasonic DMC-L1/FX07 camera, and Panasonic SDR-S200 Digital Video Camera. Now you can enjoy a high-quality digital life and store all of your MP3 music files, high-resolution pictures, and video clips in the 4GB SDHC Class 6 150X card.

Fantasea Line, distributor of the world's most popular and affordable underwater photographic products, announces the release of the FD-40X waterproof camera housing dedicated exclusively to the new Nikon Digital D-40 and D-40X cameras. Together, the FD-40X housing and the D-40/D-40X camera offer an excellent combination for entry level underwater DSLR photography at an affordable price.

Argraph Corporation has an introduced a peculiar new sort of tripod for compact digital cameras. The device, called a Samigon Bottle-Top Pod, screws on to the top of nearly any bottle, allowing you to then connect your camera to the bottle as if it were a regular tripod or monopod. According to Argraph, the Samigon Bottle-Top Pod "works with most compact point and shoot cameras with a tripod thread, because of this there is no need to carry those cumbersome tripods around with you everywhere you go. It is the perfect thing for those spur of the moment shots when you don’t have a tripod handy." The bottle-top pod will retail for about $10.

SanDisk^® Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) and Sony Corporation today announced the development of the “Memory Stick PRO-HG” format expanded from the “Memory Stick PRO” format. The continuing increase in the capacity of IC recording media has broadened its usage as a practical way to store high-resolution digital photos, music and video content (from the Internet or TV programs) on portable devices that are designed to handle digital entertainment content.