Our Annual Guide to Buying A Digital Camera
Walt presents his annual guide to buying a digital camera — a list of basics to look for when shopping for your first digital camera, as well as some tips for current owners looking to upgrade.
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Walt presents his annual guide to buying a digital camera — a list of basics to look for when shopping for your first digital camera, as well as some tips for current owners looking to upgrade.
Walt Mossberg reviews five of the newest pocket digital cameras and says Kodak and Canon come out on top.
Here’s a look at three new, pocket-sized digital cameras: the Olympus Stylus 710, Nikon Coolpix S5 and Canon PowerShot SD630. All are impressively svelte and take good pictures, but the Canon comes out on top.
In our annual digital camera buyer’s guide, we explain what features mainstream buyers should be familiar with when shopping.
Smilebox offers templates for creating attractive virtual scrapbooks, slideshows, photobooks and postcards. The site’s design and simplicity also helps to make the photo-sharing service fun and easy to use.
Tabblo differs from other Web-based photo-sharing sites, offering features like dragging and dropping and editing all on the same page, without the annoying constant reloading that characterizes so many photo sites.
Digital cameras have evolved recently to include more capabilities, sharper, larger viewing screens and slimmer builds. The Mossberg Solution offers an overview of what you’ll need to know when buying a new camera.
The iPhone is a beautiful and breakthrough handheld computer, Walt Mossberg and Katherine Boehret say. A major drawback: the network it uses. Video
The Mossberg Solution tests two $300 digital cameras with touch screens that work as viewing screens, viewfinders and buttons rolled into one, helping to improve the camera’s usability and demystifying once-buried menus.
Apple’s new iMac includes a radical-looking keyboard, but the bigger change is the major update to its iLife software suite. Katherine Boehret tests the new programs with a particularly close look at iPhoto and iMovie.
Katherine Boehret tests the new HP Photosmart A826 Home Photo Center, a product that combines functions of a photo printer and a digital picture frame, and finds a good idea in need of improvement.
Tubes makes sharing files seem easy, but it needs to make permission levels more understandable, says Walt Mossberg.
Myfamily.com serves as a place where members can upload photos, videos, news, recipes, family-tree entries and other data in a few steps. Its ace in the hole is its popular relative, Ancestry.com.
Microsoft’s retooled Zunes are notably better than last year’s entry. They are smaller, lighter and more attractive, but remain no match for the iPod.
Most camera users don’t want to hassle with USB cords and slow upload speeds when transferring images onto a computer or photo-sharing site. The $100 Eye-Fi Card is a carefree solution to the aggravation.
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