Chase Jarvis is an award winning, internationally renowned photographer based in Seattle, WA. While Chase is well known for his innovative commercial work, he has also gained a large following through online forums due to his willingness to share advice / tips on his blog, his inspiring collection of personal photography and his advocacy of social networking.
“The Best Camera is the one that’s with you” is his latest initiative, a 256 page photography book featuring only images taken with his iPhone. The book was released in 2009, and also coincides …

There’s been a slowly growing trend in the past year or so for camera manufacturers to announce “rugged” compact cameras. Olympus pioneered much of this area with their Stylus Tough series and today Casio announced a new compact called the EX-G1, borrowing from Casio’s “G” shock brand that became so popular amongst adventure enthusiasts.

The big deal about rugged cameras is they usually sport three main features:

Shock resistant (in the case of the EX-G1, drop tested at 7 feet)
Waterproof (up to a depth of 10 feet)
Freezeproof (down to 14 …

Thanks to everyone who emailed / commented on the review. Been a busy week so only now just getting a chance to respond to them. Check the relevant comments section for my thoughts on any items that were brought up….

Welcome to my LX3 review. I purchased the LX3 a day or so after it was released in Singapore. As of the time of writing, I’ve had it for nearly 10 days and despite some bad weather, have been able…

I’ll kick things off by reiterating how I introduced the LX3 a few days ago on my site. A few weeks ago Panasonic followed up with their successful (but flawed) LX-2 with the newly announced LX3. I’ve always been a…

Handling and Controls When reviewing the G9, I made a big deal about the camera’s excellent handling and ergonomics. This was mostly down to the fact that the camera sported analogue controls (i.e. dials which rotate) which are the best…

OK now my favourite part, Image Quality. To begin with, I’d like to start with the lens but before I kick things off, a few notes on RAW vs JPEG. All the images below are taken with the LX3, but…

I’m going to keep this conclusion short and sweet. When I reviewed the G9 last year, I rated it as one of the best compact cameras on the marketplace. However, I did say that despite its superb ergonomics, I wished…

Compact cameras have long been a great source of both fascination and frustration for me. Whenever there’s a new (significant) innovation like low noise / high ISO, wide angle lenses, RAW, etc – it always gets my hopes up that…