As the variety and quantity of “travel zoom” compacts grows, kicked off in earnest by Panasonic’s TZ series a couple of years back and now sporting everything from Full HD video and GPS to 3D shooting, it was about time Nikon pimped its Coolpix series and emerged with its own “small camera, big zoom” contender.Not [...]
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Fujifilm Finepix F550 EXR
Compared to its main rivals within the advanced travel compact sector the FujiFilm F550 EXR is a well-built camera that delivers a fairly expansive feature-set at a competitive price. In use, it proves easy-to-use and adaptable, delivering images of a consistently good, if not quite exceptional, quality. Adventurous types will doubtless be enticed by the [...]
Samsung HZ35W/WB650
Samsung‘s previous entry into this field was the WB550, launched late last year, which while a very competent camera looked a bit pale compared to the advanced features of arch-rival Panasonic‘s market-leading flagship. Not to be outdone Samsung has launched a new model in the WB series, the WB650, which which matches or exceeds the [...]
Pentax Optio RZ10
The past couple of years have seen the increasing popularity of long-zoom compact cameras, or “travel cameras” as they are often known. Typically these have a lens with at least 10x zoom, usually with a wide-angle of 28mm or wider, but in a body not much bigger than a pocket ultra-compact. Most are premium models [...]
Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ20
The Lumix DMC-TZ20 (also known as the DMC-ZS10 in the USA) is Panasonic’s latest range-topping travel-zoom camera, featuring a 16x, 24-384mm lens, built-in GPS geo-tagging, 3D Photo Mode and a touchscreen LCD. Successor to the TZ10 model, the DMC-TZ20 has a new 14.1 megapixel MOS sensor which enables full 1080i HD movies in the AVCHD [...]
Pentax Optio WG-1 GPS
PENTAX Imaging Company has announced its 12th generation of adventure series digital cameras – the PENTAX Optio WG-1 and PENTAX Optio WG-1 GPS. Featuring outstanding waterproof, dustproof, shockproof, coldproof, and crushproof capability, these extra-rugged models take adventure photography to new heights (and depths).
Canon SX230 HS
Canon has introduced its first GPS-enabled camera, the PowerShot SX230 HS compact superzoom. Canon SX230 HS is a 12 Megapixel Digital Camera features 14x optical zoom (35mm equivalent: 28-392mm), ISO 100-3200, Full 1080p HD Video, Dynamic Image Stabilizer, Smart AUTO, Toy Camera Effect and Monochrome, and a large, bright 3.0-inch wide PureColor System LCD with [...]
Samsung NX100
Samsung was the first company outside the Micro Four Thirds consortium to release a mirrorless interchangable lens camera. The distinctly DSLR-like NX10 made little fuss about its mirrorless construction, concentrating instead on offering familiar capbilities and behavior in a smaller body with smaller lenses. Now its sister model, the NX100 takes a slightly different approach [...]
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Compact, lightweight with environmental protection, EOS 5D successor boasts a newly designed Canon CMOS sensor, with ISO sensitivity up to 25,600 for shooting in near dark conditions. The new DIGIC 4 processor combines with the improved CMOS sensor to deliver medium format territory image quality at 3.9 frames per second, for up to 310 frames.

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