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CES 2008: Freeze Frame

The fastest digicam doesn't miss a detail

A few years ago, most digital cameras took a second or more to snap a single picture. In the same amount of time, Casio's new Exilim EX-F1 takes 60 six-megapixel photos or up to 1,200 frames of video-stretching that single tick into a 40-second movie. At that rate, you could pick out the feathers on a hummingbird's wings. It wallops even the fastest professional still camera, which takes 11 photos per second, and rivals industrial-grade, high-speed video rigs that cost tens of thousands of dollars.

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Shots in the Dark

A trio of new DSLRs kill static to take crisper photos in low light

by Nicholas Eveleigh: THE DARK ARTS With megapixels in abundance, low-light performance is the new battle ground for digital cameras—especially SLRs. From left to right: the Nikon D3, the Canon EOS 40D and the Sony Alpha A700. Photo by Nicholas Eveleigh
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More digital cameras now use CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) sensors to capture sharper images in dim lighting, with less "pixel noise"--colored flecks that occur at high light-sensitivity settings when the camera's processor tries to boost the brightness in a dark image.

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