For the most part, Sony’s latest ultra-compact member of the ultra-popular T-series line of digital cameras sounds like the perfect all-around point-and-shooter — with a few important caveats. For starters, the DSC-T30 features a Carl Zeiss lens backed up by a 7.2 megapixel CCD, and Sony was gracious enough to toss in some optical image stabilization for steady hand-held shots even at slower shutter speeds. You also get a 3-inch display that fills nearly the entire backside of the camera, and that, according to Imaging Resource, performs much better than average in direct sunlight. For as low as $400, it would seem that this followup to the DSC-T9 should be unrivaled in the marketplace, but several non-minor flaws — including heavy noise in low-light shots captured above ISO 200 and audible artifacts in some video clips — would suggest that this model is not for everyone. Still, the small size, good overall photo quality, and superior battery life (400+ shots) are enough to make the T30 one of Imaging Resouce’s coveted “Dave’s Picks.”

[Via Photography Blog]

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Remember that hot href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sony-dcr-sr100-handycam-hard-drive-camcorder/">Sony DCR-SR100 disk-based
Handycam we first set eyes to at CES? Yeah, the one with a 30GB hard disk, 3.3 megapixel sensor, 2.7-inch touch-screen
LCD, and 5.1 Dolby Surround Sound recording — that one. Well, CamcorderInfo laid fist-to-product and inked a full
review for our consumption. JVC may have been first to market with a hard disk recorder, but the review claims the
SR100 is the first to produce “good video.” In fact, they say it blows those JVC href="http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/18/jvc-rolls-out-new-everios-including-30gb-2-megapixel-gz-mg70/">MG70 and href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/04/jvc-rolls-out-new-everio-lineup/">MG77 modesl with MOD file format
recordings (Sony goes MPEG-2) “out of the water.” Granted, the SR100 still isn’t quite up to the quality of
MiniDV-taped recorders but the gap is no doubt, “closing quickly” which is good news indeed. Sure, the cam
suffers from only a few manual controls and the reviewer doesn’t like the Sony touch-screen interface which makes
handling the unit a problem. Still, the camera is an easy to use, point-and-shoot camcorder for all your baby uh,
shooting needs. We’ll just have to wait and see how it holds up to that mysterious href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/unannounced-3ccd-30gb-jvc-everio-g-gz-mg505-already-winning-awa/">3CCD JVC
GZ-MG505 before getting ourselves in too much of a tizzy over this $1,000-ish camcorder.

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Some pix of that href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/03/26/pics-of-nokia-n93-deets-of-unannounced-n73/">unannounced Nokia N73
we told you about a few weeks back have surfaced in the forums over at mobile-review. The N73 (on left in the picture)
as it’s currently called, is the the supposed successor to the N70
(on right), and is expected to pump Symbian 9.1 and Series 60 3rd addition while featuring a 3.2 megapixel cam with
with autofocusing Carl Zeiss lens, Bluetooth 2.0, stereo speakers, memory card expansion and that good 3G (UMTS) lovin’
for video calls on that large QVGA screen. So really, no additional details, just some fuzzy eye candy this time around.
More pics after the break.

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