Pentax has been onto a winner since starting the Optio S series back in 2003, and with each succeeding model the company has been refining, improving and embellishing, so that you feel you own one of ...

We've been pretty impressed by the consistency and quality of Casio's Exilim range, which has recently been updated with the release of the 10.1-megapixel Z1080. It mimics the rather minimalist design of much of the rest ...

Ever since the digital revolution hit compact cameras, the industry has tended to divide its PR campaigns between the semi-pro who likes loads of features and technical advances, and the style-conscious who like cool exteriors and ...

It was only a couple of months ago that we were admiring the slimness of BenQ's T700 digital camera, which was a shade under 15mm thick. Like the X725, the T700 was about the dimensions of ...

The Genius G-Shot series has always aimed squarely at the lower end of the market, for those people who want to have as many multimedia functions as possible crammed into one compact, easy to carry machine. ...

There's a trend towards making digital cameras a bit less fragile, so they can be used for work as well as play. Fujifilm's Big Job HD-3W is aimed at construction workers, oil workers and engineers, as ...

Ricoh's Caplio R6 is billed as 'The world's thinnest digital camera with a 28mm wide-angle, 7.1x optical zoom lens'. So if a thinner camera with a 29mm wide-angle, 7.1x optical zoom lens came along, it presumably ...

Choosing your first digital camera in today's market is a bewildering business, as the manufacturers bombard you with impressive sounding statistics and/or provide a seductive exterior to grab your attention. In the case of HP's Photosmart ...

Compact digital cameras vary a bit in design, but generally look and behave in similar ways. The Olympus μ (greek letter Mu) 770 SW is a bit different, though, as it's designed to be waterproof to ...

Gone are the days when a camera was purchased simply for the range of its functions and the sharpness of its images. In a very crowded and competitive digital camera market, what makes your model stand ...

Fujifilm's F-series is arguably the most successful line of compact cameras around, in no small part down to consistent performance and solid build quality across the range. The 8.3-megapixel F40fd is currently available at prices close ...

Have you ever sat and watched TV and seen the view from the perspective of someone right in the thick of the action? What springs to mind for me are the head-cameras that athlete Tanni Grey-Thompson ...

As we all know, technology stands still for no man (or woman) and just as the early analogue camcorders gave way to the digital revolution, now the supremacy of MiniDV has been seriously challenged by the ...

In the days when film was king, Pentax had a mighty reputation for its SLR cameras, including a much admired K-series (K2, KM, KX) which culminated in the legendary K1000 that stayed in production from 1976 ...

If you're already a fan of Pentax's Optio range, you'll be pleased to learn that its third prodigy has now seen the light of day, and predictably it incorporates a lot of the latest technological improvements ...

Last year Casio's portable yet powerful Exilim Zoom EX-Z1000 became the world's first 10.1-megapixel compact camera, putting professional quality photography in the hands of the everyday user. The EX-Z1050 takes this a step further by making ...

Genius is a Taiwanese company that's starting to build a reputation for designing small, affordable, multifunction digital cameras (still and video) and its latest 5-megapixel G-Shot continues the tradition. From the second you take it out ...

There's an old Canon PowerShot A20 sitting on the shelf here and it's interesting to compare it with Canon's spanking new PowerShot A550, the subject of this review. The physical design is similar, with viewfinders and ...

Canon's Digital IXUS range has to be one of the most prolific of recent times, as it was only a blink ago that the IXUS 800 and 850 IS were released. Its latest offspring has opted ...

Creative has quite a range of Web-cams and this latest model, the Live! Cam Optia, has a little trick up its sleeve that should make even the most Web-cam-o-phobic of us give it a second glance. ...