The Sony NEX-F3 significantly improves on its predecessor with a more versatile 180 degree tilting screen, fully integrated pop-up flash and 1080 50i/25p HD video recording.
The Sony NEX-F3 significantly improves on its predecessor with a more versatile 180 degree tilting screen, fully integrated pop-up flash and 1080 50i/25p HD video recording.
On the resolution front, the Nikon D800E delivers images with a truly stunning amount of detail, even more so than the standard D800 model, and certainly comparable to what you can achieve with a number of medium-format digital cameras and backs.
With its huge 24 megapixel sensor, the entry-level D3200 instantly becomes the highest-resolution APS-C DX format Nikon DSLR, and it offers more pixels than any competing manufacturer too.
Optically the lens is a great performer.
The OM-D E-M5 is the best Olympus compact system camera to date, and also a strong contender for best compact system camera full stop.
Like its forebears, the Nikon D4 is an extremely well built and responsive camera that seems to react instantly to anything you throw at it.
The Canon EOS 5D Mark III builds on the success of its popular predecessor with a series of improvements that add up to a much better all-round camera for stills and video alike.
The Pentax K-01 is a bravely different but ultimately flawed entry into the mirrorless compact system camera market.
The Fujifilm X-Pro1 feels like the natural interchangeable lens evolution of the incredibly popular X-100 camera, offering similarly refined, intuitive handling, fantastic image quality, premium build quality and three high-quality lenses on launch.
The Canon Powershot G1 X is a very difficult camera to pigeon-hole. Compared to other premium compact cameras, it's much bigger and heavier but has a much larger image sensor that delivers better images with more depth of field.
The Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX1 is the natural successor to the popular GF1, taking many of its design cues from that two-year-old camera whilst incorporating virtually all of the recent advances that Panasonic have made in their other G/GF-series cameras.
The D-LUX 5 is not just a camera for the amateur photo enthusiast; it's one for the Leica enthusiast.
Optically the Leica DG Summilux 25mm f/1.4 ASPH is an excellent performer.
The Sony CyberShot DSC-HX9V is the best travel-zoom camera that we've reviewed to date, taking on and beating the market-leading Panasonic DMC-TZ20.
The Nikon D5100 successfully bridges the gap between the beginner-friendly approach of the D3100 and the more complex D7000, with the latter's fantastic 16 megapixel sensor being the icing on the proverbial cake.
When we first saw the new Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 L IS USM lens, we thought it just looked like a standard 70-300mm lens with a white overcoat on.
The LUMIX G 14mm F2.5 ASPH is a tiny yet perfectly formed wide-angle lens that delivers excellent results, making it a great lens for landscapes and unobtrusive street photography, although at £357.99 / $399.95 it's pretty expensive for a prime lens.
So the lens is good – but is it worth the nearly $2200 price Nikon is asking for it? The answer lies with what you would like to use it for.
The Canon PowerShot S95 addresses virtually all of the issues that detracted from its predecessor - most notably the lack of HD video and sky-high price - whilst further improving the handling and customisation.
This is therefore not a 'budget' DSLR but a long-term investment for those who are really serious about image quality first and foremost.
[T]his really is a break-through camera that advances the EOS system as a whole.
Be that as it may, the M8.2 is a welcome upgrade to the M8, and M-mount lens users continue to get a digital camera that can deliver the return on their investment.
It would, however, be a gross mistake to write off the D90 just because its movie mode is a bit rough around the edges.
[T]he Nikon D700 looks and handles closer to the D300 than D3, in terms of controls and layouts, whilst of course featuring the D3's full frame capture ability, but in a lighter and smaller design. As such it comes across as a kind of 'greatest hits' of Nikon DSLRs.
