Over the past 5 years digital cameras have been gaining popularity amongst photography enthusiasts and everyday Joe’s alike. So it is no wonder that digital picture frames have now slowly began to catch on.

With a digital photo frame, you are able to have a number of images available with easy to use flash cards. You can have the images scrolling, or just have your favorite picture set. The frames also provide many other exciting features such as the possibility of internet connection. Imagine checking the weather or your email via your picture frame? (Ok that doesn’t sound too exciting, but you get the point). Read the rest of this entry »

I’m a bit late to the party on this one as it was announced yesterday, but Nikon have launched a couple of new digicams with WiFi connectivity. “Cool” I thought as I went burrowing for details, but having given it some thought and had a look at the scant information about how they’ll work I’m not so sure.

To get the basic stuff out of the way the P1 and P2 are 8 and 5 megapixel cameras respectively, with what looks like a good set of automatic and manual features. A 36mm-126mm equivalent zoom lens is fitted, Video recording is on offer at a range of resolutions and frame rates and a “electronic vibration reduction” mode looks interesting. Having used and been mightily impressed with optically stabilised lenses I’d like to see what the electronic version would be like.

The full set of specs can be found here
Nikon P1 specs

The real difference of course between these and the other cameras in this space is the WiFi facility and this is the part I’m not too sure about.

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Digital SLR’s are great, but the one advantage even cheap point and shoot cameras have over them is the ability to swivel the screen and take photos from over your head in a crowd which is why this cought my eye. The “Zigview” is an angled LCD monitor that slots over the camera viewfinder to show what the camera is seeing on the screen. It rotates so it can be used for either low or high level photography.

Looks like a neat solution to the problem. It’s compatible with most of the current range of digital SLRs and you can buy it in the UK from warehouse express.