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Kodak EasyShare V1253: Widescreen HD compact

Crave Ah, Barcelona. City of Gaudi, and the Nou Camp, and paella, and stuff. We would like to be better informed about all matters Barcelonean, but we're a gadget blog, not Judith blinkin' Chalmers. No, Crave is not interested in seeing the sights of...

11 October 2007, 14:11

Pentax K100D Super digital SLR: Dustbuster for beginners

Crave Pentax has announced the 6.1 megapixel K100D Super, the latest outstretched hand into the narrowing gap between digital SLR and consumer compact. The K100D Super has a number of preset shooting modes, just like on your compact.

Tags: pentax, compact, modes, sensor

28 June 2007, 11:37

Kodak EasyShare M873: Whistles? Check. Bells? Check

Crave Another week, another 8-megapixel compact camera. Although compact megapixel counts are stacking up to 10 and 12 these days, and screens are starting to stretch to 3 inches and maybe even getting touchy-feely, the emphasis seems to be on keeping...

Tags: kodak, compact, optical, megapixel

4 September 2007, 11:17

Hands on with the Ricoh R8: Putting the R8 in gr8?

Crave The brand spanking new Ricoh R8 is a follow-up in name to one of our favourite compact cameras of last year, the R7, although they look nothing alike. Ricoh has dropped the Caplio branding, and where the R7 was the consummate contemporary compact...

Tags: ricoh, modes, zoom, compact

21 February 2008, 11:10

Nikon Coolpix S500: Model behaviour

Crave But is this compact the brainy type, modelling to pay its way through college, or just another vacuous party-going airhead? Strangely, the S500 also includes the inferior digital method of image stabilisation more often found on compact cameras...

Tags: nikon, compact, optical, cameras

9 July 2007, 11:22

Photos: Hands-on with the slinky Samsung NV15

Crave In today's compact camera market, genuinely unusual features are pretty thin on the ground. The N15 is a solidly put-together beast, with a metal frame and SLR styling in a compact form factor. Face detection is no longer the groundbreaking feature...

2 November 2007, 10:55

Nikon D40: dSLRs for everyone? Cashback!

Crave Recent developments suggest that the gap between digital compact cameras and digital SLRs is narrowing, in terms of price and quality. Six megapixels doesn't sound like much in an age of affordable 8- and 10-megapixel compacts, but the dSLR sensor...

Tags: nikon, compact, cameras, canon

5 July 2007, 11:58

Kodak Easyshare C513: CMOS definitely

Crave Kodak has announced the Easyshare C513, a 5 megapixel compact camera with a 3x optical zoom (36-108mm) and 61mm (2.4 inch) screen. we thought, 'another bog-standard compact that's exactly the same as all the others'.

Tags: kodak, compact, image quality, sensor

27 July 2007, 11:32

Ricoh Caplio RR770

Crave Ricoh has quietly launched the 7.16-megapixel Caplio RR770, a sleek new compact camera to succeed the budget Caplio RR750. Having created what is, for our money, one of the best compact cameras around in the Caplio R7, Ricoh is clearly looking to...

Tags: ricoh, compact, scene, budget

23 November 2007, 10:06

Hands-on with the Fujifilm FinePix S6500: Facial first

Crave If you've left the compact camera behind, but aren't ready for a dSLR, a superzoom could be the camera for you. These cameras sport 10x optical zoom or larger, and boast dSLR-style flexibility alongside compact camera user-friendliness.

Tags: fujifilm, compact, shot, button

27 March 2008, 10:50

Panasonic Lumix lollapalooza: TZ5, FX35 and many more

Crave Panasonic has followed up last year's compact megazoom Lumix DMC-TZ3 with two models. It's not easy to find a compact camera with a wide zoom lens. Panasonic offers a wide range of compact cameras and its FS series sits square in the middle of its...

30 January 2008, 10:32

Samsung L-series and S85: Cheap and cheerf-L

Crave Samsung has announced three new L-series digital compact cameras and a new S-series, to be on sale from August. All three include the usual attributes for a compact: 3x optical zoom and 64mm (2.5-inch) LCD screen, as well as the ever-more-common...

Tags: samsung, detection, zoom, compact

12 July 2007, 11:40

Photos: Samsung's new S1070, L201, L310, NV9 and NV100HD

Crave We've got our hands on Samsung's compact camera line-up for the second half of the year. Click through the links for details and pictures of the other new snappers, including the widest angle lens available on the compact market, a multimedia all...

16 July 2008, 11:10

Fujifilm FinePix S8000fd: Is zoom the new megapixels?

Crave Some may name them bridge cameras, describing the way they boast features from both the compact and dSLR worlds, but for those who call them superzooms the latest generation is living up to the name. As the gap between dSLRs and compact cameras...

Tags: fujifilm, cameras, compact, lens

14 August 2007, 11:15

Casio Exilim Z-1200: Photo-taker's dozen

Crave Here at Crave, we tend to get excited about anything shiny with an on/off button, yet even we occasionally tire of all these grey 8-megapixel compact cameras with 3x zoom and yet another 64mm (2.5-inch) screen.

Tags: casio, compact, megapixel, face

16 July 2007, 11:47