Looking for a great Photo Printer? James Gapinski from Just Suppositions shares some tips on how to choose one.

Introduction:

Digital photo printers are not only convenient, but they can also save you money on reproduction costs in the long-run. In the short-run, however,you’ll need to spend a couple hundred dollars to get a decent printer, and it can take months for your photo reproduction savings to add up. In order to make sure this expensive purchase is well-worth it, you need to consider several factors when buying a new photo printer.

Types of Printers:

When comparing printers, you need to keep in mind that there are two basic types. The most common type is the ink jet photo printer; this type is useful if you plan on multi-purposing the printer for document usage. Ink jet photo printers can serve as holistic home printers, letting you print Web pages, text files, and other digital media alongside your photographs.

Dye sublimation printers, on the other hand, are designed only for photography reproduction, and these printers rarely work well when repurposed for printing text documents. Dye sublimation printers produce high-quality glossy prints, ideal for professional photographers. While these printers often create the best quality photos, they are much more expensive and therefore only recommended for people who plan on doing a lot of photo printing at home. For most photographers, lower cost ink jet printers will work just fine.

Claims. Claims. Claims. This time Olympus promotes the E-620 as the “world’s smallest and lightest digital SLR to incorporate an image stabilizing mechanism.”

The camera’s Four Thirds system offers not only a small and light camera but means that extras like additional system lenses, battery holder and underwater housings are also smaller and lighter. The camera weighs just 475 grams (without battery). Light.

In the company’s current five model array the Olympus E-620 sits squarely in the middle.

I believe Canon was the first to do it: use white to identify a photographic product, especially some of its lenses. Now Pentax takes it further and splashes white onto one of its DSLR models.

The original PENTAX K2000 (also known as the K-m in some parts of the world) DSLR arrived on the scene late in 2008 — and it was black. Then many were surprised to see a limited edition, white version of the camera just a few months later. And it sure is a nice looking camera.

White, they tell us, is an ideal colour for cameras used in the hot outdoors because of its reflective capacity. But, for me, a white camera solves one of my persnickety grumbles: the visibility of external controls and their function labels. The black buttons and text IDs just leap off the snowy-white camera. Problem solved.

Canon have today announced the Canon EOS 7D – a widely rumored camera that has caused a lot of discussion around the web in the past few weeks as pictures of it began to surface.

The Canon EOS 7D is being presented as a new model line for Canon – not an update of another camera in the range it’s certainly above the Canon EOS 50D in terms of features but seems to be positioned alongside the Canon EOS 5D Mark II.

The Canon EOS 7D has an 18 megapixel APS-C CMOS image sensor, has dual DIGIC 4 processors and shoots at up to 8 frames per second (for up to 15 RAW or 126 JPEG images), has an ISO range of 100-6400 (and up to 12800 in custom functions), new 63 zone dual layer color sensitive metering and a new phase detection auto focus sensor with 19 f/5.6 sensors and 1 X-type f.2.8 sensor in the center of the frame.

The EOS 7D comes with a popup flash which can be used to control other wireless flashes, PC sync connector and hot shoe. It has a 3.0 inch LCD display and shoots Full HD videos.

The Canon EOS 7D will be available in September 2009 and will have a recommended retail price of $1700 USD (body only). It is already available for Pre-Order on Amazon.

Sony today have announced their newest DSLR camera – the Sony A850 DSLR – a full frame DSLR that is set to put the pressure on Sony’s competitors when it comes to price.

The Sony A850 has a recommended retail price of around $2000 USD – around $500 cheaper than Nikon’s D700, Canon’s 5D Mark II and Sony’s own A900.

The A850’s features include a 24.6 megapixel sensor, 3.0 inch LCD, 9 point Auto focusing (with 10 supplemental assist auto focus points), shutter speed of up to 1/8000 second, 3 frames per second shooting in continuous shooting mode and ISO up to 6400.

To go with the Sony A850 Sony today also released a new lens – the 28-75mm f/2.8 at around $800 (model number SAL2875).

The Sony A850 will be available in September and the new 28-75mm lens will be available from November 2009. The A850 is already available for pre-order on Amazon for $1999.99 USD.