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Serious photographers tend to look down on compact cameras. But would they change that attitude for one that delivered the same image quality as a DSLR, yet allowed them to travel light? Sigma believes so — and that they’ll pay a premium for its new compact DP1.

Sharing most of the features and visual virtues of its image stabilized sibling, the PowerShot A590 IS, including a fast 4X (35mm-140mm equivalent) optical zoom lens, the PowerShot A580 camera features an 8-megapixel CCD image sensor, the option of fully automatic or semi-automatic settings and 12 easily selectable Scene shooting modes.

This is a 10 megapixel camera with a 37-260mm (film equivalent) lens. The attractive case is rugged and overall face area is slightly larger than a credit card. It fits into a pocket. There is no optical viewfinder and the LCD screen, while of excellent resolution, is useless in bright sunlight.

Pocket digital cameras are ubiquitous. You probably already own one – you know, one of those little plastic wonders that fits in a shirt pocket and can detect when someone is smiling or not. You also probably have a small camera built into your cell phone, your MP3 player, or your GPS. Let’s face it, […]

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS20 is a 10 megapixel ultracompact digital camera and the top-level offering in Panasonic’s recently announced FS series of stylish, budget-conscious pocket cams. Equipped with an optically stabilized 4x zoom that begins at a wide 30mm, the FS20 also makes use of a large, bright, and crisp 3 inch LCD.

The folks at Canon have lots of experience building ultracompact, feature-rich digital cameras, and their SD series Digital Elph digicams have consistently been among the most successful competitors in the photography marketplace.

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX35 is a slim 10.1 Megapixel compact with a 4x optically stabilised lens. Announced in January 2008, it comes just six months after its predecessor the Lumix FX33, which itself came only seven months after the Lumix FX30.

A security lapse made it possible for unwelcome strangers to peruse personal photos posted on Facebook Inc.’s popular online hangout, circumventing a recent upgrade to the Web site’s privacy controls.

The Nikon Coolpix L14 features a seven megapixel CCD linked to a Nikkor-branded 3x optical zoom lens, in an understated, stylish and relatively compact body. The Coolpix L14 offers a 2.4-inch 115,000 pixel LCD for framing and playback, but like many other small cameras these days, the L14 includes no optical viewfinder.

Modern digital compact cameras are wonders of advanced technology. Features that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago such as tiny multi-megapixel image sensors, face detection and even face recognition software, ultra-compact zoom lenses with optical image stabilisation, high resolution LCD monitor screens and tiny memory cards holding gigabytes of data are relatively […]