Dptips :. Digital Photography Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

The S1100pj isn’t competent enough or bright enough to win fans in the boardroom, but casual photographers looking for a bit of novelty value won’t be disappointed.

The Toshiba AC100 is an impractical curio that no one should spend their money on.

Here’s a prototype that literally puts the desk in desktop.

Excellent low-light video quality and a broad set of manual controls make the HS700 a good camcorder, but its much better priced flash memory SD700 sibling is the one to have.

The Logitech Z305 is an unobtrusive solution if you’re sick of the tinny, enclosed sound from your laptop speakers but don’t have room for a five-piece PC speaker set. We recommend this plug-and-play external audio device for its simplicity of operation, low cost and convenience for use on the run.

It’s not as flashy as comparable portable devices, but Telstra’s prepaid mobile broadband hotspot delivers speed, at a price.

A Chinese paper is reporting that production has started on 7-inch iPads due for release in Q1 2011. The paper also details some of the new features to expect in the iPad successor, including front and rear facing cameras, and a USB port for connecting external devices.

PADACS’ Rubata Keyboard is the best iPad keyboard we’ve seen yet. It’s not perfect, but if you’re after a productivity boost for the normally consumption-centric iPad, it’s a good option.

If you want a bit more than just a basic dSLR and have some more to spend, here’s a list of the best models to choose from.

An entrant into Volkswagen’s Fun Theory competition has added a new twist to the traditional speed camera, by not only punishing speeding motorists, but also rewarding those who keep to the limit.

The National Australia Bank (NAB) says it has fixed a computer problem that left millions of customers short of cash and has scotched reports the problem was due to human error.

Hasselblad introduces a limited Stainless Steel version of the H4D-40, or as the Hasselblad slogan to promote the H4D-40 goes: “now we’ve decided to let their inner beauty shine through”. This remarkable model is aimed at photographers who have but one thing in common - a desire to take their photography to the next level and set themselves apart from the crowd, both with their pictures and their camera. The Stainless Steel version will have a limited production run of 100 cameras and is yours for only $18,995 or $20,995 incl. lens…

Canon releases firmware update version 1.2.3 for the EOS 7D digital SLR camera, offering the following improvements: • Fixes a pproblem where the settings of the ST-E Speedlite transmitter revert to the default when camera and ST-E2 are both set to auto power off • Fixes a phenomenon in which the Macro Ring Lite (MR-14EX, MT-24EX) and the slave flash do not sync while shooting wirelessly. Note that after installation of version 1.2.3 you cannot downgrade to a previous firmware version…

The Pixma MG8150 is the costly bigger brother of the excellent MG6150, but unless you’ve got a burning need for slide scanning, it’s difficult to justify the additional cost.

Its small size and attractive price might draw you to the Sony Handycam CX110, but this bare-bones camcorder just barely delivers on the promise of HD quality.

Here’s what caught our eye from the hundreds of iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry and Windows apps that launched or updated this week.

For so much promise, at first glance Dell’s Inspiron Duo falls short of the mark; another hybrid that doesn’t quite work.

There are elements we love about the iPhone user experience, and parts of Android we can’t do without. What if we could combine these elements in a single smartphone system?

It’s a little difficult to choose the “best” from a quite frankly average list of titles. However, if you’ve invested in a PlayStation Move, here’s the pick of the lot… so far.

Nissan’s given Godzilla a massage. The slightly updated model boasts more power, but better fuel economy in official testing.