Olympus SP-800UZ Review
Now that cameras such as this are nearly commonplace, the decision whether to buy a digicam that shoots HD movies as well as pretty big stills or a camcorder that shoots HD video and stills is a tricky one. Pricewise, it’s also a close race. Now we have the Olympus SP-800UZ with an enormous 30x optical [...]
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS7/TZ10 Review
The super zoom compacts roll on: now with the Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS7 (also known as the TZ10) Panasonic offers a 12x Leica optical zoom that puts into your hands focal range that matches a 35 SLR camera’s 25-300mm lens. Some lens! Panasonic describes this camera as a Travel Zoom model: compact, pocketable, easy to use but [...]
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Sony Bloggie MHS-PM5 Review
Lift bow and arrow. Load arrow into bow. Take aim. Twang! And Sony hits another bulls-eye! As with the exceptional Sony DSC-HX5V movie/pano/burst rate camera, I was completely blown away with the Sony Bloggie MHS-PM5! Even if you already own a DSLR or two, perhaps a compact digicam and maybe an HD camcorder, this one will [...]
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Which Canon Speedlite Flash Is Right for You?
Looking at buying a canon Speedlite flash but not sure which one is right for you? In this post Phil Steele sheds some light on the topic (PS: if there’s anyone in our readership who’d like to do a similar post on other brands we’d be interested in publishing it). Investing in a hot-shoe flash can [...]
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Nikon Coolpix S8000 [Review]
Compact digicams don’t normally set my bells a-ringing but this one intrigued me, big time. What on earth is Nikon doing with the Nikon Coolpix S8000? A pocketable picture taker that is just 27mm thin and extends only another 41mm when the stabilised 10x optical zoom pokes its nose into the world. 10x in a compact? [...]
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Canon EOS T2i (550D) Review
Canon describes this DSLR as ‘entry level’. If this is the entry where’s the exit? Boy is it well equipped! At last look, Canon’s Web site showed nine DSLR models in its range, ranging from entry level to pro: a camera for everyone. Without even a glance at the 260 page manual, I jumped in at the [...]
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Sigma 4.5mm Fisheye – What’s it like?
My friend Sybren A. Stüvel has purchased himself the Sigma 4.5mm f/2.8 EX DC HSM Circular Fisheye Lens and has kindly penned us his thoughts! You can see more of Sybren’s work here, or you can ask me about the time he put bread crumbs on his 10-22mm lens and let birds land on it and [...]
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ImageRights International offers free service
This is a press release from the guys at ImageRights International, via our friends at Matternow… It’s fair to say that you guys don’t often like press release posts like this one, but I think this one may be something very useful to a lot of us! **update** I can confirm this service works, as advertised, [...]
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Canon PowerShot SD3500IS (Canon IXUS 210) Review
They keep getting smaller and, in the process, more and more intriguing: Canon’s latest Canon PowerShot SD3500IS (Canon IXUS 210 in some parts of the world) takes the story even further and adopts a touch screen interface. Optically, the camera is a winner: the lens is a stabilised 5x optical zoom, equivalent to a range of [...]
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Win a ioSafe 1.5TB from dPS – Simple!
You might have heard some crazy talk about the ioSafe gear before now? “They ran over it with an earth mover” “He sprayed it with a fire hose” That sort of thing? Well it’s all true – see the video below! So, we’re giving one away, a 1.5TB drive that is fire, water and [...]
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Samsung ST1000 Review
Camera touch screens are all the go in 2010 as I seem to recall Samsung got in early — and elegantly — with their ST550 camera. Now the company has also poured some pretty impressive comms tricks as well into the ST1000 with GPS and Geo-tagging capabilities, WiFi and Bluetooth. First the camera… Samsung ST1000 Features The ST1000 [...]
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Ricoh GXR Review
Smaller companies often take a different and braver route in satisfying demand for digital cameras. This particular bunch of boxes is Ricoh’s answer to the need for more compact, versatile, yet more powerful digital capture devices. Described as ‘the world’s smallest and lightest interchangeable lens camera system’ the Ricoh GXR unit integrates lens, image sensor and [...]
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Pentax K-x DSLR Review
Budget-priced DSLRs make up a pretty crowded sector and one that deserves investigation from anyone about to enter the wonderful and empowering world of this type of shooting gear. As a DSLR, the Pentax K-x is about as good as it gets and, aside from engaging with a venerable name in cameras, taking it on would [...]
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The Most Popular Digital Camera Among our Readers Is…..
Yesterday we revealed some of the results of a recent reader ‘census’ looking at the cameras that they use as their primary camera. We shared that 94% of our readers use a DSLR camera as their primary camera that Canon is the most popular brand of DSLR (46% vs 40% for Nikon), that Canon dominate [...]
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What Camera Manufacturers are Most Popular? [Reader Digital Camera Census Results Part 1]
Over the last couple of weeks on dPS we’ve been running a reader camera census to do a little investigating into what cameras our readers are using as their primary digital camera. Over 1800 readers responded to the question and today and tomorrow I’d like to share the results that we found. Today I’d like to start [...]
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What Camera Manufacturers are Most Popular?
[Reader Digital Camera Census Results Part 1]
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