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Canon EOS 40D 2008-06-27 06:33:38 It's been nearly two years since I reviewed the Canon
EOS 30D, and in that time the market for mid-range semi-professional digital SLRs has become a lot more crowded. While Canon is still the undisputed worldwide DSLR market leader, it no longer has only Nikon to worry about. The EOS 40D faces some pretty determined competition, so is this upgrade of the popular EOS 30D good enough to hold onto Read more:Canon EOS
Canon IXUS 960 IS 2008-06-27 06:19:31 When I was at school, there was a guy in my year who had every natural advantage. He was tall, blonde, blue-eyed and handsome, came from a wealthy and well-connected family, was captain of cricket and rugby, got straight A's in his O-levels, did something like five A-levels and got A's in those too, and was on the fast track for Oxbridge. Like everyone else I really wanted to hate him for being a Read more:Canon
Canon IXUS 90 IS 2008-06-27 06:15:15 I remember when Canon
launched its first IXUS camera. The original IXUS used APS film to record its images, rather than a CCD and memory card. The introduction of the APS film format allowed for far smaller compact cameras to be produced, but the IXUS took things to the next level. Canon had created a camera that was no larger than a packet of cigarettes, meaning that you really could have it
Canon PowerShot G9 2008-06-27 06:06:37 When Canon
launched the PowerShot
G7 in September 2006, it was met by some fairly lukewarm reviews, mainly because it was seen to lack many of the qualities that had made its predecessor the PowerShot G6 such a popular camera with enthusiasts, most notably the f/2.0-f/3.0 lens and RAW mode. Well, it seems that someone at Canon was listening, because the new PowerShot G9 is here, and that RAW mode Read more:Canon PowerShot
Canon IXUS 860 IS 2008-06-27 06:01:37 For those of us who celebrate the miracle of western consumerism, the festive season of Christmas is fast approaching, and judging by the number of requests for advice that I'm getting from readers, most people are already deciding what presents they'd like to give (and receive). Digital cameras are always a popular choice as Christmas presents (they're so easy to wrap!) so I think I can safely Read more:Canon
Canon PowerShot A720 IS 2008-06-27 05:57:12 It's been a while since I've taken a look at any of Canon
's A-series cameras. What with the popular and fashionable IXUS range, the very successful range of digital SLRs, the wonders of the S5 IS super-zoom and the semi-pro PowerShot
G9, not to mention the new SX100 IS, the poor old A-series has been a bit overlooked of late. In fact the last A-series camera I reviewed was the excellent A570 IS, Read more:Canon PowerShot
Canon PowerShot S5 IS 2008-06-27 05:51:29 If you're looking for a good super-zoom camera - that is, one with a zoom lens capable of more than 10x magnification - your choice is fairly limited, but that doesn't mean it's an easy decision. There are a couple of models that are worth avoiding, such as the disappointing Nikon CoolPix S10, and the Olympus SP-550UZ, but there are also several extremely good cameras, including the brilliant Read more:Canon
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Canon Digital IXUS 950 IS 2008-06-27 05:40:19 Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been taking a look at some of the new models in Canon
’s Digital
IXUS range of style compacts, and today I’ve got the latest model, the long-awaited 950 IS. I say long awaited, because many people thought it was going to be a replacement and successor for the highly popular and technically advanced IXUS 850 IS which I reviewed last October. However, while in
Canon Digital IXUS 75 2008-06-27 05:35:32 Back in December last year I reviewed the CanonDigital
IXUS 65, a potentially great little 6MP pocket compact which was let down in the end by some unfortunate image quality issues. Only its exemplary build quality and performance saved it from a severe kicking, and it escaped with a lenient 5/10 overall.
