Just reading today's Japan Times and noticed an ad for a new Sony P&S
Cyber-shot (DSC-T200). I quote:
"No more frozen grins. Our new 'Cyber-shot' not only recognizes faces, its
'Smile Shutter' can be set to trip automatically the instant your subject

Confused by double flash on Casio Exilim EX-V7.
If this camera is set to 'flash on' i get a single flash which is what
i am used to.  But if I am in low light conditions and it is on 'Auto'
flash, it flashes and then holds the shutter *open* and then flashes a

A famous NGC picture, but I can't figure out the name of this lake:
http://www.pbase.com/joaopintoreis/image/38182486
(I'd like to find it on google earth)

what is the best classic SLR camera for beginners?
http://www.digitalcameras-plus.com/the-best-classic-slr-camera-for-beginners.html

+    While I love the pictures in Annika's 40d galleries,
Ive noticed in comments about these cameras, their 10mp limit...
so... this being roughly what the newer P&S cameras offer,
Im wondering if there really is a substantial quality difference

When a Pana FZ20 was my main camera, one of the features I longed
for was a manual exposure time longer than 8 secs so that I'd be
able to take pictures of a lightning bolt. My current camera is
an FZ30 with a maximum of 60 secs. We had a thunderstorm tonight

 I recently became the proud owner of a second hand 350D.   I am very happy
with the camera but I would like to know more about it's history, in
particular I would like to know how many shutter activations there have
been.   I understand that this is possible to tell using exif ...

find the right answer about Nikon D80 or Nikon D200,any comment about
it?
http://www.digitalcameras-plus.com/nikon-d80-or-nikon-d200.html

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I don't know the proper terms, but here's the idea.
Take a big pix at high resolution (eg spectators at a football game).
Use a combination of pixel scaling and compression to
get a highly compressed picture, small file size, picture 1.

Does anyone know what the bitdepth is of RAW files shot with a
powershot S2 or S3 using the CHDK firmware?
Also, what is the best way to convert such RAW files to DNG or TIF
in a way that yields the same resolution as JPG files created by the

Casio introduced a transparent ceramic lens in their Exilim line
camera, model EX-S100 a few years ago. Has the ceramic lens been used
in other Casio's digital cameras? What about other digital camera
manufacturers? Will ceramic lenses eventually compete with glass

While on holiday I connected my Nikon Coolpix 4300 to a TV to play
back my photos using a SCART adaptor, which I had done on previous
occasions without problems. On this occasion I carelessly flicked the
adaptor switch from input to output when I could not get a signal. The

Will the 30D grip work on the 40D? The batteries are the same, it
looks as though they have just changed the number.

I have a D70 with three batteries (EL3) and a D80 with one battery (EL3e).
Can I get away with charging them all on the D80 chargeer (MH-18a)?