We’ve had lots of questions from readers about just what is a DSLR? Most of the answers on the Web pertain to the technical aspects behind the camera, namely the use of a mirror, as though that in itself explained the popularity of the DSLR. The mirror is the least important element of the DSLR — and may in fact be going the way of the Dodo bird!

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Olympus TOUGH 8000

You can win an Olympus Stylus TOUGH 8000 camera bundle by simply entering your artistic photo in the Getolympus.ca Winter Photo Contest. The winner will be determined by online visitor voting.

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We will be slowly transitioning to our new design starting today. This means that the home page for http://www.photoxels.com will now become http://www.photoxels.com/photography.

Both sites will be up and running in parallel and we will not rush the transition. This gives our readers time to get used to the new design, send us their valuable feedback — and help us keep our sanity ;o).

The new design has a cleaner interface and each article is tagged with appropriate keywords, which makes it real easy to search for related items.

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Olympus Stylus 9000

TrustedReviews have published their review of the Olympus Stylus 9000, a compact ultra zoom digital camera that features 12M resolution (on a 1/2.33-inch CCD), 10x wide-angle optical zoom (28-280mm equiv.), Sensor-Shift Image Stabilization, 2.7-in. LCD (230K dots), Intelligent AUTO (iAUTO), Face Detection with Shadow Adjustment, In-Camera Panning Panorama, Perfect Shot Preview, Red-Eye Fix, Beauty Fix, Perfect Fix, Histogram. and Movie 640×480 @ 30fps. According to TrustedReviews, the Stylus 9000 “produces good results in most situations.”