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The Battle of Zooms - Part 2
Published by: Softpedia       07-18-2005        Read Complete Article
Article Summary

As we promised you last week, we will continue today our journey into the world of prosumer cameras fitted with zooms equal or longer than 7X.

We stooped in 2002, when Nikon had just launched Coolpix 5700 (a camera with 5MP resolution and 8X optical zoom).

In September 2002, Minolta extended the lineup of its Dimage series with another camera: Dimage 7Hi, which is based on the 2001 model, 7i. Dimage 7Hi has a 5MP sensor, allows the user to save in a new format (Extra fine JPG), and several other improvements: shutter speed, white balance and color space. ....Read Complete Article




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The Battle of Zooms - Part I
In the times of analogic cameras, when digital photography was just a nice dream, a 10X or 12X zoom meant a humongous lens, with a weight that required supplementary means of support, the photographer being required to carry impressive weights for the different tasks he had to accomplish. This fact is also valid today in the case of digital and ana......

 07/18/05
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No need to worry, the end of the digital era has not been yet announced. This is only related to the disappearance of the devices as we know them today. And the guilty parties are nanotechnology and a new molecule developed by Scottish researchers.......

 05/30/05






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