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Video: Hands-On With The Fotodiox Vizelex Rhinocam
This gadget promises huge resolution, medium format style images from a Sony NEX camera, but can it deliver?
Camera Test: Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH3 Interchangeable-Lens Compact
Could Panasonic's new "small" camera be the best ILC yet?
New Gear: Phantom Flex4K Camera Brings 4k Video at 1000fps
You might be limited to a five-second burst, but at 1000fps that's still an huge amount of high-speed footage

From the Buying Guide

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Canon Powershot S3 IS, Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-H5, Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ7, and Kodak Easyshare Z612

Steal These Cameras!
- By Dan Richards on December 16, 2008
Here's your assignment: Find yourself a nice 400mm f/3.5 lens, with image stabilization. While you're at it, make it a zoom--say, 35-420mm. Get a 6MP (or better) digital camera to go along with it, with through-the-lens viewing. Got all that? Now do it for under $500.
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Camera Review: Canon PowerShot A700

Now featuring more features!
- By Bill Schiffner on December 16, 2008
Behold the new flagship of the Canon PowerShot A-Series: The PowerShot A700. This model incorporates all of the features included on the mid-level A540, plus much more.
New features in the A700 include 6-megapixel resolution along with a retractable 6x 35-210mm optical zoom. It also incorporates over 20 shooting modes from fully automatic completely manual to fit any photographic situation. In addition, the A700 is compatible with optional wide angle and telephoto lens converters, as well as a close-up lens and a wireless flash unit.
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Camera Test: Sony Cyber-Shot DSC N1

Who needs buttons when there's touch-screen control?
- By Jack Howard on December 16, 2008
Packing 8.1 megapixels and a Carl Zeiss 3x Vario-Tessar 2.8-5.4/7.9-33.7 zoom lens (38mm-114mm equivalent), the Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-N1 puts a serious face forward. This solidly constructed brushed silver camera looks like a major player in the 8MP compact class.
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Hands on With the Epson Stylus Pro 4800

Using a third black ink, the Epson Stylus Pro 4800 makes even better prints than its predecessor, whether color or monochrome.
- By Debbie Grossman And Russell Hart on December 16, 2008
Not much more than a year ago we were raving in these pages about the Epson Stylus Pro 4000, convinced that it might be the best fine-art inkjet printer ever made. Here was an eight-ink model that could print a 16x20 or 16x24 image (using 17-inch rolls) and still fit on a desk, albeit a big one. We expressed our admiration for the SP4000's excellent resolution and the color fidelity of its fade-resistant UltraChrome pigment inks.
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Camera Field Test: Sony Cyber-shot DSC-R1

This 10-megapixel model combines the convenience of an electronic viewfinder camera with the image quality of a D-SLR.
- By Steve Pollock on December 16, 2008
The most remarkable thing about the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-R1 is not what it does, but how it does it. Yes, this is the first consumer-level, non-SLR digital camera to offer 10 megapixels of resolution and an equivalent-speed range of up to ISO 3200. And both of these numbers are significant upgrades from the eight megapixels (or less) and ISO 800/1600 (or lower) of competing EVF models. Yet the real breakthrough is deep inside the DSC-R1: an image sensor that's the same size as the APS-C-sized chip used in many, if not most, digital SLRs.
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Camera Test: Mustek MDC530Z Digital Camera

Lots of megapixels for your money. But not a whole lot more.
- By Jack Howard on December 16, 2008
How many megapixels can $179.00 buy? If you consider the Mustek MDC530Z, the answer -- this month -- is five. But megapixels are only one thing to consider when you choose a digital camera. Image quality, ease of use, buffer and image processing speed, and quality of construction should also factor into the equation.
Those suffering "megapixel envy," but looking in the budget category, may be interested in the MDC530Z, but there are some things to consider when looking at this model.
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Lens Test: Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM AF

A long and strong Canon original.
- By Julia Silber on December 16, 2008
This long, Tele stabilized zoom replaces Canon's popular 75-300mm f/4-5.6 full-frame IS lens, the industry's first IS/VR lens, introduced in 1995. The new model delivers better image stabilization (to three stops instead of two) and a wider zoom range. It also features a zoom lock (at 70mm), special lens coatings to suppress ghosting and flare off digital sensors, and a panning mode for the IS system.
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Visatec Solo B Monolights

Studio lights for less
- By Peter Kolonia on December 16, 2008
Looking for an entry-level studio monolight that pros won't snub their noses at? Bron Electronics recently upgraded its "Solo B" line of Visatec low-cost strobes with all-metal housings and fan-cooling systems, two pro-level features rare in strobes targeted at the home user. The Bs range from the 1200-Watt-second 3200 B down to our test unit, the 5-pound, 130Ws Solo 400 B ($338 street).
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Adobe Lightroom Put to the Test

Is Adobe Lightroom the future of image processing?
- By Michael Reichmann on December 16, 2008
With the widespread adoption of digital cameras, professional photographers have come to rely on a variety of imaging programs for specific tasks. Beyond basic pixel editing in Photoshop, these include RAW file processing and conversion, image organizing and archiving, and printing. Wouldn't it be less cumbersome if such functions were available in a single, integrated program? And wouldn't it be even better if Photoshop's copious features and capabilities were streamlined, reducing your need for books, videos, and workshops to master them?
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Hands On With the Olympus Evolt E-330

A first-of-its-kind D-SLR, the Olympus Evolt E-330 lets photographers compose pictures on a big, "live" external LCD, as well as in the viewfinder. Will they want to?
- By Steve Pollock on December 16, 2008
One basic difference between digital point-and-shoot cameras and interchangeable-lens digital SLRs is the function of their external LCD screens. On point-and-shoots the screen is used both for composing pictures and for reviewing them once they've been taken. On a D-SLR the screen is used only for reviewing pictures; as with film SLRs, you have to compose through the optical viewfinder.
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