In case you haven't heard about it yet, some marvelous Russian programmers found
a way to unlock the power of these cameras. They call it a firmware hack, but
it's not really. It's just 2 small files that you save on your SD card, it loads
every time you turn on your camera. You can ...

I was surprised to find out that the Nikon S4 camera had its body
_glued_ from the plastic bits and panels. Nikon had a reputation for
the quality (and longevity ?) of its products, yet my camera had a
panel came off because the glue failed (high humidity ?).

after reading more and more reviews it seems that I'm now nearly totaly
unable to chose my next digicam (no slr, too big and costly ).
In the first place I wanted more zoom than my old Canon S30, and fast
autofocussing. So I narrowed my choice to the Canon S3is and Panasonic FZ7

I was at an indoor birthday party yesterday here in cloudy
Pennsylvania.  I have a Canon A710 and set the camera on Manual, to
shoot lots of old folks and also little kids and animules without a
flash.  TMALSS (to make a long story short), only a third of the shots

I want to produce DVDs of photos that I & others have taken of my
family over a long period of time. I have no children, so these DVDs
are for families of brothers & sisters and for long time friends,
including my ex-wife. The problem is not knowing which photos will

I have a good quality digital camera and binoculars. But when I
manually hold the camera behind the binoculars, the pictures never
come out sharp. Is there some trick to getting the pictures sharp like
when you look directly through the binoculars. I have played with all

Just how bad is the purple fringeing & CA issue.
Is it something you see a lot or just when pixel-gazing.
Any other issues that , had you known, would have put you off buying it.
JB

Just uploaded some of my pictures of Fes.   Please see
http://djmp.co.uk/slr%201/fes/fes.htm
The last one shown was using my new Canon  1.8  50mm lens.
Happy shooting

I'm rather baffled by photo sharpening in Photoshop. I've seen the
results of sharpening in Picassa but I can't figure out what the best
numbers are to enter into Photoshop. Does anyone have any guidelines
that they can share?

In a 3280x2454 RAW image produced by my
Olympus SP-350, reduced by 4 in this
JPEG version,
http://cpacker.org/a1.jpg

I have Lightroom 1.0 with WindowsXP prof.
I have many digital photos which I have
annotated in the EXIF "comments" field via
Exifer.

I bought my olympus mju 700i quite long time ago, though I'd never
tried to use the panorama function since then until the last weekend.
Wanted to take a panorama picture of the mountains. As I have the
original Oly xD card I found the panorama option in the menu and

I saw the announcement about the Canon S5 IS and it seems to be
just about as good as I could have hoped for in the category.
Improves on the S3 by going to 8 megapixels, including a hot shoe
so you can easily add an external flash, increased ISO, larger

Does anyone use the Uniross 2500mah AA batteries?  I have 3 sets of 2500's,
one set of 2300's and a set of 2100 Hybrio. My camera is a Fuji s9500.
I have a set of 2300mah Uniross AA batteries and they outlast my 2500's
every time.  The 2300's hold some of their charge without use ...