Canon Powershot SX160 IS Review

Summary

With the SX120 IS, Canon had pretty much nailed the ergonomic design. The camera was great to hold and use, with a button layout that made accessing most features very easy and intuitive. Nothing has changed in that regard to the SX160 IS. It’s still a great camera to use, well balanced with a flash that needs to be manually raised in the event it is needed (by the push of a button). The buttons are placed exactly the same way they are in almost every single Canon point-and-shoot camera, so if you’ve ever used one of Canon’s cameras, you’d know almost immediately where everything is.

Canon announces three PowerShot SX50 HS, S110 and G15 cameras in India

Canon has announced the S110, G15 and SX50 HS in India, cameras that are the newest upgrades to Canon’s lineup. The trio was recently shown and demoed at Photokina in Germany, and India is already set to get a taste of them soon. The pricing and release dates for the cameras have not yet been announced however.

Amongst the many changes, Canon claims that the two areas that received significant focus was improving AF speed and reducing shutter lag, across the entire product line. There are also some obvious ergonomic/ build alterations that are obvious upon first look. However, each camera has its own unique set of features, something Canon has spent a lot of time on in order to distinguish the various lines of products, especially the S and G series.

Sony Alpha SLT-A65

Summary

The Sony Alpha A65 offers very good features such as a blazing fast 10 frames-per-second burst rate, OLED electronic viewfinder, excellent video quality, variety of filters to play around with, hell even a GPS chip. Its image quality is really good and we did not see any issues with noise till ISO 3200. At an MRP of Rs. 59,990 we feel it makes for a good value for money proposition provided its MOP is around the Rs. 55,000 region. We would suggest you invest in a better lens to get the best out of this camera as the stock lens does not do justice to the camera. It does face some competition from Canon 60D and Nikon D5100, but none of them offer the kind of burst rate offered by the A65.

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Canon's first mirrorless camera EOS-M unveiled

It was weird that when most camera manufacturers were launching their mirrorless cameras, Canon chose to sit out of the race and release the G1X instead. Many wondered if Canon even cared to depart from its usual course into this new segment and within a few months, rumours spread about a mirrorless prototype. Canon Inc. has finally put those rumours to rest with the Canon EOS-M, the Japanese camera giant’s debutant in the mirrorless segment.

Canon enters mirrorless space with 18-megapixel EOS M

Canon has joined the likes of Sony, Panasonic, Olympus, Fujifilm, and bitter-rival Nikon, by finally unveiling its first mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera.

The EOS M brings to fruition the rumours of Canon entering the MILC space - cameras that aim to bring DSLR-like interchangeable lens and image quality in a smaller body.

Canon EOS 650D Review

The Canon EOS 650D is the new entry level DSLR from the camera giant and it packs quite a wallop. Though the basic feature set that has become signature of the xxxD series continues with the 650D, the latest “rebel” does include a few aces up its sleeve.

The first thing of obvious interest we noted in our story about the 650D’s launch was the multi-touch capacitive touchscreen. Now that we have this little puppy in our hands, we can say with full confidence that Canon has delivered on its promise of an amazing touchscreen. It almost feels as fluid and easy-to-use as the touchscreens on most modern smartphones. The lag is minimal and so is our level of frustration (which used to run sky high with the touchscreens on point-and-shoot cameras). Every aspect of the camera can be controlled using just the touchscreen, along with the ability to use the screen as a touch-shutter.

Sony Alpha 77 Brief review and Compare

Summary
The A77 is definitely a good buy if you're looking for something sturdy, with a good overall balance of features and performance. While the A77 is a slight disappointment in the noise handling department, it definitely makes up for it with the fast AF (especially if coupled up with one of Sony lenses that feature Super Sonic Wave Motors) and stellar video quality. We'd recommend buying the body only and saving the extra 30K (A77+16-105mm f/3.5-5.6 kit is for INR 99,999) and investing it in a nice lens, like a 50mm f/1.4 prime instead of a kit lens that suffers from poor optical quality. 

