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Nikon D40 Shipping in December

The D50's replacement loses weight, trims price down to measly $600 street with kit lens.
- By Jack Howard on December 16, 2008
After rampant rumor-mongering, leaked specs showing up on random sites, and photo forum banter, we can finally tell you about the just-announced Nikon D40, a slim, 6.1-megapixel bargain at $600 street with Nikon's 18-55mm f/3/5-5.6II AF-S Zoom Nikkor DX lens.
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How to Tame High-Contrast Lighting

A pair of quick tips for taming high-contrast lighting when you shoot out-of-doors.
- By Peter Kolonia on December 16, 2008
Whatever your outdoor subject, if you're making pictures under a cloudless daytime sky, you've got a problem: contrast. Highlights can be blazingly bright and shadows impenetrably dark. Even with your DSLR at its lowest contrast setting, preserving detail in both highlight and shadowed areas can be impossible.
The good news: If you're forced to shoot in bright sunlight, photographers have developed techniques that can dim down highlights and/or brighten shadows to ultimately shrink the dynamic range of a scene. Here are two such contrast-controlling techniques.
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Camera Test: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi (400D)

Canon's newest Rebel is a high-end camera in a bargain body.
- By Dan Richards on December 16, 2008
Just three years ago Canon started a revolution with the 6.3MP EOS Digital Rebel -- the first digital SLR to sell for less than $1,000 with lens. That revolution has been such a wild success that the third-generation Reb, the XTi, arrives with 10.1MP, loads of high-end features, and an even lower price -- and still finds itself in a battle with four other manufacturers for that same piece of turf.
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Hands on With the Pentax K10D

This 10.1MP DSLR is built for speed, endurance, and price ($899 street).
- By Dan Richards on December 16, 2008
In the boisterous parade of new 10-megapixel DSLRs, here comes the tough guy of the bunch, the Pentax K10D. This new model packs 10MP capture, CCD-based image stabilization, a self-cleaning sensor, and compatibility with an extensive lens system into what is probably the best-sealed DSLR body in the sub-$1,000 class. At $999 (estimated street) with the 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 Pentax DA lens, or $899 for the body only, it's a tough deal to beat, too.
We knew Pentax had a 10MP DSLR coming, but we didn't quite expect this level of construction and capability. Details:
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Kid Tested, Mother Approved

We outfitted kids ranging in age from three to five with the new Fisher-Price Kid-Tough Digital Camera to see just how tough these starter cams really are.
- By Jack Howard on December 16, 2008
At the PopPhoto lab, we normally run new digital cameras through a series of tests to determine image quality, color accuracy, resolution, and lens performance. But there are exceptions.
We can tell just by "eyeballing" that the new Fisher-Price Kid-Tough Digital Camera (street: $70.00) would not score very highly with our stringent testing procedures. But does it matter if the resolution is low, the fixed focus lens shows some distortion, and the color accuracy feels a bit off? In this case, we don't think so.
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Camera Review: Olympus SP-510UZ

Although not without its flaws, this 7.1MP EVF with 10x optical zoom is a very likable camera.
- By Mark Lent on December 16, 2008
The Olympus SP-510UZ is a 7.1 Megapixel EVF (Electronic ViewFinder) camera that has some big-time features typically found in much more expensive DSLR's, but with a street price of only $342. The real surprises for an EVF at this price is that it features a RAW file format, has the ability to make manual exposures and uses ED glass in two elements -- all features which are common in much more costly DSLRs.
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The Goods

New ways to print bigger, soften your focus, eliminate grain, shoot from the wrist, and more.
- On December 16, 2008
Big Time
A 17-incher is the acme of desktop printers: Who wouldn't want to whip out images so big that you have to stand back to appreciate them?
Canon's new entry, the imagePrograf iPF5000, is a beaut. It has two, count 'em, two heads to transport a whopping 12 inks. According to Canon, that means faster prints with a superwide gamut.
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Lens Test: Nikon 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6G DX AF-S

The kit lens for the Nikon D80 wins the award for general excellence.
- By Julia Silber on December 16, 2008
Nikon wanted a sexier kit zoom for its D80 than the ones it bundled with the D50 and D70. And now we have it: the new 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 digital-only, internal-focusing AF Nikkor (a 28-200mm equivalent), with a goosed-up zoom range, ED glass element, two aspheric elements, and Nikon's Silent Wave Motor ($400, street).
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Camera Review: Canon PowerShot A710 IS

Canon upgrades the popular A700 with blur-busting image stabilization and increased resolution.
- By Bill Schiffner on December 16, 2008
It's funny how time flies. It seems like only yesterday we were reviewing the Canon PowerShot A700, which Canon announced at the PMA 2006 trade show this past March. Here it is October and Canon already has a new model in their popular A series to replace it, the PowerShot A710 IS.
To find out just what Canon did to improve on the A700, we headed to Giants Stadium in New Jersey, home of our beloved New York Jets, where Canon had lined up sideline access during pre-game warm-ups as part of its sponsorship of the NFL and the "Why We Love Football" contest.
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Which Software Should I Buy?

I'm getting serious about image editing. But do I really need to spend $650 for Adobe Photoshop CS2 -- can't I get by with Photoshop Elements 5.0 ($100)?
- On December 16, 2008
If you're getting serious, but you're not yet sure just how serious you're going to get, the answer is yes, you can get by with Elements. For now.
Photoshop's "junior" version, Elements 5.0, is a great program. And it has a lot of the most commonly used Photoshop tools: the awesome Healing Brush and its cousin the Spot Healing Brush, the Magnetic Lasso, and the Clone Stamp.
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