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Samsung: real SLR in pocketable size — just

Gareth Powell — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:58:34 +0000

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.

In August 2008, Olympus and Panasonic [...]
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Epson R-D1x: true love for the true enthusiast

Gareth Powell — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:01:53 +0000

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. [...]
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Olympus E-620 — big money, small camera

Gareth Powell — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:56:22 +0000

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 [...]
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Canon PowerShot G10: high end and compact and very, very good

Gareth Powell — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 07:47:26 +0000

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.

This is an amazing performer. Totally astounding. I have seen shots I would have sworn [...]
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Some digital models disappear, prices drop

Gareth Powell — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:07:11 +0000

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 [...]
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Panasonic knows who you were with last night

Gareth Powell — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:30:45 +0000

Panasonic has hit a new depth in gubbins. It has built in ‘Face Recognition’ so the camera can identify who it has just photographed.

As a story, this would have been rightly ignored except to say it will be available with the other gubbins on the [...]
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Samsung’s Memoir: 8-Mpixel cameraphone with very strong competition

Gareth Powell — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:27:49 +0000

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 public relations people [...]
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The superb Canon EOS 5D Mark 2 5mm single lens reflex camera — but do you need it?

Gareth Powell — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:39:07 +0000

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 [...]
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