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This table compares specifications of ultra-zoom digicams.

Digital cameras and camcorders are hot products this year, but if you make the wrong purchasing choices you can end up with an expensive camera that doesn’t meet your needs. The following ‘mistake’ list outlines the most common mistakes buyers make and how to avoid them.

What do you do with your photos after taking them? With today’s high-resolution digital cameras, finding suitable storage can be tricky. It’s easy to accumulate a few gigabytes (GB) or more of images on a week’s holiday. Finding the best ways to keep track of them – and preserve them for the future – represents a serious challenge. Fortunately there are plenty of good solutions to choose from, as we outline here.

This table compares Sensor Sizes.

What do you do with your photos after taking them? With today’s high-resolution digital cameras, finding suitable storage can be tricky. It’s easy to accumulate a few gigabytes (GB) or more of images on a week’s holiday. Finding the best ways to keep track of them – and preserve them for the future – represents a serious challenge. Fortunately there are plenty of good solutions to choose from, as we outline here.

[Don’s Issue 26 Editorial] There is a soft burr-ing noise in the background as I write this. It sounds like a pixie with a pixie-sized jack hammer is chewing through soft coal a metre or so beneath my office floor. But in fact the sotto voce murmer is being produced by Nikon’s hefty Coolscan 9000 ED negative and transparency scanner as it digitises a few slides and negatives from my collection. And the reason it’s in my office? Well, I had in mind doing an informal review of it from the perspective of a photographer who has a huge backlog of slides.