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Offline for a few days without an easy way to do updates (unless you like tencent weibo :-), but here are some notes for touring Beijing: Restaurant Reviews. There a huge variety, but basically for the overseas traveller who wants some pretty interesting (but safe!) food, Fodors and Trip Advisor…

A whole set of cameras are coming. I just got an RX100 Mk II for a trip, but looks like more are on the way. Of course there is the Olympus OM-D EM-1 which looks great, but here are some more coming in a few months. It probably means, if…

Well, go this as our RX-100 is going on to bigger and better things. So some reminders about how to reset the controls so that they work well: For Video, it a little hard to follow, but here are the setting and how to save them in a custom mode:…

Well, the micro-4/3 family is looking better and better. Optically, it is grat, but the one limitation is the lack of really fast zooms, but Olympus seems to be fixing this; Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO lens coming in 2014, new ZUIKO lens roadmap, no more Four Thirds…

Well, I had two of these and I lost them both. One on a plane. Another in a hotel. I loved these things for the fit and the sound. So time to figure out what to get. Ive tried lots of headphones and they are OK, but time to figure…

Spec-wise, the EOS-70D continues to be behind (unfortunately) in color depth, dyrnmaic range and low light ISO with the 5D3 being much better. Canon 70D. 22.5 bit color depth, 11.6Ev dynamic range, 926 low light ISO Nikon D7100. 24.2 bit color depth, 13.7Evs dynamic range, 1256 low light ISO Canon…

More cues that we could soon see a/two new Canon EOS M camera(s). The latest rumor suggests that Canon could announce an entry level and a more feature-rich EOS M body at the same time. The more pro oriented body should be available with some interesting accessories, as an EVF…

Sony’s latest star performer isn’t a gadget like the Walkman or PlayStation. Instead, it’s a chip found in almost every high-end camera and smartphone. Apple’s iPhones 5 and 4S use it and so do Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S4 and LG’s G2, researchers say. The company that helped invent the compact…

Ricoh describes the Theta as “the world’s first mass-produced imaging device that encapsulates fully spherical scenes with one shot.” To elaborate a bit, it’s a small, peculiar looking point-and-shoot camera that features two 180-degree wide-angle lenses mounted on opposite sides of the device. When one captures an image with the…

Well with the Sony RX100 dropping to $600, the price difference is now very substantial, the RX100M2 (formally the RX100 II) is at $750, but if you dig a little you can find better deals: Amazon has it at list price, but in trolling the reward sites and also the…