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Archive for the 'Cameras' Category

Canon PowerShot E1 Digital Camera

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Canon has on offer a new compact digital camera, model PowerShot E1. Very organic looking /w soft, rounded shapes. Design comes to the fore with the body available in a white-vanilla savanna-grasslands theme, or an aquamarine-seagull harbor-blue finish, or a pink-cotton baobab-tree motif. And in a first, the initial start-up screen matches the body color…
     
Reminiscent of Discoid [...]

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28 Review

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Trusted Reviews reviewed the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28 digital camera and liked it so much they gave it an overall rating of 10/10. 
While the DMC-FZ28 may indeed be the best of the superzooms (> 4x optical zoom), the associated rating of perfect suggests that TR has moved beyond hyperbole, to adynaton.  
10.1-megapixels, 18x optical zoom, 27mm wide-angle, $399.95  
Panasonic [...]

The Best Cameras

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

J.D. Power and Associates, best known for customer sat surveys about cars, tries its hand at cameras.
JDPower’s 2008 Digital Camera Usage and Satisfaction Study asked 8000 customers to rate their newly-purchased cameras in the areas of picture quality, performance, ease of operation, and appearance/styling. This is what they came up with…
At the top of the [...]

Canon IXUS 960 IS Review

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Trusted Reviews reviews the Canon IXUS 960 IS point-and-shoot compact digital camera, gives it a 9 out of 10 and says the thing “is easily the best 12MP compact on the market, and a sound investment for anyone who can afford it”.
They liked the camera’s look-and-feel with its titanium body, the image quality, performance, [...]

Sony Alpha A900

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Sony is showing off their Alpha A900 24.6 megapixel full-frame DSLR at the Photo Imaging Expo 2008 (PIE2008) now on in Tokyo. The α900 now seems to come in a new transparent body…

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX500

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Panasonic announces their new flagship Lumix camera, model DMC-FX500.
The thing is feature-rich, with 10.1 Megapixels, 3-inch touch-screen LCD, 25mm wide-angle lens, 5x optical zoom (25-125mm equivalent), image stabilization, joystick control and face recog. Also outputs HD video at 1280×720 with 30fps. Not bad for $399.95.
DMC-FX500 Technical Specs

Olympus μ1030 SW - Toughcam

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Now, for your dropping pleasure, a new shockproof and waterproof camera from Olympus, model μ1030 SW.
The camera is a tough one - it can withstand a drop of 2 meters, is mud sand & dust -proof, works in -10 deg C, and is waterproof to 10 meters. The μ1030 SW is a load-bearing camera, [...]

A Photographer’s Guide to Istanbul

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Philip Greenspun (”A posting every day; an interesting idea every three months…”) recently posted some 98 pictures of Istanbul from what seems to be a forthcoming work ostensibly entitled “A Photographer’s Guide to Istanbul”.
…some good ones + a commentary.
A Photographer’s Guide to Istanbul - Philip Greenspun, December 2007

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III Reviewed

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Canon’s flagship EOS 1Ds Mark III 21.1-megapixel, full-frame, Digital SLR camera was announced back in August 2007, and was recently reviewed by Photo.net.
The review begins with and poses the dilemma of whether or not one would be willing to part with $7,999 to obtain a EOS-1Ds body and tolerate the 1385gr (3.1lb) weight (before any [...]

Canon PowerShot A720 IS Reviewed

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Digital Photography Review just had a look at the Canon PowerShot A720 IS & decided that it would make for a very good point and shoot consumer oriented digital camera.
Feature-wise, the A720 offers 8 MP resolution, 6x optical zoom, image stabilization and face recognition.
The low-to-medium range of compact digital cameras with fixed lenses [...]