Friday, May 14, 2010

Sony NEX-5 Micro Four Thirds

Sony finally brings their Sony NEX-5 micro four third into the interchangeable lens cameras market. Canon SD4000 IS may going to lose its ground against this NEX-5 mini DSLR. Sony's effort on this NEX-series really noticeable from their 16mm F/2.8 lens, being small but having the APS-C sized sensor with 14.2 megapixels Exmor R sensor you've probably seen in their high class Sony A550.


This feature combined in Sony NEX-5 specification would meand a better noise reduction system and improvement in low light scene captures. You can capture up to ISO 1600 and still encounter very very few noise in the images. And this mean great low light capability NEX-5 have. The large sensor have some part in making the NEX-5 to be a big hit in the future with defocusing effects of backgrounds allowed by shorter depth of field on the scene. Therefore, it is very useful in macro shooting or portrait taking.

Sony NEX-5 also gives various special shooting modes, you can have a panoramic style scene with Sweep Panorama, that takes 7 rapid shots in a second. The low light scene can also be taken without the significant need of tripod with their Handheld Twilight. You can also use NEX-5 HDR shot with details in both, the bright and dark region in images. If the price of $650 would be too high for you, there are Canon SD4000 with f/2.0 lens sold at $350 as an option.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Canon SD4000IS with HS System

Canon will add a new product into their Digital Elph line soon. Named Canon Powershot SD4000IS that apply a new back illuminated CMOS sensor that is the first to arrive in their Digital Elph series. The highlight of this 10 megapixels SD4000IS were said to be its f/2.0 lens that made them stand on the same position as Canon S90.

Other feature that might boost Canon Sd4000 popularity will be the High Sensitivity feature that will be loved by low light photographers. A review of Canon Powershot SD4000 stated that this HS system are consist of a high sensitivity sensor and DIGIC 4 image processor. This duo combo performance may kick the image quality of the shots taken with this Powershot camera.

SD4000IS ISO mode can go through ISO6400, with their resolution clippen to 2.5 megapixels only. The burst rate also have 8.4 fps at max, but you can use it on 3.7 fps when you feel like having a full resolution of it. It is a pretty decent camera to take a sport or moving object easily with its burst rate actually. I hope Canon will rise like what Nikon S1000PJ can achieve a while ago.

Monday, April 19, 2010

Rollei 12 Megapixel Digital Camera

Even though I'm not that interested to talk about entry level camera that people used to bring to the malls, but this Rollei new digital camera have made me have a look on it while I'm walking through a camera blog that happen to talk about it.

The reason for my interest is not because of their great specs however, but simply because they sit next to line of Samsung NX10 review articles I'm reading. Rollei CL 350 is another 12 megapixels entry level camera that enter the market this April. Compactline 350 features a generic function any slim camera might have now, like 5x Optical zoom (wide angle), a big 2.7 inch display, and HD Video recording in 720p, not to forget their 30 shooting modes that would be helpful for beginners that aren't familiar to camera manual setting.

But at least, this Rollei 350 camera design was pretty stylish (unlike GE J1050), available in silver, violet, red, pink and aluminium/titanium collors. The price of this 12 megapixels Rollei is around $133. Interested, just look it on store when you have the chance ;)

Saturday, September 26, 2009

GE J1050 and J1250 GE Camera

I used to see GE brands on many electronic equipment I own in my house, from light bulb, cable phone, cordless phone etc. But this is the first time I found about GE digital camera. Am I the only one who know this for the first time? Well, it doesn't really matter though. Let's check out what GE puts on their digital camera product lines.



The new GE digital camera I found is the J1050 series, having 10 megapixel sensor and the J1250 that features a 12 megapixel sensor. Both of this camera designed to be a user friendly camera, built with easy to use interface, and that means more auto features and minimum manual modes. But I guess we can't complain about it, because their price weren't high either. You can buy the J1050 for $120 and J1250 for $140. Both of this camera have thin bodies, but its build were quite childish for my taste. I'd rather save more money to buy Nikon S1000PJ and have fun with their projectors :P

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Buying a Nikon S1000PJ, The Camera with Built-In Projector

The coming of Nikon projector camera, the Coolpix S1000PJ was quite a buzz in the camera users community, especially amongst the Nikon's faithful fans. The concept of adding a built-in projector to a camera is somewhat creative, and as I remember, the news of this S1000PJ made into public in the same timeline as the 3D camera concept from Fujifilm Finepix W1. The later camera released earlier, but having a though time due to many dissapointment from the lack of playback limitation.

Now, Nikon S1000PJ is already sold in the market, and we are ready to hear what the users said about S1000PJ performance, especially when they deliver playbacks through its built-in projector. The price of this Nikon Coolpix projector camera is $430, a pretty fair price for Coolpix S1000PJ don't you think. Source: Buy cheap Nikon S1000PJ camera