Xtra hassle

Advantages: Great for your PC...
Disadvantages: ...unusable on a Mac

...It's gone. Gone! Oh, woe is me! My lovely, shiny l'espion Xtra has been returned to the shop, and I am one very angry consumer. Here's why. The Xtra is the newer, bigger brother of the tiny l'espion digital camera. It is not quite as dinky as its predecessor and the larger lens protrudes slightly instead of lying flush with the surface, but the difference is one of millimetres (the exact dimensions are a minuscule 60 x 40 x 15mm) and it weighs about the same, ie not very much at all. Most importantly, image resolution is now a maximum of 800 by 600 pixels. That's still nowhere near the standard of a regular digital camera but a huge improvement on the l'espion's rather puny 352 by 288, which made it more of a novelty than a serious piece of equipment. Eight megabytes of memory mean it can store over two hundred high...

Worrals 29.10.2002 · Read review
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Fargo DTC400 is a super card printer

Advantages: High Quality, Profession Prints, Reliable and Durable
Disadvantages: High Cost for printer and ribbons

... Fargo DTC 400 Card Printer We have several card printers at work that we use for printing business passes and seasonal access cards. All of our printers are DTC 400's and they really are very good. Granted, we do have the occasional problem but in general, they are reliable, print to a high quality and are very fast. Not only does this enhance productivity, but it also allows to portray a professional image to the general public when they visit our site and allows us to encode our cards to monitor peoples movements around the site. About the Manufacturer Fargo Electronics were acquired by HID Global in 2006, the combined company now trade as HID Global and they also merged with ASSA ABLOY Identification Technology (ITG) in 2008. HID Global, manufacture, provide and support a variety of access control readers...

TheHairyGodmother 31.07.2009 · Read review
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Travels with my 400D

Advantages: Cheap, good image quality, leading brand, good entry level camera
Disadvantages: Perhaps slightly small

...Travels with my 400D I’ve been putting off writing this review for months and months. I’ve been waiting until I know just about as much about the camera as I possibly can, but I’ve come to the conclusion that this will never happen, so I’m just going to do it. It may also have to do with the fact that term ended on Tuesday, I have a massive amount of revision to do, and I’m procrastinating. It’s an unanswerable question. **This is a very long review as I’m going to assume that anyone reading this knows absolutely nothing about photography, so apologies if you do and I come across as patronising. Also, as I write this, I find it’s turning into as much of a digital camera tutorial as well as a review of the 400D itself. This is the only way I can find to review the camera properly...

HungryHungarian 21.03.2008 (26.03.2008) · Read review
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Epiphone G-400

Advantages: Great attack and sustain for a good metal/rock style of play.
Disadvantages: Not particularly well balanced.

...The epiphone g400 is a stunning guitar. Its looks is what attracted me to it first and formost in the shop. After having a go in the shop i was completely blown away! The sound that this thing can make is unbelievable in respect to the price tag. It is exceptional value! The alnico humbuckers pruduce a great crunchy sound for distorted rock/metal style of playing. It has plenty of attack and great sustain. It has quite a wide neck which makes it easier (for me inparticular) to finger some chords (like an A) where on other guitars my fingers would be squashed up and would make playing the chord uncomfortable. But this is not the case on the g400. The action is very good too. And if it is not to your preference then changing and tweaking this guitar to your liking is almost too easy! I have had this guitar for over a year now...

Wayne1987 15.10.2008 · Read review
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CDJ 400 AMAZING

Advantages: Everything You Need
Disadvantages: LCD Blurs

...There can be no doubt when I say that Pioneer own the DJ CD deck market. Like the Technics, the mighty CDJ range has become the standard install for many clubs and an essential buy for many DJs wishing to make the jump from analog to digital. When Pioneer released the original CDJ-1000 and subsequent 800, they ruled the roost, led the pack plus many other euphemisms meaning they pwned the scene. But the competition soon caught up and even surpassed the functionality and feature set of the CDJs, leaving Pioneer in the enviable but slightly uncomfortable position of being the standard, but not necessarily the cutting edge anymore. If you're an existing Pioneer user, you'll be right at home, as the Pioneer layout rule book has been read and adhered to. Controls are where you'd expect them to be and the CDJ-400 also has an LCD screen that...

theman1965 17.12.2008 · Read review
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Canon EOS 400D

Advantages: Low cost entry to Digital SLR photography. Compatible with all Canon Ef and Ef-s lenses
Disadvantages: Manual exposure fiddly, Kit lens good for cost, but not high-quality

