The Canon PowerShot A3100 IS is compact, attractive and extremely easy to use. Packed with a range of intuitive and user-friendly features, the Canon PowerShot A3100 IS makes photography more enjoyable than ever, helping users get great shots with the minimum of effort.
The Canon PowerShot A3100 IS has everything you need to make shooting fast, easy and fun including a large 2.7″ LCD. There is a full range of performance features including enhanced Face Detection technology, and a DIGIC III Image Processor to keep every image looking its best. The rechargeable lithium-ion battery pack is lighter then AA batteries, and provide power for taking many photos and videos. The Canon PowerShot A3100 IS is compatible with SDHC and SDXC storage cards, offering up to 2TB (SDXC only) of convenient and reliable memory that users can take anywhere.
12.1 megapixel Canon PowerShot A3100 IS camera
The Canon PowerShot A3100 IS will succeed the current PowerShot A1100 IS, and marks a true step forward for the PowerShot A series line. The Canon A3100 IS features a 12.1 Megapixel image sensor. Equipped with DIGIC III processing, a 4x optical zoom lens and integrated optical Image Stabilizer, the PowerShot A3100IS provides rich, detailed and blur-free images. A bright, 6.7cm (2.7″) high resolution LCD screen offers crisp playback, enabling users to frame and review images in pin-sharp clarity.
Key Features:
- Quality images – 12.1 Megapixels deliver outstanding image quality and stunning prints up to A3 size
- Zoom – Genuine Canon 4x optical zoom lens (35mm-140mm) to zoom in to the subject
- Sharper Previews – 2.7″ LCD Screen for vivid bright and sharp images to view and share your photos
- Intelligent Auto – New Auto mode with Scene Detection, Face Detection, Motion Detection and Noise Reduction makes it even easier to get the perfect shot
- Intelligent Flash Exposure – Automatically detects whether flash is required and adjusts the flash output, shutter speed, aperture and ISO speed to best suit the photo being taken
- Perfect People Shots – Face Detection for perfect focus, exposure, lighting and skin tones when photographing people
- Red-eye Correction – In-camera red-eye correction gives you more natural-looking portraits
- Be Creative – Special Scene Modes allow you to choose from a variety of predetermined settings to get more creative
- Movie Recording – Continuous movie recording and playback with sound
Canon PowerShot A3100 IS camera supports Face Detection
Face Detection Technology makes it easy to take pictures of friends, tracking faces and providing correct exposure and focus for the best results. The Face Select & Track function allows one face to be given priority over others in a group if required, while Red-Eye Correction identifies and corrects red eyes, making sure everyone looks their best. The smart FaceSelf-Timer features on the Canon A3100 IS allows the photographer to be included in group photos, only taking the shot when an extra face has entered the frame.
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Canon Powershot A3000 IS Review
The new Canon PowerShot A3000 IS is sleek and compact, great looking and extremely easy to use. The Canon PowerShot A3000 IS makes photography more enjoyable than ever, helping users get great shots with the minimum of effort.
With a resolution of 10.0 megapixels and a 4x Optical zoom, the Canon PowerShot A3000 IS provides the performance and features that are perfect for photographing family events, keeping up with children at play, or recording scenes and events during a vacation or business trip.
Canon A3000 IS features a Smart Auto mode
The Canon PowerShot A3000 IS also makes it easy to capture the perfect shot, thanks to the intelligent Smart Auto mode. Smart Auto with Scene Detection Technology recognises up to 18 different scenes and automatically applies the optimum settings required to capture the best picture. Smart Auto also includes i-Contrast technology, which analyses images to deliver perfect exposure, adding brightness and detail to darker sections without blowing out correctly-exposed areas. Additionally, Canon’s Easy mode provides super-simple settings for beginners, deactivating most of the buttons and removing icons from the screen for straightforward point-and-shoot photography.
Creative photography with the Canon PowerShot A3000 IS
A range of creative shooting features includes the new Low Light mode, which provides improved performance in challenging lighting conditions at 2.0 Megapixel resolution. The new Super Vivid mode injects new life into subjects, adding colour to images to provide a dramatic, enriched effect. The new PowerShot A3000 IS digital camera also features the new Poster Effect mode, which reduces the number of colours to create retro-looking, poster-style images.
