If you can afford one and can find one, don’t think twice about it. If not, rent one from a specialist outlet for phenomenal results

A good camera at the price, but perhaps not as great as you thought it was going to be. Its shortcomings will nag at you like an old fishwife

Forget gold plated and diamond encrusted – if you've got three grand to spare and don't mind weighty snappers, this is the camera to blow it on

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Excellent performance and features, but at a price that’s too high

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In issue 119 of PC Authority, we took eighteen cameras and put their images under the microscope. Now you can too.

Olympus’ Four Thirds imaging system comes of age in a classy compact SLR that makes the rest look ordinary

The entry-level market is heating up with new cameras from Canon, Pentax, and Sony.

Sony’s high-end cameras have consistently impressed us at PC Authority, but just recently they’ve fallen short of Labs Winner status. The DSC-F717 changes all that, with its heady mix of image quality, features and design propelling it to the top of the pile.

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