It’s been nearly a whole year of waiting, but the big guns at Sigma are insisting that their long overdue and hugely anticipated DP1 digital camera is finally coming around the mountain.
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Nikon Announces D60 10MP dSLR
Nikon have added the new D60 digital SLR camera to their range, boasting a 10.2 megapixel CCD sensor, backed by Nikon’s advanced 3-D Colour Matrix Metering II and their ‘digital image processing concept’, EXPEED.
Sharing a similar small form factor to the D40, the D60 offers the usual auto/scene modes, with an In-camera Retouch Menu offering D-lighting, Red-eye correction, Image Trim and, err, adjustable cross-screen star effects.
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Fuji Finepix S100FS Advanced Prosumer Digital Camera
Triumphantly roaring down the runway and heading off to the Photo Marketing Association’s annual beano in Las Vegas this week is Fujifilm’s upmarket FinePix S100FS dSLR-like consumer digicam.
Described as its ‘most advanced consumer digital camera to date,’ the FinePix S100FS is scrambling to grab a fat slice from the lucrative budget dSLR market, shoe-horning a promising feast o’features into a relatively bijou frame.
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Olympus SP-570 UZ Packs “World’s Longest” Digicam Zoom
With the Photo Marketing Association’s big PMA08 annual in Las Vegas looming, some of the photo big boys have been prepping their new models.
One of the first out of the blocks is Olympus, who have dropped details of no less than nine shiny new consumer cameras (see full listing below), with the zoom-tastic Olympus SP-570 UZ being the one that caught our jaded eye.
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Best Budget dSLRs Of 2007 (Part 2)
Earlier in the week, we looked at bargain basement dSLRs under £400, today we move up a notch and give you our view on the best budget dSLRs for under £500.
Budget dSLRs (under £500)
Nikon D40X
(around £395/$670)
This well-built 10 megapixel snapper offers fabulous image quality, instant-on response, a nippy auto focus system, auto ISO, three frames per second burst mode and a large 2.5″ LCD monitor at the bargain price of £400 with the 18-55mm lens.
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Best Budget dSLRs Of 2007
2007 was a great year for dSLRs, with a highly competitive market seeing camera quality rising and prices falling – there’s never been a better time to snaffle a digital SLR!
Here’s our faves and recommendations from last year.
CES 2008 New Digital Camera Round-Up (Part 2/2)
Yesterday we brought you the first set of digital camera announcements from CES 2008, in this concluding part we give you three more.
Kodak V1273 and V1073 ultra compacts
These two new ultra compacts from Kodak come with optically stabilised lenses, stills output in 720p and 1080i HD formats and the ability to record video as MPEG-4 compressed 720i High Definition videos (1280 x 720 @ 30fps).
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CES 2008 New Digital Camera Round-Up
There’s been a veritable motordrive of new cameras announced at this year’s CES show (Consumer Electronics Association) in Las Vegas.
Here’s some of the announcements that have caught our eye.
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DL Best 4 Compact Cameras Of The Year 2007
We take a look at the snappers that have tickled our fancy in 2007 and award out ‘Best of’ prizes:
Best compacts
Fujifilm FinePix F50fd (around £180/$220)
It may look a little bit less than super-stylish, but don’t let appearances put you off: the Fujifilm can takes great pictures and comes with a raft of smart-arse features like image stabilisation, face-detection technology, fast start up and a high ISO performance that is second to none in its price range.
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Review: Photos HQ For Palm (73%)
Here’s a natty little application for folks frustrated with the limited resolution of the cameras built into their Palm OS devices.
Photos HQ is a program that lets you snap photographs at a higher quality than the default camera settings, and offers a few tweaks in the bargain too.
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