If there's someone in your life without a digital camera, there's never been a better time to get them started. Compact cameras now offer 8-12 megapixels for under $500, and provide large LCDs for easy viewfinding and shot setup as well as automatic face recognition, multiple focal points and more!

The SD1 looks stunning, and performs even better. If this is what AVCHD delivers, then we’re totally sold

Impressive optical quality and storage space, though a touch expensive

It might look like a DSLR, but it doesn’t handle as well and loses out to others with bigger zooms

A lovely compact cam and a decent HD camcorder in one

Good quality and with a proper li-ion battery, but expensive and bulky compared to the Olympus.

The Olympus PEN E-P1 may look like a throwback to retro photography, but it’s expensive and flawed. However, it's beautiful image quality renders almost impossible to dislike.

Another cracking Panasonic flatscreen, which impresses with both its integrated TV tuners and external sources

A pint-sized camera that packs a punch, with consistently good performance in all conditions

How much? Never mind what the LX-1 costs, just see what it does – yes, it’s pricey, but boy is it worth it

Hitachi DZ-MV100A

We get our hands on Olympus’s newest additions to the mju range, including one with a 7x optical zoom and one waterproof to 10 metres.

At $190,000, Bang and Olufsen 103" BeoVision4 TV is among the world's most expensive consumer models ever produced and it's so incredibly large, you might just need a crane to get into your home

Looking for some suitably-impressive DSLRs to dream about in addition to the Canon EOS 5D Mark II? Ground zero for feasting your eyes on DSLR-tech is this weekend at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre this Saturday and Sunday

So many features and so much quality, in such a tiny body. Astounding

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

At first glance the JVC GR-D230 looks very much like one of the DVD-R/RW cameras. But it's the stylish design and disc like LCD screen that leads you astray and it is in fact another of the Mini DV tape cameras with the cassette cleverly concealed.

They’re pricey, but these high end compact cameras make other power zooms look positively tubby

The market is adapting to photo enthusiasts with a number of better-than-compact technologies and camera sizes. Here's a 5-minute primer to the pros and cons of four different types of digital cameras

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