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July 3, 2002
Multifunction Devices: More Space On The Desktop!
Printers and scanners blend into one - this is the multifunctional age. Lexmark, Canon and HP jostle for the leading position, but a newcomer, Brother, attempts to change all that.
... in the rest of the world. The other three leaders, Canon, HP and Lexmark, are currently represented on the market. They are all well aware that the printer ...
April 7, 2003
Scanning, Copying, Printing and Faxing: Multifunctional Devices
We test the latest multifunctional devices available on the market. Although they're less expensive than individual units, some models will rack up huge consumables bills. We put ten units to the test.
... with lower operation and maintenance costs, such as the Canon MultiPass F30, will pay for itself fairly quickly. This machine costs $299.99. Printing a black and ...
December 24, 2002
Digicams: New Little Megapixel Monsters, Part II
This year's ultimate Christmas present has to be a digital camera. We have tested the latest of them - the most beautiful and compact, the real must-haves: Canon PowerShot S230 (Ixus V3), Casio Exilim EX-M2, Minolta Dimage Xi, Toshiba PDR-T30 and Sony DSC-U10. Colors, detail, vignetting, zoom and speed have all been examined under the microscope.
... and can also be used as an MP3 player. How about that! * Canon PowerShot S230 (Ixus V3 in Europe) . As you'd expect, the S230 (Ixus V3) takes over from the S200 ...
December 12, 2001
Attractive Features: General-Purpose Inkjet Printers
Inkjet printers by the four leading manufacturers jockey for position in the $100-$300 range. They offer some attractive features, such as 20 pages per minute printing, separate cartridges, six colors and resolutions over 2400 dpi. Read on to find out the extensive results from over 20 tests, including quality, speed, cost per page and all the rest.
... the time, which can be very infuriating - the life cycle of Canon products, for instance, is less than 6 months. But there's no point in waiting. The photos printed ...
July 28, 2003
Comparison of Four 800,000-Pixel Camcorders
You don't need a sensor of more than 800,000 pixels to get digital video images in 4/3 format, so here we compare six such camcorders, all of which come at perfectly reasonable prices. Where they differ is in image quality, all-situation filming capability and ergonomics.
... We tested the following camcorders: * Sony DCR-TRV22 * Canon Elura 50 * JVC GR-DX95 * Hitachi DZ-MV350 Image Quality Why 800,000 Pixels? Before we g ...
July 9, 2003
Digicams: Comparison of Six 3-Megapixel
Well, well, well! In less than a year the price of 3-megapixel digicams has dropped to that of the old 2-megapixels, while their quality continues to progress. This raft of new offers needs a closer look. We have selected six of them that come at a price of less than $400. Which one takes the prize?
... quality, easy-to-use cameras for snapshots without tears": Canon PowerShot A70, Fuji FinePix A303, Kodak LS-633, Olympus Camedia C-350, Samsung Digimax V3 and Sony ...
March 27, 2002
Under Scrutiny: Four 1200 dpi Scanners
The new generation of scanners uses all of its wiles to tempt you. Scanners have plenty of attractive selling points for 2002, and even the most modest of the bunch is happy to add a range of buttons to the front of the casing and improve the design. Scanners with the most functionality have already adopted the USB 2.0 interface, so they are able to offer spectacularly fast processing time. Others offer units for scanning slides. Yet, in spite of being very different from each other, all of these models have two important points in common: they all have 1200 dpi CCD optical detectors and cost less than $200.
... ) or LIDE (LED Indirect Exposure) scanners, developed by Canon and Umax, are two and three times more precise than their CCD counterparts, due to the fact that ...
July 23, 2002
Digicams: The New 2 Megapixel Monsters
Trying to incorporate ever bulkier digital cameras into the system is not a particularly attractive proposition. The future lies in compactness and design, just as much as it does in high resolution. So we're putting the spotlight on new compact digital cameras (PowerShot, Dimâge X, etc.), all of which certainly look very exciting.
... On today's menu: * The Powershot S200 (N. America) or Canon Ixus V² (Europe) costs US$349 or 579 Euros. It is historically the best-known in the category ...
February 27, 2003
Readers' Choice Awards 2002 Results
THG readers took on the epic task of voting for their favorite products and companies in 26 categories. Here are the results, and the list of prize winners from our Reader's Choice Awards 2002 polling. There are shifts in power, and many surprises, and even a little bit of controversy.
... Consumer Product Apple iPod Best Overall Digital Camera Canon G3 (4 Megapixels) Best Gaming Peripheral Logitech MX Mice Best Printer HP Deskjet 5550 Best ...
November 26, 2003
Canon's EOS 300D SLR Digital Camera Breaks $1000 Barrier
You read it here first: Canon has broken the $1000 price point barrier for SLR digital cameras. With Canon's launch of the Canon EOS 300D, that magic price point of $1000 represents half of the cost of a top-of-the-range traditional camera. The competition, both SLR and compact cameras, will surely not be happy about this, but it represents a slam-dunk win for the user.
... product names depending on the geographic location. Canon's latest digital camera is called the EOS 300D on one side of the Atlantic and "Digital Rebel" on ...
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