Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZR1 / ZX1

We’ve just posted our QuickFact Sheet of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZR1 / ZX1, the slimmest and most compact zoom digital camera. At only 26mm (1.02 in.) thick, the Panasonic ZR1 is pocketable, yet boasts a LEICA DC VARIO ELMAR 8x wide-angle optical zoom. A new POWER O.I.S. is claimed to correct for hand-shake and enables correctly exposed hand held night photography. A new ultra high speed AF also doubles the AF performance.

An informative Leica X1 YouTube video from B&H:

Related Links:
- Leica X1 QuickFact Sheet
- Leica X1 Press Release
- Leica X1 Digital Compact Camera With Elmarit 24mm f/2.8 ASPH. Lens [B&H Price]

Leica M9

The Leica M9 is an 18MP full-frame (23.9 x 35.8 mm) digital rangefinder camera, an upgrade of the Leica M8 (which uses an APS-C size sensor), and the digital version of the 35mm film Leica M7.

Full-Frame Sensor
The full-frame sensor is made by Kodak specifically for the Leica M9. To avoid the problems encountered on the M8 which apparently used a UR/IR filter that was too thin, the M9 uses a thicker UR/IR filter in front of the sensor.

Being full-frame, the sensor also enables the use of Leica lenses at their specified focal length without a multiplier. Currently, the Leica M9 can therefore boast to be the world’s smallest full-frame digital camera system. That is, until other digital camera manufacturers follow suit with their own models.

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Category: Serious to Advanced Amateur

The Canon EOS 7D is a new series that sits between the 50D and the 5D Mark II. It features 18MP resolution using an APS-C size (22.3 x 14.9mm) CMOS sensor with an ISO range of 100-6400 (expandable to ISO 12,800), and claims that its enhanced, low-noise high-sensitivity optimization makes shooting in situations previously possible only with flash as simple as point and shoot.

Unheard of in a camera in this category, the EOS 7D features a blazing continuous shooting of 8fps, allowing capture of up to 126 Large/JPEGs with a UDMA CF card and 15 RAW. This makes the EOS 7D a perfect action shooting digital SLR camera.

Read the Canon EOS 7D QuickFact Sheet >>

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Category: Serious to Advanced Amateur

The Nikon D300s DSLR adds HD Movie at 720p resolution with a smooth cinematic 24 fps rate. It records high fidelity audio either with the convenient built-in microphone or by using the external stereo microphone input. Video length can be trimmed in-camera. In Tripod mode, the D300S features continuous autofocus during video recording using Contrast-Detect AF. Picture Control adjustment options allow easy midifications of the tone and colour of HD video clips.

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Category: Beginner Amateur – Family DSLR

The Nikon D3000 DSLR is Nikon’s newest affordable entry-level DSLR camera. It replaces the award-winning D60 (or D40 before it). The Nikon D3000 is packed with Nikon’s latest digital technology and know-how found in its more expensive DSLR models. It retains 10.2MP resolution and all the practical features that made its predecessors so popular. Main features are:

• 10.2 MP resolution (on an APS CCD image sensor)
• Guide Mode
• Active D-Lighting
• PASM
• RAW
• Picture Control
• 3.0 –in. LCD (230K dots)
• 11-point AF

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Category: Point-and-Shoot

The Olympus Stylus 7010 is an ultra slim point-and-shoot digital camera featuring 12MP resolution (on a 1/2.33-in. CCD), 7x wide-angle optical zoom (28-196 mm equiv.), and a large 2.7-in. LCD (230K dots). Magic Filters allow more creative photography.

The new Magic Filters include:

• Pop Art – Enhance and saturate colours to create vivid, high-impact pictures that express the joyful, light-hearted feeling of the Pop Art style of the 1960s;
• Pin Hole – Reduce the peripheral brightness of an image as though it were shot through a pin hole, connecting the viewer intimately with the subject at the center; and
• Fish-Eye – Emulate the wide-angle of a fish-eye lens by taking extremely wide, hemispherical images and magnifying the center of the frame.

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Samsung ST50

The Samsung ST50 is a Point-and-Shoot digital camera that is ultra slim (16.6mm) and easily slips into a jeans pocket, shirt pocket or small fashion purse. It is a beautiful camera with a brushed stainless steel body that comes in 4 different colors: Black, Silver, Red or Blue.

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Olympus E-P1

The Olympus E-P1 QuickFact Sheet is up and we have also published a Visual History of the Olympus PEN, photos courtesy of Olympus.

Related Links:

- Check out the Olympus Pen history, celebrating its 50th Anniversary.
- See Olympus Pen mFT Teaser
- TV Commercial
- OLYMPUS PEN E-P1 Product Information
- Press Release

Previews:

- Imaging Resource
- DPReview
- LetsGoDigital
- DCRP (dcresource)
- Focus Numérique [Fr]
- DigitalCameraReview