digital cameras

The digital won't let me go

Digital Living The digital -- cameras, personal video recorders, mobile phones, laptops, games, the whole shiny silver mountain of personal tech -- has huge potential to change our lives for the better. The feelings all these technology interactions generate are...

16 May 2005, 11:40

Why do Canon cameras have more than one name?

Digital Living In the UK, Canon uses both PowerShot and Digital IXUS for digital compact cameras, whereas in the US it has PowerShot and PowerShot SD ranges. Most Canon products purchased within Europe, including digital compact and digital SLR cameras, are sold...

23 May 2007, 11:55

Is a film SLR camera better than a digital SLR camera?

Digital Living Affordable digital cameras have been with us for nearly a decade now, but the debate continues over which is better, film or digital. That said, digital camera technology has matured to a point that digital SLRs can give film cameras a real run for...

28 September 2007, 14:48

Best camera for photographing jewellery?

Digital Living Fortunately, this is an area where digital cameras excel. Most of the compact cameras have macro modes that let you get within 50mm of your subject, and sometimes even within 10mm. Since you're already familiar with SLRs, you might want to consider...

27 July 2005, 10:15

Looking for an underwater camera

Digital Living The company I worked for used Olympus digital cameras, both for our own photography and as rental cameras. Olympus makes underwater housings for most of its digital cameras, and they are generally well designed.

14 October 2005, 8:28

How can I take pictures without flash?

Digital Living The sensitivity of the sensor is measured using the ISO rating, which is adjustable on digital cameras (on a film camera, it depends on the film you use). Most digital cameras offer a range from around ISO 100 to ISO 400, with the higher number...

13 December 2006, 11:58

Which camera for family snapshots?

Digital Living You won't go far wrong with any of the cameras in our recent round-up of six-megapixel compacts. Some cameras offer many different scene modes -- for landscapes, beach scenes, night shots, food, pets and so on -- and you choose the appropriate mode...

3 August 2006, 11:47

Camera phones

Digital Living In detecting details, film cameras and digital cameras are more limited than the human eye, and camera phones, in turn, are more limited than both film and digital cameras. Unlike 35mm-film cameras or digital cameras with manual settings, however...

11 May 2005, 11:43

How to perfect your pictures

Digital Living The latest 2- to 4-megapixel cameras will give you plenty of colour-drenched detail and user-friendly settings, and you won't have to go into debt to get one. Cameras The Epson Stylus Photo R300 is a decent printer for home digital photographers.

9 May 2005, 14:51

Better digital photos

Digital Living Most digital cameras come with a macro mode that allows you to get very close to your subject. So we'll explore some of the common settings on digital cameras, then talk about advanced techniques with an external flash.

3 August 2006, 15:09

Should I buy a camera or a camera phone? review

Digital Living Sure, some models use Carl Zeiss optics, but even these can't compete with the lens found on most compact digital cameras. These high-end phones offer many of the features you'll find on dedicated cameras.

Tags: compact, digital camera, lens, cameras

26 November 2007, 8:00

Festival photos that rock!

Digital Living We'll assume you're pretty serious about your photography, so we'll discount compact cameras and head straight for a digital SLR. We talked to several press photographers over the weekend, and many of them were lugging thousands of pounds worth of...

17 August 2005, 14:35

CES: Drama in the desert, but what's the story?

Digital Living We'll see more cute hard-drive-based camcorders, and a host of slender ultracompact digital cameras, as vendors continue to pack more and more performance into tiny marvels. His carefully blank expression, contrasted with the wry amusement of the...

4 January 2006, 11:43

Bluff it as a fashion photographer

Digital Living Only digital SLRs (and some high-end superzooms such as the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ50) use this format -- compact cameras use the basic, compressed JPEG format. If you do have a digital SLR, such as the Nikon D80 or Sony Alpha DSLR-A100, you'll be...

10 November 2006, 15:23

Camcorder or digiscope for bird photography?

Digital Living In general, camcorders don't make good still cameras, because they are optimised for video -- which is more complicated than still photography in some ways, but a lot more forgiving in others, because the movement conceals all sorts of image...

1 November 2006, 14:01