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Digital Backs Vs. DSLRs: Is Bigger Still Better?

Digital backs for medium-format SLRs offer advantages over 35mm-style digital SLRs. But are they worth the price?
- By Michael Reichmann on December 16, 2008
Auto aficionados have an old saying: There's no substitute for cubic inches. It means, simply, that more horsepower is always better. In photography, the same idea can be applied to the size of the film or electronic sensor you use to capture images. Just as medium-format film delivers sharper, smoother pictures than 35mm, interchangeable digital backs designed to work with medium-format film cameras produce higher-quality output than do digital SLRs with chips that are 35mm-sized or smaller, all else being equal.
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Top 5 Digital Cameras for August

America's best-sellers based on unit sales.
- On December 16, 2008
Make/Model

Megapixel

Zoom

MSRP

1. Nikon Coolpix L4

4MP

3x

$130

2. Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W50

6MP

3x

$250

3. Canon PowerShot A530

5MP

4x
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Nikon D80 Competitive Set

See how the Nikon D80 stacks up against the Canon Rebel XTi, Pentax K10D and Sony Alpha 100.
- By Dan Richards on December 16, 2008
Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
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Camera Review: Olympus Stylus 750

All-weather design keeps out the elements while packing in more imaging options.
- By Bill Schiffner on December 16, 2008
Just like the postman's motto, the all-weather Olympus Stylus 750 can go virtually anywhere in all elements that Mother Nature can serve up. The metal body construction is durable and lightweight, with rubber gaskets throughout the interior to ensure that rain, sleet, snow or even dust from the Las Vegas desert won't stop you from making your shooting rounds.
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Exclusive Hands-On Preview: Pentax K10D

After three years of six-megapixel flyweights, Pentax goes to the mat with this head-turning 10-megapixel knockout.
- By Jonathan Barkey on December 16, 2008
Based on our test drive of a late-stage K10D prototype, we'd say Pentax has graduated from D-SLR underdog to serious contender.
Priced at $899 to compete with other mid-level 10MP models, the K10D is more advanced in many ways and debuts technology found nowhere else.
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FinePix S5 Pro: Nikon Gets Fuji Brain Transplant
- By Jonathan Barkey on December 16, 2008
On Tuesday at Photokina Fuji announced that they would be putting the sensor from their current Nikon N80-based FinePix S3 Pro into a Nikon D200 and selling it as the S5 Pro sometime early next year. Actually, they didn't say it in quite that way, but it's true, and combining Fuji's unique extended-dynamic range technology with the D200's best-of-class camera body is a very good thing.
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Exclusive Hands On With the Canon PowerShot G7

Our reporter gets an early look at the new 10-megapixel digicam at Photokina.
- By Jonathan Barkey on December 16, 2008
Serious shooters have prized Canon's compact G series digicams for their pro-grade features and ability to pinch-hit for their big D-SLRs. The all-new G7, which we tried at Photokina prior to the public opening, reflects that dynamic yet changes it too.
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First Look: Olympus E-400

If you live in Asia or the U.S., the world's smallest, lightest D-SLR is not coming to a store near you, and that's a pity.
- By Jonathan Barkey on December 16, 2008
The world's smallest, lightest D-SLR is NOT coming to a store near you. The recently-unveiled Olympus E-400, an instant hit among those visiting the company's Photokina booth, is available exclusively in Europe -- but not in the U.S. or Asia -- and unlikely to cross the Atlantic in its present form. That's a pity, because we found it beautiful to behold, a pleasure to handle, and a delight to stuff in our jacket pocket.
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Hands On With the Leica M8

The new Leica M8 ($4,800, estimated street, body only) is finally here, and it's a beauty. We've got all the details on this 10MP digital rangefinder.
- By John Owens on December 16, 2008
Leica fanatics have been arguing over this camera for years...even though it didn't exist until now. Battles raged over which features a digital M-series Leica should sport -- or whether these elegantly simple and decidedly Germanic manual-focus rangefinders should be translated into digital at all.
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Pentax Takes Quantum Leap with New K10D

Pentax hits one out of the park with its newest DSLR.
- By Jack Howard on December 16, 2008
The features of the just-announced 10 megapixel Pentax K10D ($899 estimated street, body only) are sure to amaze Pentax lovers, and the photo world in general. Since abandoning the *ist nomenclature on its DLSRs, Pentax has slowly but surely built more features and functions into the K line of DSLRs around the 6 megapixel range, building a line of safe cameras at a nice pricepoint, but no one, not even us here at PopPhoto.com, were expecting such a monumental upgrade between the current K line and the new K10D.
Here's a list of what makes this camera so noteworthy.
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