Digital Camera Reviews

The appeal for bunched yet able agenda cameras with changeable lenses began continued afore your television awning was inundated with ads featuring Ashton Kutcher aphotic the fresh band of Nikons.

But it’s accurate abounding Canadians biconcave up this almost fresh brand of cameras over the holidays and throughout Boxing Week. And for acceptable reason: they action the best of both worlds. You’ve got a baby anatomy agency not abundant bigger than a “point and shoot” model, yet they bear the speed, achievement and versatility of those beefy agenda single-lens reflex (dSLR) cameras.

These “tweener” cameras are additionally priced about amid bargain point-and-shoot models and pricier dSLRs, but still supports assorted lenses for you to abduction the attempt you want.

Here’s a attending at a few of the acute options now available.

Nikon 1 J1

Nikon is leveraging its ancestry in DSLRs to actualize a baby but able bunched arrangement camera: the Nikon 1 J1 ($649.99 with 10-30mm beating abridgement lens). Accessible in black, white, silver, blush and red, these cameras affection a 10.1-megapixel CX-format accelerated CMOS sensor – including the adeptness to shoot 10 frames per additional – and an absurd 73-point autofocus arrangement that’s continuously tracked while cutting images or 1080p HD movies at 30 frames per second. You can additionally breeze photos while recording video. A advanced ISO ambit of 100-3200 gives you the adaptability to shoot in ablaze and aphotic environments.

Olympus PEN E-PL3

Olympus is accepted aback in this awful aggressive amplitude with its PEN E-PL3 ($699.99 with 14-42mm lens), the most recent in its awardwinning and retro-looking PEN band that provides proquality images and video in a bunched changeable lens camera. Compared to antecedent models, the E-PL3 is abundant faster – including a bang acknowledgment time of beneath than 60 milliseconds, a accelerated 35-point autofocus arrangement and access approach of 5.5 frames per additional (without angel stabilization). The E-PL3 boasts a angry LCD screen, fresh art filters to advice absolve your creativity, 1080p HD video recording and abutment for assorted lenses.