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    MILC (and all camera) shipments continue downward in 2016

    Seeing the consumer point-and-shoot camera market collapsing doesn't surprise me much. Cameras on smartphones have become scarily good. I recently looked at a video shot on one of the first smartphones (which as an early adopter I of course purchased), it was grainy 640x480 resolution and that...
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    Can the Hx100V replace my F717?

    The F717 was excellent technology for its day. In my opinion the lens on the F717 is better quality-wise than on current ultra-zooms thus accounting for the (relatively) high quality of its photos, the lens fairly fast and has relatively little distortion comparatively speaking due to its modest...
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    HX100 arrived as promised.

    Note that BluRay and DVD impose their own video restrictions -- ATSC televisions can only display 30hz scan, not 60hz scan. So if you shoot 60hz frames (which are MPEG-4), you'll need to use post-processing to turn your video into a MPEG-2 that you can burn as a video to a BluRay or DVD disk...
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