by Patrick on November 27, 2008
The well regarded (good reviews keep piling on) Canon PowerShot SD880IS scores 2 nice reviews today. We use one at work now, and I like it quite a bit. It has a great classy look, a brilliant LCD, and image stabilization that really works well. Print quality has been great on the medium sized prints [...]
by Patrick on November 27, 2008
The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W170 digital camera is a 10.1 megapixel compact with a 2.7 LCD on the rear and an all encompassing Carl Zeiss 5x optical zoom (28mm-140mm). In a review at PCWorld, the Cyber-shot DSC-W170 gets praise for fun features like smile detection, adjustable flash intensity, and in-camera image adjustments, as well as high [...]
by Patrick on November 26, 2008
Offering an ultra-zoom in a smaller form factor, the Olympus SP-565UZ features an amazing 20x zoom (28mm-520mm f/2.8-4.5) and a 10 megapixel sensor. On the creative side, the Olympus SP-565UZ boasts 33 shooting modes, that’s right, 33. Other features include dual image stabilization, a smile shot function (shutter fires when a smile is detected), and [...]
by Patrick on November 26, 2008
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This is a 100% crop from a Canon 5D Mark II (courtesy and full credit to this guy) at ISO 6400. It isn’t perfectly focused, but noise management is looking pretty good. In other words given the Nikon D700 and now the Canon 5D Mark II, I have to revise my previous ISO [...]
by Patrick on November 26, 2008
The Samsung TL34 HD brings a stunning 14.7 megapixels, 3 inch touchscreen LCD, 720p HD Video Recording, and a f/2.8 28mm lens to the compact table, all in a very slim package. In order to minimize some of the noise issues associated with going all out on the megapixels, Samsung has passed on the typical [...]
by Patrick on November 25, 2008
In further proof that I may not be crazy, DPReview takes on the Powershot G10 today and in their conclusions makes some sound points. Sound, in that they mostly agree with my continual take on the G10, which is, how good would the G10 be had they gone with a sensor with less megapixels. Why [...]
by Patrick on November 21, 2008
Shun Cheung reviews the Nikon D700 for Photo.net, and as expected by now, the Nikon D700 comes out as the best of both worlds: as fully capable as the Nikon D3, and as compact as the Nikon D300. We’ve gone over most of this before, but in my opinion, the Nikon D700 is the best [...]
by Patrick on November 19, 2008
The top of the line for Nikon’s compacts (excepting the P6000), the Nikon Coolpix S710 features a 14.5 megapixel sensor, 3 inch LCD, a 3.6x zoom lens, built in VR (vibration reduction), and ISO up to 3200, all of this stuffed into a relatively slim, (but fatter than some of the competition) brushed metal exterior. [...]
by Patrick on November 19, 2008
Camera Labs’ Gordon Laing Video Review for the Canon PowerShot SX10 IS.
by Patrick on November 19, 2008
It seems like only yesterday that I was extolling the virtues of the Nikon D90, since it’s become fashionable to pan the D90 as of late, due to a not so perfectly implemented (but in our opinion, still very cool) high definition video feature. Unfortunately, this railroads an important forgotten feature of the Nikon D90, [...]