Christmas Guide: Seeking The Perfect High-End Digital Compact Camera (Part Two)

Christmas Guide: Seeking The Perfect High-End Digital Compact Camera (Part Two)In Part One of our search for the hottest high end digital cameras, we finished by looking for something to beat one of our favourites, the Olympus XA.

That camera was the Ricoh GR, which, like the XA, offered a fixed, wide angle lens in a compact package.

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Christmas Guide: Seeking The Perfect High-End Digital Compact Camera (Part One)

If you’re looking for an overview of the best High-End digital compact camera, you’ve come to the right place. Over the next few days, we’ll fill you in on what’s hot – Ed

Seeking The Perfect High-End Digital Compact Camera (Part One)Way back in the pre-digital age, our favourite carry-everywhere camera was the Olympus XA, a wonderful lightweight (225g) and compact 35mm camera, measuring just 102 W x 64.5 H x 40 D mm and providing a superbly portable alternative to our Olympus OM2 SLR system.

This pocket-sized wonder packed aperture-priority exposure controls, rangefinder focusing, an optional flash accessory and a fast 35mm lens with 10 sec-1/500 sec shutter speeds.

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Casio Exilim W63CA 8MP Camera Phone With HD Screen

Casio Exilim W63CA 8MP Camera Phone With HD ScreenTaking the cameraphone concept to a whole new level is the Casio Exilim W63CA, a clamshell design handset packing in a mighty 8 Megapixel camera.

Introduced by the Japanese mobile operator KDDi, the Casio has a camera feature set to challenge dedicated snappers, with support for 9-point auto focus, face detection, anti-shake and a YouTube video mode that records VGA video at 30fps to microSD.

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Flickr Pro Photo Hijack: Where Have My Flickr Photos All Gone?

Flickr Pro Photo Hijack: Where Have My Flickr Photos All Gone?I’ve been with Flickr for _ever_. Pretty much as soon as they opened the site, I signed up. Back in those days, you didn’t have an option it was _the_ place to host your photo back then – Site Du Jour … and it was the best executed to boot.

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Ricoh GX200 Digital Compact Camera Review (Part Two – 88%)

Ricoh GX200 Digital Compact Camera Review (Part Two - 88%)In part one, we took a walk down memory lane looking at the Ricoh’s previous offerings such as the GX100 and introduced the GX200.

In part two we continue to review the latter and give you our thoughts on it’s performance.

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Ricoh GX200 Digital Compact Camera Review

Ricoh GX200 Digital Compact Camera ReviewReviewing high end Ricoh digital cameras is turning out to be an expensive business for us.

The first time we took a look at one – their fixed lens Ricoh GR compact – we ended up liking the camera so much we went straight out and bought the ruddy thing (but only after Ricoh had prised the review model out of our cold, snapping hands).

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