On July 8 2011, NASA plans to launch the last of its Space Shuttle missions: STS-135. This will be the 135th Shuttle mission, the final launch of Atlantis, and the last of the entire Space Shuttle program, which started three decades ago. Once Atlantis returns to Earth 12 days later, it will join the remaining…
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Announced in January 2011, the Panasonic Lumix FX77, or FX78 as it’s known in North America, is a 12.1 Megapixel compact with a 5x stabilised zoom and a 3.5in touch-screen display. The FX77 / FX78 is slimmer and lighter than previous FX series models and has a newly designed CCD sensor with faster AF operation.…
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The Lumix DMC-GF2 is Panasonic’s second ‘pocketable’ compact to employ the Micro Four Thirds standard it co-developed with Olympus. Announced in November 2010, it’s the successor to the popular Lumix GF1, and like that model packs a large sensor into a small body with a removable lens mount. The most obvious difference between the Lumix…
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Launched in July 2010, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX700 is a 14 Megapixel compact with a stabilised 5x optical zoom lens and a 3 inch touch-screen display. It can shoot Full HD video and, courtesy of its new CMOS sensor and the latest Venus FHD processor, provides a range of burst shooting modes up to 10…
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