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San Francisco, CA - Macworld Expo – January 8, 2002: - Kaidan Incorporated,
the leading manufacturer of Photographic VR and Immersive Imaging
hardware, announced today a new panoramic tripod head for Nikon’s
latest 5 megapixel digital camera, the Nikon Coolpix 5000. With
the introduction of the Kaidan KiWi™ 5000 and corresponding upgrade
kit, content creation professionals, web developers and photographers
can create immersive imaging content with a variety of panoramic
software solutions.
“Kaidan continues to support and offer compelling and affordable
immersive imaging solutions that support Nikon’s Coolpix family,”
said Jim Anders, Kaidan President. “Our KiWi 5000 continues this
tradition and lets our customers capture content using Apple QuickTime
VR, MGI Photovista, VR Toolbox VR Worx, Easypano Panoweaver, Helmut
Dersch’s Panotools and iPIX.”
The Kaidan KiWi 5000 builds upon the successful Kaidan KiWi 990
and provides an innovative indexing mechanism with interchangeable
detent discs that provide increments from 2 through 22 positions.
Each tripod head comes with 4 detent discs and a camera mounting
cradle that keeps the camera level and helps to position the camera
to accommodate either the standard lens, the new Nikon 19mm wide
angle lens, the Nikon 8mm fisheye lens, or any third-party add-on
lens.
Owners of the KiWi 990 can purchase upgrade kits for the Coolpix
5000. The upgrade kit includes the camera mounting cradle, a label
that shows the proper mounting location for the various Nikon lenses,
and a camera mounting screw.
Customers can also purchase bundled solutions from Kaidan that
include tripods, carrying cases and panoramic stitching software
from Apple, VR Toolbox, MGI and other companies. In all cases, the
imaging software offered by Kaidan does not impose a per-image fee
or click-fee in order to create a panoramic image. Users can create
as many panoramic images as they like and need only pay once for
the software application that is used to create these images.
The KiWi 5000 solutions will be available from Kaidan and their
resellers in Q1 2002. The suggested retail price for the KiWi 5000
is $199.95, which includes the KiWi 990 head (which is used as the
base unit) plus $29.95 for the 5000 mounting kit. Suggested retail
pricing for the separate 5000 upgrade kit for existing owners of
KiWi 990 tripod heads will be $39.95.
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