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Panasonic’s expressed its commitment to what it calls the culture of photography. The company really believes that taking pictures makes the world a better place. With the Panasonic TZ1, they very nearly had a hit on their hands, with an innovative design in an inexpensive body, delivering a compact 10x zoom for the masses. But unfortunately, the Panasonic TZ1’s lens flare issue starts to raise its head at about 4-5x and only gets worse, blowing contrast across the frame with a random purple haze. 

Though the camera’s 6.3 megapixel imaging chip might not impress when stacked up against the sensors from some competing models which boast up to 10 megapixels of resolution, images I got out of this camera were rich in color and impressively sharp, even in a range of difficult shooting conditions. Or in other words, I’d take the Fujifilm S6000fd over many higher-resolution competing superzoom models, and even over some digital SLRs. The camera definitely deserves a Dave’s Pick.

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Canon’s Digital ELPH series is designed for the person who doesn’t want to worry about shutter speeds and apertures to get good pictures. If Auto mode doesn’t do the trick the Programmed Auto (M) accesses options like White Balance, EV compensation, and Metering. And if that’s too much trouble, there’s a healthy selection of 11 Scene modes to solve almost any problem…

Though it’s already the hottest selling digital SLR on the market, the Canon Digital Rebel XT was due for an upgrade, and right on the expected 18 month schedule comes the EOS Digital Rebel XTi (called the EOS 400D overseas). It has a 10.1 megapixel sensor, a 2.5 inch LCD screen, and a new dust cleaning system. It borrows a lot of other recent innovations from its brother EOS cameras and comes in at $100 less than its predecessor…

Olympus’s Stylus 750 has Stunning good looks, but I was disappointed in its performance. Color just seemed unnatural, and I came home with far too many blurry images for a camera that has image stabilization. I really wondered if the review unit was just malfunctioning. But it wasn’t a mechanical issue. The thumbnails were very blurred, even when the image itself was not…