Olympus continue to enrich their digital camera mju series as trendy and strong digital camera. The latest type which is mju 1010 come up with 10 MPx resolution supported. It's there for those who like to carry easy-to-use digital camera with the high quality image producer plus stylish design. And don't forget about mju characteristic which is water and dust proof, enable you to freely taking picture everywhere you want.

The design is no much different from previous design, still comfortable to grab, The back side panel give enough space for HyperCrystal 2.7 inch LCD, through this display, objects will be served clear and sharp, thanks to the tecnology.

Like the predecessor of mju types, mju 1010 is equipped with Dual Image Stabilization which very useful to stabilize shoot, and for low light environment, the technology will improve the image result although noises are still occur along with the increase of ISO. But generally, photos produced are greats, especially compared to the same class camera, the results are competitive.



Mju has Face Detection feature, which is started tobe popular feature among pocket digital camera, complete with 7x optimal zoom for taking picture from distance. The performance from this Olypus mju 1010 is quite impressive, with start up time less than 2 seconds. It also has fast responce in taking picture so you will not miss any moment with this camera. Mju 1010 is equipped with panorama mode also, but it only active when you use xD memory format from Olympus, it's strange, isn't it?


Like other simple pocket digital camera, this camera is also equipped with video recording, limited to 640 x 380 pixels resolution at 30 fps, but you only could record video just for 10 seconds, this is another strange.. It's definitely make recording very very limited. Olympus Mju 1010 offers not only the easy-to-use digital camera with perfect finishing. The zoom is big, technology applied, plus dust and water proof.

Genius which is known as computer peripheral vendor, has taking next step to produce other gadget. It’s a digital camera, and pocket category. Actually this not the only camera Genius has produced, but this is one of the newest one.

The digital camera named G-Shot P831, using CCD tecnology to capture images. The resolution supported by this digital camera is 8.1 Mpx, pretty high for a pocket camera. 3x optical zoom and 4x digital zoom result total zoom at 12x, but optical zoom only is highly recommended since digital zoom technology basically is pixel interpolation process which image processor software capable to do. To help taking picture, 2.7 inch display is ready, with good quality to display image.

Cool feature coming from G-Shot P831 is smile detector which enable to detect smile from human object to shoot. Also there is face tracker to make your face always in the centre of the image, photo frames template to choose, and voice recording. The camera is also capable in movie recording.

Genius G-Shot P831 is only requires AA size batteries to operate. For data storage, there is external memory HCSD up to 8 GB, and also anti shaking feature. The connection support USB 2.0 high speed for fast data transfer.

If you find this camera interesting, the price is around US $ 149, quite cheap for 8.1 mpx camera..

Pocket digital camera is about to get closer to Single Reflect Lens capability. This phenomenon generally occur in digital camera at prosumer class, which has pocket camera looks, but with ability near to SLR capability. One good example come from latest Panasonic camera : Lumix DMC-LX3.

This Lumix is the successor of previous one, Lumix DMC-LX2 with some improvement for better performance. DMC-LX3 is designed to solved problems experienced by user, such like the ability to take shoot in narow room, where the image captured is very limited. That's why Lumix LX3 is equipped with extra wide angle lens 24 mm to enable user take picture from narow point. And if it's still not enough, a converter DMW-LW46 is available to make more wide angle into 18mm.

The use of Leica DC Vario-Summicon 24-60mm lens is to make sure the high quality of image could be produce. This lens has maximum diafragma open up to f/2.0. As we know the more diafragma could be opened, it will help producing sharp image in low light condition.

The most important improvement from Lumix LX3 is the modification in CCD censor tobe more sensitive. Panasonic inject high sensitivity CCD with 10.1 megapixel resolution. This technology let the camera produce high quality image even when it crops extremely. Another advantage of high sensitivity CCD technology is to minimize noise to image produces even using high iso.

Panasonic Lumix DMX-LX3 come up with 2 colors, black and silver. Image format supported by this camera is JPEG and RAW at 3968 x 2232 pixel max. Full resolution image at 2.5 frame per second, LX3 could record 8 frames in standard quality, 4 frames for fine quality, and 3 frames for RAW quality. For burst mode, 6 frames could be recorded by the camera.

Lumix LX3 is also equipped with intelligent Auto (iA) which very helpful for beginner to capture high quality images. Also there is Mega O.I.S (Optical Image Stabilizer), Intelligent ISO Control, Intelligent Scene Selector, Intelligent Exposure, Face detection, and AF Tracking, wow... Those features are to make user confort to produce high quality image and blow out all the potential of this camera.

Lumix DMC LX3 is not just fully automated digital camera. For those who like to experiment with features and parameters setting, Lumix LX3 is ready to go. Shutter speed, aperture, and focal pont coould be controlled easily through joystick at the back of camera.