Canon A3000IS features a Lithium-Ion battery pack
For the first time in a PowerShot A series model, the new Canon A3000 IS features a Lithium-ion battery pack. Lightweight and rechargeable, the Lithium-ion battery pack is slim and easier to carry, and provides the convenience of being able to be charged on demand. The Canon PowerShot A3000 IS camera is also compatible with SDHC and SDXC storage cards, offering up to 2TB (SDXC only) of convenient and reliable memory that users can take anywhere.
Capture videos with the Canon PowerShot A3000IS
In addition to high-quality images, the PowerShot A3000 IS captures video at VGA resolution with sound, offering users the ability to go beyond stills. The new Canon camera model features comprehensive software packages, including an integrated YouTube upload function, for sharing videos online quickly and easily.
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Olympus Mju 5010 Review
Boasting the world’s smallest and slimmest 5x zoom lens with 26mm wide-angle shooting respectively, the Olympus Mju 5010 offers HD movie recording and a practical internal USB charging capability so you can charge your camera while uploading still and moving images to your PC.
14 megapixel Olympus Mju 5010 camera
The 5x optical zoom ensures you’ll never be at a loss when capturing a group of friends or a point in the distance. Then simply flip through the results using the new Photo Surfing option. Thanks to Olympus [ib] technology, the camera allows pictures tagged by event, person, or location (using Face Recognition and GPS) to be located easily. The 2.7″ LCD screen on the Olympus Mju 5010 makes sharing or looking up the latest trick in the In-Camera Manual all the more enjoyable. And you can even shoot HD movies to capture important events in all their glory and relax by watching them on TV via HDMI.
Olympus Mju-5010 features AF tracking system and face detection
The advanced face detection technology on the Olympus Mju 5010 searches for faces in a composition and recognises them as the main subject. The camera then automatically puts them in focus and optimally adjusts exposure to create an image that’s sharp in the right places and ideally exposed. Advanced Face Detection Technology can detect up to 16 faces. Furthermore, an AF tracking system tracks the moving subject automatically and keeps it continually in focus for pictures that are optimally focused and exposed. The Olympus µ 5010 also memorises subject data even when the subject goes out of frame and resumes tracking when it reappears. Moreover the Beauty mode touches up the appearance of subjects even while the shot is being taken. The Beauty mode feature recognises faces and automatically makes skin on the face and adjacent areas appear smoother, brighter and more youthful.
What’s in the box?
•Li-Ion Battery ( Li-42B )
•Battery Charger (Li-41C)
•Strap
•USB Cable (CB-USB6)
•AV Cable (CB-VC3)
•MicroSD card Adapter (MASD-1)
•Olympus Master Software v2.2
•Worldwide Warranty Card
Olympus Mju Digital 5010 incorporates a panorama mode
Providing two-fold protection, this special function helps to avoid image blur caused by camera shake or fast-moving subjects. The Olympus Mju 5010 combines high ISO values with a CCD-based mechanical image stabiliser, where a built-in gyro sensor detects camera movement and adjusts the CCD accordingly. A in-camera panorama mode allowing users to instantly compose panoramas of approx. 130° right inside the camera. By framing each shot in step with the on-screen guide, exciting panoramic scenes can be stitched together for a more realistic and emotional depiction of any landscape or skyline.
i-Auto mode on the Olympus Mju 5010 camera
The “intelligent-Auto” mode uses advanced automatic detection technology to allow the Olympus 5010 camera to recognise the five most commonly used scenes automatically. The new Olympus digital camera enables the capture of perfect photos without any need for manual settings. Olympus also offers [ib] software, an integrated photo browsing and organising software. Using the software on a PC, images can be organised by person, by place or by event. The information tagged in each photo allows selected pictures to be viewed on a PC.
Olympus Mju 5010 incorporates Magic Filters
Enables special artistic effects to be created directly in the camera.
• Pop Art: Enhances colours, making them stronger and more vivid to create high-impact pictures that express the happy, light-hearted feeling of the pop art style.
