Digital SLR Reviews

Canon has taken the developments both pre and post digital, and provided a fast, high quality camera body for both stills and video. It has improved metering, focusing and a gamut of new features that raise the stakes across the DLSR board. Read the full review…

The Nikon D3000 was introduced to replace the D60 and comes in below the more costly D5000 with ‘extra’ features. The D3000 is aimed at newcomers to the DSLR world and sets out to make the experience as painless as possible. I found the Nikon D3000 to be a great camera.

Read our Nikon D300S review to find out about the usability, autofocus, video mode, and low-light image quality of Nikon’s new digital SLR.

Compact digital camera performance is advancing all the time, but it’s no accident that most underwater photographers who get into print use SLRs. Let’s look at the ins and outs of taking an SLR underwater… there’s more to it than meets the eye.

I was really excited about getting this wee camera and was delighted when I came home and found a big box sitting innocently on the stairs! Like a child at Christmas I ripped it open and found a gorgeous apparition of plastic and glass.

You have to hand it to Olympus, for a comparatively ‘tiny’ Japanese corporation they stream out interesting things at an impressive rate. Some smooth evolutions, some wild innovations. Now the E-620 pitches up as the world’s smallest SLR with in-body image stabilisation.

Damien Lovegrove takes a look at the Nikon D700 and Nikon D300 digital SLRs and gives us his views. In this test he uses the Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 lens with the D700 & the Nikon 17-55mm f/2.8 with the D300.

In digital age terms, I was a long term user and a big fan of the Canon EOS 5D Mk II’s predecessor, the 5D. I spent far too much time scouring Canon rumour websites looking at the speculative guesswork and supposed leaks from official sources about the Mk II before it had even been announced (maybe I should get a life!).

We’ve given the new Nikon D5000 digital SLR a tough interrogation and like all the answers! The simplicity, image quality, and HD videos have convinced us this new baby Nikon digital SLR is a worthy D60 replacement. Just in case you can’t decide if the D5000 or D90 is best for you, we cover that too!

Chris Packham reviews the new Nikon D3x. “…I felt like throwing all my other cameras away because they were dark age dinosaurs that were denying me any hope of photographic integrity. You zoom in, and in, and in, and in… and it’s still pin sharp….”