Digital Camera Shopping Research

Yes, it may be a little early for this, but as you know time between now and Christmas (there, I said it) tends to disappear faster than a pint of ale set in front of me on a Friday evening. That said, it’s not too early to start doing your homework and thinking about the kinds of digital photo gifts you might consider giving this holiday season.

If you’re thinking about giving a gift that involves digital photography this year, you certainly won’t be alone. According to the Consumer Electronics Association’s (CEA) figures, some 27.5 million digital cameras will be sold during 2007, up slightly from 26.7 million last year.

CNET has compiled the most popular digital cameras for your consideration. And there’s this very thorough digital camera type guide that also should prove to be very helpful produced by DigitalCameraReview.com.

There’s also Digital Photography Review (DPReview.com) which is perhaps the most comprehensive review site there is for digital cameras. A little research will help enormously when there are so many different models to choose from.

When you’re ready to move on and start hunting down the best prices, we have our own little store setup here at Camera-news, powered by Amazon.com. Not a bad place to start :)

Get Rid of Jaggies

Here is a really great tool that gets rid of those awful pixel squares found in photos from low mega-pixel cameras.

VectorMagic has the answer. A free website from the folks down at Stanford, VectorMagic takes your raster images and turns them into smooth vector drawings.

Unlike raster images, vector drawings are made of geometric shapes instead of pixels, so you can infinitely resize them with no fuzzy or blockiness! This makes them ideal for blowing up a small photo to, say, the size of your bedroom wall.

Other programs that will do this, but VectorMagic is web-based and will run on most computers. Plus, its algorithms do an impressive job of translating photographs into realistic vectors — something others choke on.

So dump those passé pixels… and give your tiny photos a new photographic life, smooth and vectorized!
found via photojojo