DSLR

If you're the owner of one of Canon's brand new EOS 60D DSLRs, it's already time for your first firmware upgrade. The update itself doesn't actually change much. According to Canon, it specifically fixes a flaw that was causing images using flash (both pop-up and Speedlite) with the following four lenses: EF300/4 L IS USM, EF28-135/3.5-5.6 IS USM, EF75-300/4-5.6 IS USM, and EF100-400/4.5-5.6 L IS USM.

Today's camera announcement bonanza wouldn't be complete without a full-fledged DSLR, and the Olympus E-5 fills that spot nicely. They claim that their new body has the "highest image quality of any Olympus camera" thanks to its 12.3-megapixel High-Speed Live MOS sensor and TruePic V+ image processing engine.

The first time you take the lens off the new Olympus Pen E-P2 ($1,100, street, with 14–42mm f/3.5–5.6 or 17mm f/2.8 M.Zuiko Digital lens and VF-2 electronic viewfinder), people around you may stare in disbelief. After all, it’s not much larger than a compact camera, but you can swap out the optics, just as on a DSLR. But does the wow factor extend to its performance? Our tests say yes.

Bundled often as a kit with the Canon EOS 7D and 50D, this APS-C format zoom ($450, street) is for shooters who want more than a bare-bones 18–55mm kit lens without paying $575 (street) for the extra reach of Canon’s 18–200mm IS superzoom. This new 29–216mm equivalent boasts image stabilization, internal focusing, an ultra-low-dispersion (UD) glass element for suppressing fringing and boosting contrast. There’s also an aspheric element of molded glass for distortion control at a fairly compact size.