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Sony’s acquisition of Konica Minolta back in 2006 garnered a lot of mixed reactions from the global audience. While many felt that the cameras to come forth from Sony would just be Konica Minoltas with the Sony logo slapped onto them, there were some who felt Sony was about to ruin a good thing. Sony did not take these concerns lightly and though their initial few cameras had a strong resemblance to Konica Minolta (the Alpha 700 comes to mind) products, Sony has slowly tried to infuse their new line-up with the best of both the worlds and the Alpha 77 is a testament of that fact.

Canon EOS 60D Review and Compare

Summary

At Rs. 77,195 with a basic kit lens thrown in, the EOS 60D is expensive, considering the EOS 550D will give you close to the same results at a much lower price. The 7D is also only slightly more expensive, and we see many opting for the more professional body and definitely superior build and ergonomics. It is an interesting option with great performance, that should provide the D7000 with tough competition, but Canon and Nikon have been guilty of trying to serve pros and newbies alike in the past, and this usually ends up being a deal breaker for both classes of users.

Canon EOS 650D launched in India at Rs. 55,995 for body-only

After the exciting announcement, the Canon EOS 650D became the mo

st eagerly awaited entry-level DSLR from Canon, and it has now finally landed on Indian shores. The EOS 650D doesn’t look or feel much different from the EOS 600D, but a closer look reveals just how wrong that assumption is.

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At the heart of the Canon EOS 650D resides an 18MP sensor, quite different from that in the 600D. The sensor, a first-of-its-kind, is a hybrid AF sensor that allows the camera to utilize both Contrast and Phase Detect AF systems to provide constant autofocus, especially for video. It achieves this thanks to a number of dedicated pixels on the sensor, which work along with the AF chip taken straight out of the EOS 60D (therefore, all cross type AF points).

Nikon D3200 Full Review

Summary

If you are someone eager to get your hands dirty with photography, but cannot afford to spend a lot, the D3200 is a great starter camera. The AF-S 18-55mm VR lens is not all that bad either in good lighting, but at the end of the day, you get what you pay for.

Review

After almost two years of being the entry-level photographer’s friend, Nikon has replaced the D3100 with the updated D3200. Of all the updates the new camera brings with it, the most notable would definitely be the new 24 megapixel sensor. When the D3200 was announced, many assumed that the sensor at the heart of the camera was the same found in Sony’s Alpha 77 (the first APS-C camera with a 24 megapixel camera), but it turns out, Nikon has placed its own sensor in the D3200.

However, the sensor isn’t the only aspect about the camera to receive an update. Several smaller, but important aspects of the camera have been greatly improved on to make the Nikon D3200 a camera that can stand on its own in the entry-level segment.

Sony RX100 Review and Comparison

This is a review of the best pocket camera ever made.
The Sony RX100 has a huge one-inch sensor - the biggest ever stuffed into a pocketable zoom camera
But first, a history lesson.
For years camera makers worried about competition from only one source: other camera makers. But in the end, the most dangerous predator came from an unexpected direction: cellphones.
Today, more photos are taken with phones than with point-and-shoot cameras. On photo sites like Flickr, the iPhone is the source of more photos than any real camera. No wonder sales of inexpensive pocket cameras are going down each year.

Samsung's DIgigtal and SLR Cameras

Samsung’s imaging division has up until now focused on delivering cameras with a rich feature set such as built-in Wi-Fi and onboard GPS. However, the image quality on these cameras was mediocre at best, with barely average optics. Samsung’s newly announced EX2F puts that legacy to rest, as it packs a 1/1.7” backside-illuminated sensor (the same size found in the Canon S100 or the G12).

The sensor is backed in performance with the world’s first f/1.4 wide aperture lens in a point-and-shoot. The lens has an optical zoom range of 24-80mm, at which the maximum aperture goes down to a still pretty impressive f/2.7.