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Panasonic has put together a nice digital package, offering good image quality, speedy performance and plenty of exposure options for the entire family. The 6-megapixel Fine images have plenty of resolution to create beautiful 13x19-inch prints or larger. With an MSRP of $US279.95 it’s a bit more expensive than some of the other competitors out there , however, it does offer a good value for a capable 6- megapixel model…

Overall I was very impressed with the Canon G7. It does a lot of things right within the context of its price, size and its likely intended constituency. Unfortunately a consequence of being a JPG-only camera is that too many technical decisions need to be made prior to shooting. Things like colour balance, saturation, sharpening, etc all get baked into the file, and the ability to recover burned-out highlights (which raw files provide) is lost when all you have is a JPG…

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At the top of Fujifilm’s line of consumer cameras sits the FinePix S9100, a 9-megapixel superzoom with a 10.7X optical, 28mm-to-300mm (35mm equivalent) f/2.8-to-f/4.9 zoom lens, and more features than you can shake an ultracompact at. But even with all those features, it is missing a very important one: image stabilization. Fuji talks big about its Picture Stabilization shooting mode, useful since it keeps your shutter speed fast and prevents blur. But it’s no substitute for optical or mechanical image stabilization, which can be found in numerous other superzooms…

One of the favorite lenses among news photographers, a 70-200mm f/2.8 or 80-200mm f/2.8 zoom also appeals to many serious photo enthusiasts. Although large and heavy, lenses of this type offer several benefits. Their very wide maximum aperture allows for faster shutter speeds than the more typical f/4.5-5.6 zooms, great for low-light or action photography at lower ISOs (film or digital) for images with less grain or noise. Since these are professional-caliber zooms, they’re also particularly rugged and boast several high-tech optical elements for high quality even at wide apertures…

The new Kodak Easyshare Z710 was officially unveiled at the Photokina show in Germany last month. We’ve got our hands on this latest ultra-zoom camera from Kodak, which features a 10x zoom lens equivalent to 38-380mm. With a recommended price of £280 / $300, the Kodak Z710 is cheaper than most of its main rivals, but can it deliver the goods? Find out by reading our latest in-depth review…