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Canon PowerShot A430

The Canon PowerShot A430 is a decent, dirt-cheap camera with nice features, but the photos could look better.

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Canon Digital IXUS 860 IS

While the Canon IXUS 860 IS doesn't have an optical viewfinder or manual exposure controls, it captures beautiful images with its wide, 3.8x optical zoom lens and ranks among the top compact cameras we've seen.

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Pentax Optio Z10

Pentax's Optio Z10 isn't quite as nice as the company's Optio S10, but its attractive price helps make up for its quirks and modest feature set.

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AGFAPHOTO AF5080M

The AGFAPHOTO AF5080M digital photo frame offers pleasing image quality but its average performance and feature set fail to let it stand out from the crowd.

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Canon EOS 5D

A decent midrange digital SLR camera built around a superb sensor, the Canon EOS 5D delivers great images and the familiar 35mm-film-format shooting experience for a comparatively low (though still hefty) price.

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Panasonic to expand image sensor plant

Panasonic plans to spend AU$973 million to expand a Japanese site for manufacturing image sensors, with a new facility opening in 2009.

Start-up lets you fix focus after snapping the shutter

Refocus Imaging hopes its camera technology will let amateurs fix focus problems and open new creative possibilities to photography professionals.

Upside-down CMOS sensor may spark digital revolution

OmniVision engineers a new camera sensor, promising better image quality and lower cost.

Digital SLRs bring lens quandary

The digital era has given camera buyers abundant new choices. But changes that came with higher-end models called digital SLRs have also imposed new lens complexities and compatibility issues buyers hadn't bargained for.

Kodak exec spruiks vision for digital photography

Kodak debuts the V610 dual lens digital camera with bluetooth connectivity and demonstrates future technologies.

Digital camera shopping checklist

Struggling to come to terms with what to pick for your first digital camera? We give you some pointers to aid you on your quest. Step this way.

Camcorder formats: which one is best?

Prospective camcorder buyers are faced with a choice of four types of camcorder recording media: hard disk, flash memory, MiniDV/HDV tapes, or mini-DVD. We run through the pros and cons of all four formats to make your purchasing journey a little less like a trip through Dante's nine circles of hell.

Digital photo basics

Whether you've just bought a digital camera or are in the market for one, you'll learn the basics of buying and using a digicam in this introductory primer on digital photography.

How to clean your digital SLR

To get the best-quality images from your dSLR, you'll need to give it a dust every now and then, both on the inside and out. CNET.com.au guides you step-by-step through cleaning your camera to make your photos blemish-free.

Build the perfect baby video

With the imminent arrival of a new baby, your life will become a whirlwind. If you're planning to capture the whole experience on video, plan carefully and you'll have a priceless record of those fleeting early days.

Digital SLRs that won't break the bank

Remember when it was common to drop AU$1,000 on a nice digital point-and-shoot? These days, for around the same outlay, you can pick up a digital SLR camera.

Digital cameras with 12X zoom: to infinity and beyond

A large range of focal lengths to zoom through can dramatically increase your framing options, as well as simply make it possible to get recognisable people shots when you're trapped in the crowd, high in the bleacher seats, or at the back of the auditorium. See how these stabilised 12X zoomers stack up.

The Canon empire strikes back

Canon fights Nikon's D70 prosumer dSLR with the 8-megapixel EOS 20D, expands its wildly popular A series units, and announces its 7-megapixel contenders.

CNET.com.au's digital SLR superguide

Digital SLR cameras have opened up new opportunities that change the way images look and are used. This guide will help you take your images to the next level.

Cameras destined for movie stardom

While we've yet to see that most desired of consumer electronics products -- a terrific still camera that's also a terrific camcorder - -cameras seem to be getting much better at doing double duty.

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DigiTemp for Windows (Passive Adapter) 1.7

Read temperatures using Dallas 1-wire temperature sensors.

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DigiTemp for Windows (DS9097U) 2.4

Read temperatures on your PC using this program and Dallas 1-wire temperature sensors.

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Neat Image 5.9

Reduce visible noise in digital photographic images.

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Neat Image plug-in for Photoshop 4.52

Reduce visible noise and grain in digital photographic images.

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Homewatch DSLCam 2.08e

Record videos from your Web cam to remote site via Internet.

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