Canon Powershot A590 IS

Canon Powershot A590 ISThe Canon PowerShot A590 IS is an 8 megapixel point and shoot camera with a 4x optical zoom lens and image stabilization.

It also comes featuring aperture and shutter priority modes as well as full manual exposure mode.

It will have a retail price of $179.99 when it is released in March. Continue reading

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Canon Powershot A580

Canon Powershot A580The Canon PowerShot A580 is an 8 megapixel point and shoot camera with a 4x optical zoom lens with Image Stabilization, a F2.6 maximum aperture, and a shutter speed range of 15-1/2,000 sec.

It features a large high-resolution 2.5-in. LCD screen (115K dots). Continue reading

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Canon Powershot SD950 (IXUS960) IS

Canon Powershot SD 950The Canon PowerShot SD870 IS IXUS / Digital ELPH is an 8 megapixel compact point and shoot camera with a wide angle 3.8x optical zoom lens with optical image stabilization.

The Canon PowerShot SD870 IS IXUS / Digital ELPH features a large 3.0 inch LCD screen and an ISO range of 100 to 1600. The camera measures 95.9 x 59.9 x 27.6 mm (3.8 x 2.4 x 1.1 in.) and weighs approx. 165 g (5.8 oz.). Continue reading

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Canon PowerShot A650 IS

Canon A650 ISThe Canon PowerShot A650 IS is a 12 megapixel image sense with a 6x optical zoom lens (35 – 210mm), image stabilization and a 2.5 inch vari-angle LCD.

It features an ISO range of 80 – 1600 (with up to 3200 expandable). The camera measures 4.41 x 2.67 x 2.21 in. (112.1 x 67.8 x 56.2mm) and weighs 10.58 oz. (300g).

The Canon PowerShot A650 IS will have a retail price of $250 USD when it ships in September.  Continue reading

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Canon PowerShot SX100 IS

Canon Powershot SZ100 ISThe Canon PowerShot SX100 IS is an 8 megapixel digital camera with a 10x optical zoom lens – equivalent of 36 – 360mm (with optical image stabilization).

The Canon PowerShot SX100 IS features a 2.5 inch LCD screen (no view finder), maximum aperture range of f/28 to f/4.3, ISO from 80 to 1600 and a shutter speed range of between 1/2500 to 15 seconds. The camera measures 4.28 x 2.81 x 1.84 in. / 108.7 x 71.4 x 46.7mm and weighs approx 9.35 oz. / 265g (camera body only)

It has a large range of automatic and scene modes as well as modes that give more control to a photographer wanting to stretch the camera a little further with aperture priority, shutter priority and manual modes but also manual white balance and metering control.  Continue reading

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Canon PowerShot SD870 (IXUS 860) IS

Canon SD 870 ISThe Canon PowerShot SD870 IS IXUS / Digital ELPH is an 8 megapixel compact point and shoot camera with a wide angle 3.8x optical zoom lens with optical image stabilization.

The Canon PowerShot SD870 IS IXUS / Digital ELPH features a large 3.0 inch LCD screen and an ISO range of 100 to 1600. 3.65 x 2.32 x 1.02 in (92.6 x 58.8 x 25.9mm) and weighs approx 5.50 oz./155g (camera body only). Continue reading

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Canon Powershot G9

Canon Powershot G9The Canon PowerShot G9 is a 12.1 megapixel camera with a 6x optical zoom and 3.0 inch high resolution LCD Screen.

This update of the award winning G7 adds a variety of features, most notably RAW shooting mode.

The Canon PowerShot G9 features face detection (auto focussing and auto exposure), a new thumb grip, compatability with Canon’s wireless flash transmitter, image stabilization, DIGIC III, ISO of up to 1600, 25 shooting modes, hot shoe flash plus lots more.

The camera measures 106.4 x 71.9 x 42.5 mm (4.2 x 2.8 x 1.7 in) and weighs 320g (9.4 oz). Continue reading

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Canon Powershot A720 IS

Canon PowerShot A720The Canon PowerShot A720 IS an 8 megapixel point and shoot camera featuring a 6x optical zoom lens (equivalent of 35 to 210mm).

It features optical image stabilization, an ISO range of 80 – 1600 and a 2.5 inch LCD screen and optical view finder.

The Canon PowerShot A720 IS has aperture and shutter priority modes, manual mode as well as 12 scene modes. The camera measures 97 x 67 x 49 mm (3.8 x 2.6 x 1.9 in), weighs 250 g (8.8 oz), and running on AA (2) batteries. Continue reading

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Nikon D3

The Nikon D3 DSLR is the long awaited addition to the Nikon DSLR range – Nikon’s first full frame image sensor.

The Nikon D3 features the new full frame ‘FX’ image sensor with an area of 36 x 23.9mm. It has a resolution of 12 megapixels.

Existing Nikon lenses will work on the Nikon D3 in DX Crop mode (at reduced resolution of 5.1 megapixels). Maximum shooting speed is 9 frames per second (at full resolution) – although it can be boosted to 10 fps in DX Crop mode or even 11 fps with some adjustments and limitations to auto focus.

The ISO range is a staggering 100 to 25,600 thanks to a new processor called Expeed. It has an ISO range of up to 6400.

The D3 has a 3.0 inch LCD with Live View (920,000 pixels).
The Nikon D3 will have a retail price of $4999.95.

The feature list goes on and if you’re interested in learning more see Nikon’s announcement below. Continue reading

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Nikon D300

Nikon D300The Nikon D300 is a DX format DSLR (1.5x crop factor) has a 12 megapixel CMOS sensor, ISO range of up to 6400, 51 point AF sensor, 14-bit A/D conversion, six frames per second shooting speed (upgradable with the addition of a battery grip), self-cleaning sensor and a 3.0 inch LCD (922,000 pixels) with Live View.

Buy the Nikon D300

The Nikon D300 is available from Amazon in three configurations:

Nikon D300 DX 12.3MP Digital SLR Camera (Body Only)
Nikon D300 DX 12.3MP Digital SLR Camera with 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED-IF AF-S VR DX Nikkor Zoom Lens
Nikon D300 DX 12.3MP Digital SLR Camera with 18-135mm AF-S DX f/3.5-5.6G ED-IF Nikkor Zoom Lens

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