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Fuji film Z100fd

The Z100fd might look like a piece of lens-toting eye candy, but there’s plenty of meat on this stick-thin beauty- it’s just densely packed. Once you have got past the thriller of the diagonally sliding lens cover and the backlit ‘Z’ on the front, you’ll marvel at the quality of the 8MP photos, wonder at … Continue reading

Canon EOS 1000D

The 10MP beastly is just £500/$1000 for the body only and £580/$1160 with an 18-55mm image stabilizer lens, putting it in firm competition with the Olympus E-520, Sony A200 and the Nikon D60. Competitive ground, but given that its brother, the EOS 450 D, won the Super-test in the July and now has a completely … Continue reading

Samsung VP-HMX 10

It deserves to be here all the same- it combines 720p HD resolution, a 10x optical zoom along with a touch screen LCD all for less than the price of the Canon. Pretty much everything you need to get started is included in the box including a remote, though Samsung’s generosity runs out at the … Continue reading

Panasonic SDR-S7

The S7 is reassuringly simple. Movies and stills are stored on an SD card-although there’s not one in the box, playback is via a standard video cable and transfer to a computer is handled via USB. But while the size and cost are the two most striking things about the Panasonic, that’s about as far … Continue reading

Canon FS11

The prosaic styling gives it a dated appearance, but its diminutive stature and the fact that it records direct to 16GB built in storage or SD card remind us it’s no fossil. Straight out of the box the Fs11 can shoot over 3.5 hours at maximum quality. You can also get a closer to the … Continue reading