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Canon PowerShot S95 – Featured User Review
The Canon PowerShot S95 is one of the top premium compact cameras on the market right now. It’s also the only truly pocket-sized pro-spec’d point-and-shoot. I saw the S95 review GrizzlyAdam posted on his blog and convinced him to also post a review in the PhotographyREVIEW.com user reviews. Anyone who’s in the market for a […]
Read More »Panasonic Lumix ZS10 Pocket Superzoom Camera – 16x Zoom Lens & Touchscreen Display
It’s starting to look like 2011 might be the year of the pocket superzoom camera. A bunch of new pocket superzooms were announced a few weeks ago at the annual CES tradeshow. Conspicuously absent from the list of new cameras was a new Lumix ZS model from Panasonic, the company that invented the pocket […]
Read More »Panasonic Lumix TS3 Rugged Waterproof Camera – New Sensor, Full HD and GPS
Panasonic has announced a new waterproof, shockproof point-and-shoot camera. The Panasonic Lumix TS3 replaces the TS2 as their top-of-the line rugged outdoor point-and-shoot camera. It increases the waterproof depth rating from 33 to 40 feet (12.2 m), bumps video resolution to 1920 x 1080 full HD, adds GPS and 3D shooting; and a new […]
Read More »Canon "The Story Beyond the Still” To Premiere At Sundance Film Festival
The result of a contest-driven collaboration, Canon’s “The Story Behind The Still” short film will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in a private showing on January 23, 2011. The film will make its public debut on the Sundance Channel and Vimeo on February 7th.
Read More »2010 Camera Of The Year
It’s June of 2011 and I’m adding a little update to our 2010 Camera Of The Year article. I originally wanted to create a little suspense in the introduction but since we’re well past the end of 2010 and we now have a full review up I’ll just go ahead and say the camera is […]
Read More »Olympus E-PL2 Hands-On Sneak Peek Video
Olympus has announced the E-PL2, the second generation of their entry-level E-PL Pen Micro Four Thirds camera. They sent me an E-PL2 a few days ago so I could get to know it and post a hands-on intro when it was announced. Compared to last year’s E-PL1, the Olympus E-PL2 is more of a refinement […]
Read More »New Samsung WB700 Pocket Superzoom Camera – 18x Zoom Plus RAW
A few days ago I finished a Pocket Superzoom Camera Guide with the six top pocket digital cameras with 10x (or longer) zoom lenses. Almost immediately after I published my guide, Samsung fired this missile onto the camera battlefield – the WB700 digital camera. The 14-megapixel Samsung WB700 pocket superzoom camera has an 18x 24-432mm […]
Read More »Nikon Coolpix S8100 Camera Preview Video
Nikon sent me their latest pocket superzoom camera, the 12-megapixel Coolpix S8100, a few weeks ago. Like other pocket superzooms it has a 10x zoom lens and it fits in a pants or shirt pocket. Besides the 30-300mm Nikkor ED VR zoom lens, the S8100 also has full HD video, a 5 frames-per-second full-resolution burst […]
Read More »Canvas Photo Prints Make Great Gifts!
Here’s a great last-minute Holiday gift idea – a canvas photo print! YPOC (Your Photos On Canvas) is an online canvas and PhotoGiclée* printer marketing to all types and levels of photographers. A couple of weeks ago they announced a Web site redesign and hooked me up with a discount code so I could test […]
Read More »Leica D-Lux 5 – Featured User Review
Thanks to PhotographyREVIEW.com member Chris Kilham for posting our first Leica D-Lux 5 digital camera review. The D-Lux 5 is Leica’s red-dot version of the Panasonic Lumix LX5 premium compact digital camera. In both cases it’s a 10-megapixel camera with a 3.8x Leica zoom lens, HD video and RAW capability. So why would anyone pay […]
Read More »New 15x Tamron 18-270mm Di II VC PZD Zoom Lens With Ultrasonic Motor
Tamron has announced a new version of their 15x 18-270mm zoom lens. The 60th Anniversary Edition Tamron 18-270mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD zoom lens has been updated with a new ultrasonic “PZD” (Piezo Drive) motor for faster, quieter auto focus performance. Like the original version, the new Tamron 18-270mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD […]
Read More »Nikon D7000 Preview Videos
A Nikon D7000 digital SLR showed up for review a couple weeks ago. I immediately made a preview/demo video and now I’m updating this page with a sample video showing off the video performance of the D7000. If you’ve been in a cave for a while, the D7000 is a 16-megapixel DX-format (APS-C) digital SLR […]
Read More »Pentax SMC DA* 300mm f/4 SDM Lens – Featured User Review
Like everyone else, we spend the majority of our time and attention on Nikon and Canon camera gear. But there’s a lot of other great photography equipment out there. So here’s an excellent review for something different. The Pentax SMC DA* 300mm f/4 SDM telephoto lens is compact, light and weather-sealed, making it a great […]
Read More »Canon EOS 5D Mark II & 7D Mode Dial Upgrade
This morning, Canon announced an upgrade for the mode dial on the EOS 7D and EOS 5D Mark II. The mode dial on both cameras has a tendency to migrate away from where it’s been set. The dial upgrade locks the mode dial where the photographer sets it. The new dial was introduced with the […]
Read More »Sigma 8-16mm Super-Wide Zoom Lens Review
The Sigma 8-16mm f/4.5-5.6 DC HSM wide-angle zoom lens was announced early this year and Sigma sent me one for review as soon as they had one available. It’s currently the widest non-fisheye lens on the market for APS-C digital SLRs like the Canon Digital Rebels, the EOS 7D, Nikon D7000, etc. I’ve been using […]
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