Saturday, May 25, 2013

Every camera purchased from us includes £116 worth of free accessories...




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Saturday, May 18, 2013

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Saturday, May 11, 2013

The FZ200 – Panasonic’s New Flagship Superzoom Camera


     
          
Competition in the digital camera industry lead to a lot of races. First, there was the megapixel race, with manufacturers scrambling to increase camera resolution to higher and higher levels. That calmed down (to some extent), only for a new race to spring up around lens power. Now manufacturers are offering cameras with 30x, 42x, even 50x lenses. Panasonic, though, has taken a different path with its Lumix DMC-FZ200. Rather than increasing focal range, Panasonic has stuck to same 24x optical zoom that was on its previous flagship superzoom, the FZ150, but has kept its maximum aperture constant at f/2.8 over the entire zoom range - a first for any superzoom camera.

Combined with its 12.1 MOS sensor, the FZ200 becomes just about unmatched in the superzoom segment for low light shooting. The large aperture allows photographers to use lower ISO settings or faster shutter speeds to reduce noise or blur, respectively, something with great appeal to sports and wildlife shooters among others. To help put this in perspective, an equivalent DSLR lens can easily cost over $3000 dollars – and that does not even include the DSLR body. Panasonic’s suggested retail price for this camera listed as $600.

The lens obviously gets a lot of attention, with its enviable aperture across its 24x 25-600mm zoom range, but that doesn’t mean that there’s nothing remarkable about the rest of the camera. The new electronic viewfinder is 0.2 inches across with 1,312,000 dot equivalent resolution – more than 6 times higher than its predecessor. Since it is a field-sequential design, the viewfinder runs at 60Hz. The main, rear LCD has variable angles, allowing for shots from otherwise difficult angles. Self-portraits become a breeze to make.

The camera offers both High Definition and High Speed Video. HD video can be recorded at up to 120 fps, and normal VGA can go even faster at 240 fps.

The FZ200 has a built in Panorama shot mode, and offers the choice of saving in RAW format. That doesn’t mention significantly improved battery life, and a larger working flash range. Also, the maximum shutter speed increased to 1/4000, while the minimum has decreased to a full 60 seconds, to allow for long-exposure shots. It can take 12 photos per second in burst mode.

Since manual and automatic modes are easily accessible through a physical dial, the camera is suitable for casual or beginning photographers along with more advanced ones. The different manual modes allow users to set what shutter speed, aperture or ISO setting should be used. One of those can be set manually with the other two being adjusted automatically, or all three can be set manually. Obviously, automatic modes each sets all three of those based on the light conditions and other factors.

The camera has the same autofocus system as Panasonic’s more advanced G-series, which is known for its speed. Combined with the camera’s fast aperture, the camera makes possible quick snaps at the telephot end of its zoom range – where many other cameras slow down.

Saturday, May 4, 2013

Canon SX50 Takes Zooming to Another Level...

Canon SX50 Takes Zooming to Another Level



Recently, camera manufacturers have been driving up lens ratings on cameras to ever-increasing levels, much like the race to drive up megapixel ratings earlier. Just a few years ago, 12x lenses were just about the best that you could get. With the creation of the “super-zoom” class of cameras, they’ve been left in the dust, with 24x or 30x lenses now common. The race really heated up last year with Nikon’s announcement of the Coolpix P510, with its 42x lens. Now Canon has gone to the next level with the PowerShot SX50, featuring a humongous 50x 24-1200 mm lens.

That’s more magnification power than most binoculars can provide! The SX50 allows you to capture huge landscapes or fill the entire frame with a subject kilometers away, just by spinning the lens, without having to switch lenses or cameras.

The camera inherits much from the SX40 before it. It has the same 12.1 Megapixel CMOS sensor, DIGIC 5 processor, and a rotating LCD display. The camera body, however, has been completely redesigned, with a much more sleek and modern looking design. The camera now has an external hot shoe, which can accept any of Canon’s Speedlight EX flashguns, making it much more useful in low-light situations. Wired remote control is also available.

The rear LCD size has been made slightly larger, and has more than twice as many pixels. It is a vari-angle display, which means that it can be tilted and rotated to allow for capturing at odd angles or to reduce screen glare. The 202,000 dot electronic viewfinder is surrounded by a rubber cushion and has a diopter wheel.

ISO range has been expanded from 100-3200 to 80-6400, while burst rate can take 13 frames per second over the previous 10.3. Full HD video recording has been added as well. Face recognition has been built into the camera’s autofocus system.

Twelve settings are available on the camera’s shooting mode dial, including the standard program, shutter priority, aperture priority and manual settings along with settings based on the scene or the subject, such as a sports mode and a landscape mode. A digital effects mode is also available. HD recording modes and even slow motion movie capture modes are available.

The SX50′s focal range is obviously its biggest selling point. Although the camera costs about as much as an entry-level DSLR camera, it offers much more value for its price, since DSLR cameras are either sold with a basic 18-55mm lens, or with no lens at all. Since the full potential of DSLR cameras can only be used in conjunction with a number of lenses, the SX50 offers a better value than any DSLR setups within this price range. In fact, a single DSLR lens for with the same range as the SX50′s lens would easily cost thousands. The fact that Canon has been able to put a lens like this into a fixed-lens camera with the SX50′s price tag is something of a manufacturing miracle. With the ability to take images in JPEG or RAW formats, the camera is a serious alternative to a DSLR.s