Getting Your Kid Into Digital Cameras

Advantages: Features Like Any Regular Digital Camera
Disadvantages: 16 MB Internal Memory and No Zoom Capabilities

...No digital camera review on CIAO would be complete without a few entries about cameras designed for kids. After all, kids are almost universally enthusiastic about taking pictures. And parents with a love of photography often pass down their passion to their children. But digital cameras are not always kid-friendly, due to fragile construction, price, or complicated menus and buttons. The newest trend in children's electronics is a group of digital cameras made especially for small children. These cameras are easy to hold, come in bright colors that kids love, and have many of the same features as grown-up digital cameras. Kids love them. The VTech KidiZoom Digital Camera is one of the top digital cameras for kids. This camera was made with fun in mind. Kids like the KidiZoom's large LCD screen and the onboard photo editing options...

bennyong 21.12.2008 · Read review
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Review of VTech Kidizoom Camera Pink

Best black and white film stock - ever

Advantages: Best film stock ever
Disadvantages: none I can think of

...FP4 has been around for donkeys years, nearly 35 to be exact? the fact that it?s lasted as a film specification for so long is testimony to the original format. For most people of my generation (I?ll be 45 next birthday) Black and white was the only option if meagre pocket money was the only means of funding a hobby in photography, and Ilford were very much the brand leader in my neck of the woods. Nowadays, when ?analogue? photography has well and truly been eclipsed by ?digital? it takes a very strong product to maintain a foothold in this highly competitive market driven commodity. FP4 simply ?ticks all the boxes?. At 125ASA, it was originally considered a ?medium speed? general purpose stock, nowadays that tends to be a bit on the slow side, but if, like me, you like to use classic cameras, such as Olympus OM series...

dobieg 29.12.2004 · Read review
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Review of Ilford FP4 Plus Camera Film

Big bargains in the Digital Camera Basement

Advantages: Bargains to be had
Disadvantages: Too many to choose from

...for an amazing £90.00, £30 less than both catalogue stores are selling it for. So try and price match. Dixon's are doing Jenimage (formerly Jenoptik - I think the low end digital business has been sold to German retail chain 3mbo so the Jenoptik name will only be on the high quality business end such as digital backs - a digital back goes on a front body that can take either a film or digital back body) - but don't quote me JDC 2.1 for £70, and the JD 3.3 Megaslim for £90 (both have 4x digi, web cam and video modes with CMOS sensors). They are also selling a the Kodak cx 6200 for £80.00 (as are Comet) 3 MP Kodak with digi zoom but no optical from the old 4000 series (make sure you get the 4000 series camera dock if you want a dock, though you don't need it) for the great price of £100.00, and both of these Kodak's are very tempting Summary. In...

callancool 19.01.2004 · Read review
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Ilford films - All you ever needed to know.

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Disadvantages: n/a

...alternative to copying film, Pan F Plus will do the trick (remember though that the copying film is a little slower, so you might lose a tiny bit of definition). I once did a very silly thing and pushed this film (assuming your film is twice, three times etc. the normal iso rating, ie having a 50 iso film and setting your camera to read it as 100 or 400) to 800 iso. Let's just say that the results were 'interesting'; This is not the best film to play around with unless you are after a very stark and bare image. Film speed: 50 iso Suitable for: Still life or studio work. *DELTA 100 This is a 'professional' film from Ilford, using their recently invented Core Shell Emulsion (absolutely no idea what that is), and it was developed to rival Kodak's T-Max series. This is probably the sharpest black and white film in the 100 iso speed class...

peel.rebekah 02.03.2001 (25.03.2001) · Read review
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Fuji films - Everything you ever needed to know.

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Disadvantages: n/a

...A comprehensive guide to fuji black and white, colour negative and transparency films - I hope: Fuji has the decency and intelligence to keep updating the technology of their films, which means that even the non-professional films have a very high standard of colour reproduction and grain quality; it also means (as they usually keep the original product on the market as well as the NEW, IMPROVED version), that the selection of films on offer is enormous and one can get a little baffled when choosing the right film for the job. I'll start with the easiest selection - black and white (only two in this section): *Neopan 400 Not a lot of people use Fuji's black and white film, and that's a real shame as the quality rivals anything by Kodak and Ilford. This is a 400 iso film, so a film for any occasion, limited light, action shots...

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Review of Fuji Reala 100 Camera Film

A truly remarkable camera.

Advantages: Hd video recording, great photos, looks good
Disadvantages: EXPENSIVE!

