The Instax Mini 9 is the latest affordable instant camera to use Fujifilm’s hugely popular Instax Mini film. It’s based on the best-selling Mini 8 and adds a selfie mirror and close-up accessory, as well as coming in five pastel colours. Find out if it’s the best low-cost instant camera in my review!…
Nikon’s COOLPIX W100 is a low-priced rugged camera designed for active kids and adults. Waterproof to 10m, freeze-proof and surviving drops from 1.8m, it’s a camera you can take anywhere. Find out why it’s one of the best waterproof compacts in Ken’s review!…
The Lumix TZ90, or ZS70 as it’s known in North America, is the latest in Panasonic’s enormously successful pocket travel zoom series. It packs a 30x / 24-720mm zoom, 4k video, RAW files, built-in EVF and now features a tilting touchscreen and 20MP. Find out if it’s for you in my review!…
Panasonic’s Lumix GX80 / is a mid-range mirrorless camera based on the Micro Four Thirds standard. It sports a 16 Megapixel sensor, built-in stabilisation, a viewfinder and tilting touchscreen, 8fps shooting (or 6fps with CAF) and 4k video. Check out Gordon’s GX80 / GX85 review to find out if it’s the right mirrorless for you!…
Panasonic’s Lumix TZ100, or ZS100 as it’s known in North America, is the new top model in its enormously popular travel-zoom series. Announced in January 2016, it follows Panasonic’s trend of waiting a year between new models, but after a decade of gradually increasing the zoom range from 10x to 30x while sticking with roughly…
The Nikon COOLPIX L840 is a super-zoom with a 38x optical zoom lens and a 16 Megapixel CMOS sensor. Launched in February 2015, it’s an update to the hugely popular COOLPIX L830 which was launched a year earlier and remains in the COOLPIX line-up for now. The new model extends the zoom range from 34x…
The Sony Cyber-shot HX90V is the World’s smallest compact camera with a 30x optical zoom. Announced in April 2015, it’s the successor to the HX60 and HX50 models, sharing a similar optical zoom range, but packed into a smaller body. The HX90V delivers an equivalent range of 24-720mm, taking you all the way from respectable…
The Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 is a DSLR-styled superzoom with a 16x 24-400mm f2.8-4 lens, 1in sensor and 4k video recording capabilities. The zoom range may be shorter than the 24x of the FZ200 or 60x of the FZ70 / FZ72, but the FZ1000’s sensor boasts four times the surface area for better quality. The FZ1000 also has an articulated screen, the same OLED viewfinder as the Lumix GH4, 12fps shooting, built-in Wifi with NFC and support for 1080p video at up to 120fps depending on region. Find out how it compares against Sony’s RX10 in my Lumix FZ1000 review!…
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