The Canon PowerShot SX200 IS certainly delivers exceptional image quality when shot at reasonable ISO speeds. It has a nice, bright, readable-in-daylight 3" LCD screen and enough options to keep even an experienced photographer amused. The CCD chip in ...

I carried the camera around for about two weeks and shot under various lighting conditions, from overcast with snow to bright, high-mountain light. It is a very comfortable companion that fits into pocket and hand with an almost unnoticeable weight of ...

The Diana camera was the first low-tech camera to be widely adopted by fine art photographers. Although the original Diana camera is no longer being made, a working replica, with more features than the original (such as pinhole capability), is ...

PowerShovel is the newest contender in the low-tech camera market. These cameras are not really toys; the lens is too sharp, but they are most definitely low tech and fun to use. Their camera is called the Blackbird, fly after the Beatles song

Now that D-SLRs have become so affordable there seems to be less interest in the premium-grade digicams, high-level cameras with an integral lens. That may make sense because an entry-level D-SLR with a built-in flash and a 28-85mm zoom costs as ...

Boasting a built-in GPS device and Ethernet compatibility, this 13.5-megapixel model with a magnesium-alloy shell is surprisingly compact. When not in use, the COOLPIX P6000 fits nicely into a very small shirt pocket or purse. The 2.7" LCD screen is a ...

First announced as a "product under development" in September 2006, the DP1 finally became available 18 months later and it was worth the wait. Aside from solving some image quality issues, the engineers also modified the specifications, delivering a ...

While I have no scientific method of measuring pure resolution, the DP1 produced superb JPEG quality at ISO 100, with the definition of intricate detail expected from an 8-megapixel D-SLR. In raw photos made at ISO 100 to 400-and converted with the ...

Fuji's FinePix S100FS (Film Simulation) is an electronic viewfinder digicam that's designed to produce film-like images at the point of capture. How it does it is not all that different than a D-SLR set on Picture Styles or similar, but the S100FS ...

) Exposure 2 is similar to what the S100FS produces, but that Photoshop compatible plug-in also offers emulations for Velvia 50, 100, and 100F film, with and without grain, something Fujifilm's own simulation does not provide

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The EXILIM Pro EX-F1's shiftable Anti-Shake CMOS makes it possible to shoot blur-free images even when shooting at slower shutter speeds and the longest 432mm (equivalent) end of the non-interchangeable lens. BS mode offers something called Digital ...

With its 12.1-megapixel sensor, Raw and Raw+JPEG Capture modes, 6x (35-210mm equivalent f/2.8-4.8) zoom lens with Optical Image Stabilizer, real image optical zoom finder, 3" LCD, and dedicated hot shoe, the top-of-the-line Canon PowerShot G9 ...

While neither the footage nor inch scale is densely calibrated (e.g., the footage scale has numbers for 2, 5, 10 ft and infinity), the position of the top of the bar indicator will give you a reasonable idea of your set focusing distance. You can also ...

A funny thing happened to me while I was shooting and reviewing the new Sigma DP1 compact camera in New Mexico.

You can shoot in any number of modes, with Program being interesting in that you can shoot with Program Shift-in other words, you set it on P and toggle the back buttons to shift the equivalent exposure in any combination you desire. As with aperture- ...

(Top): The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W200 is a shirt pocket-sized digital camera that's capable of producing very large, high-quality prints.

The workings of the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W200 can be learned almost entirely without reference to a handbook, simply by sitting down with it, turning on the LCD menu screen and toggling through the modes and commands. Each mode setting and function is ...

This month-long test was not intended as a scientific experiment for drawing definitive conclusions about all of the technical aspects involved. That would require testing numerous cameras-of all brands-under strictly controlled conditions and using ...

Compare the size of a "large" 8.8x6.6mm sensor from a digicam to a typical 23.6x15.8mm D-SLR sensor and it's easy to imagine the relative size of the photosites (pixels) as well. Much smaller photosites can lead to some image-quality issues with ...