...This camera is one hell of a camera and I was not disappointed buying this. I have been making some extra cash doing photography for parties and similar types of things just lately and this has been my new best friend. It is reliable and takes very high quality pictures as well as having the ability to record HD, yes! HD!, video at resolution 1080p (which is a lot better than most cameras). First I'd like to comment on the design, looking both professional as well as striking; this really gives off the impression that you are a professional photographer and it is a pleasure and a pride to take photos with it. It takes pretty impressive photos too; I have always had excellent results with this camera. It has 21.1 megapixels, meaning that the photos are crystal clear and allowing you to digitally crop and enlarge photos beyond...

anakha6 08.12.2008 · Read review
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Review of Canon EOS 5D Mark II - digital camera

The Abbie Proof Camera!

Advantages: Keeps kids amused for ages, great range of features, very tough and durable
Disadvantages: Batteries run out quick, picture quality not great

...I'd seen the adverts on TV for these cameras quite a while before Christmas, they first became available in 2006, but I hadn't really noticed until the run up to Christmas that they were around. When I first saw it, I must admit I couldn't believe they had made a digital camera for kids! Wow, whatever next. They'll be making real working mobile phones for three year olds next! Turns out this isn't the first time Fisher Price have launched a camera for children in 1984 which sold close to 5 million, a very popular idea apparently. So, I thought I'd buy for my little girl, she loves anything that makes her feel like a grown up, she also loves to figure out how to work things which makes this toy ideal for her. I live in the middle of nowhere so it was internet Christmas shopping for me this year - I love E-Bay so thought I'd have...

shortnsweetlauraloo 21.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of Fisher-Price Digital Camera

vanguard Camera case

Advantages: cheap price, safe and durable, waterproof, and camera protective
Disadvantages: Made in china, available in black only.

...background to Vanguard until I started to write this review I had no idea who they were. I searched online and read a few reviews about the company. The company specialise in manufacturing Camera bags, Binoculars, Tripods and Cases for guns to name a few products. The companies customers include major Camera manufacturers. vanguard Camera Case for a Camera case it is a low priced entry level Camera Case used to hold, store and allow the user to move around with a Camera inside the Pouch. The Camera Case is black coloured throughout. The Case has the Vanguard's logo encased on the closing part of the Pouch. Also the material is polyester and I suppose that it is good that it is not made from leather as the leather in the summer weather reacts to the heat. This Camera Case also adheres to the international quality...

costas1234 12.05.2008 (31.05.2009) · Read review
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Review of Vanguard LIMA 6B Case Camera

LOVE FILM? - I DO!

Advantages: A brilliant site with great selection.
Disadvantages: None.

...- LOVE FILM? - I DO! - LoveFilm is one of Europes largest online DVD rental businesses. It is now taking over AMAZON UK and German DVD rental business, giving it a European customer base of around 900,000 customers. LoveFilm has consistently won the award for UK's 'BEST' DVD rental service for 2005/06/07. Impressive stuff indeed! www.lovefilm.com - LOVEFILM.com is a DVD rental film company. I joined Love film through a link supplied in the e-casher website, for which I earned £6.00 cashback. LOVEFILM provides an incentive in the form of all kinds of special introductory offers, and depending on who you sign up through, you will earn some cash back also. I got two weeks free when I first joined, and I provided my bank details for the monthly Direct Debit to taken from. I joined via the Lovefilm website which was...

Morning_Becomes_Electra 05.04.2008 (07.04.2008) · Read review
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35mm, APS or Digital

Advantages: Digital Encourages Creativity Through Risk Taking, after all, you can always erase it!
Disadvantages: Still got a way to go, before it sounds the death knell of celluloid

...35mm? APS? SLR? 2.3 Megapixels? 3x Zoom? If you’re only now thinking of getting into photography, in however a small way, these are some of terms that you will see bandied around in shops like Dixons or Jessops. Firstly, let me explode the few examples of jargon above. 35mm = Well, 35 millimetre! This refers to celluloid film where its width across its sprocket holes is 35mm. Why does it have sprocket holes? Originally, when the need for smaller cameras was identified before the 2nd World War, cinema film stock was the only format commonly available in that size, hence the holes. APS = Advanced Photographic System. This is a newer celluloid film format, which adds several user-friendly facilities over and above those offered by the better-established films like 35mm. SLR = Single Lens Reflex. This refers to cameras...

BNibbles 25.04.2001 (01.05.2001) · Read review
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