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Sony’s Camera Phones better than Compact Cameras

Sony have upped their game yet again and unveiled a 12.25-million-pixel CMOS imaging sensor, this looks great but  for camera’s but these aren’t meant for cameras. They are being released to improve the quality of Camera phones. This will close the gap in the standard of compact cameras to camera phones and may even be [...]

Sonic and Rollei release compact digital cameras

Rollei and Sonic UK Ltd have announced a partnership and to confirm this have released a high quality range of Rollei compact digital cameras.
Rollei are highly respected amongst photographers they were founded in the 1920s, and soon began to epitomize German technology and precision engineering and applied it to camera lenses. The Rolleiflex and [...]

The End of The Disposable Camera

The disposable camera has been a firm favorite for kids parties, nights out and weddings, the ease and inexpense of a disposable camera meant you could take your camera every where and not be worried about it getting damaged or stolen.
But sales of disposable cameras have dropped over the tears, not digital cameras are becoming, [...]

Gigapixel Photography

Well I’m sure everyone has heard of a pixel, which is an elemant of a picture, and most camera manufacturers produce mega pixel cameras which is 1000 pixels. But a Gigapixel is 1000 megapixels. A good camera is usually around 10 megapixels so you can imagine how sharp the image quality is of a gigapixel [...]

The LG KC910 Renoir Phone

The newest member of the LG range is th LG KC910 and it promises to be one of the hottest phones on the market. It has features that most digital cameras would be proud of, including an 8megapixel camera with functions such as beauty shot, touch shot and panorama shot.
This new piece of technology has [...]

New Tripods

Bogen Imaging, have been producing high quality photographic accessories for years, their range is good enough for any enthusiast right up to the photographer. This month they have extended their range and announce the launch three more Tripods in their Manfrotto 055CX carbon range.
The 055CX series completes the ‘X’ range of tripods that have even [...]

The World’s Fastest Lens

Leica has given us a glimpse at the future of lenses and unveiled the world’s fastest asphercial lens so far! The NOCTILUX-M 50 mm f/0.95 ASPH is due to be released February next year and boasts to have broken the ’sound barrier’ of the optical lenses. The lens is even faster than the SUMMILUX-M 50 [...]

Carl Zeiss Making Canon Lenses

It has been revealed that Carl Zeiss has gotten the ball rolling to start producing their ZE lenses for Canon cameras. The lenses will be fitted with a compatable fixture for the Canon EF.Carl Zeiss will begin with its Planar T*F1.4 manual focus lenses available in 50mm and 85mm. These are expected to be released [...]

Film or Digital

Technology has moved forward so film photography and digital photography are in competition with each other and the debate has monopolised photography forums for the past couple of years. A good photographer can use both film and digital photography and won’t have to rely so much on the added features most digital cameras come with [...]

Digital Camera Batteries

The worst thing to happen to you if you are on a shoot is the battery running out! I’ve been on loads of shoots and your just getting warmed up when the battery dies and you haven’t got a spare of haven’t charged the spare up properly.
I am very fussy when it comes to having [...]