...Review EOS 400d The canon 400D is a good camera - for the price it's a great camera. It's relatively compact; lightweight; comes with an adequate lens; has programmed settings for novices - like portrait and landscape modes; but also offers manual control of apertures, shutter speeds, white balance, ISO? so that the more experienced photographers can have fun and be a little more creative. One item to note if you are upgrading from a digital compact is that you have to use the viewfinder. The screen on the back of the camera only shows exposure information, and allows you to view photographs you have already taken. It does not let you view the scene you are about to photograph. In my opinion this is a good thing because it forces you to hold the camera properly - up against your face where it can be held steadily, instead of at arms...

montmorillonite 16.07.2008 · Read review
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  IXUS 400 - Quality At A Price

Advantages: Top-notch build quality and design. First rate results
Disadvantages: No case! Quite pricey for specification level. Shortish battery life with no clear indicator

...this year?s entry-level, when it comes to mega pixels, and although some top-end cameras are flirting with ratings beyond 10.0 mega pixels, somewhere between 3.0 and 4.0 is capable of giving excellent results, especially as hardly anyone prints beyond A4 size. This is where the new Canon IXUS 400 comes in. It is no bigger than previous models, and yet packs a very creditable 4.0 mega pixel maximum definition, stored on Compact Flash cards, which gives it the added advantage that it can share cards with my Nikon. The latest ?entry-level? digital IXUS, the Digital IXUS II now uses the newer SD cards, but frankly, it?s not an awful lot cheaper, despite sporting a ?mere? 3.2 mega pixels and I?d have to buy a new card reader for the new format. FIRST IMPRESSIONS The first thing you notice is that this camera is a slight deviation...

BNibbles 22.08.2003 (24.08.2003) · Read review
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Canon EOS 400D - Great Value for money Digital SLR

Advantages: Good price, easy to use
Disadvantages: Has been superceded

...Having had a Canon EOS 350D, when the 400D was launched I was so confident of the brand that it was a forgone conclusion that I would buy one. The build quality is the first positive point. It is such a solid camera, not that you would bash it on purpose, but it'll certainly take a few knocks without any problems. The 18-55mm kit lens that I got with mine is also pretty good. This does feel a little cheaply made in comparison to the camera, but it does the job and has good optics. The screen on the back of the unit gives you all the information needed. Once a picture is taken it also gives you a preview. There is no live view, like point-and-shoot compacts and the latest digital SLR's. This means that framing your photos is done through the VERY clear optical viewfinder. The results are just stunning. The EOS 400D will beat any compact...

davomrmac 06.06.2009 · Read review
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Samsung z400

Advantages: Camera, Blue Tooth, Features
Disadvantages: Barttery Life and Memory

...Samsung z400 I am writing a review on the mobile phone Samsung z400. I purchased this phone 2 weeks ago and I love it  The phone comes in 2 colours as far as I know - silver and black - I have the silver version which I think is nicer anyway  It comes with 2.0 Mega Pixel Camera and video recording, blue tooth, Email and multimedia messaging. The reason I bought this phone was because I one with a good camera aswell as being kinda stylish and that's just what I got, the camera is just excellent, I can't get over how brilliant the pictures are for only being 2 mega pixels - I will post 2 pictures to let you see the quality. The media player feature is very handy as you can save all your favourite tunes on a play list and listen to them just like a mix CD, however, without the use of a memory card you wont be...

lesleyanne18 04.03.2008 · Read review
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The Canon EOS400D delivers photographic excellence to the masses.

Advantages: Compatable with huge range of Canon accesories, build quality, ease of use, loads of features
Disadvantages: No spot metering, kit lens a little cheap

.... The standard kit lens does not feel as well built as my older USM ones, and this is an obvious cost cutting measure. However in use it produces good results. The LCD panel switches off when bring the camera upto your eye thus removing any distractions near the viewfinder. The display inside the viewfinder shows all neccesary information such as shutter speed, metering mode and apeture etc. The battery life is good, I took a couple of hundred pictures at a wedding and still had plenty of battery life left. The 10 mega pixel sensor has a self cleaning feature and delivers pictures with a superb colour rendition. I've also engarged cropped images to poster size (36x24") without any loss of detail. The camera comes with the standard photo editing and RAW processing software. I cannot comment about this as I've always used Photo Shop, and in this...

MrMopp 09.09.2009 · Read review
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