• Fish-Eye: Reproduces the dramatic effect of a fish eye lens, lending a new perspective to the whole scene with a “round” effect.
• Sketch: Gives the impression that subjects have been sketched by an artist by transforming images into line drawings.
• Pin Hole: Reduces the peripheral brightness like an image seen through a pinhole. Added to this is a unique colour tone that results in a style that has an air of secrecy or portrays the feeling of being lost in another dimension or space
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The iRiver Story is the latest entrant into the Ebook Reader market, and its iRiver’s first ebook reader.
I must admit I was weary when I first heard bout the iRiver Story, as from afar it could be mistaken for a rebadged Amazon Kindle clone. But I’m pleased to say that iRiver have done a good job designing this ebook reader, and they have invested quite a bit in the packaging and marketing material for their ebook reader.
This is no Amazon Kindle though, the build quality although ok and it doesn’t have the solid feel of a Kindle. But the device doesn’t feel cheap, its quite attractive and the keyboard actually works quite well.
The screen is your typical Vizplex E-Ink screen, featuring 8 levels of greyscale (same as the Sony Touch & Pocket / Bebook) with a resolution of 800×600. The Kindle features a better 16 greyscale screen, but both offer a really good reading experience.
The user interface is intuitive, you can use the keypad to navigate through the menus and there are side buttons available so that you can use the book in one hand for both left and right handed users.
Unlike the Amazon Kindle which limits the ebook formats to their own amazon.com and pdf ebook formats, the iRiver Story is compatible with a wide range of ebook formats including: EPUB, PDF & TXT cover the main formats for commercial ebooks, while the Story also displays office files like DOC, PPT & XLS. For comics & graphic novels, JPEG, BMP and GIF image. This makes this ideal for reading business documents on the road without having to carry a laptop.
Page turns are snappy (for ebook reader standards) and you’ll find the ebook reader comfortable to read all sorts of books on your journeys.
The device comes with a generous 2GB of internal storage, enough to store hundreds of books, and it can be expanded with an external SD card.
We also like the added features which are not available on other ebook readers as yet including the diary, memo facility, the built in speaker and the voice recorder which are all handy but will probably never be used…
In all the iRiver is a good device, especially if you are interested in being able to upload any ebook format, or your own documents which is not currently possible on the Kindle.
The new Olympus E-P2 features a port for a new high resolution electronic viewfinder (or external microphone), two new Art filters and a pearlescent black finish. It also gains AF tracking and includes a new i-Enhance ‘colour boosting’ function.
The Olympus E-P2 will be available from January 2010.
gizmodo reviews the Olympus E-P2 and writes:
“The Olympus E-P2 is less a sequel to the E-P1 micro four thirds camera and more a refinement of the original idea. It’s basically the same size as the E-P1 (a hair taller, actually), and snaps shots with the same 12.3MP sensor.”
cnet reviews the Olympus E-P2 and writes:
“The E-P2 also features two new art filters, bringing the total to eight — the additions are “Diorama” (or tilt-shift) and “Cross Process”, the latter of which, we’ve been told, produces a similar effect to that when cross-processing E-6 slide film in C-41 chemicals.”
