A chance to live the Olympus PEN dream for less cash is the lure here. But the original digital PEN was based on exceptional build quality and desirability, some of which has been lost in the cost-cutting process. Annoyingly, so has the thumb wheel on the back that was used for swift tweaks to aperture [...]
A solid, feature-packed camera with a well-endowed zoom… Size isn’t everything, but this Nikon boasts a 26x optical zoom: just look at the protuberance on that. The ten-meg resolution is not class-leading, but perfectly adequate. Your fingers sink comfortably into the large-ish rubberized grip, and the P100 is reassuringly rather than prohibitively weighty at 481g. [...]
For speed and convenience, little beats this Nikon point-and-shot… Billed as the world’s slimmest 10x optical zoom camera, the 14-megapixel S8000 sits at the pinnacle of Nikon’s oddly unstylish Style range. The 30-300mm zoom is smooth and quick to focus-speed is something of a theme with this camera- at wide and maximum zoom. Lens-shift vibration [...]
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight:it’s the size of the fight in the clog.”Mark Twain wasn’t referring to Sony’s NEX-3 digicam when he uttered those words, but they sure do apply. Packing D-SLR-like performance in a body roughly half the size and weight, the NEX-3 looms large as the world’s smallest [...]
