Digital Camera Blog

The 7.1 megapixel Nikon Coolpix S7c is a very nice looking camera. As part of the S (or Style) line, it gets the familiar “wave” design that has been used on previous S models. The S7c also features a WiFi radio, a 3 inch screen and a 3x optical zoom. We’ll be posting our full review soon, but wanted to give you a little taste of things to come. Without further ado, here are our first impressions.

As far as looks, this camera will definitely turn some heads. The S7c is an ultra-slim camera with nice glossy gray finish and chrome accents. The 3 inch screen (230K pixels, 170 degree viewing angle) on the back will have all sorts of people wanting to look over your shoulder and it’s bright enough to look good to people viewing it off to the side. Since Nikon includes its Pictmotion slideshows (with music and effects), they definitely wanted to make sure that a group of people could watch at once.

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Canon Pixma iP8500 Printer

Canon has never been a company to sit back on their laurels when they have a really great product. So I was interested when I heard that they had upgraded their line of inkjet photo printers and now offered eight-color printing on some models. Since I had been really happy with the results I had been getting from their six-color printers I really wondered just how much better it was possible for the new printers to be.

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The conventional wisdom that all-in-one printer/scanners always entail unacceptable compromises is about to fall flat on its face. Epson has taken the best engines from its top consumer photo printers and semi-pro scanners and produced the best AIO machine we??ve ever seen. The RX620??s ($299 MSRP) unique film negative/transparency scanning features and computerless image correction technology put this device in a class by itself.
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