The Samsung WB850F Smart Camera – WiFi, Good Looks & 21x Zoom Lens

2012 PMA Featured News Point and Shoot Samsung Videos

 I had to rewrite this article a few times. My final and most significant rewrite occurred after I took a close look at the photos of the Samsung WB850F camera and found it to be wonderfully handsome. There was a time when “handsome” and Samsung did not often occur in the same sentence. Not if […]

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Olympus VR-340 Camera Includes A Fashion Stylist

2012 PMA Featured News Olympus Point and Shoot

 With Olympus’s new pocket superzoom camera you can bypass the shower and the mirror in the morning. Well, maybe not the shower. But the new 16-megapixel Olympus VR-340’s new Beauty Mode includes a purse-load of in-camera makeup tricks: “Laid out like a cosmetic toolbox, it lets you apply everything from eyeliner and eye shadow to […]

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New Olympus VG-610 – Pocket Point-and-Shoot For Under $100

2012 PMA News Olympus Point and Shoot

 Introduced last week at the annual CES tradeshow, the new 14-megapixel Olympus VG-160 digital camera offers a 5x zoom lens, 720p HD video, creative “Magic Art Filters,” Intelligent Auto (iAuto) mode, a 3-inch LCD display and more in an ultra-compact pocket-sized camera – for less than US $100! You sure get a lot more for […]

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Olympus SP-620UZ Ultrazoom Camera – 21x Zoom Lens

2012 PMA News Olympus Point and Shoot

 The Olympus SP-620UZ, announced last week at the annual CES tradeshow in Las Vegas, is an affordable 21x superzoom camera with a 16-megapixel sensor, 720p HD video and a 3-inch LCD display. The 21x optical zoom lens has a range of 25-525mm (35mm equivalent) and the camera has dual image stabilization to help freeze action […]

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Olympus SZ-12 – 600mm Zoom Pocket Camera

2012 PMA Featured News Olympus Point and Shoot

 Olympus introduced an impressive little superzoom camera at CES this year. The 14-megapixel Olympus SZ-12 has an amazing 24x 25-600mm (equivalent) optical zoom lens crammed into a camera body about the size of an iPhone. To put the SZ-12 in perspective, the longest pocket camera lenses are 16 or 18x zooms. The SZ-12 is only […]

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Android-Powered Polaroid Smart Camera With 3x Optical Zoom Introduced At CES

2012 PMA Featured iPhoneography News Point and Shoot

 One of the most interesting announcements at CES this year was the Polaroid SC1630 Smart Camera. It’s an Android-powered 16-megapixel camera with a 3x 36-108mm (equivalent) optical zoom lens instead of the standard fixed wide-angle you get with most smart phones. The Polaroid SC1630 Smart Camera gives you a real lens and real camera functionality […]

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Fujifilm X-Pro1 Interchangeable Lens Digital Rangefinder

2012 PMA Featured Fujifilm Mirrorless News Videos

 Fujifilm’s fixed lens X100 digital rangefinder camera has been a huge success. Take everything that was awesome about the X100 – great lens, great image quality, hybrid viewfinder, excellent camera design, etc. – and put it in a more versatile, interchangeable lens body and you’ve got the new Fujifilm X-Pro1. The X-Pro1 gets a brand-new […]

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New Kodak EasyShare M750 WiFi Camera And Smart Phone App

2012 PMA Featured iPhoneography Kodak News Point and Shoot Software Videos

 With the new 16-megapixel Kodak EasyShare M750 wireless digital camera, you can share photos through a WiFi network – or – install Kodak’s free EasyShare Camera App on your iPhone, Android or Blackberry smart phone and you can transfer your photos from the camera and share from your phone. The M750 isn’t the first WiFi-powered […]

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New Fujifilm Superzooms – HS30EXR & HS25EXR

2012 PMA Fujifilm News Point and Shoot

 There are two new HS superzooms in the Fujifilm FinePix compact camera family. The new Fujifilm FinePix HS30EXR and HS25EXR are built around a new 1\2-inch 16-megaixel EXR-CMOS sensor and 30x 24-720mm (equivalent) optical zoom lens and both cameras can capture full HD video. Both cameras are making their public debut at the annual CES […]

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Fujifilm FinePix XP150 & XP100 Rugged Cameras – Full HD Video & GPS

2012 PMA Fujifilm News Point and Shoot Underwater

 Fujifilm introduced three new FinePix XP rugged point-and-shoot cameras at CES / PMA this week. The new 14-megapixel, GPS-tracking FinePix XP150 is Fujifilm’s new top dog waterproof, shockproof pocket camera – perfect for vacations and outdoor sports like rafting, snowboarding and rock climbing. The XP150 replaces the XP30 as Fujifilm’s top-of-the-line rugged point-and-shoot, adding full […]

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1TB Swiss Army Knife Announced

2012 PMA Digital Storage Featured Memory Cards News

 At first glance, this may not seem like a photography article. But trust me, it is. Or at least, I want it to be. Earlier today I got a message from my friend and sometimes author here, Patia Stephens. All it said was “Want,” with a link to an article on this product – a […]

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Test Drive The New Adobe Lightroom 4 Beta

2012 PMA Adobe Featured News Photography Tips Software Videos

 There’s exciting news for Adobe Lightroom users. Adobe has released a public beta version of Lightroom 4. It’s available as a free download to anyone who wants to download and install it. You don’t have to have a current version of Lightroom installed to use it. Of course, it is beta software so it’s a […]

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Sigma Announces Mirrorless Lens Line & Two Prime Lenses

2012 PMA Lenses Mirrorless News Sigma

 Sigma has announced the launch of a new line of lenses designed specifically for Micro Four Thirds and Sony NEX compact system cameras – arguably the hottest camera market for 2012. They’re calling the new lens line, Digital Neo (DN) and launching it this week at the 2012 CES / PMA tradeshow in Las Vegas. […]

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New Sigma 180mm f/2.8 OS Macro Lens Announced

2012 PMA Lenses News Sigma

 Sigma announced a new image-stabilized 180mm macro lens at CES today. The Sigma APO Macro 180mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM is the world’s first 180mm macro lens to offer a true macro magnification ratio of 1:1. That means that it can capture images of subjects at their actual size. The 180mm focal length means […]

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Canon PowerShot G1 X Brings Mirrorless Image Quality To G-Series

2012 PMA Canon Featured Mirrorless News Point and Shoot Videos

Canon introduced a surprising new high-end compact camera today, the 14.3-megapixel PowerShot G1 X. I’ve been criticizing Canon’s high-end G-Series compact cameras for the past couple of years. I believe that with the current interchangeable lens camera options out there, a camera the size of the Canon G12 should have better image quality and changeable […]

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