There has been a lot of new gear for Gordon Laing of Cameralabs to review the last few months, but with CP+ now squarely in the rear-view mirror, the time is nigh for Laing to take a trip down memory lane for another Retro Review.
This time, Laing's target is the Canon PowerShot 350 from 1997, Canon's second conventional digital camera and a fascinating relic of digital photography's past.
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Gordon Laing, founder of Camera Labs, has published another one of his popular Retro Reviews. The focus this time is on the Olympus CAMEDIA C-2000 Zoom compact digital camera. It's a compact all-in-one digital camera released in 1999 for a cool $799, which is over $1,300 today after adjusting for inflation. dpreview.com »
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In the latest episode of his Retro Review series, Gordon Laing of Cameralabs looks back at 2001's Canon PowerShot G2. How does the 23-year-old compact digital camera hold up today? [Read More]
For photographers who were around during the emergence of the DSLR, few cameras are as influential or recognizable as early Canon EOS Digital Rebel models. Gordon Laing of Cameralabs has turned back the clock to look at the very first Rebel DSLR in his latest Retro Review. [Read More]
In his latest Retro Review, Gordon Laing of Camera Labs takes photographers back to 1996 when Olympus launched its Camedia consumer camera series with a trio of digital cameras, the C-400, C-400L, and Laing's focus, the highest-end C-800L. [Read More]
Photographer Gordon Laing recently dusted off his old Nikon Coolpix 300 to see how well it has aged. Originally launched in 1996, it could shoot 0. 3-megapixel photos and offered the unusual ability to take notes or draw with the touchscreen.
The COOLPIX 100 was Nikon’s first consumer digital camera. It launched in 1996 at around $500 and sports a one-third-megapixel sensor, a fixed 52mm equivalent lens, and one megabyte of memory. The COOLPIX 100 solved the thorny issue of connectivity by building the entire camera into a PCMCIA card that could slot directly into compatible […]
Launched in 2001, the Pro90 IS was Canon’s flagship PowerShot and shared a similar external design to the earlier Pro70 from 1998 but greatly boosted its zoom capability from 2. 5x to 10x. It became Canon’s first digital camera with optical image stabilization as well.