December 12, 2003

Reviews around the web. In a feature we haven't done for some time here's a round up of reviews on other sites around the web. Cameras in the spotlight this last month include the Olympus C-5060 Zoom, Minolta DiMAGE A1, Pentax Optio 555, HP Photosmart 945 and the Fujifilm Finepix A310 Zoom among others. Dave Etchells at Imaging-Resource had this to say about the Pentax Optio 555, "Battery life is a good bit longer than average too, so you can bring back more images from each outing. About the only negative... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] 10:25:12 PM     Minolta Digital SLR next year and more. According to a 'report from Japan' on the Popular Photography website Minolta will be introducing a digital SLR next year and that it's highly possible that an operational sample will be shown at PMA 2004. In addition to the report also reveals that Olympus will have two more digital SLR's next year as will Pentax and that other digital SLR manufacturers (Nikon, Canon etc.) are looking at putting vibration reduction technology in the camera rather than the lens (just like Minolta did with... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] 10:24:32 PM     Leica Digilux 2 - the bigger picture. Many of you asked for it and thanks to Leica UK for supplying very high resolution images of the new five megapixel Digilux 2. This camera may well have a Panasonic heart but it's instantly recognisable as a Leica and features a very interesting F2.0 - F2.4 lens. The brand certainly carries a lot of weight and this camera appears to be one of the more interesting new releases of recent months. [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] 8:02:14 PM

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