Digital cameras

Daily Tech Deal: Jessops.com 10-year celebration

Until the 2 November Jessops is offering discounts on a variety of digital cameras and accessories to celebrate 10 years of Jessops.com.

Today sees the Nikon Coolpix S640 on sale with a £199 price tag and free standard delivery, Although a good price - we haven't...

PHOTOS: Canon EOS 1D Mark IV

Canon has only just announced the new EOS 1D Mark IV, but that hasn't stopped us from having a brief play with the new camera when it made a quick pit stop in New York City on Friday at the PDN PhotoPlus conference.

The big, and we mean big, new camera is described...

Daily Tech Deal: Panasonic DMC-FX150 under £150

With the vast array of compact cameras available, if you're in the market for one it can possibly be a bit daunting to choose. So, as ever, Pocket-lint's tech deal will attempt to point you in the general direction of one of the better efforts, whilst keeping a close...

Canon EOS 1D Mark IV announced

Canon has announced the new EOS 1D Mark IV describing it as "a high-speed, professional digital SLR designed to empower photographers to capture split-second moments in high resolution, under the most challenging of conditions".  

Angled as ideal for action,...

Firebox offers USB Snakescope camera

Almost falling into the NSFW category, Firebox is offering the USB "Snakescope" camera, a still slash video borescope for under £30.

With a "robust", semi-flexible insertion tube, the camera head and cable are waterproof, so ideal for checking out your, er,...

VIDEO: Nikon D3S in action

With an ISO settings of over 100,000 you would expect the new Nikon D3S to be able to capture shots in the dark, and that's what this video sets out to show. 

Shot by photographer Vincent Munier and titled Summer Variations, the footage was shot in Norway and...

What the Google Street View car could have looked like

Google might have its camera-van recording everything it sees as it drives around cities across the world, but it's got nothing on this van.

Covered in over 2700 cameras (yes you read that right), the van has been created to promote a new film called Automorphosis,...

Nikon D3S brings video and ISO 102,400

Nikon has announced the "S" update of the D3 pro model, following its trend of tweaking existing models.

Adding to the D3's already impressive spec sheet is a new FX CMOS sensor. Although it maintains the 12.1-megapixel resolution of the original D3, the sensor...

PHOTOS: Nikon D3S

Nikon has announced the "S" upgrade to their popular D3 model, in what they are calling "the most significant S update" they've made.

The Nikon D3S features a redesigned 12.1-megapixel (effective) full frame FX CMOS sensor, with a new Dust Reduction System and...

Nikon D3S breaks cover

The British Journal of Photography has spilled the beans on Nikon's latest camera expected to be launched on Wednesday.

"Last week I travelled to St Andrews for the pre-launch of the Nikon D3s, a camera that can see what the eye cannot, by virtue of its extraordinary...

Polaroid re-launch announced

Summit Global, the licensee of the Polaroid brand, has officially announced the world re-launch of Polaroid, with both instant photography products and digital offerings due to be re-available.

The new Polaroid will manufacture a range of instant film products...

Jessops captures exclusive on Fuji Finepix F72EXR

Jessops has announced it's bagged the exclusive on the Fuji Finepix F72EXR compact digi-cam. The Fuji F72EXR is a 10-megapixel, 10x optical zoom compact with Fuji's EXR tech.

The EXR technology claims to use the sensor in three different ways to optimise resolution,...

Nikon S1000pj gets torn apart

Wondered what the insides of a digital camera with a projector built in looked like? Thought you did, and so did the chaps over at iFixit who this time have taken apart a Nikon S1000pj for all to see.

What have we learnt from the experience? Not much is seems,...

Digicam pioneers get 2009 Nobel Prize for Physics

The pioneers of fibre optics and the CCD sensor have jointly won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physics. Charles K Kao, Willard S Boyle and George E Smith all shared the award, with Kao being awarded half the prize, and Boyle and Smith getting a quarter each.

Charles...

General Imaging launches waterproof G3WP compact digi-cam

General Imaging has added two new models to its current range of compact digital cameras in the form of the waterproof G3WP and the budget 10-megapixel J1050.

The G3WP is a 12-megapixel compact with a 4x optical zoom boasting features such as face, blink...

Panasonic reveals HDC-TM350 camcorder

Panasonic has dropped us word of a camcorder that it'll soon be launching - the HDC-TM350. It's strictly limited edition - only 200 will be available - and it's a sister model to the HDC-TM300, which has won multiple awards.

It's rather on the advanced side...

PHOTOS: Pentax K-x DSLR camera

Pentax announced the launch of the K-x digital SLR camera on Thursday morning and by nightfall we'd bagged a model to get down and dirty with.

The new camera, which unfortunately we weren't able to use for any sample shots, is small, solid and light in the hand....

PHOTOS: Leica X1 digital camera

Leica announced their forthcoming X1 digital camera yesterday and we were on hand to grab a few shots of a (sadly) non-working sample.

When it hits the shelves in January 2010, it will bring with it a 12.2-megapixel CMOS APS-C sensor (which you'd normally find...

Leica Store London opens today

Leica today throws open the doors of it's new London store, joining the line of exclusive shops in Toyko, Berlin, Paris and Moscow.

The boutique-style store sits in Bruton Place, Mayfair, and it decked out with a simple red and black décor to match the design...

PHOTOS: Leica M9 digital camera

Whilst the world was looking towards Apple, we managed to get our hands on something sweeter than the common-or-garden fruit at the launch at the new London store in Mayfair.

Here we have the new Leica M9, which steps into the shoes of the M8, presenting a full-frame,...

Five great rangefinder cameras

SLRs may have the whizz-bang-flash of photography but there's a definite refined elegance of the rangefinder cameras. These snappers have been around for the best part of 100 years and there's something of a resurgence going on in look, as with the Olympus Pen EP-1, and...

Leica M9 and X1 announced

Leica has announced two new digital cameras, the M9 digital rangefinder camera and the X1 aimed a little lower in the market place.

The M9 is the world's first digital rangefinder camera with a full-frame 24 x 36mm sensor and is also said to be the world's...

IFA 2009: Our top five

IFA in Berlin is the largest consumer electronics show in Europe. Each year hundreds of companies come to show their latest and greatest gadgets that they will be releasing over the next 12 months. So what caught our eye this year? Here is our pick of the crop:

PHOTOS: Fujifilm W1 3D Camera

One of the central themes of IFA 2009 was the arrival of 3D televisions, launched by many manufacturers. Fujifilm put its own spin on things, however, by building a 3D camera.

It's got two 10-megapixel CCD sensors and can shoot JPEGS and AVIs in both 2D and...

Samsung goes slim and light with the ST45 compact

While all the world's gone AV, Samsung has announced the arrival of an ultra light and slim compact camera known as the ST45. It has a 12-megapixel sensor, 2.7-inch, 230k-colour QVGA screen and a brushed aluminium chassis.

The whole device is just 16mm thick...