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Less sophisticated but ultracompact

September 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek, Photography

So it looks like the advanced compact cameras are really a turkey shoot between the Panasonic DMC-LX3 and the upcoming Canon G10. As an aside the 5MP camera we are replacing is a Canon SD400 which is 5.7 cubic inches and 130 grams. So it would be nice to get something about the same size.
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Compact Cameras

June 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

For years I’ve used the Fuji Finepix F10 which took really great pictures with 5Mpixels but most importantly was fast enough to take ISO 400 photos. That camera still works really well but is not pretty big. Ideally you want a shirt pocket camera that:

8MP sensor and lense quality so you can get A3+
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Backpacks for carrying your dSLR too

June 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

If you don’t carry your dSLR around all the time. There a couple of solutions from Lowepro has some nice backpacks where you can put a laptop and a dSLR like: CompuRover AW which even has a Tripod carrier. Fastpack 250 is smaller and puts the camera in a fast removal side panel. It holds [...]

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