The various underlying technologies shaping today’s cameras are undergoing profound transitions just as market pressures have companies looking for new capabilities to bring to market. It is mostly a match made in heaven for most camera consumers. The result is a continuing and even accelerating stream of innovations in the photo and camera world. We […]
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Here is another example of the accelerating improvements in compact cameras – The Olympus SZ-30MR. Utilizing better optical sensor technology, optics improvements and enormous CPU power, the Olympus SZ-30MR comes crammed with features. And given the pressure from tablets and smartphones with their cameras, one can see why. Here is the the feature list: Core
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Our recent story on the 5 best compact cameras of 2010 has suffered a double trauma. First Gizmodo released its 3 best compact cameras – and only 1 1/2 of our cameras were on the Gizmodo list. The Canon S95 was fully on and an incarnation of the Panasonic Lumix SX7, the Lumix LX5. But
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As a photo-artist I really appreciate always having a camera with me. Rather than taking a bulky, heavy SLR everywhere I have reverted back to compact cameras because they are certainly delivering on thin, light, wide zoom-range and gobs of features. They are also bound and determined not to provide a view finder – to
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This is the Canon Powershot SD880 but whats missing here is also missing on my Panasonic Lumix Tz3 – a view finder. Now I can live with a compact camera that has a paltry manual mode settings range of f4.5 to f12 for for f-stop settings and shutter speed range of 1/60th to 1/500th –
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Update: the price per gigabyte for a HDD has sunk to $0.07/GB in approximately a year and a half. Also see this comparison of HDD vs SSD trade-offs. But the most important trend is a slowdown in SSD drive cost/GB reductions forecast out to 2014. The improvements in cost/GB have already started to slow and
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Well we spent most of the weekend trying to figure out our benchmarks results – would Windows 7 be able to beat Windows XP in raw speed and performance? Here is that tale of the table: Speed Comparison: Windows 7 versus Windows XP Test Windows 7 Windows XP Copy 800MB file from USB 29sec 27sec
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What becomes immediately evident working with a Gateway NV74 with a 17.3″ screen in Windows 7 is that its is lovely to have so much extra room – now there is plenty for PS panels: The response time seems reasonable but I shall have detailed comparisons by days end hopefully. One complaint on the keyboard
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