betterScroll wheel too smallMechanical shutter is loudTends to under-expose some photos. Panasonic has produced an excellent camera in the GF1. It's relatively small, fast and produces images whose quality is miles ahead of average compacts. Although it's...

of view magnification like a 75mm (1.5x) or 80mm (1.6x) lens on a sub full frame DSLR. A full size 35mm sensor captures all or almost all of a rectangle within the image circle produced by a lens designed for a 35mm film camera. A smaller sensor captures only...

begs the question why Canon didn't at least try and push it to 24 fps. In our tests with this preview model, most of our videos were jerky and pretty disappointing. We eventually fell back to a resolution of 1280 x 720 at 30 fps. Video produced at this setting...

• -Olympus E-520

is being supplied with a 18-55 mm although the exact 24x36 equivalent would be 28.8-88 mm. To generalize, the zoom produced by a 24x36 format camera fitted with a 28.8-88 mm lens is ABSOLUTELY IDENTICAL with the zoom produced by the EOS 300D fitted with a 18-55...

from a different era. It's practical and easy to get used to, but its design clashes with the screen's, and it isn't backlit. Image Quality When we tested it in our lab, the results produced by the TC-P50V10 were quite simply excellent. Blacks were as dark...