The cannon G11 does what powershot cameras promised: professional capabilities with a fixed lens. The cannon G11 comes with a 28mm wide angle lens with 5x optical zoom. Being a semi professional camera, you can play with shutter speed, aperture settings, ISO easily.
This 10 megapixel camera shows why cannon is such a popular brand for professional cameras. The pictures taken in auto mode were crisp and clean, the rendering of colours were realistic and distortion was present but not obvious towards the edges of the photo.
Overall, it is a relatively light weight camera that allows you to take photos you can be proud of.
The Nikkon D3000 is a good entry level DSLR which is easy to handle and a good starter for both amatuers and beginners. Despite being a SLR, the camera has a range of preset parameters which allows it to function like any compact cameras, with the added advantage of quick response time, good color rendering and sharp images.
Nikon D3000
Here’s taking a quick look at the Key Features.
10.2-Megapixel DX-format Imaging Sensor
Delivers extraordinary image quality for breathtaking prints up to 20 x 30 inches.
Delivers extraordinary image quality for breathtaking prints up to 20 x 30 inches.
Includes 3x 18-55mm Zoom-NIKKOR VR Image Stabilization Lens
Legendary NIKKOR optical quality and fast, accurate autofocus means vivid color, striking contrast and crisp detail, while VR image stabilization assures your sharpest pictures ever.
Legendary NIKKOR optical quality and fast, accurate autofocus means vivid color, striking contrast and crisp detail, while VR image stabilization assures your sharpest pictures ever.
Compact Design
Beautifully styled—Ready to go where life takes you.
Beautifully styled—Ready to go where life takes you.
Easy-To-Use—Featuring Nikon Guide Mode
Intuitive controls and the on-board Guide Mode assist you every step of the way.
Intuitive controls and the on-board Guide Mode assist you every step of the way.
Split-second Shutter Response
Eliminates the frustration of shutter delay, capturing moments that other cameras miss.
Eliminates the frustration of shutter delay, capturing moments that other cameras miss.
Continuous Shooting up to 3 Frames-Per-Second
Capture fast action, precious moments and fleeting expressions confidently.
Capture fast action, precious moments and fleeting expressions confidently.
6 Automatic Exposure Scene Modes
Just set the Mode dial to Portrait, Landscape, Child, Sports, Close-up or Night Portrait for stunning results in otherwise challenging conditions.
Just set the Mode dial to Portrait, Landscape, Child, Sports, Close-up or Night Portrait for stunning results in otherwise challenging conditions.
3-inch Color LCD Monitor
Bright, high-resolution, 170-degree wide-angle viewing for easy picture review and sharing.
Bright, high-resolution, 170-degree wide-angle viewing for easy picture review and sharing.
In-camera Image Editing
The Retouch Menu provides creative freedom, without the need for a computer, offering 13 easy editing functions, including Trim, Red-eye Correction and Soft Filter.
The Retouch Menu provides creative freedom, without the need for a computer, offering 13 easy editing functions, including Trim, Red-eye Correction and Soft Filter.
Nikon EXPEED Image Processing
Assures breathtakingly rich image quality, managing color, contrast, exposure, noise and speed.
Assures breathtakingly rich image quality, managing color, contrast, exposure, noise and speed.
Automatic Image Sensor Cleaning
Ultrasonic process and exclusive Airflow Control combats the accumulation of dust in front of the image sensor, safeguarding image quality shot after shot.
Ultrasonic process and exclusive Airflow Control combats the accumulation of dust in front of the image sensor, safeguarding image quality shot after shot.
11-point Autofocus
Fast and accurate autofocus delivers razor-sharp pictures.
Fast and accurate autofocus delivers razor-sharp pictures.
6 Personal Picture Control Settings
Choose from Standard, Neutral, Vivid, Monochrome, Portrait, or Landscape to apply a personal look and feel to your pictures.
Choose from Standard, Neutral, Vivid, Monochrome, Portrait, or Landscape to apply a personal look and feel to your pictures.
