February 6, 2013
by Derek
On Saturday I was put in the unenviable position of having to go shopping. This is, in general, a fairly traumatic eventuality for me. However I was able to go and have a look at some cameras! Since the demise … Continue reading
December 12, 2012
by Derek
Last year I posted a short piece about the Christmas gift guides that proliferate around this time of year. Everything in that holds true for 2012, so I recommend giving it a read. Follow the link to the story. Get … Continue reading
October 24, 2012
by Derek
Concluding our Camera Buyers’ Guides series, I’m going to give an overview of various professional models on the market. This article, isn’t strictly a buyers’ guide in the way the previous articles in this series have been. However, I will … Continue reading
October 17, 2012
by Derek
In today’s buyers’ guide I’m going to look at Consumer DSLRs. Wikipedia has a detailed guide to explain the technical side of DSLRs here but I’ll reproduce my general summary from the introduction to this series of articles. DSLRs are the … Continue reading
October 15, 2012
by Derek
After finishing our buyers’ guides to compact cameras last week, we now move on to interchangeable lens cameras. In today’s article we look at the new breed of Compact System Cameras (CSCs). CSCs are, as the name suggests, a smaller and … Continue reading
October 8, 2012
by Derek
So far in our Buyers’ Guides series, we have looked at basic Point & Shoot Cameras, and Advanced Compacts. This week is the turn of the Superzooms. Superzooms are what they sound like, cameras with long zooms. In this article, … Continue reading
October 3, 2012
by Derek
The previous guide, looked at basic Point & Shoot (P&S) cameras. P&Ss are automatic only cameras, designed for those not interested in the technical side of photography. This week, I look at Advanced Compacts. These have manual controls, and are … Continue reading
October 2, 2012
by Derek
In my Camera Types Introduction, I define Point & Shoot (P&S) cameras as being those cameras that don’t have direct controls for the camera’s settings. Basically P&S cameras have a series of automatic modes, from fully automatic to scene modes. … Continue reading
October 1, 2012
by Derek
A quick heads-up to let you all know that the 2012 updates for the Ideal Focus Buyers’ Guides are going to be appearing over the this month. The guides explain the different types of camera available for you to buy, … Continue reading
June 14, 2012
by Derek
Last week I previewed the new large sensor compact camera: Sony RX100. In that article I compared the RX100 to the other large sensor compacts you can buy, but I didn’t compare it to the Nikon 1 cameras which share the … Continue reading