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 [...]

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 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 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

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, [...]

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’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 [...]

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 [...]

Billed as the ‘World’s First Full-Spec Compact’, the new Sigma DP1 digital camera was unveiled yesterday. The DP1 has been in design-mode since 1st being announced in July 2006, with camera buffs becoming restless in the interim.
The camera’s “Full-Speciness”, and main claim to fame comes from its use of the Foveon X3 Sensor, which weighs [...]

Camera makers are out in force for the PMA 08 International Convention to be held January 31 - February 2 2008 in Las Vegas. Many are showing their new camera models ahead of the show, such as the Fujifilm FinePix S100FS.
Fujifilm touts the S100FS as their “most advanced consumer digital camera ” and points to [...]