Posts by Gareth Powell on PHOTO.BLORGE

Panasonic’s DMC-FX48 is a great camera, no gubbins needed

February 9, 2009

panasonic_dmcfx40_0011Panasonic’s  Lumix DMC-FX48  has a 25mm ultra-wide-angle Leica DC  lens which you can use with an optical — not digital, which has no relevancy — zoom. That’s as if you had picked up a Leica MR and had the same features you would be shooting roughly between 25mm to 125 mm. Cartier Bresson would have married the camera on the spot.

Samsung HZ10W, 24mm lens wonderful

January 27, 2009

Samsung HZ10W, 24mm lens wonderfulSamsung has announced the HZ10W (how do they think of these romantic names?) which is a pocket-sized (depends on the pocket) 10.2 megapixels digital camera that boasts a 10x zoom lens that starts at a wider-than-usual 24mm if you  can think in 35mm film terms. Some of us would be happier without the zoom and just have the wide lens. If it had a rangefinder I would marry it.

Law makes you click as you click

January 27, 2009

New Law to make you go click as you clickA new law is being suggested in the United States that if a camera on a cell phone takes a shot it must make an audible noise.

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-G3: first Wi-Fi digital camera

January 27, 2009

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-G3: first Wi-Fi digital cameraNote the camera has a Web browser as well but that would have made the headline too long.

Sony, a company that is currently going through a worrying period, has announced the first Wi-Fi digital camera with a Web browser.

Casio Exilim: slim as Twiggy

January 27, 2009

Casio Exilim EX-S10: slim as TwiggyThey say you can be neither too rich or too slim. Missed out on both.

But the new Casio Exilim, which comes eight years after that emaciated camera’s  first model, is very slim AND is very rich in megapixels.

Videos: Record them to DVD

January 24, 2009

Videos: How to record them to DVDFirst know that the copy you make of a DVD or indeed a CD, is fragile compared to a company recorded disk. Never, ever think of it as a way of permanently storing information. It is not.

Kodak Easyshare M863 makes snaps simple

January 21, 2009

Kodak Easyshare M863 makes snaps simpleKodak Easyshare M863 is for people who just want to take pictures. They would prefer them to be better pictures. Pictures with good color. Pictures which they will be proud to show. But they do not want to mess around with a lot of technical gubbins. Point the damn thing, press the button and another moment with the family is recorded for posterity.

Use your camera as a scanner to make PDF documents

January 20, 2009

scannerpdfSnapter lets you use your digital camera as a scanner and create a .pdf file. If you do not have a scanner then it is possibly a must.

Aussie Kogan Android smartphone mystery

January 19, 2009

ruslan-koganAustralia’s Kogan Technologies announced its Agora Android phone, two models of which it has been pre-selling for $268 or $200 (US dollars),­ announced it would not be shipping, as promised, on Jan. 29.


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