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Concord Camera Corp. Breaks $100 Price Barrier with New Fashionable 3 Megapixel Digital Cameras at $99.


COLOGNE, Germany -- Great Looking Products in Fashionable Colors - Both Optical and Digital Zoom Simulating a longer focal length in a digital camera via software. The digital zoom is accomplished via image enhancement software within the camera itself rather than the inherent mechanics of the physical zoom lens. For more details, see optical zoom.  Versions

Concord Camera Corp. ("Concord") (Nasdaq:LENS), a leader in award-winning, high-quality, affordably-priced digital cameras, unveiled today at Photokina a new line-up of trendy low-priced 3 Megapixel digital cameras, the Concord 3346z and 3043. With the introduction of these two new models, Concord Camera is leading the way to attract new digital camera buyers who favor stylish, easy to use 3 Megapixel cameras at ultra affordable prices.

Concord 3043 - Ultra Slim Metal Body, In Fashionable Colors

Priced at $99.99, the Concord 3043 is perfect for fashion-conscious consumers of any age seeking a portable, easy-to-use and stylish digital camera. With a less than 1" slim metal housing (20mm), the 3 Megapixel/4X digital zoom digital camera makes a fashion-statement in 3 of the most-popular color choices: red, blue, and silver. The camera is full-featured with 16MB internal memory and a SD card slot A socket for inserting a printed circuit board or a PC Card (CardBus card). See PC Card. , a 1.8" color TFT LCD (Thin Film Transistor LCD) See LCD. , and movie mode at VGA (Video Graphics Array) The display standard for the PC. All PC display adapters support VGA, and Windows machines boot up in "VGA mode" before switching to higher resolutions.  resolution up to 15 frames per second with sound. The webcam functionality will be especially popular on campus and with home Internet users. The camera features a 3 Megapixel CMOS sensor See CMOS image sensor. , but larger 4 Megapixel sized images can also be produced through in-camera interpolation interpolation

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Concord 3346z - 3X Optical Zoom Changing the focal length of a camera by adjusting the physical zoom lens. All zoom lenses in film cameras and digital single lens reflex (DSLR) cameras are optical zoom. Digital point-and-shoot cameras as well as consumer and prosumer video camcorders have optical zoom, but they also  for $119.99

Priced at around $119.99 (and promoted in select accounts during the holidays for as low as $99), the Concord 3346z is perfect for the first-time buyer first-time buyer npersona que compra su primera vivienda

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. The camera features a 3.1 Megapixel CMOS sensor, 3X optical/4X digital zoom (for total 12x zoom), 6MB internal memory, SD card slot for unlimited photo-taking possibilities, and is available in Champagne and Silver colors. The 7 pre-set scene modes make quality picture taking easy no matter the situation, and the AF assist lamp will lock in the focus even in the darkest conditions. With additional cool features, such as continuous shooting and AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) A Windows multimedia video format from Microsoft. It interleaves standard waveform audio and digital video frames (bitmaps) to provide reduced animation at 15 fps at 160x120x8 resolution. Audio is 11,025Hz, 8-bit samples.  video mode, the consumer has everything needed to get started in digital photography -- all at a remarkably low price of $119.

The Concord 3346z and 3043 are expected to be available in November 2004. The Concord 3043 is priced at $99.99 and the Concord 3346z is priced at $119.99. All cameras include either 2 AAA batteries or 2 AA batteries (for 3346z), cables, a wrist strap, pouch and photo editing software. The cameras are compatible with Microsoft Windows 98SE, 2000, ME, XP and Mac OS X and higher. For more information, visit the Concord Camera Corp. website: http://www.concord-camera.com.

About Concord Camera Corp.

Concord Camera Corp. is a global developer, designer, manufacturer and marketer of high quality, popularly priced, digital, instant, Advanced Photo System (APS) and 35mm cameras. Concord markets its cameras worldwide under the trademarks POLAROID, JENOPTIK, CONCORD and CONCORD EYE Q through direct sales offices in the United States, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, France and Japan and through independent sales agents. Products manufactured by Concord are manufactured in its vertically integrated manufacturing facilities in the People's Republic of China. The POLAROID trademark is owned by Polaroid Corporation and is used by Concord under license from Polaroid. The JENOPTIK trademark is owned by Jenoptik AG and is used by Concord under license from Jenoptik AG. CONCORD and CONCORD EYE Q are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Concord Camera Corp. in the United States and/or other countries.

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 for the fiscal year ended June 28, 2003 and subsequently filed reports. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release represent our estimates only as of the date hereof, or as of such earlier dates as are indicated, and should not be relied upon as representing our estimates as of any subsequent date. While we may elect to update forward-looking statements at some point in the future, we specifically disclaim any obligation to do so, even if our estimates change.
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