The power of an SLR with the ease of a compact. That’s what Pentax would like you to believe its Optio X90 offers and, according to a Photography Blog review, that’s about what you can expect. The 12 megapixel, 26x superzoomer’s lens offers amazing flexibility without doing the lens-swap shuffle, and image quality was said to deliver very good with “striking colours” (it’s a British site, mind). This is definitely a camera with a focus on helping users, but there are controls for setting shutter and aperture priority, and you can go fully manual if you like to work it, work it. Pentax’s shooter doesn’t score a perfect recommendation, with an inability to optically zoom while filming being a definite bummer, but the X90 earns high marks for its combination of performance and usability — and at $399 it’s something of a good deal, too.
At CES this past January we were smitten by Sanyo’s little VPC-CS1 camcorder and now, many moons later, it’s coming to retail. Akihabara News has taken it for a test drive and, as you might expect from something only 29mm thin, it has some compromises. The most glaring issues appear to be related to image quality, with the review stating: “Shooting in low light will give you really crappy images.” Also, it turns out the cam’s touted 1920 x 1080 at 60fps mode is actually interlaced, meaning it’s time for a return to scanline mountain. While 720p mode is said to be rather better looking, still shooting is said to be “simply useless.” Despite all this the review has a positive conclusion, and we could see the same for users more interested in form than function. Those looking for image quality, however, will want to look at the sample videos and images on the other end of that source link below.
Roll over Apple ipad, the big dog is in town! Lenovo’s amazing Tablet/PC Hybrid brings a tablet and a PC together in an amazingly elegant way. It’s a tablet. It’s a notebook computer. This amazing technology marvel from Lenovo – shown at CES 2010 for the first time — combines an Apple-killing tablet with an amazing laptop computer! Lenovo ideapad U1 Hybrid at CES lenovosocial.com ———————————— See all the videos on the Tekzilla CES 2010 playlist. www.youtube.com Tekzilla on Twitter twitter.com Jim Louderback on Twitter twitter.com
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