In our SeriousCompacts.com Flickr group discussion area, Antrix has started a discussion concerning "The inevitable rise of Serious Compacts". He argues that "On the compact side of the market, which is dominated by casual consumers (by definition: not 'serious' consumers), there's only a few more years before consumers will be completely happy with the camera that comes integrated with their ...

Image Sensors World is discussing a post from Japan talking about Canon's new CMOS sensors for compacts. This touches upon the SX1-IS and reveals a monthly production output of 50K units/month which seems to suggest that it will make it outside Japan eventually. If you are a Canon or CMOS fan, this is a must read.

California City News weblog - Sept.?10, 11:44 pm Rising energy prices and the publics concern over climate change have made for interesting public policy lately. Only a year ago, the whisper of off-shore oil drilling would have been the death knell for any politician in California. But with... In this article: Ron Dellums, global warming, John McCain, Gavin Newsom, Barack Obama, Chuck Reed,

Leica have announced the D-LUX 4 and C-LUX 3, these are rebadged version of Panasonic's LX-3 and FX-37. They optimistically label the D-LUX 4 as the "Son of M8″. It does have a fast lens and RAW but that's about as far as it goes really. It's missing a large sensor, interchangeable lenses, a rangefinder focusing [...]

It's pixels aplenty from a trio of point and shooters courtesy of General Imaging. First up is the 10.1 megapixel E1055W, which packs a 3-inch LCD, blink, smile detection, and features a 5x optical zoom. Next up is the E1050TW, similarly specified, but with the addition of a 720p movie mode, HDMI out, and a GPS radio so you can geotag your shots. Nice. Meanwhile the A1030 completes the 10MP trio ...

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