exposure

Photos: Hands-on with the Fujifilm FinePix S100FS

Crave You get raw shooting, a thumb dial for adjusting exposure and manual control over the lens -- you turn it and it zooms. Other bracketing options include film simulation and exposure. The Fujifilm S100FS is at the top of the Finepix tree.

14 May 2008, 11:05

Photos: Hands-on with the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX35

Crave Red-eye can be digitally corrected in-camera, while a new intelligent exposure function aims to tweak the exposure of darkened areas in the shot to avoid loss of detail, especially in high-contrast images.

25 April 2008, 16:20

Hands-on with the Samsung L210: Dial M for Manual

Crave Not exposure compensation, not shutter or aperture priority, not an M on the mode dial that actually just lets you set a minimum or maximum exposure. What is it with camera manufacturers and their names these days?

Tags: samsung, dial, compact, aperture

12 March 2008, 10:16

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX500: Sweet like chocolate

Crave We particularly like the sound of an intelligent exposure function, which increases the exposure of the darker areas to make sure detail isn't lost. The touchscreen also allows you to input text, and set focus and exposure to a particular point in...

18 March 2008, 16:00

Panasonic Lumix lollapalooza: TZ5, FX35 and many more

Crave The FX35 also includes Panasonic's suite of automatic shooting options, including Intelligent ISO, which changes ISO based on the shutter speeds available with the amount of light in a given scene; Intelligent Scene Selector, which analyses a...

30 January 2008, 10:32

New camera round-up: Six of the best

Crave The SP-560 also boasts shadow adjustment technology for those high-contrast scenes where deep shadows can throw off the exposure. As if that wasn't enough, you get not one, not two, but three different types of automatic bracketing functions, which...

31 August 2007, 15:27

Photos: The touchscreen Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX500

Crave Touchscreens and sliders and manual exposure are made for each other. Unlike other touchscreen compacts, monkeying with exposure doesn't involve tapping at either end: you actually slide the slider handles with your finger.

16 June 2008, 12:12

Online image editors for blogging: Reviewed and rated

Crave So there's no control over exposure or touch-up options such as red-eye removal. This allows you to rotate, crop and resize pictures, as well as altering the exposure. Exposure, sharpening, highlight and shadows can be adjusted with simple slider...

14 May 2008, 10:16

Etopia Music: Paul Young's DRM-free store for unsigned bands

Crave We'll see.From the perspective of an unsigned band looking for exposure, Etopia should be exciting. In the early stages of bandhood, exposure is more important than money, so despite the opportunity to rake in profits from downloads, the most...

Tags: etopia music, songs, label, upload

31 January 2008, 8:23

Bring on the blinkenlights

Crave Childhood exposure to lava lamps has left us fascinated by anything that glows, sparkles, changes colour or otherwise lights up our lives. Fortunately UK designers lead the world when it comes to creating funky lights.• The iconoclastic designers...

Tags: designers, batteries, glow, lava

22 March 2005, 12:32

Win a Parrot Photo Viewer digital photo frame!

Crave If you've been snapping away merrily on your camera phone over the party season you've probably got stacks of great photos to show off, but are they going to get the exposure they deserve? Should your office's crazy fool get away scot-free if your...

Tags: viewer, frame, digital photo, parrot

2 January 2007, 14:11

Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot C702 and C902, and Z770

Crave Camera-style features include face detection, for identifying faces in the frame and adjusting focus and exposure accordingly, and auto focus. Sony Ericsson has rounded out its the Mobile World Congress line-up with two new Cyber-shot models, the...

11 February 2008, 10:29

Nikon launches Coolpix P5100, S51c, L15 and friends

Crave This adjusts the settings for different parts of a picture so exposure is correct for lighter and darker areas. Nikon treated us to lunch on the South Bank last week, and gave us a chance to fondle the ten new Coolpix compacts announced recently.

17 September 2007, 16:42

Want to work for CNET.co.uk?

Crave If you have a passion for digital photography, love digital cameras and camcorders, and you know your white balance from your exposure compensation, then you feel a sudden urge to email us. Fancy a job at CNET.co.uk?

Tags: eyes, consumer, industry, expert

15 November 2006, 11:05

Flickr and Picnik: Online photo editing made even easier

Crave As well as sophisticated resizing and cropping options, you can use sliders to alter exposure, contrast, sharpening and assorted levels. It's all go at Flickr at the moment. Having just tweaked their maps and launched a new uploader application for...

Tags: flickr, editing, account, resizing

10 December 2007, 10:44