It's alittle weird that LX3 is only equipped with 50MB internal memory, which only 14 fine picture could be stored. It's too small for the ability of the camera. For expanding storage capacity, SD card slot is available.

They said that the battery supplied could take about 380 frames in standard condition, which is display turned on. And to increase the life of the camera, just turn off the display and use the external viewfinder DMW-VF1 24 mm.

We're all aware that SLR digital camera (or analog) has a boring form factor, or word 'boring' is not suitable, then rigid would be fit. The shape of SLR camera is almost never change, even untill digital era come. But recently, Canon offered DSLR for beginner with their low end EOS series which has smaller size than most DSLR camera has.

Some people believe the design of DSLR affects to selling number. Indeed DSLR camera market is growing rapidly rather than other digital camera class, but untill now, DSLR camera design could not match to other camera class which has more nice and stylish design, or smaller size to make it more handy. DSLR camera is dedicated for hoby or proffesional photographer who make a living from photography. But still, people will love more nice design, or more user friendly to use. This should be increase the sell.

So to, to jack the number of DSLR camera selling, Olympus and Matsushita are developing new generation of SLR camera with smaller and lighter design. They claimed had successfuly build a new format called Micro Four Third System (MFTS). This technology enable vendors to redesign proffesional camera tobe smaller and compact.

So Four Third System (FTS) is ready tobe left. This technology is open standard for censor size and reduce lens size, and also adding lens compatibility. This standard is only developed by Matsushita and Olympus. And lens FTS based is produced by Sigma.

With MFTS, it's possible to produce high resolution image from small device, that's what they claimed. But untill now, there is no further information about the actual size of their new camera system or when they are going to publish it in the market.

By : Ninja Kasep


Today we've seen many mobile phone vendors equipped their products (read: mobile phones) with high quality camera. You will find mobile phone with 3.2 MPx digital camera easily in the market. or even 5 Mpx! Wow!, It's huge resolution for a camera in the phone. Nokia 6220 classic is one of good example for great camera phone today


So, what about the position of digital camera standalone, this device is only purpose for taking picture, well sometimes there is also additional feature for taking video or even digital music player, but those are not popular enough

Digital camera today especially the pocket category, which aimed for people who don't want to have headache just to take picture, or called 'point n shoot' camera is start to be defeated by digital camera in the phone. Mobile phone is the primary gadget for almost everybody these days, so for these people, bringing mobile phone is very important rather then bringing another gadget. And digital camera is included in the 'another gadget' category. So why botthering our serve with having digital camera if your cell phone could also taking picture with good image quality? that is the point of having cell phone with camera.


But we must admit there are alot new features have been developed by vendors to maintain the existing of digital camera stand alone. One I remember is the smile feature installed in pocket digital camera from Sony vendor named Sony Cybershot DSC-T70. This feature let camera take a shoot by it self whenever it detect smile in the object (human). This is interesting and innovative feature developed by Sony.

That is only one from various innovative feature developed for pocket digital camera stand alone. I'm sure there are alot of feature, the aimed is one, to prevent the digital camera stand alone get wiped away by camera phone.

Actually, there is still category that doesn't get impact from booming high resolution digital camera phone. This category is proffesional camera, or Single Lens Reflect camera. This kind of camera has alot of feature that couldn't be replaced by camera phone.

We will see until when digital camera standalone will survive and how strong the impact of camera phone hit the market to the existence of digital camera stand alone.

By Roberto Sedycias


If ever you have seen a picture that is blurred, it is most probably because the camera was shaken while the picture was taken. With traditional photographic film cameras, it was evident only after the negatives and positives were made. However, with digital camera, the captured image can be seen immediately on the LCD screen, and if the image has shaken, then it can be discarded for a new shot.

Digital camera shakes are common with new users. This is primarily because, new users have not fully understood that the shutter-release button must not be pressed twice, but pressed two steps down. The first step locks the focus and exposure while the second step takes the photo. This pressing of the button has to be smooth, otherwise the digital camera shakes and a blurred picture is the result.

The shutter speed also plays an important role in blurring the picture. The shutter speed is the amount of time the shutter remains open to allow light to reach the digital camera sensor. It is measured in seconds or fractions of a second. An image is exposed by the combination of the lens aperture and the shutter speed. A slow shutter speed needs a small aperture (large F-stop number) to avoid over exposure. With a slow shutter speed below 1/60th of a second, over exposure is adequately controlled, but the digital camera is likely to vibrate more, giving a shaky picture.

A tripod is extremely useful to eliminate digital camera shakes. It is generally used by sports photographers who use long telephoto lens, as it helps in close-ups, landscape and panning shots, for timed exposures, for shooting at slow shutter speeds, and for taking photographs in low or dim light conditions. Shooting a fast moving subject, like athletes, or wildlife, tests the photographer`s skill and the equipment. In such cases, camera shakes are most likely to happen, and thus a monopod or a tripod is always used. Digital cameras mounted on tripods always tend to eliminate camera shakes and give sharp results.

