Posted at Tue Dec 23 12:00:00 2003
Nikon's new $3,500 D2H is a successor to 2001's D1H, and its obvious competition is still Canon's EOS-1D. Nikon has a new internally-designed sensor, identified by a mouthful of letters: JFET LBCAST (junction field effect transistor lateral buried charge accumulator and sensing transistor array). …
Posted at Thu Nov 27 12:00:00 2003
Top Studio Camera: Canon EOS 1Ds
Top Safari/Sport Camera: Canon EOS 1D
Top Enthusiast SLR: Olympus E-1…
Posted at Tue Nov 25 12:00:00 2003
Olympus has been making some top-quality fixed-lens digital cameras such as the Camedia E-10 and its successor, the E-20. Having already shown that they can make the transition from high-quality film to high-quality digital, Olympus has jumped in to the crowded digital SLR waters with their profess…
Posted at Tue Oct 28 12:00:00 2003
Pentax's introduction to digital SLRs is with the oddly named (and often frustrating to search for) *ist D. Pentax comes to the market with a long heritage in film-camera and lens design, which has the benefit of nearly three decades of high-quality glass available at launch. The *ist D uses the s…
Posted at Thu Sep 4 12:00:00 2003
Canon recognizes the large non-pro market that wants to take pictures. They entered the digital SLR market by releasing a solid, competitive, but distinctly non-pro 30D at half the price of the newly released Nikon D1, and at almost 10% the cost of professional cameras just years before. Canon's U…
Posted at Mon Jun 9 12:00:00 2003
Hot on the heals of our first medium format camera, we were going to delve into medium format background today, which just happens to coïncide with the announcement of Creo's Leaf Valeo 22 digital camera back.…
Posted at Sun Jun 8 12:00:00 2003
If you've ever shot film professionally, you've certainly recognized names we've covered: Canon, Nikon, Kodak, Fuji; even Contax. You've probably also noticed a few names that have been absent: Mamiya, Pentax, Rollei and Hasselblad. Theses missing names (along with Contax) are renowned for their m…
Posted at Tue May 20 12:00:00 2003
Kodak used to dominate the professional digital SLR market by marrying its homemade digital systems to top-notch camera bodies by Nikon and Canon. They stopped working with Canon bodies five years ago. Two years ago, the Nikon D1X meant that Kodak no longer had its dominant position. This year, Kod…
Posted at Thu Mar 13 12:00:00 2003
The Nikon D100 knocked Canon's D60 onto its heels. While both came out around the same time with 6MP sensors, the D100 offered better sensitivity and a better auto-focus system. Canon's new 10D improves on both of these aspects, now supporting seven auto-focus points and the same ISO 1600 as the N…
Posted at Sat Mar 1 12:00:00 2003
In our end-of-year round-up we were most excited by the quality of ultracompact cameras that were coming to market. The definition of "ultracompact" has been getting smaller: 2001's winning Powershot S40 was a miniature version of the compact G2, but would now be classified as a compact itself. Th…