Active D-Lighting
Restores picture-enhancing detail in shadows and highlights.
Restores picture-enhancing detail in shadows and highlights.
ISO sensitivity from 100 – 1600
Exceptional results, even in challenging low-light situations.
Exceptional results, even in challenging low-light situations.
Review
Nikkon is well know for producing good quality lenses at a decent price. The D3000 SLR comes with AF-S Nikon 18-55mm Lens which allows the camera good, crisp images. This is actually a very good packaged lens compared to many other brands.
The camera is easy to handle for both beginners and for photographers who are familair with nikon camera. It can be a little daughting to people who are more used to cannon SLRs, but it shouldn’t take more than 1 day to figure out the quick buttons to apertures, shutter speed etc.
While switching aperture and shutter speed is easy, changing other parameters like exposure and ISO settings tends to be a little more trouble as there is no single knob i can use, but I suspect this helps with the simplicity of use for people who don’t change these parameters often.
The Nikon battery is of decent battery life, the new battery lasting an average of 500 shots before running out
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The response time is almost instantaneous, and pictures are undistorted in most focal lengths even at the edges in bright lights. The night mode is average and images are noisy at ISO 800 and above.
The best part of the Nikon D3000 is the price, and it should be a good toy to carry around on holidays or more rugged trips. Overall, Nikon once again proved itself most able to produce maximum cost effectiveness in it’s SLRs with the D3000.
Blackberry devices seems to be conitnuing to make waves in the tech scene despite fierce comeptition. Blackberry curve 8520 seems specifically to adress the complains that black berry devices are too bulky. This blackberry device weighs just 106 grams and is only 109mm by 60mm in size. Couple with a thickness just over a centimeter, this is one of the easiest device to carry around.
BlackBerry Curve 8520
It also did away with the usual trackball in exchange for a trackpad. Other features includes dedicated media keys for playing songs and videos, although I must say the screen is too small to be watching videos in comfort for long.
Connection wise, it supports Wi-Fi, bluetooth and 10 popular email services. Surfing speed and decent and I’ve no complains.
Overall, this is a usable but easy to carry around model for blackberry lovers.
The Samsung Series 9 LCD 950 comes in resolution of 1920 x1080. Contrast ratio at 2 million : 1 at 46 inches wide.
The set come with MPEG AVC and DVB tuners and allows HDMI, S-video, USB and VGA input.
The buildin USB is one of the new features in LCD TVs that allows you to enjoy movies stored in any USB devices.
Overall, the Samsung Smart LED technology and Ultra Clear Panel performed well to produce sharp images with Vibrant colours. The design like all Samsung LCD TV, is stylish and a pleasant addition to the Home
LG Blu-ray Player
The New LG blu-ray player distinguishes itself from other player by it’s new feature: The ability to connect to the Internet to play videos. This includes services from youtube and Netflix.
In addition, the Internet feature allows online chatting, even gaming with others watching the same movie.
Like most good blu-eay players, LG delivers true HD pictures. It also play files via it’s USB port so you can easily watch content and pictures on your portable disk.
News has spread that China reportedly has cut access to You tube without any official explanation or even confirmation that it has indeed clocked the site.
It’s suspected that to be related to the recently uploaded videos of Chinese police beating Tibetan monks during last year’s uprising.
China’s silence on the access blockage is standard operating procedure, according to Usha C. V. Haley, an Asia fellow at Harvard Kennedy school, author of the forthcoming book, New Asian Emperors: The Business Strategies of the Overseas Chinese.
China is able to cut off access to certain sites because all Internet data in China is routed to central servers that it controls, said the Kennedy School’s Haley. China is not unique in blocking youtube: ”There are many countries in Asia and outside of Asia that have such controls over the Internet,” Haley pointed out.Turkey and Bangladesh have both blocked access to YouTube in the past, she noted.
Of course, there will be many ways for the tech savy chinese to get past this censorship. Proxies or cheap dailup. It remains to be seem how long the blockage will last.