digital photos

Instant photos with a portable printer

Reviews Digital cameras provide instant gratification, as long as you’re content with seeing your photographs on the camera's screen. If you want to replicate the Polaroid experience -- see it, snap it, wait one minute, hand round the prints -- you need a...

11 May 2005, 17:04

Canon Digital IXUS 80 IS review

Reviews One of the most popular cameras of last year wasn't a big fancy digital SLR or a pimped-out superzoom -- it was Canon's somewhat understated Digital IXUS 70. Canon Digital IXUS 80 IS This year, with the £170 Digital IXUS 80 IS, Canon has updated...

Editor's rating   7.6

Tags: canon, contrast, optical, shots

11 March 2008, 9:54

Olympus u [mju:] Digital 800 review

Reviews But if you are opting for a high-resolution model because you have poster-making aspirations, you'll need to save up some more money and step up to a more advanced 8-megapixel model -- the µ Digital 800's photos are generally good enough for...

Editor's rating   6.6

Tags: olympus, scene, shooting, spot

19 September 2005, 14:51

Canon Digital IXUS Wireless review

Reviews With Wi-Fi networking integrated into most new laptops sold today and industry-standard add-on adaptors available to easily upgrade older laptops and desktops, the ability to use Wi-Fi to transfer photos from digital cameras is becoming an...

Editor's rating   7

Tags: canon, fi, saved, setup

1 February 2006, 12:24

Olympus P-10 Digital Photo Printer review

Reviews At first glance, our test photos appeared smooth and detailed, with pleasing colours. The company's latest, the P-10 Digital Photo Printer, billed as the fastest portable photo printer on the market, is certainly speedy, but for over £100, we...

Editor's rating   6

Tags: olympus, drivers, paper, printers

30 April 2004, 13:17

Canon Digital IXUS 950 IS review

Reviews The wider lens lets you fit more people into those group photos, or get closer to your subject, such as in a nightclub. Canon's Digital IXUS series, also known in the US as the SD series, is an exercise in slow evolution.

Editor's rating   8

Tags: colours, optical, canon, shots

14 June 2007, 16:20

Cameras with image stabilisation

Reviews Camera shake is most likely to be a problem when you're taking photos in low light conditions. The compact Canon Digital IXUS 950 IS employs this lens shifting technology, while the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX10 is one of the budget compacts now packing...

10 August 2007, 15:37

Canon Digital IXUS 850 IS review

Reviews Aside from some slight purple fringing along the borders of bright subjects, we noticed few distortions or aberrations in our photos. Last spring, Canon impressed us with its stylish high-end shooter, the 6-megapixel Digital IXUS 800 IS.

Editor's rating   7.8

Tags: canon, lens, shoot, optical

10 October 2006, 11:08

Canon Digital IXUS 870 IS review

Reviews Also, if you take a lot of landscape photos, note that the 870 IS is prone to fringing. Canon's Digital IXUS range features so many models now, deciphering what makes one better or different than another gets tricky.

Editor's rating   8

Tags: canon, shoot, dial, pad

5 November 2008, 16:30

Olympus u [mju:] 810 Digital review

Reviews This model has 28MB of built-in memory -- it's enough for a few shots, but you'll want an xD Picture Card to take more than a handful of photos at a time. The versatile, water-resistant 8-megapixel Olympus µ (pronounced 'myu') 810 Digital adapts to...

Editor's rating   7

Tags: olympus, scene, pixel, contrast

13 June 2006, 14:58

Olympus u [mju:]-mini Digital review

Reviews In these situations, the camera automatically boosted ISO to compensate, but this produced underexposed, noisy photos. The Olympus µ-mini Digital's sexy design is sure to attract the attention of photographers using more conventional digital...

Editor's rating   6.6

Tags: olympus, scene, mini, conditions

5 November 2004, 17:38

Best digital SLR for beginners

Reviews An SLR is more responsive than a compact, allowing you to take photos more quickly; it gives you more control, so you can be more creative; and it's more flexible, allowing you to change the lens or use accessories such as flashguns and remote...

26 September 2008, 10:39

Connect your digital devices

Reviews No longer do you have to reach around to the back of a PC to view photos or refresh the playlist on your MP3 player. USB has replaced these slower ports for connecting printers and other devices such as digital cameras, MP3 players and handhelds.

16 May 2005, 12:51

What kind of digital camcorder is best for me?

Reviews Bluetooth and networking features for wireless on-camera Web and email access; digital effects; fader; Webcam functionality; 16:9 aspect-ratio mode for wide-screen playback; remote control; touch-screen LCD; interval recording; analogue-to-digital...

14 May 2005, 14:38

What else can my digital camera do?

Reviews Some cameras let you record brief voice annotations to accompany photos. Many digital cameras can capture video clips. The best video-clip quality currently available from a digital still camera is 30fps VGA (640 x 480-pixel) resolution with sound.

12 May 2005, 18:49