Samsung: real SLR in pocketable size — just
March 3, 2009
Samsung has come up with a 35mm DSLR, which is most desirable because it is small enough  not to be an encumbrance. The next bit get technical for which apologies are offered.
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Epson R-D1x: true love for the true enthusiast
February 28, 2009
The Epson R-D1x has a rangefinder and good lenses.
If you seriously take pictures you use a rangefinder and good lens. It is as simple as that. Yes, you can take great pictures with all sorts of cameras. Happens all the time. But the Epson R-D1x is the sort of camera serious users drool over.
Olympus E-620 — big money, small camera
February 26, 2009
The Olympus E-620 digital SLR, due out in late April, is claimed to be the smallest DSLR with built in image stabilisation. The 12.3Mp SLR, according to Olympus, weighs only 475g (without the battery) and has compact dimensions. It has a maximum ISO sensitivity of 3,200 and is based on the four thirds standard.
Canon PowerShot G10: high end and compact and very, very good
February 21, 2009
Canon PowerShot G10 is on sale at assorted prices but something around US$500-plus would be a good price. So it is affordable but not at the disposable end of the market.
Some digital models disappear, prices drop
February 16, 2009
Two years ago for a story for a Chinese company I counted all the models of digital cameras in existence at the time. The answer was 6,386. Nobody ever quite believes that number and, of course, it is not quite true. A camera company adds a different color to the casing and that it a new number. And change gets a new number.
Panasonic knows who you were with last night
February 15, 2009
Panasonic has hit a new depth in gubbins. It has built in ‘Face Recognition’ so the camera can identify who it has just photographed.
Samsung’s Memoir: 8-Mpixel cameraphone with very strong competition
February 14, 2009
The Memoir from Samsung is a cameraphone. (Which is a new word to mean a camera which is also a cell phone or, if you would prefer, a cell phone which is also a camera.)
The superb Canon EOS 5D Mark 2 5mm single lens reflex camera — but do you need it?
February 13, 2009
In a sense you can divide most people’s photographic career into two. There was the bit where you, if off on a trip, you lugged around a single lens reflex, sometimes with extra lenses. And a lot of film which you kept cool and got developed at a horrendous price. And the one where you packed the equivalent of a box brownie and took pictures which were, frankly, not of the best.
Panasonic to release 64GB SD card. Eventually a two TB card
February 11, 2009
Panasonic has announced it will soon be releasing its first SDXC card which will be 64GB.
How big is that?
