Canon's consumer SLR line has a new flagship: the 15.1-megapixel EOS Rebel T1i. Once again, we see a new SLR from Canon in less than 18 months from the last in a given line. It's actually only eight months since the XS was announced, and about 14 ...

While the new HD movie mode is going to be the gee-whiz feature on the Canon T1i, the important feature for most photographers is the still image quality at 15.1 megapixels. According to our tests on a beta (prototype) Rebel T1i, its only rival even ...

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For its first full-frame digital SLR, Nikon took a balanced approach with a camera that offered excellent overall performance, but didn't significantly raise the bar in resolution. With the D3X, Nikon has made its mark on the high-res full-frame ...

Perhaps it was a feint, perhaps it was just a matter of introducing the right camera to the right audience, but Sony's Alpha A200 introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show early this year was a very minor upgrade to the A100. The more buzz-worthy ...

Articulated LCD screen allows more comfortable shooting from above or below ; Live View mode doesn't affect AF speed at all ; Good body size, solid feel ; Easy to learn and use ; Great grip ; No-nonsense design ; 14.2-megapixel sensor ; Function ...

Smaller optical viewfinder than A200 ; Kit lens is slightly soft in the corners ; Advanced DRO slows camera down when shooting rapidly ; Pop-up flash doesn't go very high ; Infrared sensor activates AF system when you don't want it to, like when you ...

Like the A200, Sony says that improvements to the A300 and A350's AF have made focus acquisition 1.7 times faster, thanks to the high-torque AF motor and improved AF sequence borrowed from the A700. Autofocus in Live View is also as fast as it is in ...

The Sony A900 has to rank among the most anticipated digital SLRs in recent memory. The company first showed an early version of its upcoming flagship design at the Photo Marketing Association tradeshow in the spring of 2007, and at the following year ...

Extraordinary resolution, nothing touches it at its price point ; Built-in SteadyShot image stabilization ; Surprisingly fast, given the amount of data the camera is pushing around ; Good color rendering: Natural without seeming flat ; A lot of nice ...

Some image noise even at ISO 200 ; At anything above ISO 200, noise limits maximum print size before resolution becomes an issue ; High-ISO performance doesn't match that of Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III (Which is also 2.6x as expensive though) ; Dynamic ...

The sensor is mounted on a moving platter that allows for in-camera image stabilization, branded as SteadyShot Inside. That's another world's first for a full-frame digital SLR, and it's no mean feat when you consider that the sensor shift mechanism ...

Not losing stride after last year's stunning announcements of the D300 and full-frame D3 digital SLRs, Nikon now has a full-frame digital SLR for pros, semi-pros, and well-heeled enthusiasts: the Nikon D700.

Rugged construction with magnesium alloy body and full environmental sealing ; Gorgeous, high-resolution 3-inch LCD ; Fast 5 fps continuous shooting, with a deep buffer ; Optional battery grip improves performance to 8 fps ; High resolution with ...

51-point Auto-area AF mode a bit slow for a camera of this caliber ; JPEGs are a little soft straight from the camera, but respond well to post-processing ; Auto white balance handles incandescent lighting poorly ; Deep menu system (but hey, with so ...

Virtual Horizon Indicator. One of the few features that is truly new on the Nikon D700 is its Virtual Horizon Indicator (VHI). The Nikon D3 actually has a VHI, but it's not available in the one mode where it would truly help: Live View. Set the D700 ...

Nikon Inc. has announced its new D60 digital SLR, a refreshed version of the company's popular D40x model. As with its predecessor, the Nikon D60 has a sensor resolution of 10.2 megapixels and offers ISO sensitivity ranging from 100 to 1600, with the ...

Externally, the Nikon D60's biggest difference from its predecessor is the inclusion of a sensor just below the viewfinder that automatically disables the LCD display when you bring the camera to your eye. Helpfully, the LCD information display now ...

Sony's Alpha A200 is a relatively minor revamp to the electronics giant's first digital SLR, the A100, which itself was a more significant step up from the Konica Minolta 5D. The Sony A200 is lighter and smaller than the A100, and a good deal easier ...

Good body size, solid feel ; Easy to learn and use ; Great grip ; No-nonsense design ; 10.2-megapixel sensor ; Function button makes access to commonly used functions easy ; Good menu design for quickly moving among selections ; Dynamic Range ...

Kit lens is slightly soft in the corners ; Advanced DRO slows camera down when shooting rapidly ; Pop-up flash doesn't go very high ; Infrared sensor activates AF system when you don't want it to, like when you're just holding the camera ; Proprietary ...

Sony's Alpha-mount lens system is the oldest SLR autofocus system in the business, going back 28 years, so there's a broad and growing selection of lenses to choose from

We mentioned at the outset that the Four-Thirds lens mount/sensor standard has allowed Olympus to produce unusually compact DLSRs. Last year's E-410 was the smallest DSLR we'd encountered when it was first introduced; now Olympus is claiming that the ...

Pocketable size (particularly with 25mm pancake lens) ; great walk-around camera ; 11-point contrast-detect autofocus in Live View (but slow, and works with only a few lenses) ; Digital-specific lens line offers advantage in edge-to-edge sharpness ; ...

Small grip can make it difficult to comfortably handle camera ; becomes much more pronounced when long lenses are applied ; Shutter lag in Live View (can reach at much as 2.6 seconds) ; LCD show odd metallic-like sheen in bright daylight, can be ...

While we enjoyed the exceptional compactness of the E-410's body, it always seemed a little hard to hold onto in our large hands: Its body was quite svelte, lacking the bulging handgrip of larger DSLR's we've used. Olympus appears to have remedied ...

Canon's new EOS Rebel XSi digital SLR includes quite a few features new to the EOS camera system, and once again exceeds some of the abilities of the company's intermediate digital SLR camera, the EOS 40D

Excellent 12.2 megapixel sensor with impressively low noise and superb detail ; Live View mode works very well ; Live View mode offers a choice between phase-detect and contrast-detect modes ; Zoom in five or ten times with Live View ; Image ...

AF-assist adjustment and Flash Exposure compensation are buried in the Flash Settings menu ; In Live View Quick AF mode, camera does not tell you which AF points are in focus ; Kit lens produces somewhat high barrel distortion at wide angle ; Flash ...

With an updated look and a slightly taller profile, the Canon XSi has a 12.2-megapixel CMOS sensor, a 3.0-inch LCD, an improved nine-point autofocus sensor, a DIGIC III processor, and is capable of 3.5 frames per second. Its new Live View mode is ...

Excellent build ; Good ergonomics ; Great grip ; Buttons are well-positioned on the right side ; Excellent optical performance ; Good chromatic aberration control, made better after in-camera processing ; Very sharp corners with little distortion ; ...

Demosiacing problem in JPEG images ; JPEGs slightly soft ; High default contrast ; Strong noise in shadows blurs detail ; Horizontal banding in high ISO low light images ; Weak flash requires heavy compensation to get close to a proper exposure ; ...

Eighteen months after it announced its first single-lens reflex digital camera, Panasonic unveiled the Lumix L10