This is a recounting of the most interesting [not necessarily the best] daily reveals at the CES Show. 1)The Canon PowerShot G1 X is important for what it is not. It is not the first Canon ILC camera in the spirit of the Sony Nex7 or Olympus Pen ILC. It is not shirt pocket size […]
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Picthat has been saying for over two years now that compact cameras are being pushed hard by the improvements in the cameras on smartphones and tablets. Now courtesy of a Wells Fargo pre-release on Consumer Electronic Show announcement, readers will see that there is a wave of new point and shoot, compact cameras incoming stocked
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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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As usual, the NYTimes is out prospecting for some of the nifty stuff in photography and appears to have uncovered the Next Neato Innovation – the Lytro multi-focus camera and pictures. The Lytro uses an array of micro-lenses to record not one but many images all at the same time but with differing depth of field
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Nikon D5100 16.2MP CMOS Digital SLR Camera with 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 VR Nikkor Zoom Any doubts about the convergence of video cameras with digital SLRs went by the wayside with the arrival of the new Nikon D5100 video SLR. This blog has foreseen convergence for the past 4 years and now it has happened with Nikon D5100
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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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Is this just a Photo? Toronto Winter City Festival – Angel of the Apocalypse Exhibit by the Flaming Lotus Girls I have been blithely producing this series of Olympic Plugin articles without asking a very relevant question – when is a picture more than just a picture? By that I mean in the process of
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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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