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BUDGET CAMERAS Smile. You can get a good camera for $150. While the digital cameras in our Ratings comp act s we've tested, while falling cost $200 and up, falling prices mean you sh ort of the top performers'. Resolut ion an d LCD size. at 5 to 7 meg a pixels and can now easily spend less, even on a cam 2 to 2'1, inches, respect ively. are also in era from a major manufacturer. line with most model s, while falling To see how such models stack up, we short of the ma ximum s found on t
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WEIGH ZOOM TRADE-OFFS above 3x, some as high as 5x, enough to BEST TIMES TO BUY Another feature to consider carefully make a distant figure fill the frame. SLR Camera prices don't fluctuate season ally,but most new models reach the mar is an optical zoom range that's greater lik e cameras typically have a lOx to 12x than the 3x found on most cameras. (A ket during two periods: March through zoom range. As with an SLR, they allow zoom lens's range is the ratio of its highest precise zoom a
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FACE DETECTION Technology puts portraits in focus More than the birth day cake, th e vacat ion backdrop, even the fam In our tests, the det ecti on feature wor ked adequate ly on all ily dog , the human face is th e focal point for most photographs. So the camera s. However, in scenes where lighting was uneven or a grow ing numbe r of digital cameras, including abou t a dozen of distances varied between subjects, using face dete cti on caused our rated point-and-shoot s, include a relati v
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lei :••m Recommendations The Ratings list models by overall per formance. The standout Quick Picks all produced images that were excellent or very good-a difference that's subtle even 2 Canon on most larger prints. All models come from reliable brands. For some models, we have noted a newer successor that we haven't yet tested. QUICK PICKS Best values for most people: 2 Canon (7 MP) $270 5 Olympus 3 Canon (8 MP) $200, CR Best Buy 7 Fujifilm (6 MP) $220, CR Best Buy All
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Quick Picks continued If a long zoom is a priority: 4 Canon (6 MP) $290 5 Olympus (7 MP) $240 22 Panasonic 7 Fujifilm 9 Panasonic (7 MP) $350 All have an image stabilizer. The Canon has a l2x opti cal zoom, excellent next shot delay, manual contro ls, and manual focus, and it can zoom whi le recording video, but it is fairly heavy. (Also avail able: t he 8-megapixel 55 IS, $50 0, wit h face dete ctio n, 2.5-inch LCD, and com ility wit h 5DHC memory cards.) The pat ib 9 Panasonic 2
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L"iI.~ Recommendations All models produced excellent or very good images. Image quality scores for SLRs and pictur e quality scores for SLR-like models are not directly comparable because they are based on diffe rent test methods. All the SLRs in th e Ratings except the Canon (49) were tested in partnership with Inter national Consumer Research & Testing, an o e 0 ~ • association of 37 consumer organizations • Availability Most models at sto res th rough February 2008. [xcell
