by Johan on October 23, 2007
As an upgrade version of the popular K100D digital camera, the new Pentax K100D Super boasts a dust removal system, SDM (Supersonic Drive Motor) lens and new fastest ISO speed of 3200. It retails for around $600 (including kit lens). Need more details? PhotographyBlog has reviewed this “Super” camera. Here is the conclusion.
Having the arrogance to call your camera ‘Super’ places it justifiably in the firing line for a critical kicking. But having used the camera for more than six weeks, that thought has never entered my head until now. That’s because the Pentax K100D Super ticks very nearly all of the boxes for those wanting an easy to use DSLR that delivers images you’ll want to keep straight out of the camera; and with the minimum of user input and effort to boot. That said, there is enough room to grow built in for those of us who do want to do more than simply point and shoot, and first time DSLR users will have fun experimenting. Any camera that makes photography fun again gets a big, Paul McCartney-style thumbs up in my book. It also feels built to last, so if you’re looking to get into digital SLR photography and are not already allied to a particular system the Pentax K100D Super currently offers one of the best places to start. Given the range of features and the asking price – for what it is and what it does, it’s hard to find fault, save for possibly the fact that you have to rely on four AAs or two longer-lasting CR-V3 cells for power. But, again at this price, that’s no big deal. For that reason the Pentax K100D Super receives the very rare PhotographyBLOG accolade of a full five stars and an Essential rating.
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by Johan on October 15, 2007
Priced for around $180(after conversion), the FujiFilm F480 is a 8MP compact digital camera that features 28mm wide-angle Fuji dragon lens with 4x optical zoom and 2.7 inch ultra LCD display. The camera adopts a special purpose lithium battery NP-40N for longer life and also sports XD/SD/SDHC memory cards for storage. It also offers the photo sensitiveness equal to ISO800.
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BenQ releases its new DC-T800 8MP compact digital camera with a 3-inch touchscreen and “super shake-free” functionality. The T800 also boasts of Face Tracking, in-camera photo editing, 2000 ISO photos, 6400 ISO movies and 30fps 640 x 480 MPEG-4 recording. The camera should be available in October.
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by Johan on September 21, 2007
BenQ introduced its latest C840 digital camera. As a successor of its popular C740i Camera, the BenQ C840 boasts high ISO options, smc PENTAX lens, Face Tracking function, Shake-Free mode, 8MP CCD sensor, optical zoom in video recording and 3:2 and 16:9 special output sizes. The shooter also offers its users various convenient functions like the shake-free mode to prevent blurring caused by shaking of camera while taking Snapshots or making video clips.What you get is distortion free image of remarkable quality. BenQ’s C840 also supports continuous movie recording with optical zoom at wide screen format (720×400) at 30 fps. The Face Detection Technology helps detect and track human faces for great precision. Other market fetching features of the C840 Digital Camera include 15 different shooting modes, the PictBridge function for direct photo printing via a compatible printer and support for SD memory card of up to 4G.
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Here is Sony’s latest portable camera, the Sony HDC-1500, which comprises of a newly developed CCD that provides the frame rate of 1080 60 frame progressive or field interlace according to the output required. The HDC-1500 integrates an advanced HD DSP with 14 Bit A/D converters and features an optical interface for transmission of high-quality digital data over long distances. The camera also has two HD SDI outputs and one digitally down-converted SDI output. With a high sensitivity f10 @ 2000 lux, it incorporates full featured multi-format studio/ob camera system, enhanced hdcu-1000 / 1500 control units and triax and/or fiber operation capability. Pricing info is still unknown.
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Fujifilm FinePix Z10fd Digital Camera is currently available in five exciting colors; moo-green, red metallic, azure metallic, orange metallic and graphite aubergine. The shooter comes equipped with a 2.5” LCD screen with 150,000 pixels which is covered by Fujifilm’s own Wideview film for clear and extended Viewpoint. This camera also provides Fujifilm’s Face Detection Technology, which automatically identifies up to 10 faces in the frame to produce detailed results. Fujifilm FinePix Z10d red eye correction tool accompanies the camera to recognize and correct the red eyes to ensure better picture quality. The camera xD/SD compatible and it also supports SDHC (High capacity) Card for storage utilities.
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