Nikon obviously couldn’t let PMA pass without its own fresh volley into the cutthroat consumer-level DSLR market: Enter the D60. It’s a D40X refresh, not a whole new cam built from scratch—it still has the same 10.2-megapixel image processor and body, but Nikon has added some spicy new potatoes to the meat to keep it competitive with Canon’s latest EOS Rebel, like a schnazzy stop-motion moviemaker. galleryPost(\’d60\’, 4, \’Nikon D60\’);
Even though the guts of the camera are essentially a year old at this point, we still walked away from our brief time with it pretty satisfied, actually, thanks to small improvements that add up to a lot, like the new image-stabilizing kit lens, auto-orienting screen (horizontal or vertical) and built-in stop-motion moviemaker for quickly stringing together Robot Chicken-style clips on the go (which we adore, just wish the 100 pic limit was higher).
But, there are a couple of things [...]
Original post by matt buchanan
To end the celebration of the 50 years of the LEGO brick, here are the best sets in history. Handpicked from Lugnet—the biggest LEGO database—based on their popularity, these 229 sets belong to the most iconic lines—LEGOLAND Space, Town, Castle and Pirates—plus three of the most popular ones—LEGO TECHNIC, Star Wars and Racers. From the most significant to the most amazing and complex, from the late seventies to today. We can’t get ourselves to pick the Best of the Best. Jump, see them all and decide for yourself (plus the official LEGO video of 50 years of the brick.)
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I remember the first time I played with LEGO bricks. Shiny, perfectly smooth and with that unique smell of plastic, which back then I imagined was probably captured by magic elves in Denmark. Today it’s almost the same—shiny and perfectly smooth, except the elves are now blue-eyed buxom danish valkyries [...]
Original post by Jesus Diaz
Point and shoot cameras tend to blur together, so instead of listing them all separately, like their own God’s gift to amateur photographers, here are the four S (for “style”) series CoolPix cameras Nikon is introducing tonight, and their raisons d’etre, plus a gallery of them striking various poses a bit lower down.
• CoolPix S210 – Thinner than its predecessors at 18mm thick, with 8MP and electronic vibration reduction, the S210 comes in plum, graphite black, blue, and brushed bronze. The key here is compactness of body and of price: $180.
• CoolPix S520 – Step up from the S210, this slightly larger camera reads similar in specs, but with optical image stabilization rather than the electronic kind. You’ll pay extra for better pictures; included in the $230 camera’s intelligent scene modes is a high-ISO mode one optimized for food. (Yours or someone elses—totally your call.)
• CoolPix S550 – A sidestep [...]
Original post by Wilson Rothman