As I said in my review of the IXUS 900 Ti last week, I tend to hold Canon cameras to a
Canon Digital IXUS 900 Ti 2008-06-27 05:30:22 I have at various times been accused of being biased towards Canon
, because of the high review scores its cameras often receive. I’d like to assure you that nothing could be further from the truth. In fact I’d say that if anything the opposite is true; because Canon has the largest share of the compact camera and especially the DSLR markets, I tend to hold its products to a higher standard sim Read more:Digital
Canon Digital IXUS 70 2008-06-27 04:01:49 Back in February I was invited along to Canon
’s launch event for its “Spring Collection”, in which the company unveiled a range of new A-series and IXUS models, including this little beauty, the new Digital
IXUS 70. This 7.1-megapixel model is replacing the IXUS 60 launched last year as the entry level model in Canon’s five-model Digital IXUS range.
Measuring just 85.9 x 53.5 x 19.4mm and
Nikon D40x 2008-06-27 03:57:07 To say that Nikon
and Canon are in competition with one another is something of an understatement. They are the Manchester United and Arsenal, the Schumacher and Alonso, the Tyson and Holyfield of the camera world. They hold the number one and two positions in the lucrative digital SLR market, with Canon pretty firmly in the lead. Nikon would dearly love to take a big slice out of Canon’s market
Canon EOS 400D 2008-06-27 03:50:56 Over the past six months I’ve reviewed nearly all of the current range of entry and mid-level digital SLRs, including the Sony Alpha A100, Canon
EOS 30D, Nikon D200, Pentax *ist DL2, Nikon D80, Olympus E-400, Samsung GX 1L and Pentax K100D. This week it’s the long-awaited turn of the Canon EOS
400D (Digital Rebel XTi in the USA). The camera was launched in August last year, and I’m somewhat
Canon PowerShot S3 IS 2008-06-27 03:44:06 In Canon
’s compact camera range, two models vie for top billing. One is the 10-megapixel PowerShot
G7 that I reviewed just over a month ago, and the other one is this, the PowerShot S3 IS. While the G7 might have the advantage in resolution over the 6-megapixel S3, the latter features an impressive f/2.7 – f/3.5, 12x zoom lens (36 - 432mm equiv.) with Canon’s acclaimed optical image stabilis Read more:Canon PowerShot
Canon Digital IXUS 65 2008-06-27 03:37:44 There seems to be no end in sight to the pointless progression of ever-higher resolutions for compact camera sensors, in fact just last month Sharp announced the development of a 12-megapixel 1/1.7in CCD that is sure to find its way into a production camera within a few months. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, the fastest-moving sector of the digital camera market is still 6-megapixel, 3x Read more:Canon
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Canon PowerShot G7 2008-06-27 03:32:40 Since the introduction of the PowerShot
G1 in 2000 (I bought one of those – ed.), Canon
’s flagship G-series has stood at the very top of the semi-pro digital compact market, and has done a lot to help maintain Canon’s enviable reputation for quality and design. The previous camera in the series was the G6, launched in 2004, which featured a 7.1-megapixel sensor, a very fast f/2.0-3.0 4x zoom Read more:Canon PowerShot
Canon Digital IXUS 850 IS 2008-06-27 03:27:05 As I mentioned in my review of the PowerShot A710 IS last week, Canon
launch a lot of new models every year, but even so I was astonished to learn that since it’s inception in June 2000 there have been no fewer than 27 different cameras in the Canon Digital
IXUS range. What’s even more remarkable is that for the last six years, those 27 models have pretty much defined the market standard of
Canon PowerShot A710 IS 2008-06-27 03:21:56 There are some camera companies that make it easy to keep up with reviews of their new products, just launching on or two every few months, and then there’s Canon
. Since I last reviewed a Canon camera, namely the excellent A540 about four months ago, the company has launched no fewer than eight new cameras, and the chances are that it’ll launch a whole load more just before Christmas. How the Read more:Canon PowerShot
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Pentax *ist DL2 Digital SLR 2008-06-27 03:16:23 If you’re over the age of 30 and studied photography at college or university, chances are you learned the basics on the venerable Pentax
K1000. It was a basic manual-only camera with a match-needle lightmeter, perfect for beginners, and what it lacked in features it made up for in robust reliability, superb handling and excellent picture quality.
