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The New Nikon S630
The S630 is a little thicker than usual for Nikon’s S-series cameras. That extra depth is for the 7x zoom lens out front, but it doesn’t stop this camera from easily fitting in a pocket or small handbag. Available in five colors–black, blue, purple, silver, and red–it looks more stylish head-on than from the back where things get more functional. The right side swoops out a bit leaving a large thumb rest that was appreciated more and more while using the zoom ring around the shutter button on top of the camera.
Performance is on the slow side for the S630. It takes just shy of 4 seconds from power on to first shot. Its shot-to-shot time is 3.1 seconds; using the flash adds 0.3 second to that time. Shutter lag is OK at 0.5 second in bright conditions and 0.8 in dimly lit situations. In its regular continuous shooting mode at full resolution, the camera can capture 0.8 frames per second.
The S630’s photo quality is good. If you’re viewing photos primarily on a computer monitor, digital photo frame, or making prints up to 10×13 inches, you likely won’t be disappointed. Viewed at full size, however, offer-center subjects can look over-processed and soft, where you’ll also see an increase in purple fringing and ghosting. Center sharpness and fine detail are very good, though, as is color. Typical for its class, the lower ISOs are best on this camera, which is why it’s nice to see the inclusion of an ISO limiter in Auto mode for keeping sensitivity below ISO 200 or ISO 400. Noise suppression starts making things soft and smudgy at ISO 400, but you still can get a decent photo at ISO 800–good enough for small prints or Web use at least.
The good: Excellent design; 7x optical zoom in a compact body; ISO range limiter; good photo quality up to ISO 400.
The bad: Slow performance; photos can look over-processed, soft.
The bottom line: The Nikon Coolpix S630 puts a little extra zoom in your pocket, but you might not find the high-resolution photos it shoots out pleasurable.
CNET flashes the Nikon S630 a score of 7/10 while TestFreaks.com gives it a generous rating of 8.5/10. I agree the camera is totally worth the money for a photo enthusiast looking for design and quality.
Review: Canon Pixma iP100
Canon’s Pixma iP100 is the stylish high resolution mobile printer that delivers remarkable quality and print-anywhere portability with an impressive speed to boot. The Canon Pixma iP100 offers a print head technology and 5-color ink system to create spectacular photos with 9600 x 2400 color dpi resolution.It also offers IrDA compatibility and an optional BU-30 Bluetooth interface, so you can print wirelessly from a PC, PDA or camera phone. Plus, the Auto Image Fix feature corrects images for the best possible exposure, color, brightness and contrast.
The compact and lightweight Canon Pixma iP100 mobile printer fits easily onto a desk with limited space or into a carry-on, for business or personal travel. The Pixma iP100 houses an infrared port for connecting to IrMC 1.1-compatible cell phones, a USB 2.0 port, and a PictBridge port for direct printing from compatible digital cameras.The iP100 comprises 1,856 number of total high-resolution ink nozzles that produces excellent prints with significant speed. In spite of being a versatile printer designed for quick photo, document, and presentation prints the Canon Pixma iP100 lacks in integrated media card reader and Wi-Fi.
Features:
* Spectacular Resolution -up to 9600 x 2400 color dpi
* Fast Printing
* FINE Technology
* Auto Image Fix
* Print anywhere, wirelessly
* Optional Accessories — LK-62 Lithium Ion battery, Automobile Power Unit (PU-200U)
* 4 in 1, 2 in 1 Printing
* Ink Saver Mode
* ENERGY STAR
* RoHS Compliance
* Use of Recycled Plastics
Review: Canon Vixia HF100
Canon’s first flash-based camcorders, the high-definition Vixia HF100,delivers excellent HD video quality and performance along with its compact, attractive, and comfortable design. With the Canon Vixia HF100 flash memory is making its way into High Definition with Canon’s Vixia line of camcorders. The HF100 is a sleek, matte-gray compact flash-based camcorder which includes a loads of features and can capture full resolution HD video in either 24p Cinema mode or 30p progressive.
The HF100 is a very user friendly camcorder in Canon’s Vixia series, which can record AVCHD video at a maximum of 17 megabits per second and supports the full 1,920×1,080 capture.The HF100 optically stabilized f1.8-3.0 12X zoom with the help of Canon’s new patentet Instant AutoFocus and SuperRange Optical Image Stabilizer. The HF100 can also captures HD vedios directly by a Secure Digital HC flash memory card, with it’s HD CMOS Image Sensor, which works in concert with a DIGIC DV II Image Processor for superior color and clarity.
The Canon Vixia HF100 offers you with aperture- and shutter-priority exposure modes, three fixed/one variable zoom speed options, a video light, Instant AF, and a wind-screen filter for video shooting and for still photos, metering, flash, and burst and exposure bracketing options. The HF100 camcorder also includes mini-HDMI, mini headphone, mic jacks, and USB potrs for supporting its connectivity with computer and television. Inspite of all the wind filter is not as dependable as previous Canon models.
Review: HP Officejet J6480
The Officejet J6480 is Hewlett-Packard’s (HP) latest all-in-one printer that can be used as the scanner, the printer, the copier, and the fax machine, as well as offers you with the robust hardware and rich print quality. The HP Officejet J6480 is a multifunction printer which features Autoduplexing, photo finishing, one-touch faxing, a scanner with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, auto-document feeder (ADF), and built in wireless 802.11g networking.
The HP Officejet J6480 is comparatively bigger than other AIO but it looks good with its matte-white-and-gray panels and the glossy black cockpit.The Officejet J6480 is having a small, two-line LCD screen to quickly access system preferences and tools to maintain ink cartridges and the printer nozzle. The HP J6480 also includes an external card reader slots for supporting xD, Memory Stick, SD, and CompactFlash but it does not have a PictBridge port for transferring images directly from a digital camera. The J6480 also features with “HP’s Photosmart Essential” to import, organize, edit, and share your digital photos and “Solution Center” softwares.
The Officejet J6480’s offers excellent quality text, graphic, photo prints with sharp lines and the 3.4 page-per-minute scan speed that reinforced it in the market against the Brother MFC-685CW and the Kodak EasyShare 5500.
Technical Description:
* Box Content – HP Officejet J6480 AIO, CD with software, Fax and wireless starting guide, Set-up poster, Power cord, HP 74 Black Cartridge (210 page yield), HP 75 Tri-Color Cartridge (155 page yield), 1-Year limited warranty
* Black printing speed – Up to 31 ppm
* Color printing speed – Up to 25 ppm
* Black print resolution – Up to 1200 rendered dpi black (when printing from a computer)
* Color print resolution – Up to 4800 x 1200 optimized dpi color (when printing from a computer and 1200 input dpi)