The Olympus E-P2 – main features:
Small & stylish design
* Extremely small and light-weight Micro Four Thirds System
* Stylish design with black metal finish
* Accessory port to clip-on electronic viewfinder and microphone adapter
SLR image quality
* 12.3 Megapixel Live MOS Sensor
* TruePic V image processor
* Built-in IS with max. 4 EV steps efficiency
* Adapter for all ZUIKO DIGITAL & OM lenses
Easy operation
* Live Control GUI for intuitive handling & real-time views of effects
* Automatic recognition of common scenes possible with i-Auto
* i-Enhance function to boost colours
* Clear skin with e-Portrait
* AF Tracking
* Two dials for easy handling
* Face Detection and Shadow Adjustment Technology
* 20 shooting modes (5 exposure, i-Auto, 14 scene modes)
Creativity & HD Movie
* HD Movie with stereo sound featuring depth of field and Art Filters now available in M-mode
* 8 Art Filters, Multi-Aspect ratios
* Multi Exposure function
* Art Filters can be applied to previously taken RAW images in the camera and with Olympus software
* Enhanced creativity with special lenses e.g. fisheye is available via Four Thirds lens adapter
Specifications:
Sensor:
• 4/3″ Hi-Speed Live MOS sensor
• 17.3 x 13.0 mm active area
• 13.1 million total pixels
• 12.3 million effective pixels
• RGB (Primary) color filter array
• Fixed low pass filter (anti-alias filter)
Dust suppression:
•Supersonic Wave Filter
Image stabilization:
• “Supersonic Wave Drive” (in-body sensor shift)
• Three modes: Horizontal+Vertical, Vertical only, Horizontal only
• Up to 4 EV Compensation (claimed)
Image processor:
• TruePic V
Image sizes (Still):
• 4032 x 3024
• 3200 x 2400
• 2560 x 1920
• 1600 x 1200
• 1280 x 960
• 1024 x 768
• 640 x 480
Image sizes (Movie):
• 1280 x 720 (HD)
• 640 x 480
Aspect Ratio:
• 4:3(Default), 3:2, 16:9, 6:6
File formats:
• RAW
• RAW + JPEG
• JPEG (EXIF 2.2)
• AVI Motion JPEG
Lenses:
• Micro Four Thirds Mount
• Range of M.ZUIKO DIGITAL lenses available
• Multiply focal length by 2 for 35 mm equiv. FOV
• Compatible with standard Four Thirds lenses via adapter.
Auto focus:
• Imager Contrast Detection AF system
• 11-area multiple AF
• When non High-speed imager AF compatible lens is used, it works as AF assist.
• AF Tracking
Focus Area Selectable:
• Automatic
• Manual
• Auto from all 11 area, Single area from 11 area
• Auto from 25 area when Face detection is ON
• Free selection (from 225points) when Magnified View Mode is selected
Focus modes:
• Single shot AF (S- AF)
• Continuous AF (C-AF)
• Manual focus (MF)
• Single + Continous (S-AF+ MF)
Manual focus:
• Focus by wire
AF assist lamp:
• No
Exposure modes:
• Auto
• Program AE (with shift)
• Aperture priority AE
• Shutter priority AE
• Manual
• Art Filter
• Scene select
Scene modes:
• Portrait
• Landscape
• Macro
• Sport
• Night + Portrait
• Children
• High Key
• Low Key
• DIS mode
• Nature Macro
• Candle
• Documents
• Panorama
• Beach & Snow
Art Filter:
• Pop art
• Soft focus
• Pale & light color
• Light tone
• Grainy film
• Pin hole
• Diorama
• Cross-Process
Sensitivity:
• Auto : ISO 200 – 3200 (customizable, Default 200-800)
• Manual ISO 100 – 6400, 1/3 or 1 EV steps
Metering system:
• TTL Image Sensor metering system
• 49-zone multi-pattern
Metering modes:
• Digital ESP
• Center-Weighted Average
• Spot (2%)
• Highlight based spot
• Shadow based spot
AE Lock:
• AE lock available
• AF lock with shutter release half-press in Single AF mode
AE Bracketing:
• 3 frames
• 0.3, 0.5, 0.7 or 1.0 EV steps
Exposure compen.:
• -3.0 to +3.0 EV
• 1/3, 1/2 or 1.0 EV steps
Shutter speed:
• 60-1/4000 sec
Flash X-sync speed:
• 1/30 – 1/180
White balance:
• Auto
• Cloudy
• Shade
• Flash
• Daylight
• Fluorescent 1
• Fluorescent 2
• Fluorescent 3
• Lamp
• 1 custom preset
• Kelvin (2000 – 14000 K)
WB fine tuning:
• Red – Blue: +/- 7 steps (2 mired each)
• Green – Magenta: +/- 7 steps (2 mired each)
WB Bracketing:
• 3 frames
• 2, 4 or 6 mired steps
Color space:
• sRGB
• Adobe RGB
Image parameters:
• Saturation – 5 levels (Vivid, Natural, Portrait, Muted)
• Sharpness – 5 levels (Vivid, Natural, Portrait, Muted, Monotone)
• Contrast- 5 levels (Vivid, Natural, Portrait, Muted, Monotone)
• B&W filter (Yellow, Orange, Red, Green)
• B&W/Sepia toning (Sepia, Blue, Purple or Green)
• Gradation (4 levels)
Drive modes:
• Single
• Sequential
• Self-timer
Continuous:
• 3.0 fps
• RAW: 10 frames maximum
Self-timer:
• 2 sec
• 12 sec
External Flash:
• Hot-Shoe
• Compatible with E-system Flash (FL-50R, FL-36R, FL-50, FL-36, FL-20, FL-14)
• External Flash Control : TTL Auto, Auto, Manual, FP-TTL-Auto, FP-Manual
• Modes: Auto, Red-eye reduction, Red-eye reduction slow sync., Slow sync at 1st curtain, Slow sync at 2nd curtain, Fill-in, Manual (1/4, 1/16, 1/64), Off.
