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DPInterface March 2008 News Archive
March 18th, 2008
Touchscreen ultra-wideangle Panasonic
Panasonic just announced their first ever touchscreen camera today along with a very nice lens (of course physical buttons are still here).
Panasonic Lumix FX500
- 10 effective megapixels
- 25 - 125 mm (f2.8 - f5.9) 5X zoom lens
- Optical image stabilization
- Face detection and red-eye reduction
- 3 inch touchscreen LCD
- Full manual controls
- 720p 30 FPS movie mode with sound
- Takes SD/SDHC cards
- Uses a lithium-ion battery
- Available in May for $400
- Comes in your choice of black and silver
March 13th, 2008
3 new Canon Digital ELPHs
Canon announced three new compact cameras which replace last year's models.
Canon PowerShot SD890 IS Digital ELPH
- 10 effective megapixels
- 37 - 185 mm (f3.2 - f5.7) 5X zoom lens
- Optical image stabilization
- Face detection, motion detection and auto red-eye reduction
- 2.5 inch LCD with optical viewfinder
- No manual controls
- VGA 30 FPS movie mode with sound
- Takes SD/SDHC cards
- Uses a lithium-ion battery
- Available in April for $400
Canon PowerShot SD770 IS Digital ELPH
- 10 effective megapixels
- 35 - 105 mm (f2.8 - f4.9) 3X zoom lens
- Optical image stabilization
- Face detection, motion detection and auto red-eye reduction
- 2.5 inch LCD with optical viewfinder
- No manual controls
- VGA 30 FPS movie mode with sound
- Takes SD/SDHC cards
- Uses a lithium-ion battery
- Available in April for $300
- Lens rim comes in your choice of black and silver
Canon PowerShot SD790 IS Digital ELPH
- Same as above with a larger LCD and no optical viewfinder
- 3 inch LCD only
- Available soon for $350
- Lens rim comes in your choice of black and silver
March 6th, 2008
New Casio compact
It sure isn't anything groundbreaking, in fact it's just your typical compact camera but nevertheless, here's the latest compact camera from Casio.
Casio Exilim Z9
- 8 effective megapixels
- 38 - 113 mm (f2.8 - f5.2) 3X zoom lens
- Face detection
- 2.6 inch LCD
- No manual controls (Just 23 Best Shot aka scene modes)
- Widescreen VGA 30 FPS movie mode with sound
- Takes SD/SDHC cards
- Uses a lithium-ion battery
- Available in March for $160
- Comes in your choice of black, silver, orange or pink
March 5th, 2008
Olympus E420, smallest digital SLR yet
Olympus released their E420, the world's smallest digital SLR so far. Weighing just 380 grams and measuring 5.1 x 3.6 x 2.1 inches, here it is:
Olympus E420
- 10.0 effective megapixels (LiveMOS sensor)
- Four Thirds system lens mount (2x crop factor)
- SuperSonic Wave Filter dust removal
- 2.7 inch HyperCrystal II LCD
- Full manual controls with RAW mode and hotshoe
- Shadow Adjustment Technology, wireless flash control and face detection (detects up to 8 faces, only in live view mode)
- Live view; has 3 autofocus options: contrast detect AF (no mirror flipping), normal AF and a hybrid mode, which is a mix of contrast and normal AF
- Improved auto white balance
- Shoots at 3.5 FPS up till 8 RAW or unlimited JPEG photos
- Dual memory card slots: CF card (Type I and II) and xD-Picture card
- Uses BLS-1 lithium-ion battery; takes up to 500 shots (CIPA Standard, live view turned off)
- Available in May for $500 (body only), $600 (with 14-42 mm kit lens) or $700 (with 25 mm f2.8 'pancake' lens)
Olympus also released their new 25mm f2.8 pancake lens; the term pancake because the lens is really thin for a SLR lens (less than an inch thick). Its focal length is equivalent to 50mm on FourThirds cameras and will be available for separate purchase.
March 3rd, 2008
First come the photos...
I've just put up the Sony Alpha 200 photo gallery featuring full sized shots of our color chart.
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