After a 21-year run the K1000 finally ceased Read more:Digital
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Sony Alpha α100 Digital SLR 2008-06-27 00:47:44 The announcement at the start of this year that Konica Minolta was pulling out of the camera business altogether came as a huge shock to most people in the camera industry and photographic press. Minolta has a pedigree dating back to 1873 and was one of the “Big 5” camera companies, with a long history of innovation and excellence.
As well as its popular range of digital compacts, it was also Read more:Alpha
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Canon EOS 30D Digital SLR 2008-06-27 00:41:20 Although digital SLRs have been around since the mid-1990s, when Kodak produced digital adaptations of high-end Canon
and Nikon 35mm SLRs, it is only since the launch in 2000 of the beautiful but deeply flawed Contax N Digital
, that the market for “consumer” digital SLRs has grown. In that short time the market has already stratified into distinct sectors, from the fiercely contested sub-£500 Read more:Canon EOS
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Canon PowerShot A540 2008-06-27 00:35:12 Canon’s range of digital compact cameras currently consists of sixteen models, divided into three product lines. The S series is aimed at the serious power-user, while the IXUS series (SD series in the US) is targeted at the more style-conscious consumer. The seven models of A series make up the rest of the range, and cover the middle ground, for users who want simplicity and style, but also hig Read more:Canon
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Olympus E-500 - Digital SLR 2008-06-27 00:30:36 The E system from Olympus
is the only digital SLR system designed from the ground up to be wholly digital. All of the other D-SLR systems from other manufacturers are based, at least in part, on existing 35mm film SLR standards, including body designs, lens mounts and even lenses.
There are advantages to both approaches. For the other manufacturers, it means that existing SLR system users can Read more:Digital
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Canon IXUS Wireless 2008-06-27 00:22:43 A few weeks ago I reviewed the Nikon CoolPix P1, a sleek eight megapixel compact featuring WiFi connectivity. It’s often the case that a new idea will appear almost simultaneously from several different sources, so it’s no surprise that Nikon isn’t the only company experimenting with wireless technology.
This week I’ve got the new Canon
IXUS Wireless
. As the name suggests it has a built-i
Nikon Coolpix S10 2008-07-11 02:19:41 Back in 2002 Nikon
launched one of its most successful models, the Coolpix 4500, a powerful high quality 4-megapixel, 4x zoom camera that became a workhorse for all types of specialist photography, thanks mainly to its 28mm filter thread which allowed it to be attached to telescopes, microscopes, spotting scopes and a wide range of other optical devices. Based on earlier swivel-body Nikon cameras
Nikon Coolpix L4 2008-07-11 02:15:11 I’ve reviewed a lot of digital SLRs and other expensive high-performance cameras recently, so I thought it was about time I took a look at the other end of the market, the budget-priced low-spec compacts. Never one to do things by halves, this week I’ve got the cheapest camera I’ve ever reviewed, and rather surprisingly it’s a Nikon
.
The Coolpix L4 was launched in mid-March this year at a
Nikon D200 - Digital SLR 2008-07-11 02:11:27 Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working my way through a selection of the current mid-range digital SLRs, with examples from Canon, Olympus and Sony. This week I’m taking a look at the Nikon
D200. Like the others, the D200 is aimed at the advanced enthusiast or semi-professional. With a 10.2 megapixel CCD, a tough weatherproof body and exceptional handling and controllability, it has a Read more:Digital
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Nikon Coolpix P4 2008-07-11 02:06:07 Two weeks ago I gave the ultra-slim Nikon
Coolpix S5 a bit of a kicking, which is not something I’m accustomed to doing to Nikon cameras, so it’s with some relief that I turn now to another recent Nikon launch, the Coolpix P4, an altogether more serious camera. It is from the same range as the excellent Coolpix P1 that I reviewed here back in January, and shares the same high-quality 1/1.8”
Nikon Coolpix S5 2008-07-11 02:01:48 It’s a funny thing, but last week I ran out of my allotted 1,000 words trying to describe all the features and options of the Olympus E-500 DSLR. This week I’ve got a camera that’s so simple I’m going to be hard pushed to find 1,000 words to describe it.
Launched in February this year, the Coolpix S5 is one of two new cameras in Nikon
’s S range of ultra-slim pocket compacts. The S serie
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