It serves a real purpose considering many holiday happy-snappers will prefer an easy shot from the hip.

Not exactly a hi-def holiday shooter, but the Action Cam is perfect for creating your ‘when skiing goes wrong’ home video

Small but solid. The Ixus 75 is perfect for holiday snappers – just watch out when the sun goes down

A great still camera with a decent movie mode. The restrictions on movie length mean it’s only any good for short video ‘snapshots’, though, and not ideal for that holiday of a lifetime

Excellent quality and speed for reflective media, but the V200 makes heavy work out of transparencies

Lacking a few features but for simplicity and decent quality, this has to be one of the best value camcorders around

A decent enough addition to the legendary EOS range, but there are too many competitors at this price.

The Vivicam 6200W is terminator-tough and cheap enough to condemn disposable underwater cameras to the low-tech graveyard

Tiny, intuitive and a great performer, the IXUS 85 is the ideal carry-anywhere camera

Dell’s first foray into using AMD processors is a modest performer, but fair value.

HD camcorders enter the mainstream once and for all. With image quality like this, there’s little reason to spend more.

When it comes to notebooks, there are a few different flavours with their own specialties.  The trick to purchasing the right notebook is to know your needs and the intended purposes of the unit so you can properly match the correct machine with your requirements.

The Kodak EasyShare Printer Dock 6000 is a tiny photo printer-cum-camera dock for Kodak EasyShare CX/DX 6000 and LS600-series cameras. Although it's designed to print 4 x 6in borderless prints, the dock is capable of a lot more. The abundance of functions this dock can perform boggles the mind. Ranging from slide show streaming, three-hour camera Li-Ion battery charging, multiple print runs and PC file-synching, this printer does it all.

The Web is an important tool that many of us use to communicate, access our bank accounts...

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

A geotagging GPS that tries to do everything, but overly complicates what should be a simple task of getting from A – Z in a couple of clicks.

Good photo quality and a large touchscreen make this the A4 inkjet to buy.

Once upon a time not too long ago, your average inkjet printer had a single tricolour ink cartridge. Of course, the print quality was fairly ordinary, but it did the job. Today, with digital cameras the norm and home users wanting to print their own photographs, your photo printer may have as many as eight different ink cartridges.

Digital photography has made enormous strides in recent years, and as a result, the technology is being incorporated into affordable consumer products.

Here's what you're doing for your Christmas holidays.