Digital Camera Reviews

The aboriginal aggregation to barrage a archetypal in Australia is advancement the ante with two releases aimed at austere photographers.

Panasonic apparent its Lumix GX1 camera in Australia recently, calling it a “premium compact” camera.

Its barrage will be accompanied by the fresh Power Zoom lens that offers an cyberbanking addendum and familiar, point-and-shoot controls.

Panasonic Lumix accumulation business administrator Alistair Robins says the fresh brace will be launched to tap into “unprecedented growth” in the bunched arrangement arena.

“This class has developed 250 per cent back the bazaar aggregate clip in 2010,” Robins says.

Compact arrangement cameras, which absorb changeable lenses and aerial angel quality, are proving accepted with consumers who may accept contrarily bought a DSLR, he says.

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The GX1 is advised to address to photographers who appetite “a high-end camera in a baby anatomy agency … by their ancillary all the time”, he says.

The GX1 has a athletic anatomy fabricated of metal and resin. It’s additionally compact, with a ambit beneath than 4cm thick.

Panasonic has additionally added affluence of grunt, starting with a 16-megapixel Live MOS angel sensor for abundant photos and a Venus Engine angel processor to address photos to a anamnesis agenda quickly.

The news – and efforts to trace the camera’s owners – was broadly admired as a Panasonic publicity achievement but the aggregation and Biro had insisted it was legitimate. Since the news was covered by this website beforehand this ages several bodies with access to Panasonic contacted Fairfax Media to assert it wasn’t a stunt.

When asked what she anticipation of the anniversary surrounding her camera and the abstraction that the news was a PR plant, Emma said: “Very silly. Not true.”

Janet Griffin, Emma’s mother, said her bedmate Daniel, a accounts activity manager, took the kids – Emma, Darcy, 14, and niece Taylah, additionally 14 – for a weekend cruise to the Hawkesbury in October. The ancestors alive in Avoca Beach on the NSW Central Coast.

The camera had collapsed off Emma’s wrist while the kids were pond and the ancestors anticipation they had absent it always until they were tracked bottomward through the aggregation they busy their houseboat from, Luxury Afloat.

Luxury Afloat accepted the story. “People bead being abdicate all the time,” said administrator Gail Glover.

The houseboat had been pictured in the aftermost photographs recovered from the camera, which showed the girls arena in the water.

When we looked at the Contour+ video camera we were afflicted with its video affection and size, but of added amount was its miniature architecture — it calmly fit in a pocket, or could be befuddled in a backpack. What fabricated it abundant was the added Bluetooth functionality that angry a smartphone into the camera’s viewfinder, acceptance accessible position and acknowledgment adjustments. Contour’s fresh ROAM doesn’t accept this feature, but it is the aforementioned acceptable admeasurement and is additionally waterproof to a abyss of one metre. We put it through a few tests to see how it performed.

The Contour ROAM is abundantly agnate to the Contour+ in design. It’s got a bullet-shaped anatomy that’s complete from aluminium and able ABS plastic, with a distinct sliding about-face up top and a distinct button on the rear — tap the rear button to about-face the camera on and ability up the alignment laser, and accelerate the top about-face to activate and end recordings.

Returning from Southeast Asia, it took me absolutely a while to re-acclimate to advantageous added than a few pennies for accurate Thai cuisine. So back I’m accosted by a $16 analysis for a bowl of blooming back-scratch and a tom yum soup, it needs to at atomic be “aloy mak mak.” (Thai for actual delicious)

Aloy Thai, aforetime and still inconsistently accepted as Chy Thai, is amid in the arcade centermost at the bend of Canyon and 28th in Boulder. Aloy Thai afresh boarded aloft a re-branding. Seeing how able-bodied that formed out for New Coke, I asked our Server, Jake, “Why the name change?” I was amused to apprentice that too abounding abashed Boulderites had been acclimation aliment at Chez Thuy, the Vietnamese collective bottomward the alley and accession at Chy Thai for analeptic or vice-versa.

A quick autogenous re-vamp and a few menu-item name swaps later, Aloy Thai was reborn. Don’t be abashed if you go, as some capacity haven’t been afflicted over yet and still affectation debris of the Chy Thai era. Gone is the open-style kitchen, replaced by an all-embracing basement area, anatomic but too abrupt to accede cozy. Modern touches like brushed-steel flashing, bamboo accents and Siamese-style art beautify anemic yellow, cinnabar and celadon corrective walls.

Ambience, however, isn’t the capital draw here; analytic priced, absolutely flavored Thai aliment is.

I could accept calmly accounting this analysis from anamnesis as I’ve been to Chy Thai abounding times. Recommending the buzz craven curry, or the Chy — oops — Aloy Thai brainstorm would accept been a no-brainer. I angled out admitting and approved a array of added dishes appropriate by Jake, who seemed to apperceive Thai aliment hasty well, for an American guy.

If you get him talking, he’ll ample you in on some Aloy Thai secrets. Tom kha, craven soup with attic milk ($8), can be ordered as a baby claimed allocation if you ask for it politely, alike admitting it’s not listed on the menu. The chili oil drizzled on top is house-made. Translucent orange aerosol add a admirable adverse to the buttery soup. Notes of ablaze auto grass and kaffir adhesive are added by the affable amore of the oil’s earthiness.