Not even a cannon shoots like a canon; it’s practically dogma. 

If you’re looking for a camera you can take anywhere*, check out the new Canon PowerShot D10.  This 12.1- Megapixel point-and-shoot digital wonder features a 3x optically stabilized lens, DIGIC 4 processor, and 2.5-inch LCD, but the real benefits come from it’s ruggedness.  This little guy is freeze proof to 14°F, heatproof to 104°F, shockproof up to 4 feet, and waterproof down to 33 feet. What a great travel and adventure camera for snowboarding, hiking, climbing or snorkeling.
*anywhere with the exceptions of heaven and hell; you’re not allowed any personal possessions.

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Panasonic introduces their new semi-professional 9.15 megapixel resolution, digital HD camcorder.  With 6 times the information as standard images, the transition from SD to HD will soon be as complete as B&W TV’s to Color.  You wouldn’t record your child’s first soccer game with a 8mm or Betamax, so why would you capture those precious moments on anything less than the best?

The HDC-TM300 is extremely easy to use, a retarded monkey with mittens could probably manage it.  Without a mess of buttons, the novices can save their Xanax for more important issues, while the manual functions and touch screen allow the advanced user control over everything from focus and zoom to white balance and aperture.  The HDC-TM300 also supports 5.1-channel audio recording and features a 32 GB hard drive, which can store about 50 hours of footage.  If you want to spend the extra $100, you can upgrade to the 120GB HDC-HS300K, but both camcorders have an expandable SD slot that will automatically be used if the hard drive fills up.  You really only need the 120GB if you consistently record more than 50 hours of footage before transferring the data to DVD, Blu-Ray, or your computer.

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The sneaky way to snap photos of women in their bikini’s.  

The Digital Camera Swim Mask from Liquid Image is the worlds only swim mask with an integrated waterproof digital camera.  Don’t mess around with handheld underwater cameras that you have to carry as you swim.  The 5 MegaPixle swim mask camera is able to operate in depths up to 15 feet, perfect for snorkeling the Great Barrier Reef or the subterranean lake of fire. 

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If you’re going to spy on someone, you should do it right with Celestron’s VistaPix binocular/digital camera.

The VistaPix is a powerful binocular capable of shooting video or photos.  It even has a built in FM tuner with earphones incase you’re watching the game from the nose bleeds and want Pat Summerall’s play-by-play. 

This 8×22 LCD digital binocular camera is the most compact of its kind. The 8x telephoto lens allows you to snap magnified images or video with 3 megapixel resolution and play them back on the LCD screen or through your computer.  With the SD card slot you can expand on the internal mass storage capacity to capture even more footage.  This unique and fun tool comes with its own VistaPix Photo Express SE software, so you can crop, re-size, and manipulate your photos and video.

*Warning, images may appear closer than they are.

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If you are serious about photography, or at least looking like you are, then the Leica M8 Digital is the Essential camera for your photography arsenal.  Bringing the quality and precision of the Analog M Series to the M8 Digital, Leica has created the 1st “Timeless” camera in the digital realm.  In other words, next time you go down to Central Park to take pictures of random and obscure things, you find yourself warmly accepted by the rest of the photo snobs that are still using their 50 year old Leica M3s (which look very similar to you bastion of modern technology).  50 years from now you’ll still be using this bad boy while all the young people are taking pictures with their cyborg eye implants.

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If the ridiculous specs on the Red One Camera impressed you, then the 5K Epic will mushroom cloud your brain like Mount Vesuvius.  The Epic, due out in early 2009 is a step above it’s predecessor, (the Red One) which is already the top of the camcorder food chain.  Like the original, the Epic features a fully upgradalbe sensor, body, boards and mount and it’s compatible with most of the Red One accessories.  Before I give you the specs, click on the chart for a better look at why hi-def sucks and Jim Jannard is the man.
  
If you don’t want to wait for 2009, you can pick up the Red One now, because all Red One camera bodies are redeemable for a full $17,500 credit towards the EPIC when it’s released.  How crazy is that? 
Now I don’t mean to blow your circuits, but you might what to check out the rest of the 2009 line: The Scarlet and the REDRAY.

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[Get It $17,500]

From Oakley founder Jim Jannard, comes a serious piece of cinematographic equipment. The RED ONE Camera is designed to be a modular, up-gradable system, that doubles as a sub-machine gun (or at least looks like it will). Users can add hardware, software, storage, handling and monitoring accessories as they become more serious about filming. But hold on, that’s not even the best part:

The typical high-end HD camcorder has a 2.1M pixel sensors and records with 3:1:1 color sub-sampled video at up to 30fps. The Red has 11.4M pixels, 2x over-sampled HD in 4:4:4 or 4:2:2, or your choice of 4K, 3K, or 2K Mysterium Super 35mm cine sized (24.4 x 13.7mm) sensor resolution quality delivering up to 30fps, 60fps, or 120fps respectively; and all this with wide dynamic range and color space in 12 bit native RAW. At 4K, that’s more than 5 times the amount of information available every second, and with vastly superior recording quality.

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