Every industry has some well-established norms, and changing them require quite an effort. It is not long ago, that the terms ‘professional’ and ‘compact’ could not be mentioned together. Now compact cameras have evolved so much that even professionals have started taking serious interest in certain compact cameras, and manufacturers are trying to lure them with advanced … [Read more...]

Afew years ago, the professional D-SLR camera market  witnessed a full-fledged  megapixel war, with m nufacturers trying to pack more ‘megapixels’ into their devices. Just when we thought that megapixels are getting stagnated, some of the manufacturers have revived the megapixel madness, albeit in another category — entry-level  D-SLRs. The  latest in the offing is the Nikon … [Read more...]

The Peregrine is the fastest bird in the world; the EOS-1D X is the fastest D-SLR! Period. It can capture images up to 14 frames per second in full resolution (with Autofocus Tracking and exposure metering turned ‘off ’ and the reflex mirror raised); 12 fps using AF Tracking and metering ‘on’, using a UDMA  CF card. That’s blistering fast! It is built like a battle tank and … [Read more...]

The Olympus E-PL5, successor to the E-PL3, was introduced at Photokina 2012 in Cologne, Germany. It is smaller than Olympus’ flagship camera– the OM-D E-M5– but offers identical image quality, low noise, wider dynamic range and fine details. It is sold in India either as a single lens kit (with 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 IIR MSC lens) or two-lens kit that includes the 40-150mm lens. … [Read more...]

As the only film company to survive the demise of film successfully, Fujifilm knew that it had to do something really different. Accordingly, designer Masasumi Imai was given the task of producing an extraordinary visual design. Imai san and his team decided to produce  a traditional, retro-like camera and the Fujifilm X100 was the end result. It was followed by the X Pro 1 … [Read more...]