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Canon EOS 7D Brings Both a Superb Stills and Video Experience

cesar — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:33:23 +0000

Canon’s EOS 7D is a decent piece of image-recording equipment, both featurewise and pricewise. It comes with an amazing 18 megapixel APS-C sensor and dual DIGIC 4 processors, capturing superb images at up to ISO 12800 and speeds of up to 8 fps. It has a new all cross-type 19-point AF system for sharp focus on whatever situation. The EOS 7D’s Intelligent Viewfinder, provides 100% coverage and displays user-selected AF modes. Another amazing feature of the EOS 7D is the ability to capture Full HD video with an array of manual controls. The EOS 7D is ruggedly built with a magnesium alloy body that is dust- and weather-resistant, and with shutter durability of up to 150,000 cycles. With a host of brand new features at an affordable price, the new EOS 7D represents a whole new class of camera.

Sony Cybershot DSC-W290 – Stylish and Intelligent Digital Camera

cesar — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:23:47 +0000

The Sony Cybershot DSC-W290 is a digital point and shoot camera that combines style with power and intelligence. It is available in four sophisticated colors and designed with a stylish look. The iAuto (Intelligent Auto) mode is a step beyond typical auto modes that does the following: recognizing faces, scenes, lighting conditions, and automatically adjusting camera settings to capture clearer scenes and faces with more natural skin tones and less blur. The W290 can also record HD video at 720p resolution capturing those precious moments not only in photos but also in moving images. The large 3.0-inch Clear Photo LCD display allows the user to compose, review, and share photos and videos with ease and comfort. To totally beat the competition, this camera uses a 12.1 megapixel Super HAD CCD sensor, complemented with a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens with 5x optical zoom and a 28mm wide angle lens.

Panasonic Lumix ZS3 – Almost a DSLR Camera

cesar — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:14:49 +0000

The new Panasonic Lumix ZS3 is a point and shoot digital camera with lots of amazing and powerful features. This includes a 10.1 megapixels sensor, a 25mm ultra-wide-angle Leica DC Vario-Elmar lens and a 12x optical zoom. The ZS3 is also the world’s first digital camera to have a HD video recording in “AVCHD Lite” format. Compared with conventional MJPEG and MPEG video formats, AVCHD Lite allows longer recordings with superb HD visual and audio qualities. The ZS3 also further enhances Panasonic’s popular iA (Intelligent Auto) mode with the addition of Face Recognition, a feature that remembers faces from previous shots. When a registered face appears in the frame, focus is prioritized on that person so it will appear brighter than the rest of the subjects in the picture. The iA mode is now also available in Movie Mode. This feature automatically selects the most suitable Scene mode and helps to correct focus, brightness, and handshake problems to capture beautiful still and video images. Playback of photos and video from the ZS3 is also easy with the optional HDMI cable that can be connected to HDTV sets. Alternately, you can insert the camera’s SD memory card to a VIERA HDTV’s Image Viewer SD Card slot. The ZS3 is truly a point and shoot-priced camera that comes loaded with the features of a professional DSLR camera.