A superbly easy-to-use and feature-laden compact camera that’s well worth the price.

A superbly easy-to-use and feature-laden compact camera that’s well worth the price. Same titanium shell as before, with a lowlight ability.

JVC's handycam-shaped 707 comes with a good LCD and handles changes in light well – particularly when shooting from shade into sunlight. The general image quality is good, although the camera suffers the JVC plague of poor zoom. It's fine to about 5x but falls away from there. It offers a selection of three resolutions for still photos with the highest being 1,280 x 960.

In the mid-range backup market, no other tape format has proved to be as popular as LTO Ultrium. We bring you a first look at the fourth generation.

Best Digital SLR Camera

Let’s be honest, many webcams are unruly pieces of junk - ready to turn real life into juddery flashes of un-naturalistic motion. This one is a class act.

The Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000 is a CCD webcam with some grunt – it's capable of capturing video at 640x480, images at 1280x960.

Sanyos line up of digital cameras falls at the budget end of the spectrum and the VPC-R1 is no exception.With a 1.3- megapixel CCD, the camera is large compared to the current crop of mini-cameras available.

There is not a huge difference between this and the MV550E. In fact, if you put them side by side you have to look closely to see the difference in looks, which is model number in small print on one side.

There is nothing new about digital video cameras being able to take still photos, or digital still cameras being able to take video clips. However, in the past the results have been very ordinary - stills taken on a video camera were usually 640 x 480 snaps suitable for the Web, and little else.

Great image quality and a good range of features make the MSI a real bargain.

The cheesy tough guy is back, and how we’ve missed him.

Panasonic claims this to be the world's smallest palm-type DV camera, and who am I to argue?

While the camera looks like it needs flares and has a name like it never made it off the drawing board there are some features that make this camera an attractive buy

Innovative, solidly engineered and packed with features – an almost perfect smartphone

This is a handset we have been waiting to hit our shores for some time. Sony Ericsson now brings the S700i  to Australia and with it an amazing set of features and quality to match.

In the sub-$2,000 category, we thought it would be negligent to leave Apple, and its popular eMac, out of the running. While we can't benchmark it head to head with the PCs, at least we can compare the features and see what alternatives there are to mainstream PCs in the world. Interestingly, the eMac (as its prefix implies) was originally intended for the education market, but it proved to be such a success it was cut loose into the broader retail market.

This well-built compact is a solid point-and-shooter, but it struggles in low light

Hitachi DZ-MV100A