Hasta La Gadget!

It all started with Micro Four Thirds, but now just about everyone is jonesing to play along in the mirrorless camera game. The crew over at Serious Compacts managed to get ahold of quite a few contenders (Samsung’s NX10, Sony’s NEX5, Olympus’ E-P2 and E-PL1, and Panasonic’s GF1, GF2 and GH1), and rather than taking ’em apart one by one, they’ve decided to size ’em up in a fantastic size comparison piece. From lenses to bodies, all six cameras are shown from various angles, and even if you’ve convinced yourself to not be in the market for one of these bad boys, the eye candy alone is worth a peek. Furthermore, the group has been entered into a telling ISO comparison test, but if you came here looking for a spoiler, you’ll be sorely disappointed. Tap those links below to get your study on, won’tcha?

Mirrorless camera shootout: DSLR alternatives get sized up and ISO-examined originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 17 Aug 2010 06:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink   |  Serious Compacts 1, 2  | Email this | Comments

Panasonic and superzoom cameras go together like… well, like any two things that are undoubtedly meant to be together. The company has a history of outdoing itself time and time again when it comes to enlarged point-and-shoots with atypically long zooms, and the all-new DMC-FX100 is most certainly not bucking the trend. Announced just a few weeks back, this here Lumix carries a 24x optical zoom, 11fps burst mode, 1080p movie recording and a 14 megapixel sensor. The gurus over at PhotographyBLOG have been testing its every feature for the past few days, and they drew some rather positive conclusions. Confessing that the FZ38 was a hard act to follow, they still felt that the FZ100 managed to top even that, with the only real (expected) knock being the noise that made itself too evident once you pushed beyond the ISO 400 mark. They also felt that the $499.95 asking price was a bit on the high side, but now that Panny’s building somewhat of a reputation in this space, we guess it’s entitled to try and take advantage. Hit the source link for the fully skinny, but don’t even bother if you’re hoping for someone to talk you out of pulling the trigger.

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ100 reviewed: the best megazoom shooter your dough can buy originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink   |  PhotographyBLOG  | Email this | Comments

Samsung’s been dishing quite a few pocketable cameras of late, but it seems as if its NX100 may have slipped out a few moments before showtime. The screen capture you’re looking at above was snagged from the end of a new National Geographic promo video — one that was uploaded on August 5th but has already been pulled back. Rumor has it that the white device there on the right is a forthcoming NX100, which would make it the latest in Sammy’s promising NX line of interchangeable lens cameras. There’s obviously no telling what kind of components lie beneath the shell, but the grab does give us reason to believe at least a few new lenses are also on the horizon. We’d say that this lines up nicely for an official reveal at Photokina, but you already knew that, didn’t you?

Update: And now we’re hearing that the NX100 will make its official debut at IFA in just under a month. Huzzah!

Is this the Samsung NX100 interchangeable lens camera? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink Engadget Spanish  |  Photo Rumors  | Email this | Comments

It’s still not as widely available as we would like, but Nikon’s D3S has finally moved from “this thing simply has to be vaporware” to “I may catch one in stock if I stay up all night clicking around.” Without a doubt, it’s one of the most impressive leaps in digital imaging at the $5k DSLR level that we’ve ever seen, and it has become next to essential when dealing with tragic lighting conditions on trade show floors. But as with every gem, there’s a flaw or two be found somewhere. For those who plunked down thousands to bring home Nikon’s low light monster, how would you change things if given the opportunity? Would you have bumped the movie mode to 1080p? Put a few more buttons on the rear? Lightened the load a bit? Go on and spill your guts below — you’ve earned the chance, chief.

How would you change Nikon’s D3S? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink   |   | Email this | Comments

What you just heard was the sound of five new FinePix cameras popping out of Fujifilm’s doors. Yippie! If all goes well, we’ll be seeing these SDHC-loving / xD-hating babies from late August. Let’s start working through the list: the 12 megapixel, 720p-video (24fps) F300EXR boasts auto-focus speeds that are “as good as” DSLRs, all thanks to the camera’s hybrid auto-focus system — a combination of Contrast AF (as used on most compacts) and Phase Detection AF (as found on most DSLRs). Other goodies include a wide 15x (24-360mm equivalent) “low noise” zoom lens, 3-inch high contrast 460k-dot LCD on the back, ISO settings up to a staggering 12,800, face detection and recognition (the latter lets you store optimum exposure and focus settings for up to eight faces), 360˚ panorama shooting mode, HDMI output, and image stabilization on the second-gen Super CCD EXR sensor. The price? You’ll have to cough up $329.95 for this bad boy.

Read on for the rest of the family.

Continue reading Fujifilm shoots out five new cameras: F300EXR, Z800EXR, Z80, JX280 and S2800HD

Fujifilm shoots out five new cameras: F300EXR, Z800EXR, Z80, JX280 and S2800HD originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink   |  Akihabara News  | Email this | Comments