Camera design is all about compromise. Great pictures ideally need large sensors and fast lenses, but this usually means a heavier burden on your camera bag or wallet. Mirrorless cameras try to strike a... Read Full Review
Pentax may not be the first name you think of when you shop for a digital camera, but the company has a history of making good DSLRs — the K-5 is a favorite of many photographers, for instance. As we've seen with the Q and K-01,... Read Full Review
Priced At $899.95
Released July 2012
The most interesting part of the camera market right now lies right in between a point-and-shoot and a DSLR. Basically, the former category is being eaten alive by ever-improving smartphone cameras, and the latter is a fairly mature... Read Full Review
Priced At $1,099.99
Released May. 17, 2012
Pentax has a history of making cameras that are just a little bit offbeat. Just take a look at last year’s Pentax Q: rather than making a more traditional mirrorless camera like many of its competitors, the company released the... Read Full Review
Priced At $749.95
Released Mar. 13, 2012
I've recommended Sony's NEX cameras to a lot of people over the last year or so. The NEX-7 is too expensive for most people, but the NEX-C3 and NEX-5N are relatively inexpensive cameras that offer big APS-C sensors, interchangeable... Read Full Review
Priced At $599.99
Released June 2012
Fujifilm has a history of making beautiful cameras, particularly in its X series. The X100 and X10 are more than just pretty faces, too — both deliver gorgeous pictures and video. They're designed more as companions to a DSLR... Read Full Review
Priced At $1,699.95
Released Feb. 18, 2012
Micro Four Thirds cameras are coming fast and furious, and getting better and more technically impressive all the time. For its latest offering, however, Olympus looked backward for inspiration rather than forward. The OM-D E-M5's... Read Full Review
Priced At $999.99
Released Mar. 31, 2012
The Sony Alpha SLT-A77 has been a long time coming — the company’s latest DSLR was announced in August, but production delays have kept it from being widely available even now. Many people have waited eagerly for it, though, and... Read Full Review
Priced At $1,999.99
Released March 2012
There are a few easy ways to make a digital camera better: make the sensor bigger, improve the quality of the lens, speed up the processor. But those are incremental improvements on a basic technology that hasn’t changed much in a... Read Full Review
Priced At $399.00
Released Feb. 29, 2012
Camera manufacturers all seem to believe that there’s a middle ground between a point-and-shoot and a DSLR, and they’ve all tried to find it — Nikon with the 1 series, Sony with the NEX models, Olympus with the PEN line,... Read Full Review
Priced At $799.00
Released 03/2012