Five years after announcing its development, and following a month-long online campaign trailing the launch, Pentax has finally unveiled its much anticipated 645D medium format digital camera. The first digital version of the company’s 645 medium format camera system, it features a 40MP, 44 x 33 CCD sensor, 921k dot 3.0″ LCD and is compatible [...]

Preview based on a pre-production Canon EOS 55OD
Less than a year after the launch of the EOS Rebel T1i (500D) comes the latest in Canon’s hugely popular consumer SLR range, the Rebel T2i (EOS 550D). With the 450D and 500D Canon appeared to be pulling away slightly from the real ‘entry level’ (a sector driven [...]

Reprinted from Time Magazine
When Joz Wang and her brother bought their mom a Nikon Coolpix S630 digital camera for Mother’s Day last year, they discovered what seemed to be a malfunction. Every time they took a portrait of each other smiling, a message flashed across the screen asking, “Did someone blink?” No one had. “I [...]

Why a digital SLR?
So you’ve decided to invest in a new digital camera and have made your mind up that you want to step up to a digital SLR, but the huge range of models on offer and endless flow of technical jargon have left you more confused than when you started? Fear not, this [...]

CES 2010 only opened today and we’ve already seen the announcement of 45 new compact cameras. To a great extent these launches have been about manufacturers refreshing their product ranges, but there have been a few interesting additions along the way. As try to dry ourselves off after the latest compact camera deluge, it’s worth [...]

Bibble Labs has announced that Bibble 5 Pro is now available. The latest version of its RAW workflow and conversion software has been in development since September 2006 and was originally slated for release in the fourth quarter of 2008. The company says its software is up to 88 times as fast as ’similar applications.’ [...]

The first NX model from Samsung has made its appearance right in time for CES 2010. Samsung, which had been keeping enthusiasts on a wait mode by bringing out teasers of the NX model, has now made things official by unveiling the NX10.
Significant about the Samsung NX10 is the fact that the camera comes with [...]

Review based on a production Pentax K-x, firmware V1.01
The Pentax K-x sits in the slot previously occupied by the company’s K200D – one of the best-specified entry-level DSLRs on the market in its time – though that position has now been elevated by the arrival of a new breed of simplified models below it. In [...]