• Flash power: Up to +/- 3EV in 1, 1/2, or 1/3 EV steps
Super Control Panel information:
• Battery information
• Shooting mode
• Shutter speed
• Aperture value
• Exposure compensation value
• ISO sensitivity
• Exposure compensation indicator
• Exposure indicator
• Flash intensity compensation indicator
• Date
• Auto BKT setting
• NR setting, WB
• WB compensation value
• Record mode
• Flash Status
• Record mode
• Image size
• Drive mode
• Flash intensity compensation value
• Metering mode
• Recordable still image number
• Focusing mode
• Gradation
• IS activating mode
• Face detection
• My Mode
• Multi Exposure
• Aspect Ratio
• Super FP
• AF frame
• Colour space
• Sharpness
• Contrast
• Saturation
• Internal Temperature Warning
Orientation sensor:
• Yes
Electronic Viewfinder:
• External (included)
LCD monitor:
• 3.0″ HyperCrystal LCD with Anti-Reflective Coating
• 230,000 pixels
• 100% frame coverage
• 15 step brightness adjustment
• 15 step Color Balance adjustment (R-B, G-M)
Live View:
• 100% field of view
• Max 8 frames of face detection can be displayed
• AF operation
• 7x – 10x magnification
Live View Modes:
• Normal Mode
• Grid Line Mode
• Histogram Mode(3 types)
• Magnified View Mode
• Comparable View Mode
• OFF Mode (for OVF user)
Live View Information:
• Aperture value
• Shutter speed
• Auto Bracket
• AE Lock
• AF mode
• IS
• Shooting Mode
• Battery Check
• My Mode
• Internal Temperature Warning
• Face Detection
• Histogram
• Number of storable still pictures
• Record mode
• ISO
• Sequential shooting
• Self-timer
• White Balance
• Metering Mode
• AF confirmation mark
• Exposure Compensation Value
• Spot metering Area
• Only when E-system Flash attached : Flash Mode, Flash Status, Flash intensity Control, Super FP
Playback functions:
• Single-frame
• Information Display
• Index Display(4/9/16/25/49/100 frames, Calendar)
• Close-up (2 – 14X)
• Movie (w/sound, FF/REW/Pause)
• Picture rotation (auto mode available)
• Slideshow(Still/Movie/Still+Movie, Slide show w/BGM/BGM+Sound/Sound)
Editing:
• RAW development
• JPEG editing (B&W, Sepia, Red eye reduction, Color saturation, Resize, Shadow Adjustment Technology, Anti red-eye)
Storage:
• SD/SDHC
Connectivity:
• USB 2.0 (Hi Speed)
• Mini HDMI
• Video Out (NTSC / PAL)
• IR Remote control (optional)
Optional Accessories:
• Remote cable RM-UC1
• Flash FL-14
• Adaptor MF-2 for OM lenses
• Adaptor MMF-1 for four thirds lenses
Power:
• BLS-1 1150 mAh Lithium-Ion rechargeable battery (supplied & charger)
Dimensions:
• 121mm (W) x 70mm (H) x 36mm (D) (excluding protrusions)
4.7″ x 2.7″ x 1.4″
Weight (no batt):
• 335g (0.7 lb)