A great feature in most high-end digital cameras available nowadays is image stabilization (IS). IS is an anti-shake and vibration reduction technology and is common in digital cameras with long telephoto zooms of 10X and 12X. With IS, sharp images can be obtained even if the camera shakes a little, a slow shutter speed is used, shooting is done in low light conditions, or a tripod is not used. IS was originally developed for video cameras. It is now available in interchangeable lens, consumer and professional digital cameras, which use optical image stabilization. Sports and wildlife photographers use a tripod and IS technology together to get the maximum sharpness of their photographs; however, many other photographers turn the IS feature off while using a tripod.

Digital camera shakes can be eliminated or minimized by the utilization of the above techniques. However, the fundamentals of taking a good shot prove to be most effective in avoiding camera shakes, in the absence of tripods, or IS technology.

The basics of good photography should be followed. You should hold the digital camera with both your hands. You should keep the legs apart with the knees slightly bent forward. Your elbows should be braced with your body and your body braced with some support, if possible. You should generally frame and compose the picture with the viewfinder and not the LCD screen. You should not jab but lightly press the shutter release button two steps down, and during that time, it would be beneficial to hold your breath to prevent any movement of the chest and hands. With this basic technique of good photography, you can be sure that your digital camera will not shake and no picture will be blurred.

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These days, digital camera especially consumer or compact digital camera have new rival and competitor.
At the beginning, this competitor was not imaging device at all,no one imagined that this gadget in the future would become serious competitor for digital camera and even analog camera.

Time goes by n rite now,this device has been evoluting into multiple purpose gadget. With this device, you only not able to capture image but even video! and with PIM feature that added lately, you dont need a secretary anymore.base feature from this device is a communication gadget,yes.. I am talking about mobile phone.
No doubt these days, mobile phone or cellular phone is very dangerous rival for camera or digital camera vendor. But since the use of analog camera has became less these days, i will focus only to digital camera.

Naturally, we don't like carrying many things in one hand when mobile. What we want is one thing that could handle everything. And people point to mobile phone for that thing. First, it's only a device with voice conversation only, and slowly but sure, it could handle text massage, then when the first lens installed to mobile phone (even it's quality was dissaster :D ), that is the day people realize that mobile phone could turn into camera!

since then, every mobile phone vendor race to install camera feature for their products to attract consumers. And when 3G technology had arrived,this lens is not just one installed,but 2! One for video call and other for capture moments.

How about digital camera? nothing has changed since analog hit by digital camera appearance. And now, we may say that analog camera is about to become history, defeated by many advantages of digital camera that couldn't offered by analog camera, such as:compact size, no more film roll, shoot with no worry run out film, and so on. digital camera decrease operational budget dramatically and increase productivity also dramatically.

Digital camera uses pixel resolution for image size, and it associates to the file size, the more high resolution you set, the bigger file size come.

Cionsider this camera when you are not ready holding DSLR camera. It looks like DSLR but smaller size. Come with combination of rubber and plastic material that usually used by proffesional cameras. All button position is reachable by single hand, but that hand will tired quickly since the design is not the same with pocket camera design.

Compared to its predecessor, FinePix 5500, there are no major upgrade to this cool gadget. The Fujifilm FinePix s5600 support 5.1 MP, with LCD size, and new choice of ISO. The dimension and shape is not change. The buttons in this camera is user friendly and easy to use.

Using it's own CCD censor that Fujifilm developed by it self, produce a high quality image, rich color, as real as the original view. This camera could handle noise good, even in the low light situation, the using of high ISO helps keep image stay sharp.

Using four AA Alkaline batteries as its power source, Fuji claimed that it could use to shoot 250 times. The volume is increase when you use Nimh AA. Even this camera doesn't equipped with hot shoe, but the built in flash is quite good with 5 - 6 meters range. Using TTL system for focusing with continuous and single method.

Like another prosumer digital cameras, this high tech gadget is also able to record movie with 30 frame per second speed.

This is the successor of the legendary D2x from Nikon. The same with its older brother, it come with WiFi (IEEE 802.11b/g) that uses CMOS censor with 23.7 x 15.7 mm size. It is 1.25 kg weight and also support GPS for adding location information in the description of photos.

Supporting max 12.4 MP (4,288 x 2,848 pixels) and features color changer that able to change color photo into black and wite photo, editing feature is also available. With this feature, it is possible to resize photo right in the camera by using the built it 2.5 inch LCD. Image cropping is also doable using High-Speed Crop. With this feature, you could crop 12.4 MP image resolution into 6.8 MP. The crop area is viewable through the viewfinder.