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Panasonic's GF1 Is the Smallest Micro Four Thirds Camera Yet

By Corinne Iozzio Posted 09.02.2009 at 12:00 am 2 Comments

Panasonic was the first out of the gate with a Micro Four Thirds camera, a system that promises SLR quality in small packages. It was Olympus, however, that hit small-body sweet spot with the EP-1. Today, Panasonic announced their own realization of the Micro Four Thirds promise with the svelte Lumix DMC-GF1.

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Middleweight Camera Championship

A showdown of smaller “big” cameras from Canon, Olympus, and Panasonic

By Sean Captain Posted 12.02.2008 at 3:14 pm 2 Comments

Size is an issue with cameras. I miss a lot of good shots when I don’t feel like lugging around a hefty SLR (such as my current fav, the Nikon D90). And while my pocket camera (presently a Canon SD800) is easy to tote, the image quality is more for “snapshots” than “photographs.”

I, and a few other shutterbugs around the Popular Science office, have been looking into the middle category of cameras: big enough to take good pictures, but not so big that it’s a burden. Now is a good time to look, since several camera makers have fresh midsize camera offerings.

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5-Minute Project Video: Peephole Fisheye Lens

By popsci Posted 08.28.2007 at 5:11 pm 5 Comments

One from the "why didn't I think of THAT" department: a fisheye lens from a standard peephole just like in your front door. You can pick up a peephole (sans door) for around $10 at most hardware stores and be shooting cool ultra-wide-angle, amusingly distorted images with your point-and-shoot digicam in the time it takes to simply tape it to your lens. Adding similar capabilities to a fancier DSLR can easily cost 50 times as much. Yay, cheapness! —John Mahoney

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5-Minute Project Video: Peephole Fisheye Lens

Use a standard peep hole and a bit of tape to shoot super-wide-angle fisheye shots with your digital point-and-shoot

Posted 08.28.2007 at 4:18 pm 0 Comments

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The Goods: June 2008

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June 2013: American Energy Independence

Five amazing, clean technologies that will set us free, in this month's energy-focused issue. Also: how to build a better bomb detector, the robotic toys that are raising your children, a human catapult, the world's smallest arcade, and much more.