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Go Silver with Pentax Limited Edition Silver K-5 AND Three DA Silver Lenses

DSLRs often come in black. And so if you are the type of person who is allergic to black, then you wouldn’t be interested in getting one of these latest digital gadgets. And chances are you’d stick to your old yet reliable point-in-shoot camera that comes in various colors, including your favorite which is silver. But have you seen shots taken by a DSLR? They’re fantastic, right? And for sure, you’d wish that there’s a silver DSLR available. But wish no more because Pentax recently announced that they are launching a limited edition silver K-5 and three DA silver lenses. Excited? Then, read more.

PENTAX Imaging Company certainly knows how to innovate and so this time their newest product is designed with the silver lovers in mind. Yes, it’s the first time you’ll see a Pentax DSLR in silver, including its mode dial, control buttons, and levers. But aside from the original external color, the K-5 Silver is also made tougher with its redesigned grip and shock-resistant, scratchproof reinforced glass on the rear LCD and top status panels. So with these added features, you get to enjoy improved handling, which is really very important for DSLR users like you.

Now, apart from the camera, PENTAX will also offer three popular PENTAX DA Limited Edition Silver Lens models designed for use with PENTAX digital SLR cameras. These include the smc PENTAX-DA 21mm F3.2 AL Limited Silver, smc PENTAX-DA 40mm F2.8 Limited Silver, and smc PENTAX-DA 70mm F2.4 Limited Silver.

This limited edition PENTAX K-5 Silver will be out in the near future. So watch out for it. For now, check out these PENTAX K-5 options at Amazon.

 

FINEPIX X100 – The Choice of Professionals

If you still love the charm and style of classic cameras yet don’t want to be left behind when it comes to camera technologies, then FinePix X100 is for you! This camera combines the best of both worlds. No wonder, this is dubbed as the professional’s choice. True, it puts the modern technical digital innovations in a gorgeous, traditional frame which oozes prestige and elegance.

Bringing back the functional designs of analogue cameras, its ‘manual’ dials are positioned in such a way that the photographer will have easy control over creative shooting. You can check the aperture, shutter speed, and exposure compensation even before you turn the camera on. The X100 comes with a Viewfinder lever which allows you to shift from OVF to EVF mode or vice versa without taking your eye away from the viewfinder. Aside from providing the camera with a classic feel, its high-precision magnesium alloy body also delivers reinforced strength.

What makes the X100 user-friendly are its top level dials made from durable metal components, easy-to-use aperture setting through lens ring, convenient command lever, intuitive button layout, and one-touch switching between RAW shooting and in-camera RAW development mode. True, the FinePix X100 showcases premium quality in every detail. You sure will love its chassis that has been finished with quality leather accents.

Once you use the FinePix X100, you will never want to put it down. The company hasn’t released it yet but the Fuji X100 12.3 MP APS-C CMOS EXR Digital Camera with 23mm Fujinon Lens and 2.8-Inch LCD (Concept Model) is available for pre-order at Amazon.

New Nikon COOLPIX Digital Cameras – Photography Made Easier

Not everybody is into hardcore photography, some users are just so used to point and shoot that today’s advanced digital cameras and SLRs may feel foreign in their hands. Enter the newest addition to Nikon’s COOLPIX series – the S2500, L23 and the L120. Different price range, different features but all share something in common: fun, ease of use and great images.

The trendy COOLPIX S2500 comes in a well-designed, 20 mm thin slim aluminum body that houses a 4x wide-angle zoom lens, 12 megapixel image sensor and a 6.7 cm LCD screen. The built-in Smart Portrait system has a Smile Timer, Blink Proof and Skin Softening features. The S2500 digicam comes with various automated functions making shooting pictures as effortless as just pushing the capture button. Easy Auto mode optimizes the camera settings based on the lighting conditions and the Scene Auto Selector chooses best out of the 17 Scene modes for common photographic locations. Subject Tracking Auto-Focus keeps the camera focused on a selected subject even when it’s on the move – no more “Hold still honey! I’m taking a picture here!”. The integrated anti-blur technology on the other hand automatically counters blurred pictures in four different ways. The COOLPIX S2500 is available in four colors of red, pink, black or silver and tagged at £99.99 or €116.00.

