Are you struggling to snap a good picture of your little pitcher? Or does uploading your prized images to photo-sharing sites give you a headache? These are just some of the top complaints lodged by amateur photographers, according to the folks at Consumer Reports. Which is why the publication decided to spotlight new products that claim to make taking frameworthy shots easier for snap happy parents and other avid photographers.
Here’s a look at some of new additions to the market that received high marks by testers and camera experts:
NEED MORE ZOOM
If you are consistently forced to sit high in the stands during your little slugger’s big games then you might consider investing in Casio’s hottest new camera. The Exilim Pro EX-F1 is super-zoom camera with HD video and super-fast shooting. It has12x zoom, which means that you can get great shots of your little leaguer without having to give up your spot on the bleachers. The Exilim Pro EX-F1 also records HD video with 1080i image resolution and it playbacks video on your TV. All those pros come at a price–$999 to be exact. But considering it is marketed as the fastest point-and-shoot camera on the market (it shoots 60 images per second, which means you can get 30 shots of one golf swing) it might be worth the extra dough.
CAPABLE CAMERA PHONE
For just $150 you can own the three-mega-pixel Samsung FlipShot. The sophisticated camera phone is fancy enough for tech lovers, but easy enough for anyone to operate. It transforms from a camera to a phone and shoots great pictures. On the store shelf it looks like a small camera, but flip it open, and it’s a phone; then rotate it again, and you have the LCD screen for a small camera. It’s also one of the only camera phones on the market with a flash and auto-focus.
MEMORY CARD
The Eye-Fi Memory Card’s $100 price tag might be shocking to most amateur photographers, but this is no ordinary memory card. The Eye-Fi wireless memory card can be used for any camera that accepts SD cards. You simply load software onto your computer, put the card into your camera, and that’s it. The software uses your home’s wireless network to upload your photos to the Internet or to the hard drive of your computer, which means you can send photos automatically, as soon as you walk into your wireless network area. It also uploads photos directly to any photo-sharing website so grandma can view her newest bundle of joy in seconds.
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