With so many digital cameras on the market, it's especially bewildering for the first-time buyer to decide where to start and how to get to grips with all the digital technology, when so many cameras seem ...

"The camera never lies" is one of those sayings that now seems truly outdated in this age of digital image manipulation. Even basic budget cameras like this J30 come with some image gimmickry built-in, such as ...

Ricoh has been making a name for itself by exploring the digital camera market in the last few years, both with its CX range and more especially with the GR DIGITAL series which is now in ...

Sony's HDR-XR105E combines a pair of trends in the modern day circa-£500 camcorder. Firstly, it has an on-board 80GB hard drive, and a very quiet one at that. Secondly, it can shoot in resolutions of up ...

It's hard to believe that it's only six months ago that Ricoh brought out its stylish CX1 compact digital camera and already the company has produced a successor with a range of new and improved features. ...

Cameras, like many current gizmos, are bought as much on the grounds of style and fashion as features and performance. Thus one of the popular trends at the moment is to include a waterproof model in ...

Sony has come comparatively late to the DSLR race but has already shown that it is to be taken seriously. It's also recognised that there's always a market of adventurous photographers who want to move out ...

When Nikon launched the D300 back in August 2007 it's fair to say it spun the world of digital SLRs on its head. Here was a camera of a semi-pro standard that broke the boundaries by ...

The YouTube generation is used to the sight of grainy video showing a pal falling off a skateboard or distant images of a band in concert, but as with everything else touched by the digital revolution, ...

So-called ‘bridge' cameras are supposed to span the distance between the instant snappers who really don't want to be bothered with loads of micro-management and the serious-minded photographers who ideally want a DSLR bristling with manual ...

For the keen photographer, the leap from a prosumer model or compact to a fully-fledged SLR can be a daunting one. Thrown into the world of interchangeable lenses and manual controls, the learning curve can be ...

The compact digital cameras in Canon's Digital IXUS range have always been stylish as well as geared towards the happy snapper who likes high quality images for minimum amounts of effort. In that respect the IXUS ...

The PowerShot SX200 IS is striking on the eye, with a shiny aluminium casing in fetching shades of black, blue or red. This is a much more substantial digital compact than many of its rivals, weighing ...

If ever there's a market that feels as though it's close to saturation, it has to be the one for compact digital cameras. As most of them have roughly the length and width of a credit ...

The μ9000 (Mju 9000) is one of the largest compact cameras produced by Olympus in a long while. Even with the zoom retracted it measures a fairly bulky 96 x 60 x 31mm, meaning you may ...

Long gone are the days when a camera was a large, square, bulky, nondescript piece of heavy metal that you hauled out for family reunions and company portraits; and three cheers for that, say all of ...

The main rallying cry for Kodak's EasyShare Z series is “Get closer to perfection with more zoom and ease” and that was certainly true of the 12-megapixel Z980 which we reviewed recently; the 24x optical zoom ...

Panasonic tends to play it very safe when it comes to the body design of its slim-build compact cameras. You only have to glance through the latest offerings in its current 'stylish compact' range to note ...

Those familiar with Sanyo's Xacti range will know it's not uncommon for this manufacturer to delve into the hybrid world. After all, it was producing dual cameras capable of capturing high quality movies as well as ...

Sony describes most of the digital cameras in its Cyber-shot W series as ‘compact and stylish' and on the whole it's hard to disagree with that summary when handling the DSC-W290. Although not in the super-slim ...