The AA battery operated COOLPIX L23 is perfect for the budding or casual photographer; everything about it is almost automated giving you only the burden of choosing when to take your shots. It also has the Easy Auto Mode and Smart Portrait System technology with the addition of an integrated electronic Reduction and Motion Detection that eliminates camera shake. This digital camera features 10.1 megapixel resolution CCD image sensor, 5x wide-angle zoom lens, and a 6.7 cm LCD screen. To keep taking picture even simpler, it’s outfitted with large buttons and dedicated Shooting and Playback modes. The COOLPIX L23 is available in five colors of blue, red, black, pink or silver, and tagged at £69.99 or €81.00.

The top dog of the three models is the COOLPIX L120. It features a wide angle 21x super-zoom NIKKOR lens with 25mm wide-angle to 525mm super-telephoto range controlled by a distinct side lever that provides a smooth and steady zoom. It has 14.1 megapixel CCD image sensor, four different automatic anti-blur functions and capability to record HD movies in 720p in stereo sound. The dedicated movie-record button allows users to switch easily from photo to video mode. For playback, it has a 7.5 cm 921k-dot high-resolution LCD screen and a built-in HDMI mini connector to connect the L120 to an HDTV. COOLPIX L120 that also runs on AA batteries is available in black or red and costs around £249.99 or €290.00.

Choose your own Nikon COOLPIX S series here

Take Photography to New Heights with Casio TRYX

An extreme lifestyle also needs an extreme digital camera to capture breath taking moments. In a way of living reserved only for the daring, Casio dared venture with their new TRYX – a changeable, poseable, hangable camera made for the likes of Peter Parker. Showcasing an innovative never been seen before design, TRYX can easily twist, turn, hand and stand with all the flexibility of a contortionist to get you the shots at angles that many would have thought impossible. This flexible digital camera has 12.1 Megapixels and features Casio’s latest Exilim Engine HS with ultra-bright 3-inch touch screen LCD, High-Speed CS technology, High-Speed Super Resolution Zoom and HDR-Art imaging.

The HDR (High-Dynamic Range) technology takes advantage of the High-Speed CS and ultra-fast large-volume image data processing power of the new Exilim Engine HS to create a completely new kind of digital imaging. The process collates information from a burst of different images and extracts the most detailed portions of each image, taken at different exposures, for a beautiful, first of its kind, wide dynamic range. Meanwhile, the Super Resolution technology increases optical zoom by up to 2 times without distorting the image clarity and quality. This allows clear multiple-magnification zoom without the resorting optical zoom. Powered by the Exilim Engine HS, CS technology instantly shoots and captures multiple images, then analyzes and positions each frame to put together a clear, detailed, final image using an advanced combination technology.

For the digital artist, Casio’s proprietary HDR-Art takes on a totally different approach to photography. It combines a burst of CS images shot at the touch of the shutter button then camera automatically processes the images to create an artistic masterpiece only made possible before by using tripods and image processing software. For panoramic images, there’s the Slide Panorama that offers extremely wide panorama images with a huge field of vision of up to 360 degrees by simply panning the camera across the scene with the shutter button pressed.

You can purchase Casio TRYX Digital Camera (Black) here.

Change Your Perspective with Underabove Dual Lens Sea Camera

The cinematic scene in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea where Captain Nemo opened the viewing deck of Nautilus for his “guests” the first time was legendary. There’s nothing quite like an underwater view but what if you can double the treat? The new UNDERABOVE dual-lens buoy-style camera just does that. It can take pictures underwater and water surface simultaneously. The thought is to experiment and add more dimensions to picture taking while at sea. The innovative design draws in air in the top-half of the body and water in the lower half, to help it stay afloat and upright. It features a shutter, flash, an LCD screen that can give you a quick preview of both the surface and underwater pictures taken, and a timer which is useful when self-portraits as well. Underabove’s symmetrical camera body is constructed with polypropylene, which is lighter in weight than seawater , that’s make it floats easily.

The whole idea about Underabove is taking advantage of natural buoyancy. To over simplify, when an object is submerged underwater, it floats when the downward pull of gravity and upward push of the seawater are equal. Underabove has an air injection hole for the surface camera and a water injection hole for the underwater camera, just like a submarine, this system allows the sea camera to balance itself from floating and sinking.

Fancy a different view? You can find more underwater cameras here.