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If the previous two books (Understanding Exposure and Learning to See Creatively) by Bryan Peterson enlarged your knowledge of photography and exited more your passion for this art, here’s another book written by this master of photo explanations: Beyond Portraiture: Creative People Photography, which, obviously, addresses to those of you who want to specialize in [...]

BenQ comes with an innovation in the digital camera technology: the 3D-rotating lens (an upgrade to the E-600), able to perform zoom in & out at a faster speed than conventional lenses. Other differences from what we know about the usual camera functions include the fact that for the Panoramic Focus Mode, instead of pressing [...]

Good for sports scenes, portraits and wildlife photography (even dramatic landscapes), it’s quite a big lens: 71×122mm and 460 grams. Works with 55mm filters and is build from 13 elements in 10 groups, and is protected by 2 lens caps against dust and scratches.
It has a different Angle of View when attached to 35mm-format camera [...]

This lens gives 30-12 degree angle of view and a minimum focus distance of 5.9 feet, offers high accuracy, color rendition and performance. Solidly built, tack sharp, distortion is minimal for a zoom and color, contrast and sharpness are excellent. It is kind of heavy, but id you care more about the picture quality, you [...]

This Canon digital camera (slimmest optical zoom camera from Canon) offers superb response times and high-quality image rendering through Canon’s DIGIC III image processor. Some interesting features include: Red-Eye Correction in playback, Face Detection AF/AE/FE and Noise Reduction Technology, ISO 1600 and Auto ISO Shift, 17 Shooting modes plus My Colors photo effects.
The new aesthetics [...]

Functions:
• Shooting Modes: Auto, Manual, Digital Macro, Color Accent, Color Swap, Stitch Assist, Movie, Special Scene
• Scene Modes: Portrait, Night Snapshot, Kids & Pets, Indoor, Foliage, Snow, Beach, Fireworks, Aquarium, Underwater
• Movie Mode: 640 x 480 at 30 / 15fps, 320 x 240 at 60 / 30 / 15fps, 160 x 120 at 15fps, AVI Motion JPEG (MPEG-2 [...]

Intuitive buttons, easy menu, build in flash and no viewfinder on this metal compact body Photosmart M437 from HP. In other words, missing manual controls also, this is a camera for easy and high quality snapshots (even id in our days 5MP is not too much, the key HP features end up in providing low [...]

Functions:
• Shooting Modes: Self Timer Off (Default), Self timer, Burst mode, Video
• Scene Modes: Auto Mode (default), Close Up, Steady Photo, Theatre, Landscape, Portrait, Action, Night Portrait, Sunset
• Movie Mode: 24 fps, VGA 320 x 240, with sound, Motion JPEG
• Effects: Off (default), date only, date and time imprinting; Color Control: Full Color, B&W, Sepia, B&W tints
• Flash Modes: Auto [...]

The EOS Digital Rebel XTi/EOS 400D DSLR is one of my favourite cameras. According to Canon, this digital camera has a minor issue with PictBridge. If you had the “chance” to deal with this, here’s a good news: the printing of lens names when using PictBridge has been fixed!
The firmware update that fixis the [...]

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Two types of sensors are used in digital cameras: CCD and CMOS. CMOS stands for Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor, and CCD stands for Charge-Coupled Device. CMOS sensors are less expensive than CCD and also require less power (because the CCD requires more circuits), so the latest digital cameras are based on CMOS sensors [...]